We're back with Kristen Bell.
Can I talk about the sign that your daughter made for you,
which is really, really sweet?
Yeah.
Let's show the sign first of all.
And what made her do that that was just out of nowhere?
Well, at her school, they have social-emotional learning
classes, and in their social-emotional learning
class that week, they talked a lot about bucket fillers.
She's in first grade, and they talk
a lot about how to fill someone's bucket
and just get some intrinsic value
to make yourself feel intrinsic self-esteem.
And so their homework was to make bucket fillers
for their whole family and hide them.
And so I found this note next to my bed as I was falling asleep
that said, "you are a great home teacher."
It was my bucket filler.
God, I love that.
What a sweet thing.
What a great thing to start in first grade.
We should continue that on so we'd
have nicer people in the world.
That's really sweet.
Agreed.
Yeah.
And I needed it.
Love it.
I needed it.
You're teaching your younger one as well?
I gave up, to be honest.
I threw in the towel because I--
I attempted to give her some math problems in the beginning
of this quarantine.
And I handed them to her, and she answered
the first and second one.
And then she got real sassy.
And in the answer grid of the rest of the questions,
she just wrote, no.
No.
What's 4 plus 4?
No.
What's 10 minus 1?
No.
What's 3 minus 2?
No.
Oh, my God.
I love her.
That's cute.
That's so cute.
How are the doggies doing?
The doggies are good.
They are so, so thrilled that we're home
because we got a new foster failure this past year
named Frank.
We were going to foster.
Obviously, we failed.
And Frank is my best buddy.
And the reason that we failed with fostering
him is because about two weeks in, he wouldn't be more than a
foot away from me ever.
He was so into me.
But it wasn't out of nerves.
It was out of thirst.
This dog, when he stares at me, Ellen, I know in my bones
he's looking at me with bedroom eyes.
I know it.
I can feel it.
OK.
He's in love with me.
And I thought it would be like child separation
if I gave him away.
So now I just have to keep him.
And I have this dog who's beyond into me.
And he follows me around absolutely everywhere looking
at me with sex in his eyes.
Oh, that's sweet.
Sweet.
Well, I'm not sure it's sex in the eyes, Kristen.
I think that the dog probably loves you.
And I think it's just looking at you--
unless that's what Dax's eyes look
like when he wants the sex.
I swear to God, Ellen.
This dog's going to murder me one day.
This dog is single white femaling me.
Well, it's a good thing you're keeping it.
I literally have no choice.
Yeah.
That might be a good place to break.
All right.
Yeah.
I think so too.
I need to finish reading my book,
The World Needs More Purple People.
But we'll talk about that when we come back from this break.
All right.
Dax has been campaigning to play the Tiger King--
to play a Joe Exotic in the Tiger King movie.
But now Joe Exotic says he wants Brad Pitt to play him.
So I know how he feels about Brad.
What does he feel about taking a role away from Brad
if Brad gets it?
Sure.
Sure well, I mean, this happens often.
They are usually in competition for the exact same role
at all times.
So they're used to it.
But now that they're friendly, it
is going to be a difficult decision.
We're going to have to maybe let the public decide.
The only thing is Dax has said--
he's so afraid of big animals.
I mean, he's kind of afraid of little animals too.
He's incredibly afraid to be in a cage with tigers.
So he's exploring what the CGI options
would be so he wouldn't have to actually
be in a cage with tigers.
All right.
Well, he doesn't deserve the role.
Let's talk about the children's book.
It is a perfect time for this book.
It is called The World Needs More Purple People.
And, I mean, everybody is reading to their kids
anyway so the fact that this book is coming out now--
and it's perfect for this time, don't you think?
It's weird to have a--
we knew the book was going to come out June 2.
And we'd been working on it for a year and a half.
Books take a really long time.
And when we found out we would all be quarantined,
we were like, oh, bummer.
The book tour.
But then I felt in my bones maybe
this was the perfect time, because the book,
it came out of an idea that my friend Benjamin Hart
and I had where we were sitting around with all our kids,
and it all of a sudden occurred to us that all of our kids
are absorbing all these conversations
about divisiveness.
We're sitting at the dinner table,
and adults like stimulating debate.
And we go, I believe this.
No, that's wrong because I believe this.
And we talk about differences all day.
And we don't realize how much they are spongy
and they soak it all up.
When are we actually talking about similarities?
When are we talking about trust?
When are we talking about inclusion?
And so we said, what if we created a purple person?
That's the goal, is to be a purple person.
And purple is when red people and blue people
can come together, and people can trust and listen
to each other, and we wanted to sort of create
a social identity narrative about a road map for the five
key things that you want to look for in a person
and strive to be, which is a hard worker,
a critical thinker, someone who laughs a lot.
And if you can first, look for those features in someone else,
then you can hear their point of view responsibly.
So we don't walk into rooms thinking we have enemies.
We walk into rooms thinking we have friends.
That is fantastic.
What a great message.
Yeah.
That's a great message that--
maybe you should write an adult book too.
Maybe-- I mean, hopefully these adults reading it to their kids
will let this sink in.
But, I mean, really, what a great message that is.
We do have to look for what we have in common
because it can get crazy out there.
The one thing that you just don't agree with,
everybody latches onto and gets angry.
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