can you take four on new year's? >> exactly. >> first of all, should we talk about the dirt that i have on you that i have from your mother's apartment? >> a lot of people don't realize, actually i think this happened at the end of last year's broadcast. she wanted to talk to you, so i handed the phone, and you and my mom have become very good friends. >> did you have any idea what you were starting or that it would end up with me -- that's right. look how nervous you are. look at your face in that picture. >> that's me and you and my mom and gloria steinem who you brought along to a book signing of my mom. but you've become -- you actually -- my mom gave a dinner party for you for your birthday, right? or just in your honor? >> in my honor. >> in your honor. which i wasn't invited to by the way, but that's fine. >> yeah, you didn't -- well, it's sort of uncomfortable. it's not that you weren't invited, it's that she had an a and a b list and we were going to call you if somebody fell through.