So I haven't seen you in a while.
I know.
But I have been texting with your husband, Howard.
Oh, please.
He's been so sweet about my special.
Howard Stern has been so supportive in talking
about my special on his radio show.
So I've been texting him, saying thank you.
We're her biggest fans.
And we have our few TV shows that we watch together.
We watch The Bachelor.
We watch This Is Us.
But Howard said, guess what?
Ellen has a special out.
Of course, big night.
We ate dinner at 5:00.
So 6:00 PM, we're under the covers,
and we're watching the show.
We watched the entire thing.
So we didn't get to bed till--
which is late for us.
But Ellen, it was phenomenal.
So Howard wanted to reach out to Ellen.
So he texts her.
And now, Howard's giggling every second, looking at his phone.
And he's giggling-- and he's texting Ellen all the time.
Yeah, it was fun.
I like texting Howard.
Or he's looking down and checking.
And I go, oh, did Ellen not write you back yet?
And he's like, no, not yet.
I thought that was funny.
That's funny.
Oh yeah, because he was texting--
I know what he was talking about.
Write him back, please.
OK, I'll write him back next time and say, that was funny.
No matter what he says, I'll go, that was funny.
That was funny.
Yeah.
So you watch The Bachelor.
Yes.
And does he watch-- does he like The Bachelor?
Are you kidding?
I don't think I would be watching The Bachelor if it
weren't for my husband.
No, he loves it.
We love watching it together.
He gets very annoyed with me when
we're watching The Bachelor.
We have to watch it the next day, because we
go to bed at 8 o'clock.
You really do?
No, we really do.
And what time does he wake up?
4:45, 5 o'clock.
For the radio show?
Yeah, and I wake up with him.
Why do you wake up with him?
Because I want to be with him.
Oh, that's really--
20 years, I have still-- that's been our routine together.
Now, what time do you watch it?
Like, during the day?
Like right after dinner.
So dinner's at 4:00, so probably around 5:30.
Is dinner at 4:00?
Yeah.
I know that--
Oh, yeah.
Because Howard and I have discussed that we both are
homebodies.
And we both like to go to bed early.
But that is ridiculous.
I mean, people--
I know.
Dinner at 4:00.
People make fun of me that I make reservations
at a restaurant at 6:00.
And most of them just open at 6:00.
I'm usually waiting for them to open.
Oh, we're standing there, knocking on the window.
Will you let us in?
Then they see Howard, and they let us in.
Yeah, of course.
So he has lots of stories that he tells on the show.
And he recently got in trouble, because he shared something.
Yeah.
Well, usually, people come up to me on the street
and say, oh, Beth, I love your work with animals.
Thank you for what you do for cats.
But the other day, someone comes up to me, and they said,
I'm so sorry about what's going on with you and Howard.
I hope you make it.
And I had no idea what was going on.
Happened was, that morning, I said to Howard,
you got to stop walking around so grumpy this week.
I mean, you're really just Debby Downer this whole--
the past few days.
Shape up.
Come on.
We love our life.
And so he went on the air that morning.
And he said, oh, my wife thinks that I'm so depressed.
I hope she still loves me.
That's what I think he said, because I
don't listen to the show.
So--
What do you--
--next thing I know, you get these Google alerts.
Wait, wait, wait, back up.
You don't listen to his show?
No, no.
So what do you do when you wake up at 4:45?
I foster 50 cats.
I have rounds.
That's true.
You're busy.
I'm busy.
I really am busy.
Can't you have radio on in the background
while you're fostering cats?
I don't.
Serious business.
All right, all right.
So I go outside.
And I'm so sorry about Howard.
So Google alerts come.
Howard and Beth Stern breaking up, marital problems.
There's the picture of us with with that lightning bolt
in between our heads.
And I don't know what's going on.
And then, apparently, he spoke about us on the air.
And now, this was just last week.
And then it just spread like wildfire.
One gossip site spreads it to the other one.
But 20 years of marital bliss.
I am setting the record straight right here.
Everything's fine.
I love my Howard.
Yeah, as you should.
He's a great guy.
He really is.
All right, so every year, the Super Bowl--
and it's just as exciting for me,
because everybody watches the Puppy Bowl.
But the Kitten Bowl--
there's nothing like watching the Kitten Bowl.
And now, for the first time-- this is the sixth Kitten Bowl?
Kitten Bowl 6.
OK, Kitten Bowl 6.
And then, now-- come on.
How do you not want to watch that?
I sit on a field, and 100 kittens crawl all over me.
They are more fun to watch than-- puppies are adorable,
but cats, especially kittens, are crazy,
because they jump so high and do crazy things.
I know.
It's kind of adorable.
And now, for the first time, you're doing Cat Bowl.
Yeah, for Hallmark Channel.
They decided the Kitten Bowl has been such a hit.
And I work with a lot of adult cats and special needs cats.
So we thought of a way how we could showcase them.
You know, it's showing off how many kittens and cats
need adoptions.
And you--
Yeah, that's the point.
--you've really made a huge, huge impact on that.
There have been so many animals, so many cats and kittens,
because of this.
Well, because of the Hallmark's initiative with the Kitten,
and hopefully more with the Cat Bowl, over 25,000
adoptions have taken place, in addition to the kittens
that are showcased on the show.
And Howard and I, we fostered close to 900 cats and kittens
over the last five years.
So how many do you have at home right now?
We have four resident cats.
And I think I have about 12 in the foster area.
So one of the kittens that I was fostering, I said,
we deserve to adopt a kitten for once.
We always adopt seniors or adults.
But so if I'm going to adopt a kitten,
it has to be a special needs kitten.
Little, one-eyed kitten--
Howard named her Pebble, Pebble Stern.
She's so cute.
Well, it turns out, I introduced her to the rest of the cats.
Finally, she's in from the foster room.
There she is.
And she's the biggest jerk.
I mean, I love her to her last day, forever and ever.
But she is-- she attacks my senior cats.
She attacks me.
Howard can't even touch her.
She's-- I love you so much, Pebble, but you are a jerk.
Well, that's probably why she has one eye.
She was asking for it.
She was like--
No, she was born with--
What do you mean, she attacks you?
What does she do to you?
She'll climb up my leg.
I'll be in the bathtub, having my zen moment
in the tub, and the music on.
And she'll come from behind me and start attacking my head.
We can't touch her.
See?
That's why people don't like cats.
They meet a cat like that, and it ruins cats.
But thank god we adopted her, because she
would have been returned to us.
Yeah.
We love her so much.
We love her.
Sure you do.
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