Hello, Jim.
How are you?
Hello.
Yeah, I am very good.
It's so nice to see you.
It's nice to see you.
You know, you're following Celine Dion.
The paramedic?
Yeah.
Or soon to be.
Yes.
Oh, wow.
I really hope someone gets that first paramedic encounter
on video and we can meet up with Celine again.
Right.
Thank you for coming to me and saving me.
What's your name?
Celine Dion.
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I heard you work well under pressure.
Yeah.
[LAUGHS]
You never make rash decisions in [INAUDIBLE]..
I mean, come on.
No.
You ever done anything like that?
Have you ever had a little too much to drink
and done something--
I mean, obviously, not that big.
But have you ever done something that you're like, oh, my lord.
No.
I mean, I've done-- no.
I mean, the normal things that you were like, aye,
I wouldn't have said that or done that if I had not
been drinking.
But that's what I kept thinking.
I was like, what was in his brain
that that's where he went to when he got blackout drunk?
Right.
I mean, and then I kept thinking, well,
if that's like a trigger in all of us somehow,
what name would I pick?
Right?
Or would I be, like, Tina Turner [INAUDIBLE]..
Right.
Or what's in me that's waiting for that?
You know, I don't know.
Right.
I know.
It is frightening that somehow that seed was planted in him
that he was gonna--
you're home in New York.
And how are-- this is--
I mean, look, it's so weird to ask people
how they're holding up because it's hard for everybody.
But how are you holding up in your home?
I'm doing-- I keep saying that I'm doing really well.
This sounds so self-help book-like,
but I have been trying to do practice-- well,
you know how you hear like practicing gratitude and things
like that?
And I kind of made the specific focus of like, you know what?
I'm really grateful for a very basic thing,
which is that I'm alive.
But I decided to kind of go deeper with that.
And I'm trying to embrace--
and I'm "trying" is the key word here--
like all the what I would term "bad moods," or a stomach ache,
or whatever like that.
I'm grateful for those because those
are signals that I'm alive.
It's a very primal form of gratitude, I think.
But I don't know.
We'll see.
That's really important.
Did you read that somewhere?
Or what made you think of that?
Because it's true.
Like every single thing, no matter how bad it is,
it reminds us--
Yeah.
--yes, we're going through these things because we're alive.
I do think that I-- look.
I think, in all honesty, we've talked a lot about death
this year because of everything going on.
And I do think, without making this a somber interview,
I do think I was profoundly affected by the death
of my father, who when--
he was only 52 when he went.
And I think I'm seeing that more and more the older I'm
getting of how much that changed my view of both death and life.
And I don't think in a bad way, you know?
Look, I'd rather be doing this than frittering away the days
and not appreciating what they are.
But I don't know.
In all seriousness, there's just so
many people that aren't allowed to wake up with a headache.
And I should be grateful for the privilege of feeling nauseous
in the morning sometimes if I drank too much
and changed my name, or whatever.
You know?
Yeah, exactly.
Well, I think that's a great attitude.
You also, which I didn't know this, you had COVID early on.
And this was like really early on when everybody--
Yeah.
--we didn't really know how bad.
And you and your husband had it, right?
We both had it.
And it was very early.
It was like March 15, I think, when it happened.
And I want to say that we had a mild case because neither of us
had to--
like anything bad, fortunately, happen.
But the worst symptom, in a way, happened
when we were a couple of weeks into this,
and it was kind of getting better.
We both completely lost our sense of taste and smell.
And I only noticed it because I had lit candles.
Because I was like, I feel good.
I'm going to clean the house.
I'm feeling healthier.
And I blew them out and was like, I never smelled those.
And they were some strong candles.
And I was like, what the hell?
And then I realized I couldn't taste anything.
And it was so--
if it weren't so boring--
because there was nothing to do in that point in time besides
eat and drink because you couldn't go anywhere.
If it weren't so boring, I would have been fascinated by it.
Because I have never lost that kind of-- the utter loss,
not even just like less.
It was just gone.
It was like eating cardboard, which I kept eating plenty of.
I never stopped eating because I couldn't taste it.
Now you know you could eat cardboard if you had to.
Hey, congratulations.
I texted you and told you how brilliant
you were in Hollywood.
Thank you.
[INAUDIBLE] Thank you.
But congratulations, Emmy nomination.
And then your other project, Boys in the Band,
is getting award buzz too.
You're just-- I just love how you're branching out, and doing
so many different things, and playing
so many different characters.
Thank you.
And I just-- I think you're fantastic.
So congratulations--
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
--on all the success and very well-deserved,
very well-deserved.
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We're going to be joined by the star of Jim's new show, Call Me
Cat.
We'll be back.