Well hello Neil.
It's fun to be here on this 11th day of giving.
Yes, it's-- It's fun for them to be here.
Extra fun.
Oh wait, I don't--
I don't get anything?
No.
You get nothing.
You're just here.
I know.
Harumph.
It's horrible.
I never see you any more.
You moved to New York.
I did.
Yes.
Our family lives in New York now.
We live in Harlem, so our east coast people.
The kids are in first grade.
So we had to decide which coast we wanted to live on.
Yeah.
So we chose over there.
It's nice to come back to visit LA though.
Yeah.
And then there's all the traffic.
Yes.
Like you don't have traffic there?
Not really, because there's subways everywhere.
Oh.
Is that what you do?
Yeah.
I like the subways.
Yeah.
We have subways here.
How is the subway Ellen?
It's good.
I was on the other day.
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No, I love New York.
Especially around this time of year
because the holidays are great.
And they're great there, because you get the seasons, right.
Right.
I lived in so Cal for a while, and suddenly it's
halfway through December and it's still
70 something and beautiful, which is lovely.
Yeah.
But it's nice to ice skate in the rink
and to see the Rockettes shows.
Any kind of special occasion.
I know you are into Halloween.
You're into-- you're obviously into Christmas.
This is an InStyle magazine that you're celebrating.
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Just an average day trimming the tree.
Just putting the tree together, and then in the bathtub just
having a little nog.
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Creamy.
So the kids must be so--
I'm going to ignore that.
Thank you.
So the kids must be--
I mean, that's what's important, is
the kids for this time of year right, to get them stuff.
I think so.
I mean, when you have little kids they're stressful a lot,
you know.
That's Gideon and Harper.
Oh Yeah.
We were just-- that's them recently.
A recent pic, that's nice.
But they're a great age, because they're 7.
So they appreciate things, and they
don't just want presents and presents and presents.
And want-- well they want that too, but they want--
they talk about giving gifts, and we're making gifts and--
Oh good.
It's all very exciting with Santa Claus.
And although the kids for us, they
keep changing their minds about what it is they want.
Kids' attention spans are really, really short.
So all Gideon will want is beyblades.
What is that?
Beyblades are these tops, and they're little tops
that you spin, and then they fight each other,
and they attack.
All he wanted was beyblades until a week ago.
He said, Papa, can I tell you something?
What era is he from, the 50's.
He's like a Laura Ingalls Wilder child.
Papa, can I tell you something.
Yeah Gid, what's up?
I don't want beyblades anymore.
No?
No.
Now I want Hot Wheels.
Cool.
Are those back in style?
Apparently old school Hot wheels are back in style.
So excited.
So I go and I get some Hot Wheels things,
and that's exciting.
And then two days later, hey Papa, can I tell you something?
Yeah sure Gideon, what's going on?
I don't want hot wheels anymore.
No?
No, I want Minecraft.
So I'm saving receipts.
Oh man.
That's all I know.
Maybe he's doing that so he gets all those things,
and pretending like maybe he's smarter than you.
He's a smart kid.
Yeah, maybe so.
Is this the-- is this him in the--
were you in Alaska, where I saw this?
We did go to Alaska.
Yeah.
So I'm filming Series of Unfortunate Events
in Vancouver, British Columbia.
And some friends came to visit, and they said, hey,
why don't we pop on up to Alaska.
And I said, you can do that?
You can just pop on up to Alaska?
And sure enough, and we flew in a little helicopter and landed.
And Alaska is the most exquisite place.
The nature there is just beyond approach.
It's amazing.
We ended up on a--
Wow.
Yes
Look at that.
Gigantic glacier.
And we got to walk around and on huge glaciers and see lakes.
Look at that.
That stuff still exists.
And if we play our cards right, can exist for a lot longer
than we're around for.
Yeah.
When you see a picture Like that.
I'm not a huge--
I mean, I love the environment.
But when you see photos like that, and you think
it's beautiful.
When you're standing there in front of that,
or in front of giant trees and the true nature,
it's really quite extraordinary.
Yes.
For our kids to get to do that too.
Which is what we have in our national monuments
that we should be taking care of and protecting.
Taking care of them.
Slightly political.
I don't care.
Oh Papa, it's beautiful.
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