-Thanksgiving is coming up. What are you gonna do?
-Oh, you know.
Well, here I am. -You're here.
-I live in Los Angeles. -Right.
Are you gonna make it back?
-Yes, if the weather -- if all things,
if I'm still sitting up and taking nourishment tomorrow,
I'll be on an airplane early in the morning
to join my wife Emily and our two kids.
-Great.
-I have a 4-year-old and 2-year-old, two boys.
-Very close to us, yeah. -Very close.
We should have a play date. -Yes, please.
-In fact, my wife is doing what I think Alexi is doing,
which is lobbying for another baby.
-Oh, she is lobbying for another baby?
We're on the fence.
But I can see us doing it, now more than ever.
[ Laughter ]
-Really? You can? [ Cheers and applause ]
-And then, you know, and I don't know.
And then, once if you do it, you might end up with a baby.
[ Laughter ]
What about you? Are you feeling -- Are you pro?
-Uh, I-I-I sit at her feet.
Anything she thinks is a good idea to me.
-Yeah. -And she's, you know --
-Do the kids have an input yet?
Have you checked it with them?
-Do you want a little baby sister?
Wouldn't you like a little baby sister?
I think they've said yes, you know, but what do they know?
[ Laughter ]
But I think -- So, you're feeling --
-I certainly don't think -- I came from two,
so I thought, "Oh, that's perfect."
But at the same time, I'm like,
I wouldn't be like, "We'd regret it."
I don't think we'd ever say on a road trip, you know,
"This could have been better."
[ Laughter ]
"This could have been a little less cramped."
-Of what, just the two or if you have three?
-I think if we have three.
But I think if we had three, we'd be happy.
-I'm very psychic.
I see that you're gonna eventually have 11.
-You think 11? -Yeah, I don't know why.
I think you're gonna have 11 children.
-Well, you're very good at this, so I take your word for it.
You have something very exciting coming up in a couple months.
-I do? -Yeah.
You're doing something a little out of your --
Well, not out of your comfort zone,
because I think you're comfortable everywhere, but --
-I know what you're talking about.
Hey, you know what I'm gonna do? That's right.
I'm dying to talk to you about this.
I'm going to sub -- to host
one of these talk shows for Mr. James Corden.
-You're gonna be a fill-in host.
-I'm going to be a fill-in for one night.
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They said it was okay to say it.
December 12th, I'll be doing it.
So I'm pract-- I'm learning all about it.
-It's very exciting. You will be great at it.
You'll be a natural. -I don't know.
-But I do want to point out that James,
wonderful guy that he is, we're on against each other.
So you will be on December 12th, it's gonna be mano a mano.
-Well, well -- [ Sighs ]
[ Laughter ]
-Look, I'm not trying to put you in your head.
I think it'll be wonderful. -What can you say?
But I wanted to ask you a million questions
on and off the air.
you know, I'm already -- I shadowed him last week.
I spent the whole day doing what I guess you do,
which is from 10:00 a.m. in the morning,
get together with the writers and da-da-da.
-Yeah, you're gonna love it. -I love it already.
-Well, this seems like a really good segue,
but it is also a very natural one.
This is a lot like the show that you're doing on Disney+,
which is you basically -- you explore new experiences
and topics that are interesting to you.
-I'm a little bit -- I'm quite curious.
I'm so lucky to be on this show.
I'm the host of this show called
"The World According to Jeff Goldblum."
It's on Disney+ streaming once a week.
We did 12 of them. They're half-hours.
And, yes, they're items of familiarity.
-You did an episode on denim?
-Yes. -Yeah.
-Genuinely, but it was fascinating because I think
we all, obviously, we have denim in our lives
and we don't think much about it.
-These are familiar things, although people love them.
A lot of people love them.
Did you know -- I didn't know this -- that half the population
of the world on any given day is wearing denim?
-Are they really? -Half, half.
Isn't that something? -That's great.
-Hey, we found in the denim episode, I visited --
Where did I go?
To the Levi's store -- headquarters in San Francisco,
where they create all these things.
You know, denim in the last couple of decades
with the proliferation of so much denim,
we're doing horrible things to the waterways with the dyes
and the chemicals, but they're fixing it.
There are people who are kind of doing good things in this world.
In this fraught world, there are people
who are making their lives better
and the lives of others better.
-You did something very cool.
There was an episode about pools?
Am I accurate? -Pools, yes, yes.
I went to Raging Waters. I'd never been to there.
We went into a sensory deprivation tank.
And then I went to NASA, a neutral buoyancy lab.
-How was that? -It was great.
I talked to astronauts.
It was really good.
You know, I talked to -- I talked to --
You know who was there?
There was a wife of one of the astronauts
who is currently up in the space station.
-Oh, wow.
-And she said, "Hey, you know, he likes you.
I'm gonna give him a call."
She got in touch with him. He called me on my cellphone.
I talked to a guy who's up there right now.
He's still up there. -Wow.
-He's up there for four or five months.
-He called you on your cellphone?
-Yes. -Was it weeks later
or was it call him now? -It was there.
-Wow! -Yes.
And was clear as a bell, much clearer
than when you're going up Laurel Canyon, for instance.
I don't know how they do it.
But it was great. It was great.
But I'd seen that movie "First Man" recently.
Anyway, she told me a story that the last time -- the first time
that he went up the thing, as the kids --
they have a couple of boys -- were watching, it exploded.
-Really?
-There's a way for them to get out on a kind of a lifeboat
kind of thing, but they didn't know for a while.
It was very touch and go and very scary.
So this last time, he went up again,
she was telling this story, and I was crying.
It was very, very moving.
Amazing. -Yeah, that's fantastic.
What a cool show you get to go and meet people like this
and have those experiences. -Totally cool.
But just like you, it's kind of like this job.
I'm interested in people, and so are you.
-I am like an astronaut, it's true.
-No. [ Laughter ]
-No, that's not what you're -- -You're an interested person.
-Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Speaking of which, your Netflix special, I must say,
you must - any woman or child within the sound of my voice --
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So charismatic and what a master crafts person.
-Very, very kind of you to say. -It's a beautiful item.