-We're back with my family, everyone,
and like I said, it's so nice to be together again
and continue this tradition.
Another tradition is that every year
we have dressed up first my son Ashe,
and then when he was born, my son Ashe and Axel
and our dog, Frisbee, as turkeys.
This is something we're going to continue to do
until they get too old
where they don't want to do it anymore.
-Yeah, about 20, 22.
-Yeah.
-The dog has never really been into it.
-No, and, in fact, keep an eye out for a couple things.
One, do you think the dog likes being in this video?
And, two, keep your eye out.
If you peel your eyes very closely,
there's sort of an Easter egg that maybe you will find.
But, again, watch very closely.
Here are the boys and Frisbee as turkeys.
-Boggle, boggle, boggle! Thanksgiving!
[ Giggling ]
-Boggle, boggle, boggle!
Happy Thanksgiving!
One, two, three. Surprise!
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♪♪
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-We had another one, you guys! We had another one!
[ Applause ]
This is --
10 weeks ago, my wife gave birth to a baby girl, and...
[ Cheers and applause ]
I feel like it's only fitting for you
to tell everybody what her name is.
-Oh, my gosh. Her name is Adelaide.
Addie, after my mother.
-Yes. -Which --
So, I knew, knowing Seth and Alexi,
it had to start with an "A," it had to be a cool name.
And I know what family means to all of them.
So I thought I pretty much had it, but I didn't know.
And I didn't want to ask. -Yep.
-And so it waited.
You waited until we were on the vineyard. Something.
It was a rainy day.
And then you said, "Do you want to know the name?"
And I said, "I guess so. Yes."
And then, of course, I burst into tears.
-You burst into tears. And, now, Dad, had it been a boy,
what was the name that you were arguing for?
-Albert. -And do you want to explain
what our hesitation would have been
to naming a child Albert?
-I've had six dogs named Albert.
-Yeah.
-Um, I currently have Albert VI...
but I thought it would have been a good name
because it would have been like, you know --
I've had -- Five of my Alberts have died.
They had good lives. Don't worry.
But I thought it would be like Pinocchio, you know?
And all of a sudden, the dog turns into a kid.
They went and screwed it up having a girl.
-Yeah. I, um -- I do --
I only -- You know, I'm so happy to have a girl.
It was a dream come true to have a girl,
but I only wish it had been a boy
just for you to explain to my wife,
"It's like the dog came back as a kid."
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah.
It could have gone better than we all think.
-Now, Addie had a drink of choice.
Posh, do you remember what Addie drank?
-Kir Royale. -Yes, this is --
Not the baby Addie, but the dear departed Addie.
And so I would like to take a toast
in memory of our grandmother and --
-My mother. -Your mother.
And, Dad, your arch nemesis.
[ Laughter ]
-Cheers. -To Addie.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-And if I could just interject something about Kirs.
Now, it's white wine with crème de cassis.
The Royale is with champagne, as well.
But my mother had a flask that she carried with her
at all times that had the crème de cassis
because she says it's such a rip-off
when you go to restaurants, so a regular glass of white wine
is maybe $6, then they jack it up to 10
just by putting in the crème de cassis.
And she says half the time, it's too red, it's not red enough.
She said, "I'm just gonna do my own."
So she always took along this flask and would pour it.
Now, the thing is, with crème de cassis, it's, like, a real
gooey, red...
-Yeah, very thick. -Very thick.
-So, one time, the thing broke. The lid came off.
We were in a store shopping. And I looked down,
and it was, like, one of those straw rugs,
and there was crème de --
It looked like somebody had been murdered.
-Yeah. -And there was --
There was just red all the way,
and I looked at Mother, and she said,
"We need to leave right now." -Yeah.
-So we got out. We got out.
-The point of that story is she didn't only carry that flask
when she went shopping.
-Yeah. -Or to the restaurant.
Always had it. -It's very funny to think of...
carrying a flask full of crème de cassis.
She was a very refined dirt bag.
-Oh, yes. -Yeah.
-Wait a minute! -[ Laughter ]
-But it's very funny about -- Addie --
First of all, here --
I do want to show how beautiful my grandmother was.
There she is on her wedding day in the middle.
Here she is right there.
And that's you right there, Mom.
-Yeah. That's with five of her six children.
-Yep. You had one more baby after you.
-One more baby. -And Addie was so refined
and so classy,
and her home was filled with beautiful antiques.
I assumed until I was about 15 years old that --
I just assumed she was born in England.
-Right. -Do you want to tell everybody
where she was born?
-Kansas City, Missouri. -Yeah.
-But she was sent to an English boarding school.
She went to Malvern Girls College in England.
And she did -- She would pronounce "luh-bore-atory"
and things like -- She had airs.
-Yeah, she put on airs. Now, you -- Late in life --
Because she spent her later years in San Diego.
You were in L.A -- You saw her a great deal more than I did.
You were very close with her, but do you have a memory of --
Because she wasn't the warmest grandmother when we were young.
-No, she didn't like kids that weren't her kids.
And I was her grandchild.
-Right, which you feel like is close enough.
-Not for Addie. -No. No.
-And, yeah, but she was --
Like, you know, she would never say "paper muh-shay."
She would say papier maché. -Right.
And then she'd like...
[ Laughter ]
-And then have a nice, thick drink of cassis.
But she -- I mean, my favorite story --
She was, you know, our grandmother.
She was like 83,
had gone through a couple husbands,
and had gone out on a date with this guy,
and he was also getting on in years,
and he was dropping her off, and he asked her something.
I forget how he phrased it. What did he ask her?
-"Would you touch it?"
[ Laughter ]
-"Would you touch it?"
-She did not. -She did not.
-But that gentleman would die three months later
and leave his house to his housekeeper.
And everyone was like,
"Well, if you would've touched it...
maybe free house."
-It was a very loving group of people.
How is -- How did your, uh -- What is your memory of Addie?
-It was different for me.
[ Laughter ]
I'm gonna tell you the first time I met Addie.
Hillary and I met in college, and I must have been about 20,
and my friend Denny Miller and I went up --
We lived in Pittsburgh.
We went up to Marblehead, Massachusetts,
this beautiful New England town
with a big harbor full of sailboats.
And they lived in a house that was built in the 1600s.
And we come up there, and, you know, to have a thing
at the end of the summer, a little vacation.
And so I think we got off to a bad start.
You know, first of all, we mentioned --
She said, "How do you like Marblehead?"
We said, "Eh. No rivers, no bridges.
It's not Pittsburgh. Eh, it's all right."
So, then we were sitting in the yard and --
-The garden. -It was the garden. Pardon me.
-If you say "papier maché"... -You say "garden."
-...you say "garden."
-And I'll admit. We were 20 years old.
I mean, I don't know what she was expecting.
She wasn't expecting me.
And, um...
You know, as far as savoir faire went,
to stay with the French, ours was only faire.
And so we're sitting in the garden,
and Hillary's grandfather came in, Addie's father.
He was quite old at the time and with a beret
and some medals from World War I.
And he sat down.
We shook his hand, but we didn't get up.
We should have got up. We were, you know --
Again, faire on the savoir faire.
And so after we had that little exchange,
we went in to change for dinner,
and Hillary came up and said, "You have to get out."
Addie threw me out the first day.
I didn't make it one day. She threw us out.
And you saw the picture of her with five of her six children.
And she was the matriarch. She was --
She was -- I would say she was like Catherine the Great.
Except Catherine the Great didn't have six kids.
She was more like that guy...
What's his name on "Succession"? Roy?
-Logan Roy. -Logan Roy.
-She was more like him. -Oh, that's lovely.
-Yeah, with a lot of kids. -He's very --
He's loving, yeah. -Yeah.
So she was -- she was the boss.
But we -- you know, we -- That was a rough start.
But, you know, Hillary and I've been married over 50 years,
and so, over time, you know, maybe 10,
12 years, things got better. [ Laughter ]
You know, the last 30 years were pretty good.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
I should note the story about Addie's birth
was a lot less dramatic than Axel,
who was my middle son who was famously born in a lobby.
And our first son was almost born in an Uber.
So Alexi was very aware that she has pretty fast labors,
and so she decided to have it at home with a midwife.
And my wife is very -- She is an alpha.
She likes to plan things. She put our two boys to bed.
She looked at me, she said, "My water broke."
We had a midwife come to our home,
and she gave birth in our bathtub at 10:30 at night,
which was incredible.
Like three pushes, and baby Addie was there.
And it was amazing because, you know, you go to a hospital,
which we did for the first two, and, you know,
it feels very medical, and this birth was very much
just felt like a miracle.
And we had -- Addie slept between us at night in bed.
And then, when the boys woke up in the morning,
I got to go into their room and say,
"There's a surprise for you in Mom's bed."
And here is the video of the first time
they got to hold their sister.
[ Both laugh ]
Mommy, get her off, get her off.
-Take her off? [ Laughter ]
-Mommy. -What?
-What is that? -That's her belly button.
[ Laughter ]
-We took advantage of the pandemic
and the fact that you weren't -- you know,
people weren't seeing you out and about in the same way.
And we decided -- It's not really --
Like, I feel like a secret baby
has to be, like, two people that aren't together.
-Yeah. -It's a little bit
less exciting when you're like, "We had a secret baby,"
and people are like, "It's your third baby."
[ Laughter ] -No, look, trust --
That's how I feel.
I mean, I don't know why I've been keeping it a secret.
-Right.
Well, I appreciate you biting the bullet.
[ Laughter ]
And then, you know -- you know, obviously,
the fact that this one wasn't born in the lobby,
you know... didn't need to run out
and tell everybody, you know? -Yeah.
-Yeah. Fair enough. Fair enough.
-No Netflix special there. -Nope.
[ Laughter ]
-Boy. -I mean, it's heartbreaking.
And, you know, you don't want to blame her
'cause she's just a baby. -Yeah.
-But... -But...
You know, Axel's already paid for college, like...
[ Laughter ]
She's got some work to do. You know?
-Yeah. -Hey, we're gonna
go to commercial, but I'm gonna show you --
We're gonna go to commercial with a video that is one
that I have watched a hundred times since we filmed it.
This is Axel.
Both my boys are incredibly sweet.
This is Axel.
We lower-thirded it because he's a little hard
to understand sometimes, but this is
his first conversation with his baby sister.