entrepreneur, and quarantined mother of three.

Please welcome Kate Hudson.

Hi!

Yay!

It's so nice to see your face.

(QUIETLY) Say hi!

Who do you have on your lap there?

This is Rani.

Can you say, hi Ellen?

Good.

Hi!

Andy is in the yard.

He says hi.

Hi, Andy!

Hi.

I can't see because of the panes,

but I'm sure your baby is gorgeous.

Yeah, she is.

Yeah, no, he's not allowed in because

of the social distancing.

So he just stays in the yard.

[LAUGHTER]

So I know you're going to make a big announcement later on.

But first of all, let's talk about how you are.

What's happening with you in that house?

A lot of kids and a lot of school.

I'm just trying to--

school, OK.

I'm just trying to balance school and work, basically.

But it's definitely-- the schooling thing

is an adjustment.

Two kids-- Ryder's 16, he's in 10th grade.

He's a little more independent.

But Bing is eight and in second grade, so it's hands-on.

And then, yeah, it's just a juggling act--

an adjustment and a juggling act.

But it's good.

I'm grateful for our health.

Are they all together and you just go from one person

to the other?

Or, do you go into the rooms?

Or, do they all learn at the same time-- obviously,

different things-- but how does that work?

[EXHALES]

Well, Ellen, [LAUGHS] funny you ask.

No, you know what it is?

I have one area for Bing because it's more hands-on.

I have to sit with him.

So he's got his area.

And then Ryder does his work in his area and we do more, like,

check-ins because he doesn't get--

he's doing lectures and it's Zoom,

but he doesn't have that one-on-one.

So we kind of just started going back and forth on,

like, say he has to read an article.

We'll read it together.

We'll talk about it.

But I'm definitely doing more reading

than I've ever done in my life.

And then, I try to just squeeze in calls and the Zoom work life

that I have to do.

And I've got four businesses and so it's just--

Andy.

So great.

I like that.

I want some Andys just for the fun of it.

[LAUGHS]

No, you really don't.

You don't He usually is in the studio with us,

as you know, dropping things and making a lot of noise.

And now, he's just outside.

But he still chimes in every once and a while.

Do you have a question for Kate, Andy?

No.

I'm just very much relating to the idea of having kids

at home all the time and how there's

so much juggling going on now.

I don't relate to the part of having four businesses I'm just

here in the yard.

And is your mom good?

My mom's great, yeah.

Mom's great.

But we're being really careful.

We're doing what we're supposed to be doing.

We're staying-- we're keeping our distance.

And I'm such a tactile person.

I think that's one of the hardest things is just not

being able to hold--

It's very strange because people are having these Zoom,

you know, happy hours and it's still

just really strange to even--

You know her mom's Goldie Hawn, right?

Yes, Andy.

All right.

Oh my God.

[LAUGHTER]

It's funny, I was thinking about that-- the Zoom

cocktail hours-- and I just don't know

what that is like with kids.

I was thinking about--

I was hearing people talk about like, oh,

what a time to reflect, and go inside, and look at your life.

There is no reflecting.

I don't know what that is.

Because any moment I've had to sit down,

whether it's not trying to go with the kids,

and me at, you know, whatever-- from scrubbing the toilet that

hasn't been scrubbed in a week and realizing oh, God--

I'm waiting for the moment of reflection.

So we'll see if--

actually, my hope is that we get to move forward out of this

before I get time to reflect because that

would be a nice day.

I think you just came upon your moment of reflection.

I don't know the last time you cleaned a toilet,

but that would be the time to reflect on the fact

that you're cleaning your toilet, right?

Well, you'd be surprised.

You know, I'm a really roll up my sleeves kind of girl,

oh yeah.

[LAUGHS]

Oh.

Well, I like to clean also.

Toilets are not my favorite thing.

So let me ask you this though, because I

heard that you have been ready for anything that

happens for a long, long time.

It seems like you have been stocking up on--

what have you stocked up on?

What are you, a prepper?

I'm a bit of pepper.

I have been for a long time.

I know it sounds--

you know, people think preppers are crazy.

I don't.

I think it's actually kind of--

I think it's very practical.

And I think when you grow up on a ranch

that you kind of have a-- you have

a little bit of that in you.

We have a very self-sustaining ranch,

and that's where we grew up.

We had our garden and we had-- my mom

and I've actually pickled.

Kurt is very much about creating your own sustainable

environment.

And so growing up, I was-- we live in an earthquake--

a huge natural disaster zone.

So I've always been prepared for, like, a month of disaster.

Doomsday preppers are really having their I-told-you-so

moment right now, aren't they?

Well, not really--

Like, this is everything they've planned for.

I think this is a little bit different.

Pandemic is a little different because, for instance, we

ride dirt bikes.

So we have dirt bikes.

That's also a very kind of if you have to get out--

I'm getting a dirt bike.

That's for sure.

Yeah, I want a dirt bike just because it sounds fun

to say I have a dirt bike.

Just backing up, you said that you and your mother

were pickled, or you pickled?

What did you say?

Well, [LAUGHS] we pickled.

All right.

Well, I want to talk more about everything.

But I want to take a break.

Take a break.

That's what I just said, Andy.

Don't act like you're in control all of a sudden.

Come on.

Katie knows.

Katie?

Yeah.

We've worked together, so she said I could call her Katie.

[LAUGHTER]

All right, we're going to take a break.

Break!

And we're going to talk to Kate and Katie after this.

Hi, I'm Andy.

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[SCREAMS]

God [BLEEP]!