Thanks for being here.
So how long has your show been going on?
11 years on my show.
But of course, I learned at Oprah University.
Yes.
Do you remember your very first time being on "Oprah?"
I'll never forget.
I had a nice suit on, like I'm wearing today.
And at the time, I was so naive about television,
I didn't want to get my clothes dirty.
So I took my nice suit off, put on $14 cotton scrubs,
did the whole show in the scrubs,
and then I put my clothes on, not
realizing that's how people would see me for the next five
years of my life.
Right.
Well, it's comfortable, right?
It's comfortable.
It's easy to wash.
Doesn't smell like formalin.
It's nice.
Right.
All right, so do people ask you for advice whenever--
is that one of the-- yeah.
People must constantly, right when they meet you, say, hey,
I have a thing.
Well, this weekend, I was actually at a social event.
And Alec and Hilaria Baldwin had their beautiful daughter Carmen
there.
And she wanted to have her tooth examined.
And in fact, Alec felt the tooth was crooked anyway,
so we pulled the tooth.
What do you mean "we?"
You're not a dentist.
Well, you learn a little dental.
Do you have a loose tooth?
I can show you how to do this, actually.
It's really cool.
How?
Tell me.
You put a little string on the tooth.
There she is.
You put the string over the tooth.
Right.
And then instead of attaching it to the door,
you just pull on it.
There's Hilaria.
And you see, Alec, by the way, ran.
Oh.
And it's done!
Well--
And you're finished!
--it stops before she starts crying--
That's right!
--obviously.
But yeah, it wears on you.
But I'm lucky that I'm here, because I'm
safe from those types of issues.
Yeah.
What do you mean?
Well, questions.
Oh, no, you're not.
My neck is killing me.
I wanted to know what I--
why do I have a neck thing that's in the same place
all the time?
Well, can I examine you?
No.
[LAUGHTER]
Well, can you at least put your hands out like this?
Like a mummy.
So put your hands out like that.
Yeah.
All right.
Now, I'm just going to push your fingers.
Mm-hm.
You doing OK?
Uh-huh.
Now, go like this, the number six.
You OK with that?
Mm-hm.
When you rub it, does it hurt or does it get better?
It hurts.
When you rub it?
Yeah.
Ever try traction?
It's old-fashioned, but it works.
Like what?
Like, you know, putting it up like this, like the old days?
Yeah.
I tried today pushing on it in different ways
and it didn't help.
No, no, not you doing it.
You got to put it in a traction.
Oh, God, no.
I would do it on you now, but I might paralyze you.
Right.
No, don't do that.
But that's what I should do?
Yeah.
I would do that.
And if you do have-- does the pain go down your arms?
No.
Good.
It's just my neck.
Yeah.
And what are you taking for it?
I'm taking tequila and--
[LAUGHTER]
No.
No, it's just Advil and I have a IcyHot thing on.
That's perfect.
That's all I need, right?
Yeah.
Do you have insurance?
I'm sure I do.
I just want to make sure I get the copay before I leave today.
All right.
[LAUGHTER]
Give me some takeaway, because I think
you always have great advice on just staying healthy.
Let me ask you if I'm right.
Sleep is probably one of the most important things anybody
can do.
Single most underappreciated problem in America.
Right?
Dr. Degeneres.
Yeah.
Look at that.
I sleep a lot and I think it's really important.
What else can people do?
So we actually need more time in bed, not just sleeping,
but we got a sexual famine in America.
That's a problem.
So more time in bed and less time eating.
OK.
So I intermittent fast.
So if you try to eat your food in a 12-hour period,
which is not hard to do--
So if you stop by 8:00 PM, don't eat until 8:00 AM.
Exactly.
Not difficult to do.
A lot of body builders do that.
That's how they get rid of excess fat.
That works well.
And then you got to break a sweat every day.
But I think, actually, the number one
problem we face in America now is loneliness,
which is why your mantra around kindness is critical,
because blind people can see kindness, deaf people can hear
kindness, as Mark Twain said.
It is so valuable.
And there's always opportunities to do it.
But when you don't do it, you fragment people,
and you no longer feel like you're a raindrop falling
into the ocean of humanity.
And I think that's one thing that we're all struggling
with right now in society is we're all
fragmented in so many different ways.
And I think that's really hurting us spiritually.
I think it's hurting us in so many ways as a human race.
[APPLAUSE]
All right.
I like you.
You have beautiful eyes.
Well, thank you so much.
I wish I could just take them out and see them
without the lens in the way.
But they're probably beautiful the way they are.
There is no lens.
What do you mean lens?
The lens they're watching you through.
Oh.
But you're seeing them, right?
They're beautiful.
There's no lens in front of you.
You're seeing them.
There's no need to take them out of my head.
[LAUGHTER]
What's wrong with you all of a sudden?
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