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This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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No, I'm not some perv, you know? You're the guy chasing storms around. They probably have a restraining order out against you. The storms have a restraining order? Yeah, there's a tornado that's like, they're like, that creep is, I'm just trying to do my, I'm just trying to fly some cows around. It's that creep again in his van taking a picture of me. Storm chaser.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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All right, Max, you get one more question.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Well, not that you don't make it very enticing, because you've pretty much explained to me that nothing happens 99% of the time, and most of your quips have been insults. So I'm coming out right away.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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I mean, that's the problem is I would go storm chasing with you, but I have a feeling that how are we going to time this? When is good tornado season? Is it the spring? Summer? Yeah, April, May, June. Okay, I'm going to lock off those three months. I'm going to get a Best Western in downtown Fargo. I'm going to walk around going, it's my deal here, Wade. And...

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This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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And then we'll wait for something to happen and then we'll jump in the, you and I can jump in the van together. Haven't said that in a while. Oh, sorry. And fire up the old Doppler. Is it a 1780? What kind of Doppler is it? What do you got there? I got the 1800 model. Those are fantastic. Those are great. Yeah. Just make sure. Well, you probably have already looked into it.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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You got to use the correct megahertz. Max, I'm going to sign off now. It was very nice talking to you. And I like the cut of your jib. You seem like a fine lad. Really think seriously about what I said about changing it up a little bit. Dressing a little fashion forward. Separate yourself from the herd is what I'm going to say.

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This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Because the rest of the people in that station are going down, going down hard. You want to survive, okay? You're young and accentuate your youth. That's what I say to you.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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You're a survivor. Exactly. All right. I think we're good here. I'm going to ask you to go and look into some indoor heating, if that's possible.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Yeah, yeah.

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This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Nope, not at all, not at all. I think it's good to have, especially in Fargo, probably some kind of heating because the alternative is death. Max, I hope you survive the winter, and I sincerely doubt you will. So do I. Yeah, but if not, I'll come by when we'll chop you up into slices and use chunks of your flesh to cool our drinks. Max, good day.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Well, I don't know them, and I'm not sure you do. Max, I'm ending this. I tried. I've tried several times to end it, and I just want you to say, and if we go out on one thing, it's, it's my deal here, Wade. Oh, my God. Thanks, Max. Bye, Max.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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And you're a meteorologist. Are you on the radio? Are you on television? Where do you do your meteorology? I am on television. I'm on the Fox-affiliated TV station in Fargo. Oh, very cool. And because it's Fox, do they encourage you to put like a political slant? Like, oh, there's a bad storm coming from the left wing.

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This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Yeah, the left wing of the state. There's a bad kooky storm, but don't worry. Now it's becoming Irish.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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my deal here hey no no wait we talked about it's my deal here if i stick to my deal here i think i got the action just repeat that over and over again yeah i think so okay um like you're from the midwest oh wait you are you're from southern illinois yeah yeah yeah it's true um max i'm sorry uh you're a meteorologist and i'm gonna try to bring some sanity i think you've upended this conversation with your nonsense

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Hey, Max. How are you? I'm trying to stay warm. Oh, okay. Well, you're indoors. Do you not have heating? What's going on?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Okay, hey. Wow, Jesus. All right, you just take it easy. You're a meteorologist.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Okay, you're right. I have the highest respect for you, Max. I think you've lost control. You've lost the feeling in your extremities from the severe cold. Um... So you are in the studio. You are doing the weather. Is the weather usually the same in Fargo? Does it get boring?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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You know, there's that old joke about it's really boring to be a weatherman in Los Angeles because it's always 72 degrees and fairly pleasant. What about in Fargo?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Well, bad luck for other people is good luck for you because you get to say pretty much. Oh, it's a big storm coming their way. I'm going to keep going at it. I'm going to keep going at it. There's no way to stop me. So, OK, what kind of do you get outside the studio much?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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I mean, are you mostly there in front of the green screen pointing to things like low pressure system, high pressure system, snowflakes, that kind of thing?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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I'm going to climb through this microphone and come and get you. You understand me? Don't you sass me, young man. All right? I'm 98 years old. I've served this country bravely. In World War II. And you're going to treat me with respect. None of your sass now. This is my deal here, Wade. Oh, no. Oh, my Lord. No, I'm in front of the green screen most of the time. Right.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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And do you have to ad lib a lot? Is that because sometimes I would think. You're there. And I don't mean to put down your anchor because I don't know who your anchor is. But what if your anchor just is trying to be funny and you got to kind of have to play off your anchor who I'm just assuming is, you know, he's come on. You're a funny guy, Max. You're calling in. You're clearly a fan.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Where are you right now? I'm in Fargo, North Dakota. Ah, Fargo. Yeah. Okay. That's my favorite movie, by the way. It really is one of my favorite movies. I love Fargo. I wish you talked like that in the movie. It's my deal here, Gene. Hey, wait. Hey, wait.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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You've already had some good quips. You put me in my place. What if your anchor is like and you have to deal with that? What do you do?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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I don't know what you're talking about, Max.

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This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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It's all just off the top of my head. You're going commando, right? No, no, seriously. You're letting the old pendulum swing, if you know what I mean. Those guys are locked in. They're just locked in. And now the weather, you know, and they'll read it. You know what I mean? That's that's that's what it is. Yeah. It's like the movie Anchorman. You just put it on the prompter and they'll read it.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Do you get outside the studio much? Do you ever get a chance to get outside and have some excitement?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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I've never talked to someone who really does that. Of course, there are the famous iconic movies about storm chasing. How inaccurate are those movies? I'm guessing they are fairly inaccurate.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Okay, Max, paint the picture for me. You hear there's a tornado or the conditions are right for a tornado, and then it comes in over the radio. The tornado is setting down over near, you know, Cobbler's Grove. And you say, let's go, gang. And you all hit the gas and you head towards the tornado. Is that correct? Yeah. Whoa, look at that. Is that something you just got off online or...

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This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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No, believe it or not, I took this. So you took that photo and you got that close to a tornado. Now, what if that thing had suddenly started heading? You know, the way when a bear attacks you, if it's a black bear, you're supposed to do this. If it's a brown bear, you're supposed to do that. What do you do if you think a tornado is headed your way?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Is there is there something I should know that might save my life in the future?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Okay, let me ask you a question. Because this is something that I've thought about. And I think about a lot of things. I'm a thoughtful man. And... So I've heard when, you know, when there's a big wave coming towards you, you can try to run away from it. But sometimes that's the worst thing you can do. Sometimes you should turn and you should dive into the wave. Would it ever be a good idea?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Let me finish. You don't know where I'm going with this to dive into the tornado.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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will no and just go with it and like ascend ascend ascend and there's cows swirling around you moo moo and there's other people from fargo it's mild my deal here wade no wait it's my hey no wait i talk to these guys they mean business it's my deal here wade and moo moo and you just ascend through them is that a possibility

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Yeah, that's okay. Well, no, we're not going to get into some sort of sex game. That's not going to happen. Do you want money? You can Venmo him. No, no, no. I'm not giving him any money for this. I think it's just an excuse for me to say, it's my deal here, Wade. No, no. I mean, I'm sorry. What accent is that? It's Fargo. It's Fargo. Are you sure? I'm sure. Hey, you know, I'm sorry.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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There's not as much fun as Fargo. You know, it's just not as much fun. Yeah, pure old news. Yeah.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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I would first of all, I would do it because I am very I do anything for a bit. And if it's for a bit and I think it'll it'll make people happy, I'll do it. And you'll just find a red wig later on and some bits of flesh. That's fascinating that you go chasing after the storms and you don't feel endangered when you're doing that.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Even if you see a tornado, you think it's pretty good chance it's not going to come our way.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Isn't there an app that will tell you uh where the tornado is and there's an app for everything and if there isn't you should invent one but there should be an app that tells you there's a tornado and it's it's six feet that way and there's a little arrow

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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You can't just rely on, I'm guessing it's a Doppler. Yeah. Yeah. You know the terms. Well, whatever. I pretty much helped invent the technology. Oh, you're that Conan?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Conan O'Ryan. Conan Doppler O'Ryan. Okay. You seem like a happy chappy, Max. Is life good for you? You enjoy your life. You're a young fellow. You're part of a proud guild of meteorologists. I don't know. I'm impressed. I mean, you're You know what I mean? Sometimes you think, oh, you're going to talk to a meteorologist.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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It's going to be some crusty 65-year-old guy who's like, I remember the tornado of 57. I'm like, oh, Jesus, this guy again. But look at you. You're a very young guy, and this is pretty cool. How did you know a tornado went through Fargo in 1957? I know a lot about tornadoes and I know a lot about Fargo.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Oh, I think my accent is so good. It scares the shit out of you. And I'll be honest with you. I can tell you just, I can see the color drain from you every time I go. That's right. Hey, it's my deal. You're waiting. Um, the color, uh, I just live in Fargo.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Do you have, uh, do you have family? What's, what's going on in your life, your social life? Uh,

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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You don't sound at all like anyone from the movie Fargo.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Oh, okay. I'm just curious. Do you ever get together with the other meteorologists? I mean, and is there a rivalry? There must be other meteorologists in town from other stations. And is there rivalry between you guys?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Yeah.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Hey, Wade, first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club, Wade. Make it stop. Make it stop. I'm sorry. I just wanted to put a little Fargo spin on it. We punch each other and then say, sorry. Yeah. Sorry. All right. So sounds like life is good. Do you have a question for me? Is there a way I can help you? I'd like to help you, Max, in any way that I can.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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I'd like to use what skills I have. I'm a humble man, as you can tell. All humble men.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Max! Max! See, what I was doing was a trick to get you to do that. It worked. And my bad Fargo accent brought out your good one. And so I win this round. I love that. I love that. Now you don't owe me any money. So, Max, what do you do? Besides living in an apartment that has no central heating, what do you do with yourself, my friend? I'm a meteorologist. Oh, cool. That's cool.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Oh, well, first of all, what are you wearing when you do the weather forecasting? Clothes. No, but come on, what are you wearing? How are you dressed? A suit. You wear a suit? Do you have to wear a suit? I mean, you're a young guy and times are changing fast. And you're working on a local station and you might want to make a splash. You might want to jazz it up a little bit.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Maybe you want to go with something, I don't know, a little more au courant. You know what I'm saying? Maybe you want to dress more like you would out on the street or out if you're going to a club. There must be a cool club near you. He said, not sure at all that there was.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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Or whatever, you know, a hoodie or whatever. I mean, you've got to... What you have to do is separate yourself from all the other people in suits that are saying that there's an ice storm moving in and it's going to be cold tomorrow. You've got to pop. And if that means you get some fashion-forward glasses a la Jeff Goldblum, whatever you've got to do... You should do that is in my opinion.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

This Is My Deal Here, Wade

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And you said my first answer was going to blow, but it didn't. It's exactly what you should do. Not that you're not rocking the world right now in your black T-shirt, but let me tell you something, buddy boy. If you want to make it, you've got to shake things up a little bit.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

One Ring To Rule Them All

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Are they going to be able to keep their mouths shut? Because you do want it to be a surprise when you give her the ring.

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One Ring To Rule Them All

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She's an intelligent woman. I'm assuming she's not listening, so I think you're okay.

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One Ring To Rule Them All

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Do you think her parents are going to have a lot of input on what the ring is, or do you get to choose that freely?

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One Ring To Rule Them All

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She already knows. What would she want? I don't know.

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One Ring To Rule Them All

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But do they know what she wants? Because you keep talking about what, you know, Eduardo brings up a good point, which is they know what their preferences are, but what's her preference?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

One Ring To Rule Them All

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Well, I think it's all going to go swimmingly. I just want to make sure that it's a nice surprise. You know, that when you pull that ring out of yourself, that it's a surprise.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

One Ring To Rule Them All

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This is now part of the proposal?

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One Ring To Rule Them All

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He's pulling it out of his body?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

One Ring To Rule Them All

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How is that even working? If he times it right, he can say, honey, get over here.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

One Ring To Rule Them All

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No, no, no. No, no, no. He's got to rinse it first. You can't just pull it out.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

One Ring To Rule Them All

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You have the water running.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

One Ring To Rule Them All

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Get over here now. Get over here now. Did you just say squat? He's going to squat now. He's going to squat? No, come on.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

One Ring To Rule Them All

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Your fiance can never listen to this. You could fire it across the room.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

One Ring To Rule Them All

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Stick your finger out, honey. No. Here she comes. Your parents helped me pick it out. Your parents picked it out a week ago. And then I ate it with a lot of corn.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

One Ring To Rule Them All

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Now listen. I'm sorry. Reheal.

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One Ring To Rule Them All

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Come on.

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One Ring To Rule Them All

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Wrap, wrap, wrap. Wrap, wrap, wrap.

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Reheal. I'm looking right now at a transcript of this entire conversation and I see that I've made no missteps whatsoever. Everything I've said is rational and should be done. So congratulations. No, Raheel, you are a impressive young man. I think you're going to have a great career. I wish you the best with this proposal. I think it's all going to go swimmingly.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

One Ring To Rule Them All

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And I hope I bump into you in person someday because I like you. You're a fine fellow. Really think seriously about swallowing the ring. Just think about it. It's a good idea.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

One Ring To Rule Them All

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All right. Take care, man.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

One Ring To Rule Them All

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Has it all been textbook stuff? Yeah.

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One Ring To Rule Them All

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Hi, Raheel. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan. Hey, everybody.

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It's such a dedication it takes in the field of medicine. There is no preparation for being in comedy. Yeah. There's no it's I am ashamed. I'm ashamed that you just get to dive in and be an ass and and whatever. Start getting to practice immediately. I'm so impressed by the fact that you've had you've spent years and years and years of your life preparing.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

One Ring To Rule Them All

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And I'm glad you have, because I'm sure you're going to be very good at what you do. You're going to help save a lot of lives.

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Yeah. How are you? First of all, where are you contacting us from?

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Okay. I've talked about this a lot, but can you hook me up with propofol? Oh, jeez.

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Oh, jeez. Come on.

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Because I've, you know, when I've had colonoscopies, they give me this drug propofol, and I've talked about it before, but it's the happiest I've been in my entire life.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Mm-hmm.

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It's an absolutely amazing feeling and it's miraculous. And so if you can become my secret illegal supplier of propofol, I don't see how anyone traces it back to us. I don't see one way that it leaks out and it's tracked back to us. That's just what I'm saying. By the way, I'm terrible at committing crimes. Have you performed any colonoscopies? Is that something that they've trained you to do?

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Can I just say, I hate to interrupt, but Raheel, doesn't that kind of suck for the patient? If you're saying like, yeah, you know, first year, you're just jamming a camera in there. You don't know what you're doing. It's banging up against stuff and you just have to kind of force it. Isn't that, I mean, you don't want to be, I don't want to encounter you at that stage, Raheel, as a patient.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Is that fair to say? You do with propofol.

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Very nice. And tell us a little bit about yourself, Raheel.

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You're right. Okay. So I wake up and I don't know what's happened.

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Even though you've been banging around in there for three hours. What do you mean banging around in there?

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Do you think you're pretty good at it now?

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Good, good. I would think when is the I would think the technology is going to improve to the point where you just swallow like a little pill or something and it works its way through your system really quickly. And the pill comes out the other side and said, everything is fine.

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They have one. Do they?

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See, that's the problem is technology replaces a lot of, I mean, I'll be replaced by AI in about a year.

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Yeah.

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We'll have a fake cone in here.

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Less than a year.

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Okay. That's good to know. Just let me, give me a heads up. Ratings might go up. All right. That's nice. That's nice. Let's turn up the knob on the comedy portion of the Conan. Hey, it's working. Well, I think that's fantastic. Now, what about you?

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Does looking at people's intestines, has it at all adjusted or informed the way that you eat or the way that you treat your body when you look at other people's intestines?

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And, um, that's fascinating to me. So you're telling them, well, it's really good to, you know, eat a lot of roughage and don't eat processed foods. And it's really good to avoid the, and then you don't listen to it at all.

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Okay. All right. Are you pretty healthy? Are you a healthy eater other than when you're at work? Let's say you're not at work. Are you fairly healthy about your diet?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Oh, good Lord. That's impressive. You're a gastroenterologist. And what was the other field too?

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Right. Yeah, I'm not a big lentil guy, I'm going to tell you right now.

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You know what? I don't like them either.

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I mean, I don't think I've ever said, hey, I need me some lentils. Yeah. You know? Or when I'm in a restaurant, it's not the first thing I ask the waiter. Hey, you got lentils? No. What's the lentil situation? Let's run down the list of the lentils. What's the lentil of the day? Exactly. I want to see the lentil sommelier come out and taste the lentil. So do you fast ever? I do.

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Because that's a big thing now. People believe that fasting and I would like your opinion on this because I know people that fast and they say it's good for them. And now there's a lot of science that's saying fasting is good. But I always wonder, is it one of those things where 10 years from now they're going to tell us, actually, it's terrible for you. We changed our minds, you know?

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Oh, good. You're a doctor, are you not?

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Hi, doctor. Can you tell us what you're seeing on Instagram?

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Can I have some of that pizza?

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Hello, doctor. Tell me what's on TikTok. Go ahead. Sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead.

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Hepatology is blood? Liver. Liver. Ooh. Ooh. Sorry. So liver connected to intestine. Yes. Intestinal tract. That all makes sense. Okay. Yeah. And we'll clean that up. What do you want me to do? What?

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What is that? Can you tell me specifically what your religion is?

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Yeah. I mean, no food of any kind, or can you take some sustenance?

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Okay. I have questions. As a doctor, do you think that that's okay to go eight days without any food other than water?

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Okay.

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Are you even able to get out of bed on the eighth day? Are you debilitated?

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That's because your body is eating itself. On day seven, hey, I don't feel so bad. Yeah, you just ate your heart. Your body's like, I'm good. Yeah, liver's gone, heart's gone. Now I'm working on the third rib. I mean, it's all it's all it's fascinating to me because clearly there is a large religious component in many religions.

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Who's going to clean it up?

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There's a big religious component to denying yourself food, fasting, going without and people feeling like they reach a higher plane or. Or that they feel that they've gained something by seeing what they could do by denying themselves. So there's clearly some kind of link here. It's just we don't know, obviously, completely what the science is. And maybe it's different for all kinds of people.

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Girls? I'm not cleaning anything. Edit it?

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I don't know.

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He's going to edit it?

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And how do you break after eight days?

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Yeah.

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What do you, is the, is it, do you, do you get a, a, you know, like a nine tiered hamburger? What do you get? I mean, I know you're a vegetarian. I'm just thinking about what I would do. I would, I would try to go to in and out and say, can you make a hamburger that has nine patties that structurally sound like a deck of cards?

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Yeah, just so I know what hepatology is. Anyway, so you'll do as you're told. Okay, I'm sorry, Raheel.

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Yeah, I want a car dealer in here, a really good one to shuffle the patties and make a nine tiered sandwich. And then I want my jaw unlocked so I can eat it in one bite. What is your what is what do you when you when you when you would break fast, what would you eat?

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I'm a big fan of lentil water. Don't get me wrong. I am a foe of the lentil. That is my lifelong foe is the lentil, but lentil water and I are best chums.

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Right, right. Do you have a question for Conan, Rahil?

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Okay, your question is you don't want to purchase the ring from the parents. Is that it?

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Can you tackle with your future in-laws?

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Are you assuming they're not going to give you the best deal that they might be trying to make a profit off of?

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Do you get along with your girlfriend's parents?

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No, I do. I do. They're lovely. They're lovely. Okay.

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So my guess is they're going to give you a good deal. But that's the assumption that, you know.

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He can't go anywhere else. He can't go to another jeweler. So they're just going to be like, oh, he's going to pay whatever we tell him to pay. I would pay like three times the price.

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I don't know these people. I don't know who they are. You tell me they're nice people. I'm questioning whether you have to buy the ring from them.

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Now, I've always heard hepatology is the study of the liver. Is that correct?

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You have to.

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Well, you could say, Rahil, that it's important for you that the ring you give your future wife have passed through your body.

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Oh, that's not what I thought. I said, I just want to be an independent man.

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No, no. And it's important to you that, A, you buy the ring and then it passed through your GI tract. Okay. Because that's such an important part of your life. And they're not going to want to sell you one of their rings once they hear that.

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It's a symbol of what you do, your profession, what you're giving your life to, but also you are willing to process this ring in every way that a human can process something. And then they're going to not want to sell you a ring at that point.

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No, because there's a good chance it'll get stuck in there like a sunflower seed.

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It's not. What? Raheel, you'll buy a ring that will pass easily through the lower bowel, will you not? Okay.

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Thank you. I never make mistakes when it comes to medicine because I, too, am well-trained. Well, first of all, congratulations. You're a young man, and it seems like you're very well-educated, and that's very cool, and you're going to help a lot of people. Tell us a little bit about your training. What are you interested in? Well, first of all, have you worked with a lot of patients so far?

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Yeah.

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And you can also encase it in a prune or something.

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It's going to go through pretty quick. Don't eat the ring. Don't eat the ring.

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Oh, you're telling me that what I'm telling him is stupid. How is it stupid that he buy a ring, stick it in a prune, eat it, pass it through his body, clean it off and give it to his wife and bypass his her parents who are jewelers? I don't see one problem with that plan. Raheel, what do you think? I could get behind most of it. Well, listen, in all seriousness, I think you buy the ring from them.

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And that's where you're going to see me up close and fall in love. Oh, my God. Sweet. All right, well, Dan, thank you so much. I salute you. And I love, I mean, you're an artist. You really are. You are a terrific artist. And even though we are not related, you're a young lad, so I'm allowed to say I'm proud of you. I really am.

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I'm glad when I see, I really do get energized when I meet all these young people that can kick ass and do all these amazing things. You're a craftsman. You're out there killing it. So thank you so much and best of luck with your company, Apex. Yeah, Apix Design, yeah. Apix. A-P-I-X. It's right here. Cheers, Dan. Oh, there it is. I was distracted by my own face. Thank you guys so much. Thank you.

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All right, shout out to Apix.

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You will. You will. All right, take care, Dan. All right, thank you guys.

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Yeah, I was going to say glassblowing feels incredibly difficult. I mean, any just the little I know about it. Right. You have to you got to heat up the material. Right. Get it molten. And then you.

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Blown away.

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OK.

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And is that is that an accurate representation of glassblowing? The TV show Blown Away?

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I think I have more respect for you, because I think anybody can do it with a big furnace. Oh! I do. I think anybody could do it. Oh, big furnace. Yawn. Oh, look, I have a big furnace and I accidentally made 900 glasses today. But you're using a torch and that takes real skill. I think that takes a real artist.

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And I know I'm probably throwing shade on a huge part of the glassmaking community, but fuck those guys. Yeah. I'm with you, man. I'm with you, Dan. And I say it's torch or nothing. And I'm going to start saying that to people who say they're a glassblower. I'm going to say furnace or torch. And if they say furnace, I'm out. I'm just going to walk away. And then I'm going to smash all the glass.

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Or foe. Hey, Dan, how are you? I'm doing great. Thank you guys for having me on. Where are you coming to us from, Dan? Where are you?

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Yeah, yeah. And I'm going to drive by later and throw stones through their window.

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And peel out. Really took a turn. I'm sorry. If you use a furnace out there and you make glass, you know where to find me. I'm not afraid of you with your furnace. Dan, I don't know what happened right there.

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A neurologist would say it's a brain bleed, possibly. I don't know. I'm getting faint. But this is cool. What's the name of your company?

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Okay. And is it easy for people to find you if they want some of your custom-made torch-hewn bongs?

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When someone buys a bong, how long does that bong last and do they then come back for more bongs? Does a person buy multiple bongs in a year? How does it all work? What's a bong life? Such a square. Well, I'm sorry. I want to know more of this bong culture. I took an aspirin once in 1992 and I was taken to the hospital. So I don't know a lot about bongs, but I've seen them portrayed in film.

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Do you have some bongs there you could show us? I just want to see some of these bongs.

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Conan O'Brien needs a fan. Want to talk to Conan? Visit teamcoco.com slash call Conan. Okay, let's get started.

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Let me see. Oh my God. Oh my God. This thing is... I didn't know about this. Look at this.

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Sir, I'm not... All joking aside, you are an artist. Truly. That is gorgeous. Look, he's done... I mean, yes, you've got the Conan logo. You've got, oh my God, he's got the late night moon.

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Very nice. And I'm looking at your background. It looks like you're working on a nuclear submarine. I mean, there's all kinds of machinery behind you. It's very cool looking. What are you building? I mean, it looks like you're up to something.

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It's for when the cast of Challengers wants to use a bong together. This is beautiful. I mean, look at the... The design is gorgeous. And then it's got this... This stopper has kind of a pompadour. It's a bull.

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What's that?

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That is the bull, yeah.

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This isn't the stopper. This is the cap. That's where you put the weed. You put the weed in there. No, I know the weed goes in here, he said, lying. No, the weed... The weed goes into the thing you're holding.

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Right. So this, oh, I see. This is the bowl. Yeah.

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Okay. All right. Okay, Spicoli. Take it easy.

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I know. So what you do is you, and then when it's heated up, you drink. No! Oh, God. Do you remember when we had we had Seth Rogen on the last Conan O'Brien episode and he on camera offered me one of his marijuana cigarettes? And do you remember this? I do. I put the wrong end in my mouth and people thought, oh, Conan's doing like a bit. I wasn't doing a bit.

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I just didn't know. I know.

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It's not okay.

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I've got to start doing a lot of drugs quickly and catch up. There's so much going on here. It's beautiful.

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There's no butt plug on it. Can I just say, this is a Rorschach blot you've given us. No kidding. Everyone sees what they wanna see.

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This thing, Bley, you have to take multiple. We will, yes. Detailed photographs of this that capture... We shall. Dan, you are... You're an artist. This thing is... And all... I mean, this is just a work of sculpture.

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It's a pompadour. Yeah, who knows? It's a three-way glass bong. So, again,

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You know what? Our faces are going to have to get this close. I know. For the next summer s'mores. No, no. Guess what? We'll do it. Really? We'll do it. Yeah, I'll get over myself. Sure.

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It also looks like it would make great coffee. And you know what? I think it would make great coffee because I see where the little creamer would go in. This is incredible. It is absolutely. It makes me want to relive some old days. Yeah. Flashback to last week. Last week in Pasadena. I was talking about the gerbil. The gerbil filed papers, by the way.

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So, Dan, my favorite thing is when we meet fans that are so creative. We have a lot of creative fans. And, man, you have just rocketed way to the top.

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These are beautiful. And what kind of glass? Is this glass? Is it a type of glass? Tell us what this is.

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Okay, what kind of stuff do you create out of glass primarily? Are we talking like a vase? Are we talking like a test tube? Are we talking glasses? What are you making?

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This is, well, I'm just, I just almost said it and then realized people think I'm trying to make a lame joke, but I am blown away. I really, I wasn't trying to make a joke. I just started to say it. You should watch it first because the way they finish it is in cyanide powder.

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I can't believe you put this in the mail because the guy who delivers my boxes shucks them over the fence.

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You know? I'm amazed this made it in one piece. It's incredible. It's so beautiful. I'm using my glasses right now.

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Did you have any question for me, Dan? Other than, I mean, look at this. I think it should be a requirement now. I was just going to say, more fans. More fans that send wonderful gifts. And I mean, they don't even have to have made it, but like, oh, I went to a store and I bought you this Patek Philippe watch. And I'm like, hmm, yes. Add it to the pile.

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It's beautiful. It's really sweet. It is. And also, Sona's been through a really rough time lately. And that's just, it's nice.

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And things are coming your way now.

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This is beautiful.

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Mom's going to be happy tonight. It's all fixed. Why is mommy asleep? It's four in the afternoon. Quiet, Charlie. Quiet, Mikey.

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On a loop. Wow, Dan, I cannot thank you enough. This is absolutely beautiful. Really, really great. And we're going to find a hallowed space for this because we have little spaces here that are becoming installations. Like this is our Pee Wee's Playhouse and this is going to have a prominent space here. Yeah.

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Yes. You make bongs. So, and was that... Did you start making bongs because of your personal affinity for bongs, or you just like making them, or you like the shape? What drew you to making bongs?

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I immediately pull rank. I say, do you realize who I am and what I've accomplished? Then I start to show her, like, a montage of things I've worked on over the years. No, uh... A big thing for my wife, Liza, is she's a very good cook, and she does the cooking, and I'm not good at cooking. She really wants me to set the table, and that's important to her that I set the table.

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And sometimes I kind of set the table, but she'll make a passive-aggressive comment like, usually people use napkins. And then I'll go, oh, right. And then I'll go and get the, you know, go to the napkin drawer and get those. And, you know, did you put trivets down? Because I got to put something. This is hot. Okay. All right.

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Because sometimes I try to go real minimal, like setting the table means just there's two or three or four of my kids around plates. But it's important for her that I do that. And then a big knock on me is that I've gotten much better at loading the dishwasher. I've gotten much better.

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But I think for a long time, and this goes back to childhood, I had this, I just, it was a problem for me loading the dishwasher.

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Yeah. When I do it, it's doing it in general. And then when I do it, it's awful. Like I'll try and jam a large plate into the silverware tray. And my wife usually ends up redoing it. And so there was twice as many calories burned. So pity this woman, because it's like asking an ape to help you with brain surgery.

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And then I just go rushing around the operating room, smashing into things. So yeah, I would say it all, most of my chores revolve around dinner, ways that I can help compliment and facilitate the serving of dinner. And so that's a little peek into my life. And yeah.

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Yeah, we had a butler once. Blay, how did you like it? Still waiting for payment. Yeah, yeah. No, no butler. Not yet. That's one of those things from just old movies that I have to say it always fascinated me. It was an idea that if someone had means, they would have a butler. Even if it was just a bachelor, there would be like a gentleman. Oh, yeah, a gentleman there who, this is my man.

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You know, his name's Gordon. He'll take care of everything. And he's in the corner usually polishing a glass behind like a little cool minibar. No. Also, a valet. I always thought, wow. You know, someone who you wake up in the morning and your clothes are all laid out and then you have to go. We travel so much for the travel shows. I'm always running around cramming things into bags and going...

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Where's my extra special sunblock? And it was made by the government. Anyway, that's what I do. I would say it's a fascination. No, no butler and still no valet. But one day it'll all come my way. But now I've got the world's only triple bong with my name on it.

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Well, it would have to be asked. No, that's coming on the way out. You interview them on the way in, and that way the interviews have to be short because they really can't hang out long.

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Yeah, we had we had years and years ago we did a sketch and it's all a misunderstanding, but it was a perfectly fine sketch. But one of our writers went there but didn't fill out the correct paperwork or something. So we ended up on some list. But I think it's all being taken care of. So, you know, awesome.

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Okay. Are we touching them?

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No, I have to. And it's talk show etiquette. I guess you have to. You have to. Yeah, you have to shake their hands. And often I just want to say in all the years that I did talk shows, which was almost 30 years, often I could tell they had just used the restroom and not wipe their hands. True story. True story. Al Roker, serial offender. Disgusting, disgusting man.

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You'd hear the flush and he'd come out just as he was introduced. And you could tell those hands haven't been washed. They're dry. Roker, not Roker. Like I said, great idea for the show. I love it that I'm pitching myself to Nikhil in Bangalore, India, and he's not enthused.

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And also surreal. It's a little bit of a fever dream, it feels like almost, yes. Exactly.

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I'm intrigued by, there's a lot of things that impressed me with Nikhil. I think that you are a, I think he's, you just seem like a natural to me. You're very funny. And I think you'd be, I think you are a terrific talk show host. I can tell just by chatting with you. Thank you. I'm intrigued by this idea you have for a new talk show in Bangalore.

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I'm a little intrigued by this roommate who's a fan. You say a big fan?

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We all thought it. Nikhil, in a house with all these guys, the one who's a big Conan fan is called Anus.

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Yeah, we wouldn't even probably mention that, you know, it probably won't even come up because it'll all get taken care of. Trust me, I don't think it's a big problem.

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is to make sure that the name Anus sticks.

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Your biggest fan is named Anus and your portrait is hanging between two bathrooms.

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This is fantastic, Nikhil. I feel enlightened. I feel lifted. Well, I like you. You're a fine fellow, I think. And I do think you've got what it takes. I really do. I think you're a natural. Do you think that I'd be able to help you get your concept for a talk show where you go to people's houses? Do you think I could help you get that off the ground if I came to Bangalore?

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It's totally normal in this business to invite people to do an interview in their bedroom. Yeah. Oh, that's how I got started.

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Oh, well, yes, I could be a guest. I could also maybe give you some pointers from my almost 30 years of experience. And what about my fee? Do we talk about that now or is that something that comes up later?

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Just very late. You're going to do very well, Nikhil. You're going to do very, very well in this business. Thank you. Hey, Nikhil, I really, I like talking to you and I hope we get to cross paths because that would be very cool.

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I really do think we're talking about, I think it's low blood sugar. I really do. You just seem to lose all energy at different points, Nikhil. You have to keep some almonds in your pocket, okay? Chocolate-covered almonds. All right, I'm going to make sure. That's my first tip as a talk show host. Almonds in your pocket. That saved Colbert. I told him that.

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I can see him lose energy, and he's been a superstar ever since. Perfect. Saved his career. Hey, thank you so much, Nikhil. Very cool to talk to you, and we'll see what happens. Thank you so much. Bye-bye. Take care. Bye-bye.

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Well, wait a minute, Nikhil. Nikhil, you are a talk show host. It sounds like you're a very successful one. You've done this show with Netflix stars. Now, here's the catch.

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Well, I like to say I won an Oscar because it sounds cool. But I didn't. But Nikhil, I would say you are talking to people. You seem to be having success at it. I wouldn't put yourself down, I think. And you seem like a very personable, funny guy. I think you just, you don't have to qualify it. You are a talk show host. You're having success.

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Oh, Vir Das. Yes, of course.

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We've been in your ears for years. Very nice. Yeah, I didn't want to start like that, but it's happened.

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Oh, terrific. Terrific comedian. Very talented. And we'll see. No, this is us talking shop because... We've interviewed the same person and it sounds like, and this is something that you're interested in doing professionally for the rest of your life, do you think? Well, not the rest of your life. I'm not going to do it for my entire life, but I still have dreams, dreams, dreams.

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I hope your dreams come true. Thank you.

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Well, thank you for that. I would like to be a balloonist. I'd like to go up in a hot air balloon and travel the world.

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Well, I tried that and it didn't work. The kids were like, that is not a dog. I was like, shut up. You can't hit kids with a balloon, apparently. Still counts as hitting. You sound very qualified for this job. So let's keep the conversation on you and not on my crimes. You live in Bangalore, India, Nikhil, and you've had some success doing a talk show. And what's your living situation like?

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And your name is Nikhil, is that correct? It's pronounced Nikhil. Nikhil.

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Do you live with your parents? Do you live alone? Yeah.

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So as you get further down the apartment, you start at the top. The more respectable.

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As you get down this sort of, yes, the more serious the relationships become. And are your roommates, you all get along?

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Let's try Nikhin. I love correcting people on the pronunciation of their name. It cracks me up. No, Nikhil. Nikhil. Conan. Conan. I deserve that. You are in Bangalore, India. Is that correct? Yes. Yes, sir. I have been to India. I was there briefly for work a number of years ago. Actually, Sona came with me on this assignment and I was in Jaipur.

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You can't talk that way. You can't call someone a rascal. His reputation may never recover if this was 200 years ago. No, you can call someone a rascal. That basically just means they're kind of fun. Amazing. Next, I'm going to call him a nincompoop.

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We're going to have to put a warning on this podcast.

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Yeah. I mean, if you're a child and you're living in 1820, you might not want to listen to this podcast.

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We'll call him. Yeah. So, okay. And will any of your roommates be familiar with me or my work if I visit? Yeah.

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Oh, really? He's a Conan fan?

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He's asleep right now. He's a big fan of mine. And you're in Bangalore, India, and you and I are having a conversation. And he sleeps not knowing that the greatest hero of his life is speaking to you on the top floor.

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How would he react if I walked into his room? Does he know? So he doesn't know that you and I are talking. If I if I were to walk into his room, how do you think he would react?

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This guy, I like this guy. He's a big Conan fan. And I would love to, it'd be fun to surprise him. I think, you know, I think, and then we could all, we could all go out and have a good time. What would we do for fun?

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You know what I love? Nikhil just got as annoyed with you as we do. He doesn't... He just met you. He's in Bangalore. And he went... Right. Yeah, right.

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You maybe overdid it.

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But I've never I would love I didn't really get a chance to experience experience India as much as I wanted to. It's a fascinating country. I love the people. And I would love to go and visit. Tell me a little bit about yourself, Nikhil.

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Wow, I love a bar with a restroom. Selling point. That just went to the top of my Yelp review. They have a restroom. 11 stars. Okay, so this bar, please tell me more. This bar, Toit, has a restroom, yes?

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No, it's Toi. Please. Here it's Toi. Sona has decreed that it is Toi. Anyway, Toi.

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With images of me. Oh, my God. Oh, wow. Wait, why is that? That is a giant. Wait a minute. Why does it say restrooms and then a photo of me? With a barn owl for some reason.

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No, that was when we were launching the TBS show a number of years ago. I guess I'm flattered that if you go to Bangalore and you go to Toit. And you go to use the restroom. Is it for the men's room or the women's room? Or both? What would you prefer? You know, I'm gender fluid.

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No, I've learned that everyone goes to the restroom, especially at a bar.

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It's the perfect place. It's the most trafficked area. So I often, if a place has a photo of me, and sometimes they do, you know, sort of downscale, you know, burger joints where I've gone and I've made them put up a picture of me. I ask people. I asked them to put me near the restaurant.

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That's how we, those are, that's how we live. And I'm sorry, I'm sorry that Matt just used those offensive terms. Yeah, I've done. You, of course, you started with rascals. I thought I was bad. Yeah. He's a pirate. Yeah.

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People associate me with great bladder discomfort. Yeah. That's, no, okay, well.

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Yes. Maybe. Okay. Maybe. I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued, A, that you have a roommate who's a big fan, B, that there's a portrait of me. I mean, there's a lot that recommends Bangalore. Yeah. I have one fan and there's a picture of me near a restroom. And what about your career? Are you enjoying your work as a talk show host? Are you enjoying it?

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I kind of like that idea. I mean, the problem is every now and then you'll get, you know, people who aren't murdered. No, you won't get murdered. But yeah, but it's like when you do a talk show, there are good nights. There are nights that aren't as good. It's, you know, it's luck of the draw if you're in a volume business. But I like that idea.

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I have to wait for my ban in a lot of countries to end.

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Um, and, uh, and who knows, maybe you and I would come up with some kind of show together, you know, we could do a show.

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And it happens. But it's always possible. Maybe we could think of an idea, you know, something that works where we're co-hosts of some kind of show. You know, we shoot an episode and we get it on the air and we get it out there to the people of India. What do you think of that? I think that's a pretty bad idea. I'm just kidding. That's the best idea I've heard in my goddamn life.

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You really had me convinced it was a bad idea there for a second. No, that would be an honor. Yeah. So we can always think of what that is. We need that right, that spark of inspiration.

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Very cool. Good one.

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You could shoot it from Toit. Hell, we could shoot an episode of the show. I think you've stumbled onto something here, Matt. I have. Yes, by saying Toit, you made it clear that we shoot the episode. We set up in front of the portrait of me that exists. The bathrooms. The bathrooms. between the two, the ladies' room and the men's room. We can interview people going in and out.

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Yeah, we can interview people going in and out going to the bathroom.

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Right.

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And of course, and I hate to bring it up, but, you know, most soldiers did die of disease back then. So, you know, what is that? What's your point? My point is that, Cooper, you'd get real sick real fast.

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Yeah, Gettysburg will get you. I've visited many battlefields, and my wife drew the line when we were in Georgia, and I tried to make her come see Andersonville, which is the famous...

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Probably, yeah. And me, I wouldn't because I'd be far from the battlefield. Eating wholesome, just a lot of apples. You'd be at some hot springs. Convalescing. I find a five-star resort that's adjacent to the battle, and I've got... Binoculars? No, no, no. What do they put on their eyes in spas? What do they put? Cucumbers? I've got cucumbers on my eyes. Stop bringing up potatoes.

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Anyway, well, I wish you well. Cooper, you seem like a good guy. I really do. I think you're a good guy. And I think you haven't said it yet, but I can tell you really admire me and think I'm a great man. And I'm just going to fill that in. And you can just keep nodding with about as little enthusiasm as I've ever seen. I admire you so much.

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I'll do that.

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I'll do it for you. We'll reach out to you. We'll contact you.

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Oh, good. Well, you probably don't want to have like, I don't want a funny blurb on the back of a... From a white, the whitest guy ever. Yeah, exactly. I'm the whitest guy in the world. Did you see Conan's comedy blurb on the back of this book on slavery? That seemed inappropriate. I think you're trying to destroy my career, Cooper. I'll wait till the next book after that.

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But I do wish you all the best. I think teachers are doing God's work. I really do. And so bless you, sir. And I hope we meet in person one day on a fake battlefield.

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If you ever want to tour Gettysburg. Okay. All right. We'll figure it out. All right. Take care. Thanks a lot. Bye.

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confederate prison where they kept a lot of uh northern prisoners and they all died of dysentery and my wife was like wait where are we driving to now and i said we're off to andersonville and she said what happened there thousands of people died of diarrhea and she said nope not on our honeymoon not on our honeymoon So I haven't been there. I blame her.

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But Gettysburg, that is it's incredible to walk that area. It was such a pivotal battle and to walk that area and kind of you can see the topography still the same. So you can kind of get a feel for why things played out the way they did.

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Hey, Cooper. How are you? Good. How are you? Okay, I'm going to ask you to pretend to be excited to see me. Because right now, you just look like you're in the eight items or less aisle. Okay. And you're just, I mean, I want you to just manufacture, right? Just to manufacture a little like, wow. Just be excited.

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Yeah, you tell them here's where Taylor Swift reloaded her musket. Yeah. I would just lie to the students. I would just plug in all kinds of the latest pop stars and reality stars just to get them interested. Yeah. Here's where the real housewives of New Jersey let it charge. Cooper, you're allowed to lie if it keeps them interested.

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Can I ask you a question? One of my favorite books, like one of my desert island books, if I was allowed like five books on a desert island, one of them would be Killer Angels by Michael Schara, which I think is one of the most beautiful, it's a novel. but it's historically accurate to the Battle of Gettysburg, and it takes place over three days, and all the main players are in there.

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And I've read that book maybe seven, eight, nine times. Wow. And I just find it haunting and beautiful. Killer Angels, Michael Shira, you don't even have to be a Civil War buff to find that a powerful book, I think. Do you agree with me?

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Oh, okay, so you're so smart. You read it when you were, you're like, yes, I read that when I was two. You read it just before everybody poops. With dysentery. Yeah, exactly. You got to bring it back. OK, well, so I like you. We have similar interests. I think this date's going well so far, Cooper.

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And you live, you know, I would think it'd be hard not to get into some of the history, because if you live in D.C. and you live in that area, you know, you can't walk 15 feet without being on ground that was somehow involved in something historic. Right. And I felt the same way in Massachusetts growing up. It was all about the Revolutionary War. You could take a trip to Lexington and conquer.

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Even if you're walking around Boston or in the hills around Boston, Bunker Hill, it's all stuff where history played itself out. So I think that helped fuel my interest in history was just that I kind of grew up around it.

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So tell me a little bit about your life. So we've covered the Civil War part. Tell us more about Cooper. What's your last name, Cooper? Wingert. Okay, Cooper Wingert. Tell us about Cooper Wingert, the man. What's going on? What's happening?

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Yeah, no, seriously. How are you, Cooper? I am really good. I'm so excited to be here. Okay. Well, now you look like you're a hostage who's saying the stuff you've been told to say by your captors, which is the kind of way you are. Where are you coming from, Cooper? I live in D.C. Okay. Okay. And tell us a little bit about yourself, Cooper. All I know is you're Cooper. You're from D.C.

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Wait a minute. Wait a minute. So every now and then when you guys really want to just rip the lid off this thing and go totally loco, you have PowerPoint night?

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Oh, okay. All right. Wait a minute. I'm liking this now. How did Nicolas Cage blow his fortune?

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You know, there's nothing worse than when a skeleton you bought is repossessed.

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Yes, I didn't. He he bought some bones and then they were controversial. Maybe they were even counterfeit. Who can say? I don't know. But look, Nick Cage, terrific actor, great body of work. But maybe what you're saying is we shouldn't go to him for investment counsel.

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Okay. Well, okay. It sounds like you guys are having a good time. The PowerPoint. The PowerPoint, yeah. What about your life? What's going on in your social life?

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Wait a minute. I said, are you on the apps? And you went, no, I'm single. Well, I'm married and I'm on the apps. And I am cleaning up. I'm like, Liza! Kiki in Palm Springs is into it. You're single, but you're not on the apps.

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You appear to be a young fellow. Are you in your late 20s? Are you in your 30s? Give us an age.

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Okay, good. Okay. All right. And you want to kind of hide the Civil War stuff for now?

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Cooper, this could be bad advice, but I couldn't disagree more. I say you lead the Civil War and go hard. I say, yeah, I say you should be dressed on the apps as a Civil War soldier with the kooky beard and the musket. And you should talk to them and say, like, I just got back from battle. I was in the hornet's nest. The fire was coming pretty fast and thick. Why is he talking like that?

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What?

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Yes.

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Sure, I did. I did. Yeah, we did it down in Atlanta. Yeah. That's where I met Liza. She was a corpse.

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We were two corpses right outside Atlanta. And I just liked the way that she was laid out, you know? Oh, dear. Laid out. And we couldn't move much, but I was like, hey.

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Oh, my God. Uh-oh. Okay, I'm glad to talk to you. I'm a bit of a Civil War, I'm a bit of a history buff, and Civil War is one of the areas that I'm kind of interested in. Have you been a Civil War buff your whole life, or is this something you came to later on?

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And I'm like, I got you out in the chest. And she's like, I got a belly wound. And I'm like, those are bad. Those get infected. And one thing led to another. Yeah. And yeah. So have you done any Civil War reenactments?

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I'm sorry. You can't be drafted in a fake war.

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Baked potato? What kind of reenactment is this? You know what I like? I like a no starch reenactment. No starches on my reenactment. That's hilarious.

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Well, I was a very odd child and I remembered writing a play about Lincoln's assassination at Ford Theater in the third grade and making Scotty McGregor play Lincoln and I played Booth and we staged it in the gymnasium so I could yell, sick Semper Tyrannis and jump from the top. They had bars that went up to the ceiling for gymnastics and I leapt.

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and then crawled into a little crawl space and hid, and the play lasted like three minutes. And the whole third grade- I just love you in Booth, too. He's so dark and- I know.

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Because I wanted Scotty McGregor to be Lincoln. I thought he was a good, and I wanted to make that leap. Sic semper tyrannis, and then leap. And and then I crawled into a little hole and I had to stay there because there was no way out until all the students left. So I crawled into a little hole at the Michael Baldwin School in Brookline, Massachusetts. Were you in costume? Yes.

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I had a little mustache and I had a little overcoat. And I think my Derringer was just a baked potato because that's the go to in Civil War reenactments. So I killed Lincoln with a baked potato. But yeah, I don't know why I remember that very well. Scotty McGregor asking him in the playground, can you be my Lincoln? And he was like, sure. What do I do?

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You just sit there and watch a pretend play and I shoot you. And then I climb into a hole and hide there until the whole auditorium leaves. So I'm a weird guy. And I like you. I like you, Cooper. Oh, my God. Well, I don't think you have to hide the fact that you have these interests. You seem like a really nice person. I think, you know, I think you can be open about it.

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I just love you saying, if I hear one more word about Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, I'm going to lose it. You seem like an exemplary young fellow, doesn't he? I mean, this is the kind of person we need more of. You're teaching, you're helping people, you're obsessed with the Civil War. These are all the qualities that I find mandatory in a human being. Where are you right now in your house?

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Because there's nothing hanging on the wall.

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It's okay. I like how the light switch is painted the same color as the wall. Yeah. Thank you, I thought it was a nice touch. And the shell fragments too. Yeah, everything blends into everything else. But man, does your green sweater pop. That's for sure. It's going well.

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In real life. I think my cowardice, I'm going to say as a plus. How so? Well, it's very good to save lives. And the best way to do that is to lead everybody away from the fight. Now, would I be leading them so much as just running first? I don't know. I think I'd be really good around a campfire at night, you know, spinning a yarn, entertaining people.

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And then the next day when the fighting broke out, they'd notice I didn't I don't see him either. I don't know where he went. Every night you show up. Maybe he got killed, but then I'm back at the fire that night, and I'm like, I tell you, did you see the way Lee took off on his horse? Oh, that right flank. He ran faster than a man.

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That right flank crumpled like, you know, and then I would just be making jokes and stuff, and I'd be laughing again. Next day, I'm gone. No one knows where I am. Because I found one hollow tree nobody knows about.

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like any threatened animal. I like to just go find a little hole and hide in it until everything calms down. But I think I'd be a lot of fun around the campfire. I really do. What about you? How do you, what are your, do you think you'd make a good leader?

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If you, let's say we get in a time machine, you go back to 1863, Battle of Gettysburg, of course, summer, you know, you're there in Pennsylvania. Do you think you'd do a good job?

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The Jonas Brother came in on a white horse. Yeah. At the, you know.

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Sorry, I'm taking us far afield.

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Let's go. Sona, just come.

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I think we postpone the Oscars.

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You know what I mean? I would love to say the Oscars have been postponed and people would be like, oh, you know, well, probably because of everything that's happened in LA. And I'd be like, no, no, no, no, not because of that. Adu is getting married and I need to be there. And he's been a good friend of mine for about 11 hours.

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It means gold. Give us time to process it. It means gold. The peanut is neither a pea nor a nut. It's a legum.

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I'm getting, I'm out too. Eduardo, book me some flights. I love yelling at us. This is your engineer. Highly trained sound engineer to book. I know, but you have to be jack of all trades in these situations. Eduardo, get me those flights. And a cup of black coffee, see? Book, book, click. Book, book, click. Book isn't a sound effect. Book, book, aisle, aisle, book.

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Well, Adu, I'm very happy for you. What is your bride's name? Allison. Allison. Okay. I'm very happy for you and for Allison. And trust me, if I could find a transporter beam, I would be there. You seem like a very cool guy, and I support... I just love that you're using your mind to try and help the planet. I love that. I would do that, but my mind's no good.

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But I'm happy that you and people like you are hard at work on this. So... I appreciate that, Conan. Thank you. I think we're good, right? Yeah. Yeah. I want to thank you so much, Adu, for calling in. And again, very energizing to find out that we have fans out there who are smart and funny and cool and doing good stuff. And have amazing taste in sweaters. I bow to you, sir. I bow to you.

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Go, go for it. That's a quick edit right there.

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No, it's not the real name. That is, I mean, it's like looking in a mirror.

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That is my bird. What's it called again? I want to write it down and make sure that they are, you know, don't go extinct.

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No, no, and you can tell it breeds insatiably. It's called the cock of the rock. Yes, no, and it's just got so much sexual energy. It probably has sex with the rock.

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I am now cock of the walk. Cock of the rock.

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Okay, I'm the Andean cock of the rock. Yeah. I love it. All right, let's move on. What's Sona? I got Sona.

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Nice mustache, Sona. Look at that.

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Yes!

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Three-wattled... I don't have... It's so funny you say that because we work in this office building, and I'm on the top floor. When Sona enters on the first floor... I hear it as clear as we all do. The whole building shakes because you're one of the loudest people I've ever met.

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You're a three waddled.

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I'm sorry, Sona.

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And now let's move on to the fussiest of the birds. Come on.

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super wise but i mean look at them i know they're kind of insane that middle one is crazy that middle one that's me it's very true that gorley came in and we all thought well he's the steady hand on the tiller uh he is you know he's he's clearly the experienced podcaster here um and he very quickly went quite mad um definitely not the worst but pretty terrible yeah Well, I do.

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That was a real treat. And we're going to post those because we want our fans to see those. And we should probably wrap it up. But my heartfelt congratulations to you. And I hope our paths cross in person. That would be very cool. I'd like to shake your hand. I would love that. I would love to. I have a very firm hand to shake.

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All right. Take care, Adu. Have a great time. Thank you. Take care.

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Why don't you take your mumbo jumbo and witchcraft somewhere else? Let's pack up and go, guys. I'm sorry. Three cheers.

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Exactly.

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I don't like science. Now I'm going to go get in my car and drive around.

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That sounds like really good work. I'm hoping you can tell me something optimistic because these are perilous times. It can feel, for a lot of us, what do you... Oh, you want it optimistic?

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It doesn't have to be optimistic. I just want to get your take, your... It sounds like you're devoting your career and your incredible mind and hard work to trying to figure out the oceans, I'm guessing, are warming. That is happening.

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I'm doing well. I have to compliment you on your voice. You have a terrific... And your sweater. Well, you know, I'm thinking it's mostly a vocal audio medium, but sure. I like the whole vibe. Yeah, the whole vibe is great. You have an incredible beard. You have a true Irishman's sweater, Adu. It's actually from Ireland. Oh, I could tell. Yes. That's the one thing I know.

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It's also as understanding how rising temperatures are going to affect currents, winds. We've all noticed that things are getting more severe. We're noticing that here in Los Angeles, obviously, lately that And I think across the globe, people are noticing that extremes are becoming more extreme. And so, and it doesn't, climate change doesn't always mean one thing.

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It can, the influences can be very complex. And so we don't really know sometimes what to expect. Sometimes it means, and we're all figuring that out together. So, and I think my work in this area is every bit as important.

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Excuse me. I do. Excuse me, I'm not done yet. I believe that by various neutron installments throughout the oceanographic plates and plateaus, there might one day be hegemony. Can we just go back to your sweater?

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Thank you. No, I do appreciate, all foolishness aside, I really do appreciate the work you're doing and I'm As someone who has children, I really do want us to figure this out and make a better world. So I'm glad you're doing this.

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Well, try harder. I'm doing the best I can. You don't look like it. You just called into a podcast to goof around. This is time that could be saving the world. And you're like, I've got to go talk to Conan and goof off. Well, listen, I love Seattle.

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I'm sort of married into Seattle because my wife is from Seattle and I married there and I go back a lot and I love my in-laws and I love to prowl around Seattle. It's my second home. So yeah.

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Yeah. You know what? Late at night, wearing mostly black. Yeah. Okay. And there have been some sightings. I wear a black cap. Listen, that's not important. My prowling is my own business. Tell us about yourself. What are your hobbies? What do you like to do when you're not studying your sensors? What do you... And I say that with great respect. No, you don't. Of course. Beep, beep, bloop, bloop.

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What do you... Great respect. What do you like to do in your spare time, Adu?

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And yeah, my father was a birdwatcher. I loved it. And he used to always try and get one of us to go along with him birdwatching. And when I was a kid, I'd noticed that no one else was volunteering. And I would feel some like someone's got to go. And so I would go and I would trudge around March at marshes in the in the suburbs of Boston or Rhode Island and not enjoying the smell.

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I can tell by the various coded messages in it right now. Oh, for sure. It says, buy Guinness. And you've got an amazing beard, but I've got to say that the tone of your voice is very calming. Fantastic.

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And did you enjoy it? I have to say I didn't at the time. The one thing I really did enjoy was there was once a gull that got way off course and kind of made the news called Ross's Gull. And Ross's goal, I think, usually hangs out in Alaska or Russia. And this thing, I think, lost its connecting flight, got all turned around. And Ross's goal showed up. Some birder spotted it in Boston.

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And this might be, I'm going to say this is 1970. It could be 76, 77, something like that. And I went there. My dad was really excited and he said, we've got to go. It was like a 40 minute drive.

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And so we, there was a bunch of, I mean, there was 300, 400 birders there and we found a spot and we, I saw Ross's gull and I remember thinking, wow, I, you know, and then I tried that line on women for years. It never worked.

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I do. You buried the lead. This is a huge event, and you're talking about the double-billed Quixel Quaxle.

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This is, again, with great respect. So tell me about this. You're getting married in two weeks and?

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I've never been to a true Indian wedding and I've always wanted to go.

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It'll be really great if I blew off the Oscars.

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You go to the wagon. I love that. There's been a quick program change. Instead of Conan O'Brien, Matt Gourley's here.

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Every category. James Bond films from the 70s swept tonight.

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Yeah. Yeah. We've not found a mic in the universe that will give me a rich fullness. I've put Eduardo on that task. I'm still searching. Yeah. It doesn't exist. Yeah. We're going through the Barry White estate to see what we can get. Adu, tell me a little bit about yourself. What do you do? What are you all about? Where are you coming from?

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Big problem with climate change is we keep finding these burning notes. The fish are eating them and dying. Rare fish. We're looking for someone named Adu. If you know anything about him, he's wearing an Irish sweater that he got from Liam Neeson. But I'm well, so but this is how you got interested in it. And so now you're going to go to India and it's a chance to probably see some some new birds.

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I said, dude, do you take this woman, huh?

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You're there with nine birds on your arm talking to them like Dr. Dolittle. You're joking, but that's actually how most of- I'm not joking. I sum up a human being very quickly.

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It's close enough. It's close enough. Yeah. My wife is not adjacent to any of my interests in any way. So where you are sounds, you know, much, much healthier. And I compliment you and I weep for myself. I do. There's a well, I just think this is wonderful. Sona and I have been to Jaipur.

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And to the I guess they call it the pink. Is it the pink city?

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It was, I think after, but anyway, we were there together. We've had so many adventures together, but we were there together, I think around 2010. And that was my one dip into India and I loved it. I think it's a magical place. I really do.

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I'm allergic to niche interests. I'm sorry. Oh, my God. He was having a nice moment there.

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I sneezed for real, and then I had to add a joke to cover my human moment. I'm sorry. Continue. So... Get it back.

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I know it's a tradition. Are you going to ride in at one point on a white horse?

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Riding in on a big animal is a big thing, and I know this because none other than Jack McBrayer... Oh, yeah. Was invited to one of the Jonas Brothers. I think it was Jebediah Jonas, I think.

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Who was married in India. And he said that.

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Yeah, ¿por qué no? So, I mean, I think if I had grown up in Madrid, my adolescence and all through my 20s and 30s would have been a lot of women going, ¿por qué no?

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Yeah, that was in our vows. Her, her, her, she said, why not? I said, I do. She said, why not? I don't not.

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We suppressed all talk of gerbils.

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Yeah. And I paid that fucker off. He gets $50,000 a year to keep his goddamn mouth shut.

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Oh, my God. The scales are the best part. Oh, you know when those things get scared, their tails pop off. You bet they do.

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Oh, my God. What an orgasm. You are the lizard. I think I'll say it was for me, but the lizard didn't look unhappy. Let's just say we both smoked a cigarette afterwards. Anyway, Alejandra, we somehow went astray. We. I don't know how you took me down this road. But so your question, you said a lot of nice things to me, but you didn't quit. What is the question?

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Well, I have an agent and a manager and they did a lot of checking in on my children. Yeah. Gavin Pallone, Rick Rosen, and they would check in on the kids and they would occasionally text me and say, the boy seems good. The girl seems sad. And then they then we would get into the financials about, you know, how the business was doing and the ratings and things like that. Oh.

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I have to say, all joking aside, I hit the jackpot with with my wife, Liza, because she is an impeccable mom and she just did an incredible job. And so I did miss out on things because I was working a lot. I tried to be there for important stuff. But, yeah, there were it really helps to have a partner there. who is fantastic. And it sounds like your husband does a great job.

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And so my rule is find an amazing partner and then totally screw them over, leave them with the kids and eat as late as possible in Madrid. That's my rule.

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Yeah. Now, do you have close family that you dine with as well?

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So, Alejandra, theoretically, if I were to be in Madrid and if you and I were to go out to a very late dinner at a nice restaurant, would your father come as well? And how would that go?

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Are you saying that someone could monopolize a conversation with me? You really think so?

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Yeah, so that's why I would insist that he come along. You tell Papa Blabbermouth... That the big guns are coming to town. Okay. I think I'm a world champion gabber. And I would insist that he come to dinner.

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That's great. So you just basically watched American television, listened to American podcasts, and that has influenced. It's destroyed one of the most beautiful accents in the world. Yeah.

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I bet I can out talk your dad. I bet I can talk. And here's the great thing. Your dad knows a lot. He has great knowledge. I know nothing about food. I know nothing about the food in Madrid. And yet I will talk three times as much as your father about this stuff I know nothing about.

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Yeah, I'm not worried about that part. I think, I don't know who this guy is, but I think I got him covered on comedy. But I will talk much more than your father. I will dominate the conversation and I will make it all about me. That's my promise to you. Doesn't that sound fun?

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No, no, I need you there. I need you there as the buffer, okay? I need you there as the buffer.

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Yeah, I think it's you, me, your father. I think it's a very late dinner, traditional dinner at a nice restaurant in in Madrid. And I will dominate the conversation. And I will also ask my wife for some wisdom about raising children because I I you know, she's the one that knows I'm not even I can't remember their names right now. Stuart. Stuart? No, that's family guy. Stewie. Stewie, yeah.

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That's from a cartoon. I'll find out their names. I'm going to be able to give you great advice on raising children. Okay?

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I'm delighted to meet you, Alejandra. And I do hope we get to have a meal someday. I want your father there because he's not going to get one word out of his boca.

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Edward, that's mouth. Anyway. Alejandra, very nice to see you.

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Thank you, guys. You're a very impressive person. Congratulations on all of your achievements. And I hope we cross paths. That would be fun.

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Bye, Alejandra.

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Great. Can we make sure we edit out that shout out, please? No, no. Make sure it's edited out. I don't trust them. They're gone. I'm not friends with them. I don't know them. Dead to us. Just put a big eee over that shout out. Not for any other, not for a legal reason, just that I don't know them and they should get no free rides. Right.

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Oh, I'm glad that I made you urinate. Sorry. Alejandra, many people think I am Ellen and many people go up to Ellen and say, hi, Conan. So it's a common misconception.

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They're your words. These are my words. These are my words come back to haunt me. Well, tell me a little bit about your life. Mostly what I like to do is try and figure out how I can help my fans around the world. How can I help you, Alejandra? What can I do for you? I don't think I can do much. You're very beautiful. You're obviously very smart, very well-spoken. How can I help you?

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It's OK. You're allowed to freak out. That's OK. Your name is Alejandra. Is this right?

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You know what we should do? I should speak less and you guys should speak more so that children can sleep.

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Exactly. I think when I'm talking, it's like... But I think you guys should take the lead.

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I wouldn't listen to the podcast. I've told many people you should not listen to the podcast while caring for a sleeping baby. Because, I mean, the laughs are going to come. They just are.

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Alejandra Trigueros. And where are you calling us from?

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So and so so are you are you taking care of them full time or do you work?

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Wow. Wow.

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What is your what is your what is your profession?

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No, no, no. First of all, first of all, Alejandra, do not sell yourself short. That is a I am very impressed. That is a very high powered job you have. Thank you. And I will tell you, that's that's quite a lot. I mean, you have sounds like your husband has a job. You have this very high powered job. You have two kids. That's a lot.

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Everyone's a wise guy. Alejandra, tell us, where are you right now?

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Yeah. Alejandra, you keep trying to convince me that you're not an impressive person. And yet you are clearly the smartest person out of the four of us in this room.

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You're not in the room and you're much smarter than we are.

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That's a lot, though. That's a lot to have.

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And to to be legal counsel for this massive company, that's big.

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Oh, my God. Madrid. I've never been to Madrid. Yeah.

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I'm impressed by that because not that I'm throwing her under the bus or anything, but when my children were born, my wife said, no restaurants, no movies, no joy for anyone until they're 12 years old. And kind of locked it down. Kind of locked it down. And so we're just sort of, they're both in college now. And we just, we're just now going outside again. And I remembered, oh, that's the sun.

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Look at the sun. That burning orb in the sky. But anyway, I love my wife. Shut it down. That's so nice. My wife was not, we were not going to restaurants for quite a while. Yeah.

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I've been to Barcelona, but I've never been to Barcelona. But I've never been to Madrid and I would love to see it someday. Alejandra, tell us a little bit. Do you go by Alejandra?

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Oh, she just didn't want to leave the kids behind. Oh, I see. When kids are young, I mean, you're not taking your kids to, I think, first of all, in Spain, correct me if I'm wrong, but in Madrid, don't you start eating, the time to start a dinner, I think, is at two o'clock in the morning. Yeah. Isn't that when you guys have dinner?

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What time do you eat dinner?

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This is a true thing. The McDonald's in Madrid, they all serve breakfast. They start at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Yeah. That's a true story. You can't have it before then. Lunch is at six o'clock and then you can't get Big Mac. I don't think till 4 a.m. They're all insane. It's not called the Big Mac in Spain. It's called it's called the conquistador.

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Where is your husband from?

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Okay, he's from Poland. So he must think these people are crazy. They're going out to have these full... I mean, these are elaborate meals too, right? You're having elaborate meals in elaborate restaurants.

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No, no. You should try it. Give it a shot. I think you're just different people. I'm telling you, it's a whole different culture. They're different people. They have massive meals very late at night. I love that. Yeah, in theory, I love that.

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So, okay, you go out to these meals. Is your husband coming with you on these meals when you go out?

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Okay, that's all right. This also sounds familiar. You don't want to spend time with your spouse, but with your friends. Yes, my wife did a lot of that as well. Conan, why don't you stay here and people who make me laugh can have dinner with me. It was all your friends. It was all my friends. It was you guys. My wife was always saying, I'm meeting Matt and Sona.

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Ali. Okay. Ali.

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At the Hunky Dory, that bar in the corner. So Alejandra, let me understand this. You have this big job. You have two young children, a husband, but you also like to go out to eat. This all sounds, it says a lot to balance, isn't it? This is a lot to juggle.

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Okay. So your English is perfect. I mean, you sound like you're coming to me from San Diego or something. I mean, it's perfect right now. Thank you.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah. No, I do that too. Yeah. I do that all the time.

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Yeah. Not so good. The wheels are coming off the trolley. So it must be hard to balance all of that is what I'm guessing. It's just hard to...

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You know, there's an old saying that when you're on an airplane and the oxygen masks drop down, you've got to put yours on first before you put it on the child.

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And my theory has always been I take both masks. I put both masks on. A child's got smaller lungs. They'll figure it out. They don't need as much. Right. And God forbid, but you can get another child somewhere.

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I don't know.

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Whatever. They come along. So my point, Alejandra, is you need to take much more time for yourself. The children will figure it out. Do you know what I mean? You need you're working very hard. You gave birth to them. Check. I think that's enough. Right. And I think I think you should be having dinner starting at nine. Then I think you shouldn't feel any guilt.

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I think you should hit the clubs afterwards. And you'll see the kids. I'm too old for that now. Yeah, you'll see. You're too old. I just got to the clubs. Yeah, I am. Oh, no. I just hit the age when I think I'm ready to go to the clubs. I never went to the clubs before. I missed out and I want to go to the clubs now.

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No, I'm talking about the clubs.

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People were very evasive when I said, where's the clubs? And they'd be like, I don't know. We got to go. And they were all dressed and they had glow sticks and stuff. I never went to a club. And now I think it's the time. Once I hit 60, I thought, now's the time to hit the clubs.

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This is the sweet spot.

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And then another time. Hey, mom, congratulations.

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Yeah. Because you've got to get super drunk.

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Matt, yeah.

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His club is probably a historical society where they talk about, you know, Eisenhower's contributions to the highway system in the 1950s in America.

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Well, I'm saying you have a beautiful Cincinnati accent. It's amazing.

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Nice. They sure do. Nice.

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He thinks Grubhub is a club. It rhymes, doesn't it? Yeah. He thinks that when he gets his sandwich delivered.

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Alejandra, let's say you and I were to hang out. Let's say, and this is all theoretical, but let's say I were in Madrid and you and I were to hang out. How would you want me to help you? How could I assist you? How could I improve your life?

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Dinner sounds good.

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Thank you so much for saying that. So you're a young, attractive woman who is willing, who thinks that I'd be the perfect guy to have a late dinner with in Madrid and then hit the clubs. Is that what you're saying?

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But Alejandra, how did your, I mean, you live, are you a citizen of Madrid? You grew up in Madrid?

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Yes.

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Oh, hold on.

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When I was single, a shrug and a why not was the best I could get. What is Spanish for? How do you say in Spain? How do you say why not?

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It was the Olympics. You were pretty talented. It was the 2002 Olympics, and I learned how to snowboard, and I'm still recovering from that. I lost most of my spine, had to be replaced with a coat hack.

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Oh, God, no. I didn't mean either of you. Oh, God, no. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, please. Oh, how embarrassing. I'm covering my mouth. I'm laughing.

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And what I'd like to do, Leigh-Anne, if it's okay, is I'd like to tape an episode of my show sometime where your mother's in a little inset box randomly saying things while I'm trying to do the show. That would be great. So I'm trying to talk to Hugh Jackman and she's saying things like, I was on the snow hill. My favorite chowder is corn chowder.

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And it just randomly, okay, our next guest was in the fly. You know him as Jeff Goldblum, but you know, onions are best on a sandwich. Okay, mom, we got it. But how can I help you, Leanne? I know you have a question for me and I know I can help you.

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I really like you. It comes off as mental illness sometimes, but I like it.

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I am mostly myself when I perform or show myself to the public, but, and Sona and Gorla, you will back me up, I can be weirder than even what people have seen or heard on the podcast. The podcast probably catches it the most, but I go on these riffs sometimes that they start out making sense and then they get more and more twisted and strange and they're just not for public consumption.

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Isn't that true, Sona?

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What do you mean arrested?

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Can we just start calling it my gift and not my mental illness?

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I am constantly talking and babbling.

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I say a lot of words that don't make sense. I have microaggressions. And macroaggressions. And macroaggressions, but none of it's really based in reality. Like I'm constantly threatening you, Mr. Gourley, but I'm not even angry with you. It's just like, I have no anger towards Matt Gourley at all.

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Thank you, Scott.

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Yes, Leanne, I know there was a question in there somewhere, but I think you nailed it. I think, yes, has there been a time where I've needed to hide? Yes, there are times where my mind goes probably to a darker place and I edit myself. How about that? That's very true.

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Hey everybody, Conan O'Brien here, and we're going to try something a little different. In the short time that I've been doing Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, I've just been delighted. I'm having an absolute blast, and it's working. I'm actually making some nice bonds and friendships.

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I'm looking it up. I'm looking it up. I am looking it up. Yes, I am a celebrity. I just looked it up.

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I would say that's very sweet. I would say Sona is very much herself. I don't know who the real Matt is. I don't know if I can say. I don't either. I don't know. Like you're a shapeshifter, Gorley. You could be, I just don't know. You could be someone completely different. It's like that movie, The Stepfather. I just don't know. You could be a complete maniac and I wouldn't know it.

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Yeah. He's like Switzerland. Rarely visited.

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You're not a mess. Yeah. You're good friends. And you know what? It really does help to do this.

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That's actually, I created that soundbite with my computer. If you listen to it, Again, carefully, all I did was press control D and it just was like, we are good friends.

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Yeah, I am a B-lister, but I am a celebrity. So, fuck, I am. I am a solid B. I'm a solid B-list celebrity and I'm proud of it. And if Love Boat were still on the air, I could potentially be a guest. Not the first guest, but like the third guest who's the comic relief guest who stowed away.

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I enjoy, and then control alt J is, I enjoy people. I am a human. Control alt W is, I love children. When my wife and I visit her family with our kids, we stay in this hotel in Seattle, and there's one of those elevators that has a voice, a robotic voice that's telling you what floor you're going to.

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It's this accent we can't place, but when you get in the elevator on the fifth floor and you're going to the lobby, this woman's voice says, going down. Yeah. And it burned into my brain. And whenever I'm in an elevator and it starts to go down, I hear in my brain, going down. It's very, I find it very disturbing. And I'm glad I shared it with you.

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I think your mom's trying to get in on the act again. Is that your mom who just walked behind you? Yeah, it is.

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She's incorrigible.

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Yes, it is. Do you know your Gretsch guitars?

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I love it. I really love playing with Jimmy Vivino and guys from my band. And we've put out a couple of videos and I was really proud of it until someone said, great Viagra ad. Yeah. And it was like, yeah, like, look at the older guy bopping out with his guitar, Viagra. Don't, you know, and I, that was a torpedo that just blew me apart. I just, I think I almost burned my guitar that night.

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But yeah, maybe the good news is I'll probably get an ad for Viagra. So that'll be good.

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Well, it's been very nice talking to you. Leanne, I've loved talking to you and occasionally your mom. Tell her I said, is your mom still there? She is, she's right there. Hi, Conan. Okay, I'm coming after you. What's your first name? My name's Carol. Carol, I'm coming after you. You've been taping this call illegally. I'm coming after you. I will use the Canadian courts to bring you down.

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You guys are taunting me. Like, come and get me. Oh, man. I'm going after this family. Hey, lovely talking to you.

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Bye-bye, Leanne. Take care.

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Yes. But anyway, this is something I want to do and I'm really looking forward to it. And I don't know. We're just going to give it a try and see how it goes.

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Yeah.

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Wow. Donovan, very nice to talk to you. Where are you coming from, Donovan? Where are you?

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Do you consider yourself a Canadian? No, no, I'm from Michigan. Oh, you're from Michigan.

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Wait, I'm confused already. You're from Michigan. You've married someone who's from Montreal.

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Okay.

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Thanks, I'm kidding.

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So Donovan, you are a professional wrestler, is that right? Yes. Okay, now help me because I know of a type of professional wrestler that has a character and I don't know, are you a professional wrestler who's really wrestling and using wrestling moves and it's not that fun to watch or are you a wrestler who's also kind of a performer and has a character?

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Okay. Well, we are a podcast, so I'm going to describe it. You're sort of demonic looking. You just showed me a picture of what looked like a very fierce, evil, demonic wrestler.

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Okay, very nice, very evil.

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Oh, a demon possessed me.

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Yes. You mean of the wrestlers, I'm the one that's influenced you the most? Yes, yes, of course. That's fantastic. Describe then a demonic Conan O'Brien as a wrestling character. Are you using some of my moves? Is it my attitude? Does your character have sort of little beady eyes and thin lips and sharp cheekbones?

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Human teeth. You pour human teeth into the mouth. I love how that's people see that and go, Oh, that is so Conan.

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with a lot of different people, but what occurred to me is all these people have one thing in common, they're celebrities. And I thought it might be nice to try making friends with average folk, people out there in the world. Civilians, not celebrities. Just talk to the people who make this great country we call the United States of America, or even people from other countries, it doesn't matter.

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No, no. So, okay. One of your standard moves is to pour loose teeth into the mouth of your opponent to confuse and disorient them. What are some of your other moves?

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That's very Cody. Okay. That's very nice, Matt. Yeah. I love that. You just add a Housen to things. So it's so good night. Housen is like a good night move.

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Okay. That's my finishing. Well, you knee them in the face, Hauser.

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Sorry.

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Uh-huh, uh-huh. This is fantastic. I'm delighted by you. I'm delighted by this foolishness and that you've, like me, dedicated your life to... Absolute idiocy. This is fantastic. Now, are you a good wrestler? Are you a good athlete?

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How successful have you been? It sounds like, is this growing? Do you feel like Dan Housen is becoming a bigger and bigger character?

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I wanna be a part of Dan Housen's world. You know, don't you see that Matt and Sona? Like I wanna maybe do some sort of, I wanna tape a video. I seriously wanna do something where you're in the ring and then I appear and I'm either for you or against you. Do you know what I mean? Or you're my long lost son. We've got to somehow get into, I want to get into the lore of Danhausen.

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Do you know what I mean? I want to be part of it. What would you do with me?

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Guess what? There's a lot of those now. There's literally like 600 in America. So you might want to come up with something cooler.

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Would we actually fight? And first of all, you know, I know how to handle myself. Wait a minute. Oh, come on. I'm fairly athletic. I can take a punch and I love to fake fight. And so if I entered the ring, would we start out being friends? But then I would think that you had gotten too cocky and I would attack Dan Housen. What would happen?

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Okay, how about this? Let me pitch you this because I'm really into this. All right, so Dan Housen, you're fighting your foe. He starts to get the better of you. He starts to win. He grabs the bag of teeth and starts to pour them into your mouth. He steals your sack of money. He punches you in the groin.

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Let's just talk to some regular folk and then hope, hope desperately that they become celebrities.

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It's all going badly when all of a sudden the music changes, fog machines go on and I appear, I come down on wires and it's me and I'm there to save Dan Housen.

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I hope so. What if the crowd's just like, all right, okay, there's Conan, I guess. Let's see what he's got. All right, let's go. If we go early, we can beat the traffic. In my mind before I go on, that's what I think. That's the reaction I always think I'm gonna get. If I leave now, I can beat the traffic. I want in on the Dan Housen world. I really do, Donovan.

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You know what? I've always said, if there's a way that I can be involved with Good Night Hausen with Dan Hausen, I want in Hausen and right now Hausen. Not tomorrow Hausen, but today Hausen. I'm not fucking around, Hausen. I'm serious, Hausen. So let's make this happen, Hausen. Let's sign a contract, Hausen. I want to get paid, Hausen.

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There's only one kind of money. There's only human money. No animal uses money. He has no idea. He just knows it gets you power. Yeah. Wow. That's very exciting. Well, you know what? I think you're going to do well. I love that you're going to Canada because I don't say this just to suck up to Canada, but I love Canadians.

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That's the concept. What do you guys think, Matt? Horrible. Yeah, I'm all in. Why is that horrible? It's very important to me that eventually they become celebrities.

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And I think they're like the funniest, one of the funniest countries in the world. They're really funny people. So I think, and they really love nuanced, like weird, kooky comedy. And they've always been so nice to me. So I love that you're going to Montreal. I think that's great.

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Donovan, you have my blessing and I will figure out a way to enter the world of Danhausen. I will.

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All right. Well, Sona, you make sure.

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Yes, we'll follow up on this. I'm really excited about it.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, no problem. Hey, really nice to meet you, Donovan. Nice meeting you too. Nice meeting all of you.

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Well, I'm very excited to talk to you, Leanne.

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Leanne, tell me just a little bit about yourself. Just so I, when I meet someone for the first time, I like to ask just a few questions, find out who they are, where they're coming from.

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You like a good laugh.

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A good laugh is good.

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Do you get a sense of maybe any mental illness when you listen to the podcast?

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Well, I was just wondering if, you know, you're obviously a very intelligent person. You're an engineer. What kind of engineering do you do?

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But you understand chemistry, you understand chemical engineering. Yeah. And have you ever, when you're listening to the podcast, thought, this guy, I think we need to regulate his brain. His brain needs some sort of chemical regulation.

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Who would do that? What kind of monster would choose that life? No, seriously, I really do. I do want to, and especially, I have to say, a lot of this comes out of this last year. Let's get outside this bubble, this celebrity bubble that we're trapped in.

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So what you're saying is what adds to the podcast is my mental illness.

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That's okay. It's always good to have a mother in the background laughing at me. It adds to the whole podcast experience. Oh, and look, she's shooting this on her iPhone, which is piracy. That's piracy. I'm going to have her arrested for stealing our copyright. That'll come later.

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So you fled to north of Toronto just because you wanted your mom to record you talking to me on the podcast on her iPhone.

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And you wanted to escape any attempt for me to seek retribution. You've thought this through so far in advance. You're so smart.

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Oh, yeah, sure. Oh, yeah.

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Oh, that's right. Good improv skills. You picked up on your mom's mistake. Yeah. Yeah, mom. Good improv. Cut it out. She put out the information. Leigh-Anne put out the information that you fled to Canada. So you can't ruin her improv by denying her information. Oh, God. Moms. They always ruin improv. They always ruin improv.

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Yes.

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Well, she always, she would say, my mom's line is, I don't like that even fooling. I love that. And she had a good sense of humor, but yeah, she was always saying that to me. And I think that spurred me to go further and further and further. She's a great straight man in comedy. So that helped me. And I hope your mother's helping you in your comedy pursuits.

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Yes, I understand. Your mom helped you so much with your comedy that you're an engineer. So that's all I have to say to you about your mother. It's her fault. You'd be playing Vegas right now. You'd be in the biggest rooms in Vegas. I would. Oh no, your mom had to get in there and go, that's not true. You're from Toronto. Yeah, it's true. I love, I do love Canada. I've had a very good time.

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I love myself a Tim Hortons. Yeah. I love a Tim Hortons donut and a cup of coffee.

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Yeah. Oh, a double, double. And then I get on the hockey rink and I beat someone to death. It's a good time. I really enjoy myself.

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What? What is she saying now? Is your mother just spout things in the corner throughout your life?

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Yeah, shooting a travel episode in Spain. And I got a call and I called you. And I said, I'll do it, but you got to be on board. I just laughed really hard. You laughed really hard for a long time when you said, I just got a call.

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it was this week yeah i have been i have been i refuse to i mean we finished it's now friday we did sunday night was the show and it's been my wife is just i i'm i am horizontal all the time i'm glad i know oscar can't be but she doesn't like you horizontal yeah i never has uh The response was really lovely. But the thing I keep going back to is the lighting. The lighting is insane.

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It's the best lighting I've ever had. It's the best lighting I ever will have. And it's Bobby Dickinson and Noah Mintz. And they... They were like looking at my face and touching little dials and adjusting things during the rehearsals. And they also adjusted my face manually. But I swear to God, I looked at myself in a monitor at one point in rehearsal and I'm like, who's that guy? It's not me.

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And I know online people were speculating, you know, did Conan get some work done or something? He's like, it's called lighting. It's called lighting, which by the way, if you've checked out the podcast, this is not Oscar lighting. And also we do these travel shows and I'm always, my brand of comedy has always been, hey, this could be really funny. Let's just go do it.

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And we shoot it with no thought towards lighting or I'll run into a 7-Eleven and do something.

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It's a documentary cruise style as if it were a war zone. Right. So I always look like... I always look like, you know, a toy that a dog got ahold of and chewed up. And then suddenly I step out there and hit my mark and I'm a 19 year old girl. You looked great. And then I step out of it. It's like, oh, the old pumpkin's back.

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You were in the audience. Yeah, what was it like in the audience? Were you scared for me?

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You brought tack.

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Wow. What was that like?

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They are so much fun.

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Wait, your seats were much better than I said they should. These are not the seats.

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I think I did. I do.

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And also, if you leave this seat, someone's gonna take it from you.

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Who sat behind you?

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Oprah! That is a role behind us.

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Oprah Winfrey had to look through your big hair to try and see who had won an Oscar.

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I've introduced Erica Brown to former first lady Michelle Obama twice.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, she's.

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Well, she has trap doors installed. Yes. Before she goes, people show up and install trap doors. She helped design it.

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It was fun. It was a lot of fun. It was to have also to have an orchestra. You get spoiled between the lighting and an orchestra.

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Wasn't that a great idea?

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Let's hear it. No.

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Is it just- That is the joke. Well, no, anything I'm doing, we wrote. Yeah.

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No, they have a great, they have a very good team. Right.

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John Max. Okay.

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It was not on our radar.

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Yeah, and so... Zach Galifianakis did that very joke in one of the clubs I was in. Oh, sorry. It's okay, it's okay. I just want to make sure that he doesn't think we ripped him off. Yeah, I have to say that was a... That was a highlight, probably, in a long career. That was just so... Oh, yeah. It was so fun. But I just was thinking, the lighting is amazing. There's this orchestra.

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It was as if I had got a call that said, we want you to be the new Miss America. Right, exactly. It was that random and from left field. I would have laughed less. I said yes. And then we quickly had to go and tape. HBO Max very kindly said, okay, you're supposed to finish this travel season. So yes, go host the Oscars, but can you knock this other travel show off very quickly?

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Everyone in the crowd's wearing a tuxedo. I mean, you hosted the Emmys twice.

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You get intense. You get intense beforehand.

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Because then you know people are watching, like, whatever, Around the World or something.

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No, it is a machine. My experience of it was that the way they have it set up is... the winners drift off stage right, and they're taken into a whole, you know, it's like a digestive system. It's like they're taken through- The press.

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They're taken through the winner's walk, then they're taken right into a press, there's a quick, I think, glam shots, then they're taken into the press room, then they're taken this way. And I'm on the other side, mostly, I'm either going descent, but I'm always coming off from stage left. So I'm coming out to either my mark on stage left or to the center.

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So there's not a lot of interaction, but every now and then you'd have this amazing moment. And the one for me was I'm backstage and I'm watching the monitor, because you're just watching the monitor in between. I'll go and talk to the writers and we'll think what could be a funny idea, what could be a funny thing we could say here.

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We were constantly trying to think of what's something that could come up What's happening in the show and what can we comment on? But every now and then there's not much to do. We know which the next joke is. It's not for 10 more minutes. So I'm sitting there, stage left, and I'm looking at my monitor and I'm just aware of like a presence to my left.

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And I kind of just look over and it's this guy. And I immediately see that it's Mick Jagger. Who I've never met. And Mick Jagger looks at me and he starts nudging me. And in kind of a comic American voice, he's like, hey, hey, how's the crowd? How's the crowd?

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How are they? How are they? And I said, crowd's really good, because they were. I said, it's a good crowd. And I said, but you don't have to worry about that, because you're Mick Jagger. And he went, oh, no, no, I'm not going to try and do a Mick Jagger. But he said, I always worry about the crowd. And I said, wait a minute.

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So you're with the Rolling Stones and you're in Buenos Aires and you're getting ready to come out and start the show and you're gonna start off with satisfaction and you're anxious that the crowd isn't gonna be good. And he said, oh no, definitely, I wear an earpiece. And I listened to the crowd and sometimes I can tell the crowd isn't quite there yet.

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And I have to give it a little extra upfront. And I was so relieved because I realized obviously he's, 35 levels beyond me, but nothing ever goes away. Meaning I've had many people give me a hard time because I'm at a small gathering and I'm supposed to get up and give a toast and Liza can tell I'm anxious and I'm getting worked up and I'm looking around the room to see, is this a good room?

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And she's like, it's a dinner party. What are you doing? And I'm like, it's just never goes away. You're always worried about that stuff. And to hear that Mick Jagger, who's I believe 81, The front man for the Rolling Stones is asking people, asking me, how's the crowd? You think I'll be all right out there? I don't know. It's going to be touch and go for you, Mick. House of lighting.

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Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But he, I mean, I was kind of intimidated because I didn't know what he would be like. He was incredibly nice. He said to me at one point, oh, and by the way, we've never met. And I'm like, he? How do you know you've never met me? Isn't your life just a blur of occasionally an orange person comes by? He was lovely. He was great and funny and thoughtful.

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Squeeze it in quickly. So we immediately dashed to Austria. and we're shooting a show in Austria when I get the call that my father had passed away. So I rush home. And then while I'm home, I see that my mom is going too, and she went three days later. And that was an experience that was very intense. And a bunch of you were very kindly flew out for that, which blew my mind.

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And I had a great exchange with him. And then I knew... I need to end this. Like, don't hang on too long. So I said, well, anyway, wonderful, lovely. It was very nice to meet you too. And I walk away and I think Ruthie has me walking away from him. And I saw that Ruthie was filming it and I just walk up and go like, okay, that just fucking blew my mind.

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It's your move, Estonia.

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Yeah, there was a moment that I was happy about, which is we're. If we're backstage, but it's very just before the show, and we see Timmy Chalamet coming in, and he's wearing a bright, bright yellow outfit. It was a red carpet coverage. Red carpet coverage, and he's wearing this suit that's just bright, bright. Like creamsicle. Creamsicle yellow.

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And I said, well, he won't get hit driving his bike at night. And people around me were like, that's funny. And so I just kept it in my head and I walked out there and it was one of the first things I said, like, hey, it's Timmy Chalamet. Hey, you won't get hit on your bike. People were like, ha ha ha. And I'm like, that's not even on a prompter. But it was just kind of,

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It was a nice feeling to feel like it is the same thing as you can just think of something and say it, and this giant important room, if it's okay, they'll laugh at it. It doesn't not all have to come through this huge process of agony.

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It was a really fun night. And I have to say lots of thanks and gratitude to ABC Academy. They really did, and the producers, Raj and Katie, they made... They took really good care of us, and they seemed to know that, yeah, this needs to be what Conan wants it to be. It's got to be in his voice. They were very good about that. Everyone was very supportive.

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Yeah, Michael Bearden was great, and that's a guy that worked with Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson. I mean, the list of people he's worked with is insane. So I had huge moments of inadequacy saying, yeah, I want to sing this song, and he would sit down at the piano and start, and we'd be like making it up and thinking... I'd rather be working with a real musician.

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He would transpose the key on the spot.

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Yeah, D flat. It sounds like you're a D flat. But there were so many fun things. The sensibility has always been we love puppets and silliness. So we got obsessed with Sandworm. We early on.

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Oh, and then there was one idea where the sandworm comes out with an envelope. And we were like, no, how are we going to get, it's not going to move.

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And it was going to have lines. And so there was just, there's a whole, there's a whole lifeline to these things. There's a whole evolution. And then finally it became clear, Sandworm needs to be in the orchestra and needs to have gone to the Berklee School of Music.

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It was a guy who does creature acting. But also, crucially, from our team, the gentleman, the artist who dresses me and who, Scott Cronick, who's been with me for years, who I married. You married on television. On television. In New York. He and his partner in New York. You officiated the wedding. Is that right? You're not married to him. But I also was married to him for a while.

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And I still thank you for that. That means the world to me. Of course. Eduardo, a no-show. It was duly noted, Eduardo. Yeah. I called for you during the eulogy. We all went around. I said, and of course, Eduardo, Eduardo! Right. Eduardo!

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And then Liza found out and the whole thing went south. That enhanced your own marriage. Exactly. But he built the Sandworm and... In three days. He built it in three days. And so it was behind the harp, but then we had different ideas for who should be behind the piano and it wasn't quite working out. We couldn't quite figure it out.

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And then finally it occurred to us, the sandworm should be the person on the piano. And then the sandworm can show up again on the harp as a callback. That happened the day before the Oscars, we realized. I think it was the day before. It was that Friday.

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It was that Friday that, yes, Sandworm should come out on the piano first and then show up later on on the harp because he's a multi-instrumentalist.

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I was like, okay. But Scott Cronick designed the costume. And then at the end of the show, before the show was even over, I think someone from the Academy said, we'd like to keep the sandworm. Because they have a museum. So I don't know if it's ever going to happen, but if you go to the Academy Museum, you can see the shark from Jaws.

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You know, you can see the snow globe from Citizen Kane and, oh, there's Sandworm. There's Sandworm from the 97th Oscars, ruining the museum, dragging it all down.

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A reason I'll never get a package again. Bezos is probably like, see to it he never gets a package again. He's petting a white cat.

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Yeah, Eduardo, sure, sure, whatever. The funeral is not properly mic'd. Yeah, he didn't... LAUGHTER Well, I'm glad you can laugh at my parents' death. No, no, I'm kidding. I'm laughing too. And they would have wanted that. Who knows? No, I don't think so.

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I was so enraged when people would try to talk to me about the travel shows. Every now and then, Jeff Ross would say something like, so anyway, you know, if we do end up going to India, I'd be like, it's not about the Oscars!

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Yeah, I'm a real pleasant chap. You know what?

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Yeah, I felt that.

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It wasn't always easy to be around Picasso.

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But boy, did he fill a lot of museums with wonderful work. That's right. Two, three, four. So Picasso and a sandworm.

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Incredible. Great to have that room, that writer's room.

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Yeah.

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Also to have everything humming where there's a writer's room downstairs working on the Oscars. I'd be in there joking around. Then I'd come up here and we would do a podcast. Abuse these people. Abuse you guys.

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I know, you really could.

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People are going to get the wrong idea about me from these jokes you're making. Oh, yeah, yeah. Anywho.

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No, not that much.

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I was on my feet the whole time because I'm very hyperactive. Yeah, Jimmy's advice was sit as much as possible because it's a lot of standing and I can't sit still. Yeah. And so there's footage. I mean, I got to give a shout out since you're naming everyone you've ever met. Hey, doing an amazing job. I'm going to list the people that served in the Korean War now on the American side.

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No, but Ruthie and Samantha, who handle the social media, they did this amazing thing where they were shooting video all the time, sort of day in the life video and posting it. But there's... Not only am I not sitting down, but at one point I'm doing a Russian dance while the writers around me are chanting Conan. And the show is only half over.

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And I'm expending energy and doing that leg kick dance. And then it's madness. Absolute madness. But that's the world I like to live in. Anyway, it was an honor. It was a privilege. It was a thrill. And Mike Sweeney would not have happened without this man. He has his proper due. No, we'd have found someone else.

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Latin Grammys.

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Come on, Eduardo. You're a real fit.

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Oh, I'm so sorry.

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You're Spanish killed during the... Si, es verdad. Yes. We, that was, yeah.

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You're Mandarin. The key to the Mandarin was they were laughing so they couldn't hear the Mandarin. But anyway, it was, it was a real highlight, but it's also, man, it's nice to have that behind us.

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Well, we can't just be patting ourselves on the back here.

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Yeah. This man.

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Yeah.

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Can I talk about this guy? What you do and what you did when you did it. Now I'll be Sebastian Maniscalco. This guy. This fucking guy.

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All right. That was our Oscars podcast. Talk down.

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I had to go mourn my parents while you guys went to Vienna and shot B-roll and drank schnapps.

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We're taping this a bit earlier, several days after the show aired. So it's still fresh in our minds. And I am joined to go over this experience with my head writer of many, many, many years. Some say too many years. Too many.

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Yeah, exactly.

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We shot something with Jordan that you haven't seen. Yeah, I'm cutting it without even seeing it. So then there's a real role here because that rolled right into Christmas, felt like days after, which rolled right into January, which rolled right into the fires. I've been living in a hotel since then. And so I remembered us noticing that the Oscars are getting closer and closer.

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And because of all this madness, we haven't been able to get together in a room and get going. And so you were instrumental in putting together, I mean, some of the names were obvious because it's people you and I had worked with for a long time, but I think we put together a murderer's row of writers. Amazing.

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Hey, Conan O'Brien here. Usually in this slot, we air a fan interaction episode, but we're not going to do that. We've had a lot of requests out there from people to talk about my recent experience hosting the Oscars. It is... It's only been about a week by the time this airs, a week or so, week and a half since I hosted the Oscars.

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I would come in and it was therapy for me because I would come in and

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uh anyone who knows me knows that i i'm like a fish in water in tropical water when i'm in a writer's room i'm just so happy to be around writers and uh to be joking around usually riffing on things that could never make it into an oscar show and there was plenty of that yes but uh and that was a good shorthand to bring this crew back that had already written for you so that yes they knew they knew my style and also just goofing around like yeah you know it was just an instant

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Brian Kiley, Matt O'Brien, Laurie Kilmartin. Dan Cronin. Dan Cronin.

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Kiley Kama. Oh, and Scott Gairdner came in to help shoot some of the amazing... He's amazing, and he helped give a great look to some of the things that we wanted to do.

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Brian Kylie?

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But also... Berkley Johnson.

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And you should see Berkley's Johnson. It's a joke I've been doing for 15 years, and it's always better. I was... it's so satisfying, but we have to tell this story. Skylar Higley wrote the Drake joke. Halftime. The halftime joke.

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Mike Sweeney. Mike Sweeney has been with me almost since the very beginning of my late night show. He waited a little bit to see if it would survive or not. And then when he saw that it was probably going to make it, he came aboard. So he is a coward. I am. You should have led with the coward part.

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For halfway through the Oscars, which means it's time for Kendrick Lamar to come out and call Drake a pedophile. And he wrote that joke, and... um today i was uh i mean this has happened to me a couple of times but i i walked to some store this morning to get a cup of coffee and this young black gentleman came up to me and went conan i gotta ask you did you write that

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that joke about Drake, and I said, I did not. That is the handiwork of Skylar Higley, and I gotta give it up. I'm not that well-versed in the rap battles, but I got major props from this gentleman. Excellent. But we... started working and then just generating ideas.

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It's the same thing we've done back when we would do Emmy shows or any kind of Comic-Con shows, which is just generate thousands of ideas and throw most of them out.

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It was the idea that I'm going to, oh, Conan's now going to goof on all the movies.

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And so it starts with me, and I'm all green in Wicked, finishing Defying Gravity or one of those songs, and I finish it, and then you see you cut to the next thing, which is Gladiator, and clang, clang, clang with swords, and then you see that I'm a gladiator, but then you notice that I'm still green.

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And then you go on to conclave and you see people voting with their ballots and then one of the hands is still green. And then you cut to me in Dune and one of the characters, Javier Bardem is saying, I can't hear you because they all wear those masks in the sand. Take it off, take it off. And I finally take it off. what's your problem, man? And I take it off and I'm green.

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And he's like, what the hell, man? Did you start this with Wicked? And I went, yeah, and this stuff doesn't come off. And the whole thing is that the dye wouldn't come off and we had to shoot it all in one day. And it was kind of a conceptual idea, which we were, but we thought, oh, this is,

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We can carry this through the whole thing where then all the characters in every movie that I've inhabited are laughing at me and giving me a hard time because I started out as green. Including Nosferatu. They're all piling up on you. Nosferatu. They're all piling on me like, you don't start with green. Everyone knows that stuff doesn't... Everyone knows that stuff doesn't come off. Right.

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You shoot the wicked at the end. I know, but we had one day and no one told me. That's a good Bill Skarsgård. Thank you. So we thought that that was... We were like, oh yeah, this is the idea. And then we realized this is so complicated to shoot and it takes so many different setups and started to kind of fall out of... Well, it was more... But also then the Oscars...

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Mike Sweeney has been with me for a long time. 30 years. 30 years. 11 of them quite pleasant. And we worked together on the Oscars along with Jeff Ross. And Mike Sweeney led the creative team. And- People seemed very happy with how it went. I had a blast doing it. And one of the reasons I think I was able to enjoy myself so much is I knew I had, we worked very hard to get material that we liked.

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I just, I mean, that visual of my hair coming out of my head was something I was obsessed with and that ended up being good. But it's one of the things you learn, which is that you constantly, it's not just, it's with monologue jokes and it's also with bits. And this is, this is more about the process. Don't fall in love with anything because also the times change.

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You know, if something is eight weeks out or nine weeks out, what's funny now isn't the story four weeks later. So, so many of the narratives kept changing with the Oscars race that, and things would seem funny now, but then not later. And then we got a lot of clarity because I started going out to different clubs. Right. And doing jokes, and I could see which ones consistently work well.

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The audiences were very nice because they would go out and say, I mean, I know Nikki Glaser does this as well, but it's a very good tool to go out and try things out with an audience. But I would say, please don't record this. And they wouldn't.

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Which was really nice because all someone would have to do is put that online and you're completely screwed.

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We can't even be there when he does his because we don't want to hear something like we can't be influenced. We want to make sure there's no overlap. So... you get into this thing where then you say, okay, that show's over. I know, but this comic's out hosting the Spirit Awards. The Spirit Awards.

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And they're doing the circuit and trying jokes about... So you have to wait till... And if anyone does any joke, you can't do that joke then, obviously.

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We can't, it's gone now because someone else did it. So... The whole thing was fascinating, but I have to say the real education, the real behind the scenes education was, you know, the Academy of Motion Pictures.

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They are very serious about certain things.

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And we had, this real lesson in, and again, I don't fault them. I'm just, this is what they do. The Oscar, the image of Oscar is very important to them. And there'd be times where we'd be shooting bits to promote the Oscars.

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Promos to run on ABC or to go on the internet that would, you know, promote the Oscar. And I remember there was a giant Oscar statue and I shot something with it. It was really fun. And at one point I said, oh, it'd be really funny. It was about Oscar and I, the Oscar and I. sharing an apartment and we don't get along. Our marriage is crumbling. And this was actually out there.

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They ended up releasing it. And I thought it came out pretty well. But it's just a nine-foot Oscar and I bickering. And of course, the Oscar's not doing anything. It's just standing there like a statue. And I'm saying, what happened to our marriage? And we're fighting about things that couples fight about. But at one point I thought, oh, this would be really great if the Oscar was just...

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on the couch. Let's lay it on a really big couch and I'll be vacuuming and say, could you at least lift your feet or could you at least get up and help load the dishwasher? And we wanted to do it and they just said, no, no, no, that can't happen.

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And that blew my mind. Like, wow, this is like the thigh bone of St. Peter. This is a religious icon.

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Oscar's always naked.

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And I think the call came in from the Oscars in late November.

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There's rules. I didn't know. Oh, no, there's just rules. Rules. There's a lot of rules with Oscar. And then you realize, oh, this award ceremony has been around since 1929. Right. There's a lot of different sort of shorthand for what can and can't happen. But they ended up being very helpful. I want to stress that. Everyone was great. They were great. And the ABC people were fantastic.

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And the producers we worked with, Raj and Katie. They were amazing. They would just make anything happen. They would just, anything we said, they would say, yes, let's, that sounds funny. Let's make it happen.

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But it just kept getting... My experience of it was, once I said yes, I would always wake up at three in the morning and look at the ceiling and go, what?

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And then it takes about an hour and a half to get back to sleep. And that's just the deal. That's just what it's like.

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Maybe we can work together. I have my ways. I tend to win people over. Sonia, you've seen me in action.

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I don't think there are that many, but yeah. Yeah.

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Not so big. Just people that had slight hesitation and they overcame it. Quite a few people. Not a lot. A lot of people. Not big naysayers. Eloise, are there any events that we would go to together? Are there any events in the trans community that I could participate in?

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Sure. I was just hoping at one point there's alcohol involved. you know, going to a club or something. But yes, I like those. I think what you're doing sounds very cool and very healthy. But at some point, I want to hit the dance floor. Do you understand? You've got to see my moves to believe them, Eloise. You've got to see them.

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Yes. Yes. That's not necessarily a brag. Unless my demands are met, Eloise. Unless there's a suitcase full of cash in this podcast office tomorrow, you will see me dance. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

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The clock is ticking. Well, Eloise, it was a good way. Eloise, it was very nice talking to you. And you are very funny. You seem very funny and very cool. And I do believe you're a healer because I've had fun talking to you. And you have healed me. So what do you think of that? That's great. Yeah.

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All right. I'll get it to you. Thank you, Eloise. Nice talking to you. Bye-bye. Bye. Thanks, guys.

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Wow. Pizza is the great unifier of everything you just said. So you are very active in the trans community. You have lots of get togethers. What kinds of things do you like to do with your friends who are trans? What kind of, you know, do you have parties? Do you have, what do you do?

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Yeah, I would like to join you because I'm told I'm weird, you know, part of my life story.

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Okay. Well, all right. Well then there's work to be done. That's why I'm here.

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My mission has always been to expand my presence in the LGBTQ community in the Philippines. Very specifically. I said that in 1963, the year I was born. I remember.

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Wow, you have a time machine, apparently. Yeah. Well, would I get along? Would I fit in with everybody? I'm a pretty friendly person. Would they accept me? I guess that's the big question. Would your friends accept me?

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This isn't going well, Eloise. Eloise, I'm not getting good signals, Eloise.

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Okay. Well, you're talking to myself, Matt, Sona, the gang. Hi. And tell me, I don't know much. Tell me where are you right now? Who are you? Tell us the whole story.

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Oh, I think so. Yeah. Your friends are picking up when I'm laying down is what you're saying.

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That's Matt who has the obscure references.

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I always thought that Calvin Coolidge was huge in the trans community in the Philippines. Yeah. That was my understanding. Not so much President Taft. I get it.

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Okay, I'll double down on Johnson. Okay. Well, okay, so you say that... Let's say I came to Manila, and let's say that you and I were to meet, and you were going to take me out for a night with your friends in the trans community. What would we be doing?

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Yes, I want to blend in very much. I want to be considered a chill guy when I go out on the town with you and your friends in the trans community. So tell me, what are the things I should know?

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I see what you're saying, though. It probably has to be a reality TV show, right? That's better. It could be a reality. Like, right now, Eloise, you're totally giving me, you know, season six, Love Island, episode three, uh... Cheetah. I just made all that all up.

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Cheetah.

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Does that work?

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You know what? Yeah, because I was too deliberate about it. Yes. You got to just toss it off.

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Okay, you are just right now. You know what? I don't need this from you. You are so President Taft and selling the OC. I don't need this right now. Do you know what I mean?

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And then I say slay right back to you. Slay.

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See, I think already I'm doing pretty well.

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I've heard that before. That's a compliment. Eloise, this is a big help. You're helping me. This is good. I think you are a hero. I think I have to learn more about reality shows.

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What are the popular reality shows so I can just toss them off? Oh, Love is Blind. Love is Blind. All right.

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Yeah. But is there a city that because is there a real housewives?

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Salt Lake City.

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I call I'm going to go with Atlanta. I'm going to call it Hotlanta.

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I'm not going to do that.

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Wow. That's fantastic. And you say you're a healer as well. So you can help people. Maybe you could help me.

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I don't know. Eloise, you're totally giving me, um, uh, uh, It's going well. It's going well, buddy. Keep it up. You got it. I don't watch these shows. You can use any reference.

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Oh, yeah. A little Teresa, season four, Real Housewives of New Jersey, much Eloise. Does that work? Yeah. Slay? It sounds a little like an insult, but I'll take it.

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Oh, yeah. Vanderpump Rules.

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Skandoval.

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Oh, that's too obvious. You got to pick up someone obscure. More obscure, yeah, yeah, yeah. Svensson. What? He's the accountant on the show. I'm going to do the best I can, though, to learn more about reality TV. I'm going to say slay a lot. What else would we do?

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Yeah, I got news for you. I think you'd make a really good- I got news for you.

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I think I have a much better chance in the trans community. I really do. I think I have a better chance than becoming an elite athlete. I just, I don't know.

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That dog in you? I'm an old, old fellow. And the other day I got out of bed quickly and my left leg fell off. And I used electrical tape to put it back on. And so that's what I'm concerned about is pieces of my body coming off in the Philippines, you know?

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There you go. That's why I know that. See? What? It doesn't matter where you get the knowledge as long as you have the knowledge. I just shouldn't reveal that, right? Right now you're being so Winston Bufferman on American Roadshow. with his collection of pneumatic tubes that he sold.

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Who do you need help with? I was hoping you would know. I have some guesses. I think that would be rude. Well, you live in Manila and tell me just a little bit about your life. What do you like to do? How do you have fun?

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Jesus.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's just incredible, right? Yeah. You are such a Walt Kellerman from American Pickers season four. Oh my God. Oh, American Pickers.

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You can slay with a docuseries. Eloise, can you slay with docuseries?

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RuPaul with definite no.

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Hold on. I got RuPaul on the line now. What's that? Oh, quick no.

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Invisible phone, everybody. And I hang that up.

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After what you've heard today, do you want me to come visit you? And you're allowed to say no, you've changed your mind.

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I think that might scare people. Yeah, probably, yeah. Well, I admire your honesty. I really do. I try. I appreciate that. Can I ask you a question? You've mentioned autism also during this interview. Are you autistic?

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When did you find that out?

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That's funny, that was my sound reaction. Yeah, what if he sees the real me? What if he's right? I can see, yeah, it's different. I'm not for everyone, and that's always the way it's been.

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I'm going to win him over. I was pretending to be okay with your dad not liking me, but this is odd.

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I'm obsessed now. What would you do? What would I do?

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Well, first of all, I'd be very respectful and kind to him. So respectful and kind that he would see that I'm not rude. Then I. So hilarious. Yeah. And then I would probably bring him some gifts. And. What would you bring him? Oh, well, what is your, what is your dad like? Pork. Yes.

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Goes right in the overhead compartment. So I would wrap some pork in newspaper. Just a full pig. Put it in the overhead compartment and fly. I think it's probably a pretty quick flight from LA to Manila. and then get in a cab in the hot sun and take this rotten, fetid pork to your father and say, hey, you're the guy that thought I was rude. Have this rotting pork.

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And then I think we'd be best buddies. Don't you think?

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But yeah, you know what? Give it a try. You are so season three American botulism. So I can't believe that got three seasons.

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That you'd have to put in the work to get to the fun part you need to prepare, you need to be on it.

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Never forget that.

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Well, you lost me with this whole line of reasoning. I had a trailer put upstairs in this office just so I could not come out of it. But half the time, no one wants me to come out of it.

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Never for a second do I forget that you are an unprofessional person.

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I wasn't familiar with, you know, this show you did when you were an adolescent, Skins. I don't really know that show, but it became huge in the UK. And that was a little difficult for you to handle because you're an adolescent and suddenly it's this...

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A total loose cannon.

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You were young to be experiencing that kind of attention.

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You're cuckoo in the cabeza.

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Yeah, so if you're going out, you just want to have a drink, hang out with friends.

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It's never left in my mind. So sometimes you might forget it. Never, ever. I never forget that. And so all I'm saying is there are times where I'm thinking, we're here. We're here to do our job, which we also love. It's fun. But you'll start gabbing and gabbing and gabbing. And I'll say, well, why don't we just say, hey, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend.

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You have to accept that someone might be recording you. Yeah, it was a weird transition.

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I think it's healthy not to enjoy that.

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I think there are a lot of people who would be 15, 16, 17 and think, boy, if I could be famous right now and get that kind of attention at an age when you want attention, wouldn't that be amazing? And so often it's not.

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Well, let me explain my problem. You're talking about getting recognized. I wear a hat that says I am Conan O'Brien wherever I go. Stop me and ask for a selfie. You've had this interesting education where you were getting probably attention and working as a child, then you're a teenager, but then you've, I mean, you've handled it all really well.

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You've done, I was thinking of your performance in Mad Max as, first of all, when I first saw that, I didn't even realize it was you. Yeah. See, no one will recognize me from now. Yeah, because you play Nux. And Nux is this terrific character. You lost so much weight for that. And the backstory, first of all, I love that movie. Yeah, it's a great film. I'm proud of that one.

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And we did a parody of it when we were at Comic-Con once where I play the Doof Warrior, who's the guy that we actually recreated. We shot it film style. We recreated that whole giant truck. Yeah. Do you remember this, Sona? Yeah, I do. Yeah. I'm hanging off the front with an electric guitar and the white face and wearing the red onesie and shooting fire. Do you still have the red onesie?

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I'm wearing it now.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm wearing it for medical reasons. But I'm shooting, they gave me a guitar that shoots fire. The real fire. Yeah. And then we were shooting it out in the desert, but they said, I remember just before we started to shoot, they, no, after the first take, they said, when you get near a telephone pole, turn off the fire. And I was like, what?

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And they were like, because otherwise you'll set the telephone poles off here in the desert outside Los Angeles on fire. And I went, no one thought, like, this is up to me. If I want to, I can take out the power grid with my electric guitar. But anyway, we did a whole parody of that, which was really fun to do. But I absolutely adore that film.

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And your character, I mean, talk about being able to lose yourself in a character. You lost a ton of weight to play Nux. Because you're in this, everyone who survived that apocalypse is sickly.

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And what was the, I mean, everyone has their own technique, but is that a kind of thing where literally you're working with a doctor and they're saying, okay, you can have a tic-tac today and then a little soup before bed?

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And we can, whatever this is, we can talk about what you're talking about. And you'll be like, hold on, I'm not done yet.

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Oh, I didn't eat as much.

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I think there is now, right? Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I'm going to get an Ozempic colonic. Oh, jeez. I don't know. Maybe it'll go even faster. I don't even know what that means. Go the other way. Not a suppository, but a colonic. A colonic. I want that for other reasons. They don't go together.

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First of all, this story is much better if you identify your friend. I can't. They're very famous. It's got to be Hugh Grant. It's Hugh Grant. Hugh Grant cramping, shitting all over the floor. You heard it here, folks. Let's get that out there. It's not Hugh. Too late. I'm editing your it's not out. And we're replacing it with an AI yes, it is. Definitely him.

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Now we're good. You got very seriously into motorcycles at some point. Yeah.

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Monetize it. Monetize it or shut the fuck up. Yes.

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Yes.

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So you have seriously, first of all, as a kid, you were interested in cars.

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Now, explain to me the appeal, because I'm not a gearhead. I enjoy a nice car, but... When I first made money and could buy any car I wanted, just so you know who you're talking to, and I'm a writer on The Simpsons, and I go out and I buy a Ford Taurus SHO. That's the Ford Taurus that has the stick shift. Yeah, stick shift's great. Yeah. But it looks exactly like a Ford.

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No, no, please continue.

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It's got a sweet Yamaha six in there. And, but yeah, I remember thinking this is so cool. And people would say, you're driving around in a Ford Taurus and you're 28 years old. And you told us you were going to get this really cool car. And I went, yeah, but if you look inside, it's got a stick shift. And the common reaction was, it's a four-door.

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You look like you're going to Whole Foods to buy some produce. Not even Whole Foods, like Big Lots. Okay. Let's not get dicky about grocery stores. But anyway, that's the degree to which I'm probably not a gearhead. But you participated in and won a race recently, didn't you?

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No, no, no, no.

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I did with the Taurus.

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Was that not clear? Wait a minute. Never mind. My car was not on when I became one. When my car was not even on and I was not in it when I became one with it.

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I thought it was fairly clear by the way you're talking about it. I'm going to keep explaining what happened. Well... I was going to go so far with it. I'd just like to take this time to apologize to you. It's fine. Don't worry, Nicholas. This never has to air. It's interesting. It's going to sound like I'm making a joke, but I'm not.

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When we're in this room, everything must be monetized. Everything must... Adam, help me out here. When we're in this room, everything must, you know, is part of the product. The team cocoa product.

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I kind of understand what you're saying because if I'm in front of a large group of people, there is an adrenaline rush and I am sometimes doing things that are against my better nature, but I also... think this is going to be really funny if I do this thing that's potentially quite embarrassing or foolish.

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So there's this push me, pull you, but I also like to be in control, but I also like the potential chaotic loss of control. And it's all at the same time. That's the closest I've come to that.

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And if I doubt it, do you just abort or do you override? This is one thing I found is that if I'm thinking about it beforehand, it's not going to be as good. And if you do it, then it's not as satisfying. It's not as good. And for some reason, the audience knows it too. I don't know what that's all about.

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But then I went there.

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So you showed a lot of restraint and caution. Yeah. And you held your tongue. And then me, the older man who should know better. Well, just because I couldn't formulate what the idea was. No, I didn't formulate it well either. I have me fucking a Taurus. You just said I fucked my car.

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There was no... Well, I'm an Aries.

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My point is... What's that joke?

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I think you're allowed to say it in the UK.

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I just want to make sure people know Sona said that.

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Why is it you have better material than I do? This is frustrating. But it is funny how I did have an experience that I really loved. We shot a travel show in Berlin. Oh, I'm going to Berlin in a couple of weeks.

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Yes. Okay, this was a while ago. I won't be going there anytime too soon, but we shot a segment where I believe I'm in a very, very fast BMW that's latest model, fastest model, and we go on the Autobahn. And what I always heard about the Autobahn is you can go as fast as you want. There are no speed limits. That's not really true.

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No, we went, I think, I mean, it would not be impressive to you. It was impressive for me that we- I'd have to find the speed that we got to, but I was impressed.

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No, I want to say it was... I think you got up to like 121 or 126 miles per hour.

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It had three horses in it.

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No, it is refreshing because it's something that I find refreshing about sports, not participating in it so much, but is watching them, is that things can be measured. And in comedy, no matter what you do, people go like, eh, not my cup of tea. Or someone can like it, someone else can hate it. It's just this...

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This soup, you can never quite say, no, no, empirically this wins because how can you do that? But in, and that's true of all the arts. Like when sometimes when I watch the Oscars or any award show, I think this is so crazy. How can we be comparing all of these things and who's deciding and what does that even mean? It always seems ridiculous to me.

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Sorry.

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Is it right now? Welcome to the Nicholas... If I could get Nicholas Holt to ask me questions as if I were interesting... That's my EGOT. That's my EGOT. No, I remembered my career has been a series of me thinking, if I could get to this point, then I'd never worry about anything again. And that goes back to me being 22 and just thinking, if I could just make a living as a comedy writer...

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and then i did and i'm like okay well yeah the minute you attain something you you yeah you have disdain for it but uh so what's next what's the next what's the next level then for me um i think uh i think cover of men's health in a speedo oh just like super cut you should pivot on the bonnet of the taurus

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I think it's time 61-year-old men of my complexion who work out intermittently are seen as sex symbols. This country's already going through enough. I think this country can handle more. No, I think- It's what the country needs.

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No, and it's funny because I was very young and a writer on Saturday Night Live and we won an Emmy when I was there for a season that I'd been working on and we won and I was in my 20s and I remember thinking, Wow. You know, this I won an Emmy. This is going to change everything. And of course, it doesn't change anything. None of these things change anything, really.

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And so it's just been this constant education and reeducation and reeducation. It's all an illusion. You just keep going. And I think for, I mean, your analogy would be, there's not going to be any point in a car where you're going to say, I'm satisfied, right?

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Like, yeah, there's always... Did you stand on top of the car when you won the race?

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What are you supposed to do? There are all these iconic things you're supposed to do when you win.

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Can we just let this moment sit?

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Did they take your trophy away? They should have done. It was an absolute disgrace. You could see them taking your car with a tow truck. They took the car back. And then I'm like, I can fix this.

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And then everyone's left.

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You're there late at night.

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You're there with a Diet 7-Up, shaking it. Come on! I still do it every morning, yeah. Do you, do you, this is what I'm saying, does any of this translate, does your driving ability translate to you on the 405 freeway? No. Does anything like that translate, or are you an amazing driver going 55 miles an hour on the highway to-

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I invited Adam. He sits way in the corner. He's over there calculating, scheming. Calculating and scheming. Yeah, and I bring him over into this holy, holy area of the table with the mics. And then you stab me.

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Yeah. That's good. You just knocked wood in. I don't think this is wood. Yeah.

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I thought this was an expensive piece of wood. I don't trust Eduardo. I think he cheaped out on us and found something cheaper than wood. Might be particle wood. Yeah. It's better for the sound, right? Yeah. He gets it. Yeah. You get it. I don't get it. How do you like living in Los Angeles area? We were talking about this a little bit when you first showed up, but it's so interesting.

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Maybe it's the grass is always greener, but having 100% Irish genes, I always find myself yearning for it to be cloudy and rainy. Yeah. here in Los Angeles. But for years, I've noticed that people from the UK Brits, they want to be here. They are not interested at all in a cloudy day. They want to get red-faced. I don't know. Do they? Well, I think so, yeah. They love tanning.

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Do you think I'm onto something here?

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And you're happy. You like it here.

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We're talking, I want to make sure we get the word out on Nosferatu. Where did you shoot this? Where did you shoot Nosferatu? We shot it in Prague. Oh my God. See, that is why I do a travel show is that for years and years and years, for 28 years, I sat at a talk show desk and talked to people like you who said, oh, I just got back from Prague. Yeah.

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No, I've never been to Prague. I want to go there. Oh, you should do an episode going there.

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Yeah. Yeah. Oh, so you want me to travel to get the word out on Nosferatu.

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All right, Sona, could you book me a flight to Prague? Sure. And get me a tea. Good, good, good, really good acting. All done, bye. And could you have a shirt made that says Nosferatu in theaters now? Yeah, let's see that. Can you screen print it?

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I crucified you. He crucified me.

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You've got a... Whoa. Laser printer. Stupid. What kind of machine makes this?

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Your guillotine probably goes. I'd like to hear the guillotine. Yeah, let's hear the guillotine. It needs to be a little bit of a... Yeah, it's sort of a wet... He landed on his tongue. I don't know what happened there. Boing, boing, boing, boing.

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Boing, boing, boing, boing. Okay, you made Nosferatu, directed by one of my favorites, Robert Eggers. I love his stuff. He's incredible, isn't he? Absolutely incredible. And so, I mean, I'm excited to just see the look of the film. I mean, he always achieves.

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And that's, that's the truth. So you think sometimes I spin a yarn after we're done?

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It's so funny, because I had the opportunity to interview Jordan Peele, and he was asking me, what kind of horror films do you like? And I said, I don't like someone jumping out of a bush, stabbing, jump scares, and someone chasing someone else with a chainsaw.

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And I cited the witch as an example and Eggers as an example of there's a wide shot early in the film, it's fall and it's New England, 17th century New England. And the wind is blowing and you just see these trees slightly undulating and it's terrifying because of the implication of what something malevolent is out there. He managed to make trees in the fall in New England, very frightening.

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And I responded to there's so much in the witch that it's so much of its tone and so much of it is, and then there are, yes, there are little moments that are frightening, but when you think about it, there's so little violence, there's so little action, but your heart's in your mouth the whole time.

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What was the period? Is it 1890s?

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We did a travel show in Dublin last year, and we drove around and we went to Wicklow, which there's this great iconic lighthouse. got all made up as Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse. And I have this long, insane speech that we shot in black and white. You're doing promo for The Lighthouse then, so you can do something that's wrong. You better make another shirt.

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I'll send you the script. What I loved about that, I guess what I loved about that movie is the performances are amazing, but also you're paying attention to like the button on someone's weird suit, which is very somehow evocative. Yeah. He manages to get all that stuff right. And I'm thinking Gothic, Nosferatu. Yeah. late 19th century field day with the visuals.

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Sometimes I lay out a real lulu of a story. No, I do tell some stories that are not for public consumption because maybe they include a name and I don't like to sell people, you know, sell people out. And so we have some delicious conversations in here. But... Yeah, I guess I'm guilty of the same thing.

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He's vomiting. I've got to get the right one. I am. Well, listen, I am a huge, huge fan of yours as a person. But I just think your performances are off the charts. Great. And this movie is made for me. So and oh, yeah, Bill Skarsgård.

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I'm curious because my work is always I make something and then we see it either instantly or 10 minutes later and then I never see it again. Your work is you work really hard on something, craft it, you make it, you have some control over some facets of it. And then this long period of time goes by, I would think, before you see it.

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How apprehensive are you about, okay, now it's time for me to go see myself in Nosferatu?

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I'll say, from my vantage point, your work is excellent. And so, and trust me, I think a word from Conan O'Brien carries a lot of weight in the film industry.

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Huh.

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Five stars! Five stars from the tourist fucker. Absolutely thrilled that you could be here today. And I do want to be your friend. I doubt it's going to happen. We can definitely be friends. No, I have a bad feeling. You gave me the sheet.

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And I'm going to say it's not going to happen on your end. I'm going to say you're the one that's going to... Just keep calling and breathing down the phone. I'm always waiting. Nicholas. That's the only reason I've still got a landline. It's me. But congrats on the new film, Nosferatu. And thank you so much for stopping by and for being so funny and terrific. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.

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Peace out, Tupac.

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No one expects that. What? What's up, Matt Gurley? What's the plan?

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I love staff reviews because as the... What is my title at this company? Am I CEO? No. Am I chairman? No. Am I...

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Are you admitting I have talent?

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I do that, but that's all I do. All I do is come into meetings and go, hey guys. Let's do some wheeling and dealing. And then Adam and Fedorovich and Ross are all like, what? And I'm like, yeah, some wheeling and dealing. They're like just and they just pushed me out of the room and I've got my shirt buttoned down. Yeah.

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Yeah. And what a face.

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Okay, let's move on. I like, as the grand poobah, I like talking to the employees and telling them how I think they could do better.

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Eduardo, don't hide. And be a man about this, Eduardo. Can you step away from the machinery that you employ?

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Adam. Yeah, Adam's over there checking the levels.

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um have a seat eduardo and uh is this your first time at the table uh i think for the happening i was oh interrogated yeah just have a little seat there eduardo and um buckle up buckle up okay now eduardo if you don't mind this is a very very large company huge company there are literally have tens of thousands of employees your full name please eduardo perez Okay, Eduardo Perez.

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As I've said before, Eduardo Perez.

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Let me help you. Eduardo Perez. Perfect. So, Eduardo Perez. Eduardo, you are... I'm going to start by buttering you up before I chop you down. You made this beautiful studio that we're in, state-of-the-art. You're a very talented guy, and I applaud you for your work. Thank you. Thank you.

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Okay. What I'm saying, Sona, is that I want... Don't... How dare you harumph?

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They're not here right now, but you did a fantastic job. And you've done, as far as I can tell, mostly a really good job here. Excellent job. Describe your duties. You have to make sure that the equipment's all functioning. Duties. Duties, yes.

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That was not breathing. That was a harumph. If that's your breathing, I'm worried about you.

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It's called being a rageaholic. Yeah.

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yeah yeah i explode in rage no i know that i when i when i have an idea or i want to push something through and punch it uh you probably have to ride all the dials all the time constantly exactly riding your levels the most uh versus of all three of you sometimes a guest will match your energy and i'll have to ride you and the guest yeah that can happen sometimes yeah but you're that happened with doris kearns goodwin

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She was started talking about Lyndon Johnson and she was shouting. Yeah. And then I was doing bits and she was doing bits. You know, it was also difficult to record sometimes. Jimi Hendrix. That's right. The great artists are sometimes hard to capture.

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I think all those years in the coal mine have hurt you. I believe, Sona, that you should be a little more disciplined here about your work and you should tell your tales into the microphone.

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I don't care about the devices around me. I do see myself as a purely artistic cloud that just emanates energy, goodness, and genius. Yeah. And then these machines, they aren't my concern. These are the concerns of others. Okay. Like, is it Eduardo Perez?

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Eduardo, you know, you do a very good job. You did, we were... According certain celebrity recently, I believe it was I believe it was Caitlin Olsen, of course, and very talented, wonderful. And she comes in and we were all excited to talk to her. And then there was an issue. And I hate to bring this up in your review, but it felt like you weren't ready to go when it was time to go. What happened?

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Yeah, and I'm actually pretty fluent in this. I was doing a bit before, but which one is it? It's called Console. Yeah, Console, yeah. Yeah, exactly. And so what happened? Be specific and really get into the minutiae because I can match you. Sure.

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Well, we all know what that is. It means it was buffering.

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Why are you talking to me like I'm a child?

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Excuse me. Oh, I'm sorry.

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Can you seriously use the real terminology? Because you're talking to me like I'm an idiot. I have worked in show business for a long time and I know a lot about television. I also know about the audio aspect of things.

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Yeah. You have to load Pro Tools. You have to load Console. But my question is, did you try anything else before you went to... what anyone would do, which is unplugging it and then plugging it back in again. I did, yes.

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Did you try the force? There is no try. There's only do.

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Hey there. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, joined by Sona Movsesian. Hi, Sona. You done coughing? That was a lot of coughing.

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Yes, of course you do.

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Control, alt, force quit. Listen, can I tell you something? I believe that was the easy thing to do, and it took a long time. Caitlin had to sit here for a little bit because— I feel like it was a minute. Excuse me. It was longer than a minute. It was at least a minute and 15 seconds. It felt like eternity for me, I'll tell you that.

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Yeah, and I could tell she's a lovely person, but she was thinking of leaving. I could tell. She handled it like a champ. I was more nervous about your energy than I was about her energy.

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Prince, anytime anyone in his band hit one note that was a little bit off, he would find them. He would find them. He's a psychopath. No, that's not the point.

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What are you talking about?

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I hear the music just the way Prince did. And I think in our each in our fields, I'm every I am the prince of podcasting.

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And I'll tell you this. I just question, did you panic and force quit? Because there were other things you could have tried first. Like what?

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I don't know. You could have gone to Ultra. Sorry? Ultra. What's Ultra? I'm not even fucking talking about Ultra. It's a parallel system that you can use. You can access it. And then you can go to Hibernate. If you had used Ultra and you had gone to Hibernate, don't... Hey, Sona, you're just laughing because you're embarrassed you don't know anything. What?

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You could have knocked it all down like three generations.

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And did you try compression? Compression? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

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Well, listen, next time look to me and I can help you. You got it. Okay? Yeah. I do like the work that you're doing. Thank you. I'm very lucky to have you. Thank you. And I'm very fortunate that you've done such a beautiful job. And this table, this is your baby. This is one of my babies, yes.

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We do. Oh my God. You know what? That's a fair point. Oh my God. There are, I want to say over, there are 28 years of, of there's 28 years where I'm making late night television. And I think there may be easily 2000 hours of, of me playing whatever guitar song I want to play that day while people in headsets desperately try to get me to rehearse a sketch.

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You put this table together and any time one of us, it's happened, Sona's always bringing various soups from home, soups that your mother made, soups from the home.

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You know when you come in with your soups from the old country?

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Have you noticed that when, just back me up on this. Admit, first of all, you bring in a lot of soups from the old country. Throw yourself under the bus.

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But listen, but listen, it spills. Whenever a liquid spills, you freak. I do freak out. Because there's a lot of very expensive electronics underneath this beautiful table. Under the hood, yes. Under the hood. Did you know when you were building this table, did you know that, first of all, I get clumsy sometimes with my drinks. So, and of course, ubiquitous soups. I had a feeling.

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Well, I ingest a lot of fluids to keep the old pipes lubricated, so to speak.

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Okay, I did spill a full glass of water. However, how many times have you been in here with, and she drinks it out of a stone bowl. Yeah. And it's some Armenian stew or potash, right? Am I wrong? And you come in and you've got that big spoon. It's crazy big, like the Flintstones.

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How many times? Oh, I said one. She was having some of this hush. And I said, what you got there? And she said, you want some? She said, you want the hoof? You want the hoof? Remember? And I said, no, I don't want the hoof.

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Well, anyway, great. So you're welcome. I finally got you to admit that you do bring tons of you bring hush in in a big stone bowl that's been frozen for years because it's from the old country. Gotcha, Sona. Oh, my God. Eduardo, thank you for all your work. And you are impeccable. Thank you very much. My only question is, how valuable could your job be if you can walk away from it?

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completely and everything's fine i built it so that oh you built it yeah yeah yeah yeah okay you're such a good surgeon that halfway through the surgery you can walk away for a peer review yeah oh you know what i'm with you on this because he did plug in and plug out and plug in that's what i would have done yeah i could do what you do yeah yeah oh and also what do i do i guess i'll reboot the whole thing

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It is true. When Sona's having joy... I feel like I'm having a heart attack. When Sona's experiencing true joy... I have all the symptoms of a major aortic aneurysm.

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My grandfather used to say, it's not the cough that carries you off. It's the coffin they carry you off in. Fun guy. Anyway, then he'd say good night and shut the door. We'd have to go to sleep. Matt, how are you? Matt Gourley. I'm good. How are you? I'm good. I have a little pet peeve. Oh.

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See, so you guys are afraid before I come in the room that once I show up, I'm going to shut everything down.

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Can I just say that if someone is struggling in a situation like this, better help is probably. Oh my God. With better help, you can get online counseling.

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But just use offer code Conan. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah, exactly. And you know what? Rap.

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You can, if a therapist isn't a good fit, you can cut off that session right away and it's no hassle to start another one.

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It is like Miller time. You know how it's like Miller time? When you're a bunch of buddies standing around, and you know what you want when you're with buddies? You want beer that tastes like beer. Do you know what I mean?

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Jesus, there's a blast from the past.

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Welcome.

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Yes, this is it, yeah.

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I was going to ask you that.

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You're relieved.

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I'm going to go have a coffee.

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He wanted to get farther away from the water and closer to the sun and just be miserable.

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Well, you'd be an amazingly cool friend to have. I have to say, I am a massive fan of yours. Thanks. And you seem like a very normal, healthy person, and I'm sure you don't love compliments ladled on you. No, I do. I always liked your work. Oh, you do? Okay. Well, first time I saw you was in About a Boy, which is such a great film. And you were so good in that movie with Hugh Grant.

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My pet peeve is that sometimes we gather around these mics, these microphones, these holy transmitters of our wise words. And we're supposed to do a podcast. And then you guys start yammering. Mostly, I think we know who the criminal is here at Sona. You'll start yammering about something and we haven't begun. And you're like, yeah, before we get started and you'll yammer sometimes for 20 minutes.

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And it holds up. I think I've watched it many times since then. It's one of those movies, whenever it's on, I love you in it. I love the story. I love Hugh Grant. It's just so well done. I love the soundtrack, blah, blah, blah. And then I saw you kill it in many roles. And then you started doing The Great with Elle Fanning.

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And my eyeballs fell out of my head because I thought, Nicholas Holt is one of the funniest actors alive. You are so good in that role. And here's the thing. You're walking this insane line of... a terrible murderer who, you know, who is constantly on the verge of killing his wife and by today's standards, just an inhuman barbarian and incredibly likable. And I thought, what kind of...

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Juno move is that, but I loved your character in that. I thought you were absolutely hilarious in that role.

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Well, you could tell you guys have such a great chemistry, but also huzzah became, I think you put huzzah on the map. It's back. Huzzah is back. Oh, huzzah. And also just that self-assurance, constantly obsessed with your cock and sex. And I just, I'm just watching this and thinking. Is this the segue? I know.

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It's a very aggressive word, cock. Strong sounds. It is. But also just this kind of musing about sex and what he's going to do next. It was just hilarious. He turned British.

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And he's the kind of person who might say, hmm, I may have to murder you now. But would say it out loud and then go, well, probably shouldn't have said that out loud. That's the kind of I think that show. I mean, first of all, the acting across the board who plays the I mean, such terrific acting. But the the the minister of war, the general. Oh, Douglas Hodge.

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And I'm thinking, why aren't we making this the podcast? Why can't you control yourself?

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He's constantly, but again, he was a great character because he's this, you know, he's this Russian general who's drunk all the time, but also, but also has common sense. I mean, he is the voice of reason often in a scene, but also not. Yeah.

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I don't know, that series was so delightfully surprising and I watched that and then I knew that I had a Nicholas Hoult obsession when, I don't know if you guys remember, but Elle Fanning came on the podcast and we were talking about the show and I kept saying, tell me more about Nicholas Hoult. And she would indulge me and she was like, well, you should talk to Nicholas.

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And I'm like, yes, I should. Yeah.

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I did. And she gave it to me. And then it was like a suspiciously wrong. It was a five, five, five.

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Oh, I'm sorry, Marlon Brando. I didn't realize you were... You have a process?

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Now I recognize the breath.

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So I just want to go through, I just want to walk you through your career, which at such a young age, you've had such a range of experiences and so much success. But, you know, I know that you had worked as a child, but then about a boy is when it's like 2002, I want to say. Yeah, about that, yeah. And you're working with Hugh Grant, who, by the way, has had this,

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I mean, he started out as one type of performer in romantic comedies, and now he's become, he's found this whole other sweet spot that I find extremely emerald. He is so good.

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I maintain, and I have many people, I think many people will agree with me, Paddington 2, and it sounds like I'm making a joke.

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Paddington 2 might be a perfect movie. And I think it has a score on Rotten Tomatoes of just absolute perfection. I've watched Paddington 2 several times. Looking for a flaw, there isn't one. But Hugh Grant is so delightfully, insanely over the... He's having such a good time.

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But you worked with him, you were young, 10, 11, 12, something like that. You're working with Hugh Grant and he taught you by observing him, you learned from him.

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No, I've been around people that have it. And you can't do anything. You can't have soup. You can't have peanut brittle around people that have misophonia.

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I don't feel things. I think we have to get through the Soul Train Awards. And then we had Werner, the great Werner Herzog was here. He's helping us out with something in a really lovely way. But he was here and he's always been very nice to me. And he said he had heard the news and he said, Conan, you only have. And he said in that Werner Herzog voice, one mother and one father.

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I don't know why that's coming out Irish. What the fuck happened?

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Someone help me out here. I've got to access him. One mother and one father. That's pretty good.

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There you go. Thank you. I don't know why I went to the leprechaun. One mother and one father. I don't fucking know. But you still got lucky charms. No, he's like, you have one mother, one father. And I just was, I was like, this is not helping for. Coming from him. Coming from him. And he said, and there is no afterlife. They've descended into a void of meaningless madness and chaos.

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Thanks, Werner.

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He narrates his regular life like that? First, a little treat. And then I will descend again into chaos and madness. Anyway, yeah, it is, you're still going through it. And then what's strange is the expectation other people have for you, which is you just, you feel what you feel. And I'm, I don't know if it's an Irish quality or what, but I just sort of get through things.

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What are you looking at me for? I'm just saying it's terrible. You're not a victim. Let's put it that way. I think I'm a victim in some ways. How so? Constant expectations of greatness.

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And so I've had people that have said, you just must be devastated. And I think, I don't know. I don't know what I'm feeling. I know that I've, and then I noticed that I had put my watch on upside down and backwards. You're trying to reverse time. Yeah, exactly. I don't know what I was doing, but like my belt was on wrong.

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I was telling everyone, oh no, no, these things, well, they lived a long life and I think they enjoyed themselves and all was well. And they went peacefully and quietly and people would say, you just put your pants on over your head. And poured gravy into the bathtub. What are you doing?

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Right. Right. That's a gift to be able to feel sad.

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Please. There's no time. Now, mattress firm.

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Don't be the villain in your, oh, sorry, we'll do that later.

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Do you, I even remember the tagline from that stupid, not stupid, terrific mattress. Lizzie, you've described yourself as, and I can see it, that you were a tough kid. Was that before your mom passed? Is that your nature? Or was it because your mom passed at such an early age that you were a tough kid? And how were you a tough kid?

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Wherever I go, I'm burdened by middling expectations. No, it's terrible for people that have that. And it's tough to be around.

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So you were not a great target for, say, bullies. Like, you would have chewed them up and spit them out. Or were you the bully?

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Well, we actually have some friends here.

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Yes. My daughter was constantly saying, I hate the way that it sounds when you consume the food that keeps you alive.

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Yeah. That's a great superpower to care less about what other people think.

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I think age helps. And I know you and I are similar in this way. I have a social media presence, but I am not on social media. Yeah. Meaning, you know, through Team Coco and all of our different... Subsidiary enterprises. We will post things and if something's going to go out under my name, I will craft it or approve it.

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But the last thing I would ever do in the world is type my name into the web and see what people are thinking or just live in that world because I think it is pure madness. I think, and as our friend Werner would say, chaos.

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And darkness.

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It's so damaging.

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Why would you say that? Because you think you're supposed to be every day saying, this is the chia seed pudding that Lizzie had today.

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You're going to do it. We brought out some chia seed pudding.

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That's a big question is when they get the phone. It was a big question for us.

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Yes!

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You've got the floor.

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And then there are questions the other way, which is it can be a safety thing at a certain age. If they have a phone, they can call you. So it was a big debate. We wrestled with it a lot about what age.

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We had the phones implanted in utero.

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So when my daughter was born, she came out with 700 likes. Wow.

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No, I remember us getting in. We did pretty well. Liza would know the exact age because I was probably looking in a mirror and thinking about my career when this decision was finally made. Your social media, the mirror. My social media is the mirror. Look at that jawline. If only those eyes were a little bigger and they popped on screen. Conan, I need help with the children. Quiet!

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That eye vein has held me back.

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Yeah, exactly.

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You suck. It doesn't add up to me that you would feel you needed to do anything like that. I need to increase my social media presence or I have to do this or do that because you're so talented. And well, no, I'm saying I'm serious. You're so you have really no, I'm serious. You have such I don't see how do you guys see what I'm saying? I don't see how anything you're doing is enhanced by.

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And this is how I make a Cobb salad. I don't think I fundamentally agree with that.

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You know, I looked into it. I am the expert. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you are.

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I know, but it's the phantom leg syndrome. I'll tell you why I'm angry when I eat. Because I know that the food is sustaining my life, which is causing me pain.

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I'm mad at the food because it's keeping me alive so that all this continues. Pretty dark, huh? Yeah. No, I will admit that I eat quickly and I do. I'm getting better. I'm trying to chew the food and be thoughtful. He said lying.

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Well, I always go back to, you just have to, you know, I don't know if I'm quoting Jersey Shore here, but you do you. I'm sorry. No, that's Werner Herzog as well. This is different. You do you in the chaos of the eternal void.

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Werner Herzog was in, he was in one season. He was in one season of Jersey Shore where he told them all that they were in a void. But, but Lizzie, I always go back to who are my people? It's like my wife, my kids for you, you know, Tom's Alfie and who are my friends? And then what is my work that I do?

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I just always keep pulling myself back to that and saying, and then try to have empathy, which is working a muscle. You can't just say I have empathy. You just have to keep going at it.

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See, that's how I... He's the nicest person I've ever met. Guys, guys, neither of you has the talking stick. He's like Dolly Parton. We have microphones.

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We've got to do this talking stick thing here. I intuitively fight against the bleakness, which gets harder and harder and harder with all the issues that come up. But if I didn't have kids, I would retreat into, well, my life went pretty well. And... You know, the earth does seem to be getting warmer, but I'll be gone before that's too much of a problem.

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I would have the capacity maybe to think that way. I would hope that I wouldn't, but I would have the capacity to. But when you have kids, as you know, you're invested in, oh, okay. The future.

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But also right now, going through what you're going through with the loss of your dad, I found and I know that Sona's been through so much lately, lost her home in the end. But I remember talking to you right after you lost your house in the fire and you were saying, like, I've got these Mikey and Charlie and they need me present. They were kind of saving your ass. Yeah, definitely.

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You can't say to them, mom is going to just be depressed and weirded out for two years. I'll see you then.

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Really?

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I didn't get any better?

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Well, Danny, your brother, does he eat quickly or no? He eats with the calm assurance that he was the oldest. He only had one sister and no one was going to take his food.

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Am I wrong that I love this episode? I mean, I Eduardo is the line. You're the line judge on these things. But This is right up my alley. Yeah, no, because this is, you know, excuse us for having a conversation. Shuckles over here.

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No, no, but what I'm, this is, I don't know, it's making me feel a lot better. Yeah, it is kind of therapeutic. It's really therapeutic.

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Your father was in the corner brushing his mustache. He wasn't going to take it.

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We can do an ad for them.

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That's a good-looking mustache. There's no way that it just looks that way. He's combing it constantly.

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I lived in New York during 9-11, and one of my clearest memories is going out to dinner and the waitress would come over, the wait person would come over and say, would you guys like to start off with some drinks? And we'd say, well, how are you? And then the person would end up sitting down at the table and we would all chat.

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Frisk him. I bet he has a tiny little comb.

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And I remember thinking, this is this weird Eden that we're all living in where all the old societal norms have gone out the window and people are really talking to each other. And if the bartender, you ask the bartender, you ask whoever's, you ask the person in the store, how are you? Where do you live? How are you doing? And that happened in New York City. And then I remembered it going away.

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Humanity just has this way of, if you hit a human being over the head with a big stick, he behaves himself for like six hours and then goes back to being whatever he was before. And I know that this too shall pass, but it's lovely while it's happening. And I'm noticing, I just keep having these great conversations with, I think I mentioned this, but there was...

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Well, I'm going to have the police frisk Gil at the airport the next time he goes through. And I bet whenever he walks through the machine, he goes... And they, I mean, no, it's a metal comb. It goes, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Yeah, it's metal. And they take it out and it's this tiny little mustache comb. And then he has to explain to them. That's why his mustache looks so good.

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had to go to Sundance for something. And there was a woman who was driving me to the event in Utah from Salt Lake to Sundance and started chatting with her. And it turned out she lived in LA. And I said, well, how's your place? She said, well, my place burned to the ground and she's driving me. And we just had this intense conversation.

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And I thought, well, this is kind of what it's supposed to be all the time, which is how are you, what's going on in your life, not to Drive me, driver. Where are the Tic Tacs? Which is what I reverted to by the end of the drive.

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Enough of your whining.

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Yeah, he's a spearmint. I wanted the fruity kind.

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That's no excuse. A burnt Tic Tac's the best one. Yeah, so it's just perspective and empathy and all that kind of stuff isn't something you attain. It is a practice and it goes away and we all find ourselves drifting away from it and then something happens and we get pulled back into it.

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That was really the sign because when it first happened, you would walk into a store and tell people that you had lost your home and they would give you this discount.

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The sad thing is when it was a 99 cent store.

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Yeah. I want this scrunchie. Do you have a discount, ma'am? I know. It's 50 cents.

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To be fair, I would often go to a McDonald's and tell them or a cheesecake factory and tell them I had lost my home in a fire, even when I hadn't.

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I know. And they would be like, that sounds terrible. And I'd say, so this McFlurry. What are we talking about here? Can I get 80 cents on the dollar? And sometimes I'd put a little ash on my cheek. No! I did! What? I'm just telling you the real me. I kept, always keep a little ash in your pocket.

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This riffs waste of everyone's time. Gil, my apologies. I love you. You're a good man.

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You can get a discount.

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Well, you fucked up.

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You'd be having a discount McFlurry right now. She had a little ash in your pocket.

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There seems to be this consensus that I'm too old. Okay. Which I don't get. Because I think I'm very well preserved for a man my age.

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Do you have any soup? Sir, I saw you drive up in a Porsche.

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Well, I said it quickly. Let's not draw attention to it.

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All right. What's your name? Billy.

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It's a better name for me. What's the name you were thinking of naming your son but didn't because Tom? Mickey.

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I'm sorry, but my parents would laugh at it. I can say that now because they're not here. They would laugh at that. Like them in the afterlife. No, we wouldn't. You asshole. We never liked you. I am going to get back on track here. Yeah, take it back. And I'm going to get back on track to one of the things that makes me very happy for you. Okay.

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Yes, I think that, and she's made me very conscious of the way I eat. And so she helped me that way.

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Is that I think it is a wonderful era for people who have what it takes, have ability and have a work ethic. And you have all those things and you're getting to do consistently this really cool work. you have this project now, Zero Day. And I was looking at the cast.

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This is on Netflix. And I'm like, you know, I've had so many people sit in the chair that you're in. And people talk a lot about body dysmorphia and how people can think they look a certain way and they don't and they hate on themselves. And I consistently believe that there's something called career dysmorphia that hasn't been diagnosed yet.

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And I'd like to invent that and submit that to the New England Journal of Medicine. But I've had... Al Pacino sat in that chair and talked so much about the huge chunks of his career that didn't work out and how they didn't want him for The Godfather and how he couldn't get a job in movies in the late 80s and thought he was through and how he thinks all the bad reviews people told him about him.

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And I kept wanting to cut him off and saying, you're Al Pacino. You're the face of film for at least the 70s. You do iconic work in every decade. And you have it too? It's just so funny to me that you would talk about, oh, you know, the fallow periods, and maybe I could do more if I got the word out on my chia seed recipe. And you're in Zero Day on Netflix.

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Your co-stars are Robert De Niro, Angela Bassett, Connie Britton, Jesse Plemons, and- Matthew Modine. Yes.

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And it's the best work I see now is limited series is is our cinema.

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It's interesting. I'm trying to picture you watch yourself. I hate it. Yeah, I would imagine you would.

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Yeah. I don't think I'm an open mouth chewer.

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You talking about Jeff Ross? Jeff Ross is a chomp, chomp, smack, smack man, and I think we can all agree on that.

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Yeah. Okay, yeah. He'll be talking to me and be like, so anyway, and I'm like, what are you eating? And sometimes it's something that doesn't even need chewing, like a melting, what do you have there, Jeff, a melted popsicle? What are you chewing for? It's two days old. It was in the back of my car in the sun. So it's liquid. That's right. Anyway, I think we're going to go out to the East Coast.

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Right.

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I got this play I'm going to go do in the West End.

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Which camera are you looking to? The American camera.

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That's China.

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The last observation that I will make is, and I'm certain I'm right about this, as dire as things are right now, and this is my need to be optimistic, but I also think this is accurate. Let's say you could go back in time to what you would consider like the classic period of making entertainment. And it's like the 1930s, the 1940s.

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They would have watched you in Mean Girls and they would have said, she's great. She's really funny. That's what she does. And that's what you would have done for the next 50 years of your career. And because we live in this different era, there's nothing you can't do in this era. Whereas they would have definitely put you in a slot. Yeah.

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And you would have been punished for being really good at one thing and they never would have seen the other thing.

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So even if that means there's iPhones and other problems.

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They have been on their yachts many times.

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Big yacht guy. Yeah, big yacht. I know my yachts. You got big yacht energy. I am. Mega yacht energy. That's the only big energy I have. I have big yacht energy. No, I love a big yacht. I like being invited. I like being at the beck and call of a billionaire. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then when they say, like, dance for us, I do a little something.

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And then I get a Krugerrand.

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That's not true. I heard. But I'm saying happily. I'm happily stuck in my lane.

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We'll be there for the SNL thing. There's nothing in your mouth right now. Yeah, he's an open mouth chewer. But he'll hear this. Does he listen to the podcast? I don't think he does. Yeah, here and there. But this is my way of talking to him now, is through the podcast. Podcastively aggressively? You know what?

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Why am I getting smaller and squeakier as an orphan? But Lizzie, this was a lovely conversation.

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You have dysmorphia.

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Well, we're going to put laughter over all the parts. When you talk about losing your dad, when you talk about losing your dad and I talk about losing my parents, we're just going to pipe in laughter from the 1940s.

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I love Lucy laughs. Nothing has changed. It's only you've only today confirmed my feelings about you, Lizzie, which is you're one of my all time favorite people. You are incredibly hyper, insanely talented, and you're a real person. And every time I see you, you're Lizzie Kaplan and you're very wise and just a delight to be with you. Thank you very much. I'm going to say it zero day Netflix.

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If you're not watching it, you stupid.

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Yeah.

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Yes, the only thing I'll add to that, this was many years ago. I don't think it's still true, but when I was a kid, probably around 1970, 71, on the back of a magazine, there were these things that you could, on the back of a comic book, there were things you could send away with.

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One of them famously was like x-ray specs, and it showed a guy, I mean, it's so not PC today, but a guy looking at a woman in a dress, and the idea was that you put these on and you can see through her dress.

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How many of those did you buy? 700. And they do work. Yeah. One of the things that really intrigued me was give us, I don't know what it was. Seven dollars. Seven dollars. And we'll send you a working mini Polaris sub that fires missiles. You can get inside. It has a periscope. Now, I never did it, but all these years later, it floats into my mind every now and then. What the hell was that thing?

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What did you, because legally, if you send them $7, they have to send you something. Yeah. And so we brought it up and you remembered it too.

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This is a great, I'm very passive aggressive, and this is a great way to talk to people who I know and love in my life and tell them how I really feel.

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Oh, my God. Wait a minute. I swear to God, that kid looks like me.

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I mean, that's what I looked like back in the day. He's got the same bowl haircut, the same look of just defeat. Oh, no, no, no. But that. Wait a minute. That, I have to say, looks more impressive than I thought.

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Does it fire a missile?

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Okay. So I don't know. This is helping me. This is actually, this is therapeutic. This is giving me some closure because that's something. Yeah. You get inside and it does close and it's got, I mean, seven bucks. Yeah. I guess this is seven bucks back then. So now this would be the equivalent of like $35. That's true. So, or $50. I don't know. Times have changed. It's so funny.

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He looks so far from water. I know. It's like definitely Wisconsin. He's in the Midwest. There isn't a body of water for 800 miles. And he's like...

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Yeah, and there's a fence way in the backyard and then power lines. All you can see is just lawn and no ocean.

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I used to, too. I used to if a big box came in, it was just a done deal that either Luke or I would get to build something with it. So I don't know. I'm I'm I am not disappointed by that. Me neither. That actually looks like looks better than I thought it was going to look.

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I'm so this this this I salute this company and I think this should have been used by the military.

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This must have thrilled your parents when they went to use the vacuum. Does this look familiar to you? Yes. It lifts 200 pounds. Yes.

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Okay. All right. This guy actually built the vacuum. Okay. And here's the order. Astronauts iron on with order. Okay. You can float on air free. Lifts 200 pounds. So basically, yeah, a hovercraft you could build. I remember this.

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Oh, why are you doing all this miming on camera? Anyone can look up.

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What? Oh, I know this website. It's called Bad Use of Your Time. Well, I'm supposed to do dialysis today, but I figured I'll build this hovercraft from the 60s.

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Ah, got him. He wasn't looking.

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Big problem here is you have to take the motor out of your parents' vacuum cleaner. And that was not going to fly in my house.

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Don't throw me under this bus. Yeah, just because we don't answer every one of your questions.

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I just don't know why I hired you.

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Live in the moment. Well, you know what? I have to say there is closure here. Good. I now know what Rosebud means. That helped me. That helped me.

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Hey there, Conan O'Brien here. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. Put a little pause there, Adam West style, to add a little drama. Yeah, it was very. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. Joined by Sonam Obsession. Hello. And of course, Matt Gourley. Hello. And guess what? This is a different little take on things. I've got some gum in my mouth right now. Oh, I hate that sound.

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I don't know, because it was a mystery that never got solved. It was an itch that never got scratched. It was a riddle that never had an answer. And now you have shown me what it was.

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Yeah, those are called steroids. Ah. That's kind of a comic book. That's called juicing. I don't know what they were promising. They were just probably sending you a booklet that says, take two soup cans from mom's kitchen and start using them to make a bicep. But now we know what that is, which is medical grade chemicals that will transform your body. And I don't know because I'm on them.

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Well, then this is the perfect way that she listened to the podcast. Wait, I'm not even saying this is a sheet. No, I mean, you could have married anyone. It's legal.

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Sadly, I've been on them for my entire life. Oh, no. What would you have looked like? I'd have had no skeletal structure. Well, that was fun. Thank you for doing that. That that that helped me. And I hope it helped everyone else who listens from my generation who remembers that. Sona, you seem confused.

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Hey, they're Armenian too. We all live in this neighborhood. What about you? What did you mention?

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You know, I have to say, all of these things are true disappointments. The sub is looking pretty good. Now that you mention it. I'm just saying I'm happy because the one I dreamed about the most actually appears to be somewhat valid. Would I take it deep into the North Atlantic? And attack a Russian sub? Probably not, but that kid seemed pretty happy.

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That kid could have been me.

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And then maybe in some other, you know, fold in time, that kid is me, you know? Well, this has been a strange end to any conversation. I'm going to sign off now, but dreams deferred. We'll continue. It's the new segment. Peace out, Tupac. Oh, geez. Live your dreams, or your dreams live you. I have no ending for this, so I'll just keep talking. No, please.

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And we end, or do we? A beginning becomes a reality as we finalize. We'll see you next week. Oh, he's turning my sound off.

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Yes.

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It's a dynamic. Yeah. And I think it's fair to say that in all relationships, especially the one you're talking about, which is a marriage, No, this is my clergyman. Okay. Yes, that's right. Pastor Samuelson.

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They always get together for beans. Yes, I take my dinners with my clergyman out in the cloister. You have oysters in the cloister. Me so horny. Listen, you got to admit, that was the natural. It was a home run. The lights exploded. Eduardo watched me trot in slow motion around the field with Robert Redford's body.

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That would be difficult. I have the same issue. I eat quickly, as do most people that grew up in a prison or penitentiary.

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I put my arms around my food to protect it from my brother, Neil, who used one of those supermarket grabbers to reach over and get my food. He was ingenious.

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You're making my point for me. R2-D2 third.

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Sabart, Rop, Beep goes fourth.

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It could be. There's a new installment. So you guys understand. Disney keeps cranking them out because they can't stop. They don't have other content. It's not easy.

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Tsar Darth Bixnax goes fifth.

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Now you're getting personal. All right, well anyway, yes, live life to its, you are Zorba the Greek, man. Just living life to its fullest. Mmm, this small thimble full of iced tea. Decaffeinated.

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It's called knowledge of history. The Nerd Off. Oh, please. I think when I read history, I'm educating myself about the history of our nation, maybe with an eye towards how we should move forward. What you're doing is living in a fantasy world of Gax Bixnor, Chaz Bilney, Rax Haxeldax, Zorth Bithri, and Arndang Despo. Arndang Despo.

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I know, people don't like that. All right, I'm going to take it out. But anyway, I just thought it kind of made me look like a guy that doesn't, I don't know, I don't care that much about my work. I just do it. I'm just kind of an artist, you know? You just, you forgot it in there. Yeah, I forgot it was in there.

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That's one character.

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All right, my guest today. Oh, God. There's no transitions in this universe. They were done away by the Empire. Destroy all transitions.

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Excuse me. That was a guy... Who's that?

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No, someone with emphysema. Okay. My guest today... How do we know Darth Vader didn't have emphysema? And there was no device assisting him. My guest today has... My guest today is a... I have some... No, no, no. I have some thinking I have to do.

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You need to go look in the mirror for a long time, buddy boy.

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Yeah, exactly. And I'm taking it from you.

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Yeah.

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Dick wish? This is what you held up our guest for? I hope you're proud of yourself. You sure showed me. I don't know how I'm going to recover from that lethal blow. My guest today. All right, I'll allow it. You know what? This is, I love this person. What's happening, son? Are you okay?

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Of course, she's a very talented actress. You know her from such films, TV shows as Mean Girls, Party Down. I just, she's one of my favorite people. You know that. Yeah, you can see her in the Netflix series Zero Day. She's so crazily talented. I also happen to know that she's an amazing person in every way you would want someone to be an amazing person. I'm excited. I'm thrilled she's here today.

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Lizzie Kaplan, welcome. Well, as you're well aware, I've got a bad case of Lizzie Kaplan. She's one of my favorite people. Of all time, your work and also just you as a person, I'm just going to start off saying it. We've hung out a little bit on the side, and I just always leave thinking, Jesus Christ, that Lizzie Kaplan. Is there anyone cooler than this woman? I have not met her. Damn. Damn.

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Seriously. Seriously. I absolutely adore you. Thanks, Conan. And I know you're going through some stuff right now. And I know your father just passed, which is bizarre because I just went through this with my parents in December. Both of them went at the same time, like it was a suicide pact. Oh. Which it was not. But it just sounded suspicious in the press.

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Like, my dad went, and then my mom went two days later, and it just sounds like, okay, this is a murder, you know? But it wasn't.

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Yeah, exactly. But no, so we were chatting a little bit out in the hall, and I said... We don't need to talk about this, but it might be good to talk about because I just went through it. It's so fresh in my mind, the different weird feelings that you feel. So if it helps you at all, we can talk about it and then I'll charge you $350. Cool. Great.

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I don't know. I didn't put much thought into it. And then you asked for an explanation and the whole thing fell apart. Like wet cardboard. The gum is out of my mouth. For those of you, what is it called when you hate the chomping scent? Misophonia. Misophonia. I think I have it. Yeah, I've got misophonia.

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I did recognize that pill. Yeah. Big fan, by the way. Oh, man. Hey, keep that Prozac coming.

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You guys are doing amazing work. We have a bowl of it here.

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Interestingly, I don't know if you remember this, but I met your dad. I do remember that. And I had a very long chat with your father. It was at a party, I believe here in Los Angeles. And you came in afterwards and said, what were you doing? And I said, oh, me and your dad were just talking. and we talked for a really long time, and you looked aghast. Like, oh my God, what did he do?

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What did my father say? But I remember him very fondly.

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I know what you're saying because Sona came when my parents passed. Sona and a couple of the other people, not you, Eduardo, came out because you had better things to do. No, right. There was a big game that night. No, it was in Boston and I didn't expect anyone to come. And so some of the people who I work with... flew to Boston to be there, which was very nice.

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It was so funny because I just wanted to make Sona laugh. And so Sona came up to me at some point. And remember, I was just going like, I'm an orphan. Yeah. But playing it up for sympathy when I'm a 61-year-old white guy.

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But it's just absurd. I kept saying like, I don't know where I'm going to sleep tonight. Yeah, you're gonna sleep at the Four Seasons Hotel, you fucker. You know, I just... I did feel the same kind of thing, which was just, oh, I guess I'm an orphan, but I don't get to walk around with a big 1920s cap. Well... You're...

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She's giving me permission.

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You two of you should hop a boxcar. We should. As orphans. We should walk along together. Two scruffy orphans. Two scruffy orphans in the Four Seasons Hotel. Wait a minute. That looks like Lizzie Kaplan and Conan O'Brien. There's an SUV following them. Like 15 feet behind in case they need anything. So anyway, but yes, I do.

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I just wanted him to walk right into it.

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Also, you were 13. I was 13, which is crazy. Everyone thinks, oh, it'd be the worst if you were two or three. And I've read some about this. And it's no, if you're it's apparently the worst time is if you're a teenager. That's when it can impact you the most.

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I remembered watching it. All of us were blown away. Your Tom Cruise impression was fantastic.

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Jim Downey, great. Who's been on this podcast, amazing head writer. When he saw something that was great, he knew this has to just be on. I find it so interesting that people can go back and look at that Color of Money parody that you did and you should look it up and check it out. But to me, it was saying, it occurred to me today, oh, this was the way to go.

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You were ahead of your time, in my opinion. I don't know.

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When I first saw you, you were doing a spot on Tom Cruise impression. And then you flash forward all these years with Tropic Thunder. Yeah. and Tom Cruise plays this executive in Tropic Thunder. I've talked to Tom Cruise about it. It is one of the funniest cameos. He comes out of nowhere and I know that he came to you when you, I don't know if you approached him about playing this character.

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What's the character's name? Is it Lou? Les Grossman. Les Grossman. Yeah. He had like two requests. Jewish. Yeah. I mean, it's never really stated, but it's kind of implied. Just occurred to me now that's a Jewish name. But he had requests, right? He had two requests. Correct me if I'm wrong. Or you could say he wanted his hands.

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Keep talking, I'll take a nap.

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What's crazy to me is that when he said those things to you, you might have been thinking, oh, what? I don't know, did you right away say?

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Because he's Tom Cruise.

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Yeah, yeah. Anyway... This is a jacket that it was like the day before Christmas. And I saw this jacket in a store and I tried it on. I thought, that's a nice jacket. So I just bought it and I drove home and I handed it to my wife and said, just give this to me tomorrow. And she said, OK. She said, should I wrap it? And I went, you don't even have to wrap it.

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But at the end, And then he said he wanted to dance, yeah. When he starts dancing. First of all, I talked earlier when we started out about your body of work, and it is crazy. There's so many movies that you've directed which have so many moments in them where I go like, okay, that's one of my favorite comedy moments. Zoolander, the gasoline station fight. Oh, God.

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When they're throwing gasoline on each other and laughing in slow motion. Slow motion. It is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. It delights me every time I think about it. Also, when you and Owen are trying to hack into a computer and you become more or less apes.

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What?

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But you know what's great?

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That's a masterclass in the difference between this way is funny, this way is not. It's awful. And you can't really explain why, but... No, no.

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But that is a great, like I say, if you ever teach a class on comedy, which, which would sell out just the idea of this is the way we showed it in the movie. Yay. Let me show you a way that we didn't go with people crying and screaming. If it bends, it's funny. Yes, no, it's true, yeah.

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And I thought, is that, do either of you two relate to that? Is that something that happens? I've been married now 22 years. Is that what happens?

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In Tropic Thunder, when you're running across the bridge and you... When the kid gets thrown, I got on the floor. It's so wrong in every way. It's so wrong in every way. Like, there's not anything else that's wrong in that movie. No, no. There's... There's so much that's- Nothing comes to mind.

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But absolutely, so just the body of work, Reality Bites, Cable Guy has so much funny shit in it, you know, and- Well, like all those are, you know, collaborations with people.

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who are funny and you know it doesn't just come from me it's you know it's well i could always tell that because all those years when i was doing the late night show through all your different stages you would always show up and want to and say okay let's do something and you would come with ideas and then you would spend a long time making the this great idea come to life working with other people working with us and then you would do this thing it would be on it you know

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12.50 at night on NBC and you either saw it or you didn't. This was before internet and it was, I mean, it was great.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It was it was it was now I look back on it and I think, wait a minute. We were doing a 1230 show and Ben Stiller would come by and work all day on doing a nine minute comedy piece for us. You know, but I was thinking, how did I, how did, how did that happen? Like that's that. I mean, I, I, I did something right in a previous life.

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Yeah, exactly. I'm like, it'll be good. We'll come over. No, that's the problem is a late night host now would look at like, oh no, I saw you. You did Jesus Christ Superstar with Conan. So we thought maybe you could do a thing where you're Godzilla and you're like, no, I just want to come out in a good Tom Ford suit. Exactly. Chat about my work. Yeah, I'm tired. Are you...

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My son did this as a kid. He was really into tech stuff and he would send us like, here are the nine things. This is the XC755G, whatever, something board, motherboard. Just click here and it will be delivered. He took all the joy out of, just click here.

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I heard you were working on a documentary about your parents. And I wanted to talk about that because I grew up watching your parents, the great Ann Mira, Jerry Stiller. And I remember they were kind of ubiquitous when I was a kid. I thought they were really funny. I'd see them on Love American Style or... They'd be these different, they'd be in ads. Yeah.

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And I just knew, oh, these are these really funny people, but I didn't know exactly who they were. And then later on, they came on the show in their own right. Of course, your dad was on Seinfeld. Yeah. Very well known that way. Yeah, I mean, they had, yeah, they were a comedy team. An old school comedy team.

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Interesting. Yeah, and- Did they do like Sullivan and all those shows? They did.

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Wow.

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I have a sense memory of them because there was that era where a comedy team could come into people and talk about like half the country would be watching. Yeah. Them do a routine.

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It's hard for people to know now because there's 75, there's an infinite number of outlets. Yeah. So there's no such thing as, well, I came on Conan, or I came on one of Conan's late night show a couple of years ago and he wasn't pleased. So we're through in the business. Well, no, there's a billion other places to go. There's no such thing as you're through kid. You displeased me.

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But this was a different era where if Sullivan didn't like you and there was a problem, that was it. That could be it.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So I didn't used to do that, but I think it's just because I'm now in a different stage of life where I'll see something, you know, this isn't that much. I'm not splurging. It's a corduroy jacket. It's perfectly nice. I would like to wear that, hand it to my wife. I think she kept it in the bag. I handed it to her. You guys don't want any surprise?

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So funny shouting, yes.

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And I'm editing this part out of the podcast. Let's come up with a number, gang. I needed Conan. That's great.

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Well, first of all, I love that. I love that. And I do think that it was so nice that your dad got to have that role. And then he's in King of Queens after that. And so he has this whole- Yeah, it changed his life. And there's a whole generation that knows him from that stuff. You know what I mean?

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I'll do a dance for you, whatever you want. Boy, do I relate to that.

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It's funny, because I know you did, early on, you were a musician, drummer. Well, just sort of. Super early on, but did you ever think that was going to be it, or did you always know? No, I was not a great drummer. I was a terrible drummer. I know you were in a band called Capital Punishment. Capital Punishment, yeah.

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Right, I was in a band called The Bad Clams, and I was a drummer, and then I told them, I'm out. I don't have time for this. I've got other things. And I remember thinking, good luck without me. And they replaced me with a drum machine. Oh. Can we do that on this podcast? And people were just like, whatever, it's better. It's keeping time correctly.

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But yeah, that was just a that was a that was a moment for you.

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Yeah. From Cream. Yeah. Yeah.

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Oh, and in that documentary, they're saying things like, you mean great, like a great drummer, like, you know, Keith Moon from The Who and he goes, no, I'm talking about real drum. I mean, people are mentioning icons to him or John Bonham from Led Zeppelin.

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You have, just in addition to these movies you're directing, and you had all this crazy success as an actor, and then you've sort of made a conscious decision to step back a little from that, I'd say in the last five, seven years, and say, okay, what I really want to do is craft things, direct, produce. Was that a conscious decision?

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And I loved, to me, it's about, you get to craft something. You get to take some time. I know how much telling a story visually is important to you. And so you get time to, let's get this exactly the way we want it. And I always think the plus and minus of doing things that are live or done quickly is, is we'll grab it, it may not go our way. Sometimes when it goes well, you get the rush.

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When it goes badly, it's over and it's time to do another one. But if you get to really craft something, it's a very different feeling, I would guess. Over a long period of time, you get to think about what is this gonna look like? How am I going to tell this story?

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Yeah. You don't think Yeah.

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Did you ever consider being in prison for several years? Do you really... I mean, if you really, I'm sorry, if you really, if he really wants to capture the story, I think he should have, if you took it seriously, I think you would have done three years in prison. Years?

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I thought you did a fantastic job, but think about what you could have done if you had been in prison. If I'd actually experienced it.

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I would like to be put in prison.

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many of our listeners want me in prison right now well this this leads me uh nicely to severance because i'm lucky enough to be friendly friends with and encounter people all the time especially in the comedy world and acting world and so i kind of semi know adam scott and uh my wife and i watch severance when it comes out and i shortly after that i see adam scott and i said

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that was the best thing that's been on television in memory. That was fantastic. And he was like, oh, you know, thanks a lot, man. And I was like, no, no, no. And I'm like, I think I put my hand on his chest. Like, no, no, no.

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You don't understand. Why? I know there's a show business thing. Have you felt his chest, Adam Scott's chest?

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Well, you haven't lived then.

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No, but my... You know, the way there's a show business thing of, hey, man, I saw your thing. It was really good. And it's, you'll say it about me at some point, but. That's so sad. It'll come out naturally. We'll edit it in. And I'll touch your chest. But I, it was very important to me to let him know, no, no, no, no, I'm not doing that thing. Right.

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I'm doing this other thing where, and he was, you know, appreciative, I think, and then just wanted to get away. But the quality of the storytelling, the intricacy of it, the respect it has for the audience, it's so smart. And there's so many layers to it that there's, I mean, I've gone into deep dives where people discuss, you know, just various levels of it.

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Oh, you mean like you want to get the clothes yourself?

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And it all holds up because when you put that much thought into something, it's really beautiful when people appreciate it and see it.

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And start to go like, oh, wait a minute, what do you think's going on? And the whole concept of severance is fantastic.

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You don't know. You've basically built this giant contraption and you put it out there and you don't know, is it going to work? Yeah. What if people watch the first episode and say, I don't care.

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Right.

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Well, I've always said it takes a lot of talented people working really hard to make something shitty. Meaning when you see something and everyone sits around and hate watches it or says this is bad. That was a lot of oftentimes very talented people working really hard. And it just didn't come out quite the way they wanted it to. Or it came out at the wrong time or whatever. Whatever it is.

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Do you think in any way that emasculates Tack?

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Whatever it was. And then those same people can work on something and it can be absolutely amazing. And you're all in on it the whole time. Yeah. So you can't go back. And it's just sort of like, okay, so this is it. There are these moments, I talked to you earlier about, there are always these moments in your work where I remember them. They're really fantastic.

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There was a moment, there's so many moments in the first season of Severance that were, first of all, the look of it. And there are moments as where I think you as a director, the use of corridors and ceilings, like... When I watch this show, I feel like I'm down underground and I'm in that place. And it's a very specific, the lighting, the look of it, the vibe.

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Are you taking his penis away?

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You've got these great wide, like flat shots sometimes. And it does feel a little bit like Kubrick or something. It's just like all the references are absolutely incredible and bears rewatching. Like you can rewatch it over and over and over again. It's really hypnotic. But there's a moment with the actor, he plays Lance. Is it Trammell Tillman? Yeah.

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Then you have to get a new penis. Then you know what to ask for.

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There's a moment, I'm not giving anything away, where he goes into a dance in this first season. And it's my favorite moment in television of that year because it's not part of his character, but then he goes into this kind of dance. And the way you shoot it, and I think I've watched it like 20 times. Yeah. I don't know this gentleman. Please tell him I'm his biggest fan.

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But that was my favorite moment. It was so, it came at me in such a weird way from the side. You know what I mean? It came through my peripheral vision and it was so fantastic. And the way it was scored, the music. And and the tension building while he's doing this kind of what's supposed to be a joyous thing. It was. Yeah, it's sort of David Lynch. It's everything. It's like 15 different.

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I took your penis away when I bought you this gift. What is it? A penis! I sold my vagina.

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Yeah, yeah.

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At the heart of this show is this concept. And again, this isn't giving anything away because anyone who's listening to this and you need to watch this show, but you also, if you haven't seen the first season, watch that. And the concept is people working at this company and to go into this company, they descend and they're disassociated from their previous life.

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And so their work life and the person who's up above ground, they're the same person. Yeah.

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I sold my vagina to get you this penis. I sold my penis to buy you a vagina. Oh, Henry's worst story.

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Yeah.

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And you see there's a subtle thing you do with the lens when you're going when Adam Scott's going down the when the elevator. And I don't know what it is. I don't technically understand it, but something happens where you can see the focal point kind of change just a little bit enough to know that they've gone through a transformation.

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So everyone's severed from what's happening to them at the top of the world. And there are so many analogies to that, which is why would these people choose to do that? And one of the things, and I might be fishing here, but it very much felt to me like, oh, this is like alcohol or drugs, people that something happened in their life, they want to disassociate from it.

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And anyone who's had issues with drugs or alcohol knows that there's a reason you're doing that. You want to be somebody else because being who you are and feeling that's too painful. It's just really, I mean, there's like 35 different scholars could talk about all the different things that are brought up in one way or another in Severance.

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That's a spec script?

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And the work they're doing is so, I mean, it's really funny. The work they're doing on their computer screens is hilariously, I mean, it is analogous to how a lot of people feel about their jobs, right? You know, I'm here moving these numbers around. Kind of widgets. Widgets. And it doesn't make sense. When I watch it, it doesn't make sense.

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She's a very good actress.

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But when someone does it, they're like, good for you, you did it. And I think many people, many Americans watching it would say, that's what it feels like at work.

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She's going to go far, that kid. Yeah.

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No, but when you get her her ninth, look, it's a chess set made of cork. They've only made a few of these in the 30s. What a horrible gift. You know, does she go, oh my God, this is amazing. Or do you ever see a single tear?

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So he wrote, I mean, to me, it's also, it is a great message for people that there are a lot of people that say, oh, it's all who you know. And it's like, no, if you have a really good story to tell and a great idea and you write it, the cream does, the truth does out. The cream does rise to the top.

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If you put something out there that's of real quality, it's going to bounce around and someone like you was going to find it.

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Also, this cast you have. I mean, I mentioned Adam Scott and Britt Lauer is amazing and incredible in it. But also, you've got John Turturro. You've got Christopher Walken. I mean, you've got... There's something really fascinating about this show, which is that people naturally, when they work together, want to create community.

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And there's something happening here at Lumen where they kind of really don't want people... talking, they don't want people getting too close to each other. Right. And that's another mystery. And I know, I think the reward of a show like this is that you get really smart fans online. And there are so many of them. Yeah. That are all arguing about what does this mean?

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And Eduardo, when I came in, Eduardo was, no, but no, Eduardo, you said, you said, you. I said, don't fuck this up. Don't fuck this up. Severance, man, don't fuck this up. Not my quote. Ben Stiller has been around a long time and we could shoot the shit about a lot of things. And I do intend to spend a half the time talking about Severance. You're like, you don't fuck it up.

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By the way, Eduardo, I totally get it.

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He's seen me fuck up a lot of stuff. But I read an interview with Patricia Arquette, who's amazing in the show, and she has this quote about you as a director. It was just about your tenacity, how hard you work, how important it is to you that you get it right. It was really lovely.

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Yeah. I haven't gotten to that point yet. but I've heard tell you can only control so much. I've learned the hard way, you know? Well, but I will say on a personal note, like when you walk in the door, you seem happy. Yeah. And I know that you're someone who, one of the, maybe the subtitle of this podcast could be, sometimes I want it to be, be careful who you envy.

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Like I want to talk to people and let everyone know everyone's got shit. Everyone has got things that they're dealing with. And Predominantly, I get to talk to people like yourself who are very talented and have done this amazing work. And you're trying to figure out most of the things that everyone else is trying to figure out.

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She got mad at you because you spent too much money. Yeah.

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So when you walked in after all these years to see that you look great, you seem happy, this is incredible work you're doing. And I love that you're able to say to yourself, yeah, I can go back and be in something again. I think you're gonna go back and maybe do a cameo in.

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Happy Gilmore.

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I mean, like you can dip into that when you want, but you can enjoy this and also enjoy your life.

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Enjoying your life. I mean, and that's that. And you and I are talking about it as if we don't know what that is. I know. Exactly. We've heard tell of this life thing. My agent tells me my children are thriving. Yeah.

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No, it's okay. And you're keeping it in because, you know, that's fine. And you know what? We love your wife and I take her side. But it was really expensive.

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We don't know what's happening. I think I'm told I have kids. I have to go up in the elevator.

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Well, I am delighted for you. I'm really delighted. I figured it all out. I have no problems. Why are you crying? You're crying as you say it, and it's tears of blood. It's just fucking weird. Yeah. I just figured it all out. Ben, just an absolute joy to see you again. You too, man. I'm so delighted for you. Thank you.

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Thanks. And I have a very just nice, funny little memory of I lived predominantly on the Upper West Side for years, all those years I was doing late night. And for some reason, I would always run into your mom on the Upper West Side, and she was so lovely to me and such a real person on the Upper West Side. You know, such an Upper West Side.

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Oh, she was absolutely, you know, we Catholics have to stick up for each other.

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I will text you.

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Okay.

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If it's weird and indulgent, if it's weird and indulgent, I'm going to love it. All right. That's what you are, weird and indulgent. Okay. I think I spelled it out enough. Yeah. Hey, Ben, thank you so much. Yeah, man. And congrats on Severance. Great to see you. Thanks, man.

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Well, but maybe times were tight. Maybe she knew that... We were fine.

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Yes, I do try to reuse merchandise as much as possible because we know where our merchandise is sent. And so I try to go there. So I'm often in my downtime patrolling the Midwest, the Southern states, the Southwest and the Pacific Northwest looking for people wearing Conan Merchant. And I just try to reclaim it as best I can so we can sell it a second time. That's what it was.

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And I do sometimes take other stuff when I'm in the houses.

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No, she's still not sure how she feels. Well, what do we think of this story?

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Yes, I'm gonna say that too. I think, and I wanna say this to all my fans. If someone, and first of all, let me start by saying to this woman, true travels of hope. I wanna say to true travels of hope that I very much appreciate that you're a loyal fan and that our nonsense has meant something to you. And so this comes from the bottom of my heart. Our merchandise is not worth risking your life for.

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Mm-hmm. No. This is very shoddy material. It's often repurposed. Some of it might be toxic and endangering your life.

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That's an old Friday Night Lights shirt that we spray painted over using really an out-of-date spray paint. So no, do not risk your life. Do not approach a burglar. If anyone approaches you and says, you know, give me that Conan O'Brien merch, Just give it up.

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I know. Also, here's another thing. She said she ripped it off. Like he's a stripper. Like it's a tearaway shirt. I think the shirts are so threadbare and cheap that you can just rip them off.

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Or most Conan, most people that own Conan merch are so, and I'm speaking about myself in the third person, so love Conan that they rarely take it off and it becomes threadbare more quickly, hence easily to tear. So I think that's a possibility. I don't know. I don't think people should be risking their lives for Conan merch. No. Especially the mugs. I mean, the mugs often explode.

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You know what? I'm going to say this. If I get anything for the kitchen, I know I'm in very dangerous territory because my wife, my wife runs the kitchen. And and if I walk in the door and I'm like, look, it's a giant juicer that only does pineapples.

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That's been proven. Mugs could be good weapons. Yeah. No, not our mugs. They just turn to powder the minute you hit someone. But it's nice. She did say we met, but she doesn't say where we met. She said it was midnight. And I can't tell from the picture where we were. So maybe it's when I broke back into the house to get the shirt back after my initial failed attempt.

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You realize I'm the guy that asks people, would you like a selfie? Yes. When often they don't even have a phone near them.

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But, well, I'm glad she got her shirt back. I'm glad she's okay. I'm glad she's okay. But I do think we should take a lesson away from this that, you know, look, if it's Marvel merchandise, yes, fight for your life to get it back.

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I remember once Sona and I were in Worcester, Massachusetts, and there is an armory there. And there's an armor museum, a museum of like Flemish, British, French armor from 18th and 19th century. And we were in there, and this is during Sona's, let me see if I can get away with this phase. Sona walked out wearing a full suit of armor.

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It was from 1622. And it had all this fancy filigree on it. And so the guy said, excuse me, miss, I think you, and she was like, what, what?

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Remember when you said you're racist?

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And you had the visor down, so he didn't even know. Right? He didn't know who you were.

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Yeah.

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It was a suit of armor that you stole from Worcester, Massachusetts, and you should give it back.

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Can you look up the, what's the Museum of Armor? We're fact-checking this?

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This fake story? It's not fake. It really happened.

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Worcester, Massachusetts, Museum of Armor. Come on. What do you mean I'm working on it, old lady?

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Higgins Armory? Yes! Higgins Armory, it was the one thing when I would go visit my cousins, every time my aunt would say it would be raining out, we'd be like, we got nothing to do.

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And she'd say, go to the Museum of Armor. Oh, my God. And so we'd drive over to the Higgins Museum of Armor. And there was no attempt to make it look interesting. Just literally a giant warehouse. And someone had lots of suits of armor that they just laid out. They didn't even put mannequins in them.

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Greatest days of my life. Boy, did this little orange-haired boy love a suit of armor.

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And then the beatings commenced. Anyway, take care, fans. Don't stop crime. And visit the Higgins Armor Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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It's been badly stored. Yeah, I know. I've done that. I've purchased a few things for the kitchen. And I noticed that she was very pleasant about it at the time. And then it went away. Mm-hmm. It got exchanged for something else.

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Hey there, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. Got a nice little podcast humming along here. Got Sonam Obsessian joining us. I don't normally say this, but that was adorable. Didn't you think? That's a nice little podcast we got.

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What is it, the Great Depression? What are you talking about?

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Oh.

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I agree. Now, first of all, I'm not saying expensive presents, but I'm sorry, on the holidays, when kids come down, little kids, it has to be so many presents, it's mind-boggling. And I don't care. I know people are going to say, well, this is terrible. What if people can't afford it? Steal them if you have to. What? Kids have to be just spending hours.

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The room has to be filled with crumpled paper when the day is over.

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Oh, I know that. You've been wearing your Dr. Zayas special for like 20 years now. Dr. Zayas.

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I know, but that's too much. I mean, it's really. What kind?

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It looks like you slept in a bus station or something. For God's sake.

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I bet you have. But the question is, with who? By myself. By yourself, eh? So you were just traveling. I like trying to still do the sexy leering talk. Long after the sexy part's over. So you weren't just by yourself having a nap, huh?

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Wearing a bulky jacket by yourself. That's not bulky. Listen, you've wore that jacket too long. We're not going to get stuck on that. But get a new jacket.

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Yeah, whatever.

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Can I just get you guys to shut up? I do have jackets I've had for a long time, but I have more than one. More than one. More than one. If someone stole your jacket, you're freezed to death. It's the only jacket you have.

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That's how I feel about it. Wow. I do. I do feel like we got this nice, nothing grand, nothing fancy, nothing you could, you know, you put this on the lot, it'll be the last car to go. But I think it's a sweet little ride. You know, I like it. I think it's an adorable little podcast and I'm proud of it.

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I don't like purses, and I don't like jackets.

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It gets cold at night into the 40s, some say. Hmm. All right, listen. I won that one.

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Yeah, and you get her an espresso machine, and the whole thing blows up in your face.

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I mean, no, that was, you took a chance. It didn't go well. I am gun-shy since then. Exactly.

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I bought your dad a new mustache, and he wears it every day.

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It's more real than the one he's wearing.

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Ridiculous.

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Yeah, what are you going to do?

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You're literally just going to sit down?

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All I have to do when I do an impression of her dad is put a finger under my nose, and there he is. There's Gil right there.

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He is cooler than I am.

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Oh, you just did it. You just put the finger under your nose to do your dad. Dad, don't make me do that. I put this wrap sign up hours ago. All right, we're going to wrap it up. Anyway, find out from your spouse about presents. Don't buy that espresso machine. It's too expensive. Never wear the same leather jacket for more than 30 years in a row. These are our suggestions. Good night.

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My guest today is a tremendously accomplished actor, filmmaker, and showrunner. You know him from, of course, Meet the Parents, Zoolander, and Dodgeball, and just the tip of the iceberg right there. He's the director and executive producer of Severance on Apple TV+. Season two premieres January 17th. I am very excited about it because Severance was my jam. Ben Stiller, welcome.

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Ben Stiller Returns

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I've contacted you many times through your people. Yeah. I often get just, we'll get back to you. That's why I have people. Yeah. But what's weird, can I just say something what's weird? The people sound suspiciously like Ben. It sounds like Ben picking up and he says, let me get Ben's people. And then the people sound a lot like you.

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Ben Stiller Returns

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Yeah.

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Ben Stiller Returns

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Hey, I got a question for you guys. What do you think of my jacket? I like your jacket. Okay, let me tell you something. Here's the story of this jacket.

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Ben Stiller Returns

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Well, I've known you a very long time, and I was very excited you're coming in today because you're one of my all-time favorite comedy people. Your body of work is fucking crazy stunning. We're gonna talk about Severance, which was my favorite show. That first season was perfection, and I am delighted that Severance is coming back, so much so that your people said, I can watch a few episodes.

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Ben Stiller Returns

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And they said, you can watch a couple of episodes of this new season. We'll make them available to you. And I'm like, no, no, no. I'm re-watching season one to watch season two. And I don't want to watch it on a computer. Yes. I don't want to watch it.

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Ben Stiller Returns

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I want to watch it because I think the direction, which is you, is, I know some other people direct, but you direct the majority of these episodes, is absolutely fantastic. The art design, the acting, the whole thing is through the roof. Thanks, man. It's delightful. Thank you.

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Ben Stiller Returns

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Yeah, I hate it. I've had people say that before. Not about this jacket, but I've had people be very frank with me.

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Ben Stiller Returns

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I don't know. I think seriously was the first place I went wrong. And then the joke is trying to say that.

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Ben Stiller Returns

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We're going to talk about it because anyone who's listening to this right now, if you're not watching Severance, if you didn't see season one, go and watch it. It's just, I think, flawless. And there's so many images in it, moments in it. And it's got me thinking about so many things. So I'm very psyched for season two. But along those lines, I just wanted to go back to... I'll just touch on it.

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Ben Stiller Returns

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Met you for the first time. We mentioned this last time, but I think it bears repeating. I met you when you came to SNL and right away was doing one of the funniest things I'd seen when you played a grown up Eddie Munster.

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Ben Stiller Returns

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Yeah. A few other people, if I'm wearing something, they tell me they don't like it. I saw this jacket. It was not even, wasn't that much money. I saw it. It's a nice color of brown corduroy. Let me describe it for those of you who can't see it right now. It's a very rich.

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Ben Stiller Returns

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outfit but you're jaded now yeah you had done a uh you had done a tom cruise uh film which was a parody of color of money and i looked at that film and i remember thinking well why isn't this this is what sound out live should be which later on if you look at what please don't destroy and a lot of the shorts from lonely island it became more these short films which are just you know

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Ben Stiller Returns

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became more and more of the dna of the show when you first came along i was remembered the first thing i saw you do was that short that you had made i think yourself self-funded or something yeah i made it on my own is it before ben stiller show yeah no this was before anything i was i had i was in a play uh called the house of blue leaves off broadway and the cast the play was doing really well and it moved to broadway

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Ben Stiller Returns

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I know, I know. I forgot. I'm 39 years old.

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Jason Bateman

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And so it was a little bit of a thing where I would make fun of the jacket. It was kind of like a fun hee-hee-ha-ha. And then I found out on last week's episode, just joking around, that your jacket was lost when your house caught fire.

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Jason Bateman

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You know, anyway, can't you just give the same knowing look every time? No, I'm not. I'm not an actor. But and maybe there's a reason I'm not an actor, but I would just every single time go. Oh. Ooh. And just leave it up to the editor to slot it in there right at the right time. Fix it or use some CGI or do something, but you're getting one ooh from me and then I'm out the door.

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Jason Bateman

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I wouldn't take that from Mitch Hurwitz. Not for a second.

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Jason Bateman

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I love that there'd be an Arrested Development movie and all of you would be recast with real actors.

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Jason Bateman

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But you still get to be yourselves. But yes, I see that.

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Jason Bateman

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It could still happen.

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Jason Bateman

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I think they do. I think it's done. I think one call from me and it's happening. When I say call, I mean on an old 1940s phone, because I'm so out of touch with what kind of pull I have in this town.

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Jason Bateman

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Which I didn't know, and I expressed real surprise because I couldn't imagine that jacket not being with you.

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Jason Bateman

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Tons of fans. At least nine fans. There's one image I have in my head, which is Will Arnett is trying to sneak in Jeffrey Tambor in a stretch limo. And of course, he has his stupid puppet Franklin with him, who is... Which you couldn't do today. Couldn't do today, or maybe racially insensitive puppet.

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Jason Bateman

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But at one point, there's this second where you think the guard's not gonna let him in, that the guard's been offended by this puppet. And the guard says, wait a minute, you're all gonna have to step out of the car. And there is a zoom. And there's a zoom in on a terrified Arnett. There's a zoom on a terrified in the backseat, Jeffrey Tambor. And then a zoom in on the ventriloquist dummy, Franklin.

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Jason Bateman

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And I think I've watched that with my son 75 times. And it's just, I've memorized it. It's been, I don't know. It just fills me with delight over and over and over again. So that's, I mean, to a larger point, you've had with SmartLess, Arrested Development, Ozark, you've been able to play in this very rich environment and have this crazy success. And-

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Jason Bateman

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But you said it was in the house, and so it's gone.

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Jason Bateman

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Every now and then I get to talk to people on this podcast who sort of... They got to have their cake and eat it too. And you're one of those people who I think has had this lovely arc where you start as a child actor, which is not a promising start for many people.

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Jason Bateman

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And it really doesn't work to the point where there have been times where I thought, should they just make it illegal to be a child actor?

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Jason Bateman

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How old were you when you got your first? You did a cereal commercial when you're 10? Yeah.

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Jason Bateman

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Even as a kid, I think you did Little House on the Prairie, some commercials. You're on Silver Spoons. I could see kids having two reactions to that. One, oh, I've landed in Candyland. I'm in Oz. This is just amazing. But you had the emotional intelligence to be anxious about it and think, I don't know if this is going anywhere. Yeah.

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Jason Bateman

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That's a television character. They're legally required to wear the same. Indiana Jones? Yeah, they have to wear the same thing all the time.

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Jason Bateman

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It was not. I think so. No, it wasn't good every day. And I offered to buy you other jackets. Remember?

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Jason Bateman

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Well, now you need a jacket.

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Jason Bateman

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They do.

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Jason Bateman

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Do you ever think you blew it that maybe you should have done that? Yeah, exactly. I mean, I'm just seriously, this coffee shop thing.

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Jason Bateman

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It sounds like a good coffee shop. Really nice.

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Jason Bateman

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Well, whatever. Le Starbucks. Can't go back, I guess. Can't go back. It's funny that you talk about that period of time. I had my own experience working on the late night show. We were constantly doing sketches and we would employ, there'd be a sketch that needed a kid to play me.

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Jason Bateman

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you know, from 20 years ago, constantly, or a kid who is in the audience who doesn't understand something, constantly doing these sketches where we need kids. I remember very clearly sometimes there were kids that came up to me, maybe eight years old, This happened more than once, but they would come up to me and go, excuse me, Mr. O'Brien, I am Billy. Oh, hi, Billy.

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Jason Bateman

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You know, thanks for helping us out today. You're doing a great job at rehearsal. I just want to say you are a formidable talent. And I could look in the background and see the mother peering out of the dressing room like, it's formidable. We went over this. Say it. You know, say it so that you're booked again, you fucker. Yeah. And I was... It bummed me out.

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Jason Bateman

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It's more than 10 years ago because no, because you started working with me like 15, 16 years ago.

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Jason Bateman

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Seriously, every now and then, one of those child actors, one was a little kid who nailed it and grew up into Scarlett Johansson. Oh, yeah? And you're like, okay, that's great. I think we had one or two of those, but for the most part, it is... It is a perilous thing to be a child actor. And, you know, it's so fickle.

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Jason Bateman

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And even as adults, full-on aging adults, for myself, it's still hard not to pay attention to who's up, who's down, who's where. It takes... And that's with... I didn't have anybody recognize me on the street until I was 30 years old. That's when I got the late night show. And I had a lot of grounding before then. So I have no idea.

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Jason Bateman

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I think if I had been recognized or had any kind of cachet when I was 11 years old, I'd be a mass murderer.

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Jason Bateman

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And a very good one.

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Jason Bateman

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And you had the jacket then. Yeah.

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Jason Bateman

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Yeah. I said you're squirrely. I didn't say you were crazy. Squirrely, hard to get a beat on you. I know there's a lot of stuff there. I don't want to go near. You can get near the cage. Just don't start poking around in it. I would drive cross country with Arnett, Sean in a second. You, that's not happening unless, yeah, like you say, there's like a barrier, a caged barrier.

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Jason Bateman

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No, you're in the back. I'm driving you. I'm dressed as a sheriff and I'm driving you cross country. But there's a cage and you're shackled every now and then. I pass you some green tea. But that's about it. That's all that's happening.

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Jason Bateman

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It is interesting to me that a important linchpin of your turnaround, which you say is Arrested Development, the guy behind that, one of the guys behind it and the narrator of the show is Ron Howard, famously one of the few examples of a child star who just nailed it in his adult life and seemed to make every right call. Did he ever give you any insight into that world? No.

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Jason Bateman

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Okay.

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Jason Bateman

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They still have the jacket? They do. Would you want to replace it? I will pay for this jacket if it doesn't go above a certain amount.

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Jason Bateman

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He pulled the mask back. He said, yeah, fooled another one. Jason seemed perplexed. He wanted the eggplant risotto, but he didn't know if it was gonna be too heavy.

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Jason Bateman

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Well, they say it's it's. It's exhausting to be a pathological liar because you have to keep all of your stories straight. And it is exhausting to have to put on a persona to then audition for something where you're then another persona. But then if you don't get it, you have to switch into the persona, which is I didn't really need it anyway. I'm cool. I'm good. Yeah.

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Jason Bateman

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We had a fun thing going where I could come up with all these different riffs about the jacket. And the jacket tragically lost. The riff was lost. The joke was lost. I understand this. That's what I think of.

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Jason Bateman

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Nine people out of 10 who went through what you went through would not, it would not have worked out. Can you identify something in you that helped you say, okay, I'm partying too much. This has to stop. I need to... There is an inner resource that you have that... Yeah. Ninety percent of people in your situation would not have.

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Jason Bateman

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With a dramatic pause beforehand?

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Jason Bateman

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I've never ever had any ambition to direct anything. I admire that skill immensely. And I think part of me is a little curious if someone put a gun to my head and said, you have to direct something, what I would do.

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Jason Bateman

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but I don't understand what it is, but I know that you directed quite a bit on Ozark. You must have been watching the whole time. I mean, this was, go back to when you were a kid, where you're watching other people make these decisions. Someone explained to me how much a lot of directing is making choices. Do you want this or do you want that?

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Jason Bateman

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So you're watching that and saying, I want to be doing that.

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Jason Bateman

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No, I want the, no, absolutely not. No, she's got it. That's cold hearted. Well, I'm sorry. I'm a businessman.

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Jason Bateman

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What did you, what was he like? I just, because I grew up, He was George Clooney. My brother's obsessed with Bonanza and has been his whole life and has made sure that all of us around him have watched almost every episode of Bonanza. So even though, yes, I know he went on to Little House on the Prairie and everything, I just can't believe, that's Joe Cartwright. I can't believe you even knew him.

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Jason Bateman

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Right, right, right. What was he like as a person?

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Jason Bateman

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I'm a podcaster. I'm not a lawyer. He's a lawyer who just, oh, I understand. And then immediately he closed his briefcase. He folded up the table he was sitting at and he jumped out the window. My work here is done.

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Jason Bateman

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Here's one where these cattle rustlers come to town. Michael. We're going to show a Truffaut film here, but we shut that down. This is going to be the Bonanza where, okay, all right. But that's beautiful that he did that.

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Jason Bateman

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The Babe Ruth of all the great cheers.

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Jason Bateman

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Sitcom director's friends.

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Jason Bateman

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My quick, this just popped in my head, but literally a couple of months ago, I had to go back to Boston quickly, see my family, and I always stay in the same hotel, and I get on my elevator to go down to the lobby, and it stops on another floor, and Jimmy Burrows gets on. Really? And this is a hotel that's right on the park, literally maybe 60 feet from the Cheers bar. Yeah.

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Jason Bateman

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and I'm headed down and Jimmy and I are talking. And I said, hey, Jimmy, wanna go over to the Cheers bar? hang out. And he went, yeah, no, I don't know why that popped into my head. I've been in there, but yeah, that's a cool spot. Sure. People go there. It's like people that go to the central, one of the central perk coffee shops and think they're going to see Jennifer Aniston.

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Jason Bateman

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I feel cheated that they're not. It's a bar.

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Jason Bateman

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Uh, but, um, yeah, I, uh,

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Jason Bateman

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I think the salvation is if you get into the work, like for me, when I hear you talk about all this is that you were very interested in making the stuff and the work. And to me, that was always the salvation. I wanted my goal. if you asked me when I was 20, what's your goal? I would say, I would like to have a body of work, which sounds incredibly pretentious, but that's what I wanted.

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Jason Bateman

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People could like it, they could hate it, but I just wanted when I was done to have stuff that I had made As a writer. As a writer, as a whatever, just as a performer, as a whatever.

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Jason Bateman

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You know, it's so funny. I knew that I could get a job as a writer, but I always was a performer as a writer. So I was always the guy that would get up and do stuff. At Saturday Night Live, I would do things in front of the other writers, start doing something, and they would be laughing. And Lauren would notice this. And Lauren would notice it.

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Jason Bateman

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No, no. I will not do the cash value. I want you to have the same jacket because I want you to have that jacket back. Let me see it. Bring up that picture. Because I don't remember this jacket. You don't remember? It's the only thing she wore.

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Jason Bateman

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But also the writers would say, that's a sketch, that guy you're doing right now. And I'm just doing it because something's wrong with me.

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Jason Bateman

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But not even that. There were often times when I wasn't pitching a sketch. I was just doing.

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Jason Bateman

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You've seen it, Sona, where I'll just come in and I'll just be doing something that strikes me as funny or odd. And that's all you do. That's kind of all I do.

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Jason Bateman

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Hey there, it's Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. I am Conan O'Brien, and I'm joined here... It is an intro. Yeah. What is your problem? I didn't know what we were doing. Okay.

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Jason Bateman

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Right. And then we got to SNL, and I was doing that for someone like Odenkirk or Smigel, and they said, no, that's a sketch. That's a sketch. And I was like, oh, that's just a thing that I do. Right. I could just write that down and make a living. Many of the things that I've, over the years, that I wrote for SNL or any of the things that I...

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Jason Bateman

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over the years, did on late night, were just things that I did. Sometimes I would do them in the shower. Right. And my wife, to this day, will hear me in the shower saying, you've got some nerve! And, um... Well, maybe I've just grown accustomed to it, but that's where that came from.

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Jason Bateman

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And then as you do as a cast member, I think we've done bits where I've been different people. Uh, but not, not on the talk show.

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Jason Bateman

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cast member yeah yeah it was it's interesting because i always when i was at snl i never looked at dana carvey or any of those guys and thought i could be doing that because i always knew the difference i always knew there have been things uh where we would shoot something um we did something with liev schreiber once which was a parody of that show uh studio 60 remember there was a yeah

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Jason Bateman

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That's like me saying I don't remember your puzzled expression.

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Jason Bateman

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that was a very serious Aaron Sorkin show. He took a West Wing approach to like a Saturday Night Live and people were giving him a hard time for it. We decided to do a parody of it. And so Liev Schreiber, we got him to play me. So Liev Schreiber has the Conan hair.

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Jason Bateman

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And my favorite thing is we got me a thin mustache and you could probably see it online and waxed back my hair and I played the producer. And I'm talking to Conan and I'm saying, God damn it, Conan. You know, women want to be with you. Men want to be you. You've got it all. The looks, the shots.

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Jason Bateman

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And I'm talking about Conan in this, you know... What was this on? It was on the late night show, you know. I mean, we did thousands and thousands of hours of late night shows and we would fill. So I guess the point is that for me, it's always been... I'm going to quote my dad and I've quoted him many times on the show with this exact same line.

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Jason Bateman

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Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

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Jason Bateman

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But he always said, you're making your living off of something that should probably be treated because it's very manic and I can't not do it. And I do it. I just got back from a vacation with my wife and kids. I did it there. They just tune it out. They're not interested. Yeah.

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Jason Bateman

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They, you know, as kids, I would call my kids together when my wife was not around and I would say, kids, kids, your mother's gone and I need to talk to you. And they would gather around me and they would look up at me and go, is this real or is this a bit? And I'd go, it's just that I think. And they'd go, it's a bit. And walk away. So it's that 24-7.

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Jason Bateman

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Oh, it's... Yes. This is the part that I thought was very General Zayas, Planet of the Apes. Oh, yeah. The little detail.

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Jason Bateman

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But also I love it.

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Jason Bateman

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But also it's as it should be.

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Jason Bateman

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If your children are laughing and saying, God, dad. You're the greatest.

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Jason Bateman

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You have a real problem.

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Jason Bateman

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No, you gotta have that.

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Jason Bateman

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Yeah, yeah, that was the part that really bothered me. But I want you to get that exact same jacket. They still sell it?

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Jason Bateman

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You worked with, you worked with each other.

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Jason Bateman

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I remember doing the late night show and Bruce Springsteen was performing on the show and Patty's there, his wife is there. And then at one point he's talking and then he leaves the room. And I said something like, um, He had just told a joke or something and she like rolled her eyes and I was, she said, yeah, when he does his jokes around the kids, they're like, God, dad.

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Jason Bateman

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And I was like, that's Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. But no. No. In the best, in the very best way, they're annoyed. Right. Oh, God.

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Jason Bateman

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Well, he talks about the iconic Dancing in the Dark video where he pulls Courtney Cox on the stage at the end. In his biography, his autobiography, he talks about pulling her up on stage and he does the dance with her. His kids finally saw that years later and they were horrified. At that dance move. At his dance move. And they just relentlessly gave him shit for it.

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Jason Bateman

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Like went back on it and kept showing it to him and going, what the fuck are you... But, you know, in 1985, that was it. It was amazing. And he was Bruce Springsteen. But no, it doesn't matter anymore. Now it's just this embarrassing footage you found of your dad.

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Jason Bateman

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My son is 19 and my daughter's 21.

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Jason Bateman

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So I was 30 years old. Uh, I didn't meet my wife. I hadn't met, I didn't meet my wife for another 10 years.

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Jason Bateman

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That's kind of what that is.

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Jason Bateman

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I think they just, they took it really well, but I'll never forget. I did at shows at Comic-Con, Spreckles Theater, huge theater. My wife, Liza, came down. She brought my son, who's kind of interested in sci-fi. He was a little kid at the time, maybe five. Yeah. He sat in the theater. He saw the band playing. He saw fans. Right. I mean, places packed, three-tiered theater.

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Jason Bateman

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Yeah, and so he's watching it, and then I come out and I do the show, and he sees people getting really excited, and... laughing and having a good time. And then he's walking out with his mom, my wife, and we're walking out, he's walking out. And he said to her, when I grow up, I wanna do something where there's no stage and no audience.

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Jason Bateman

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All right, let's get into more profitable territory. Because you guys are going into the weeds here and it's my job.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Jason Bateman

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And it was just like, I want to do the opposite of what that guy's doing.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Jason Bateman

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I think for whatever reason, he just knew, whatever that guy's doing, that's not what I'm going to do. And he's highly intelligent and very good and has a completely different skill set than I do.

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Jason Bateman

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No, no, not at all. But he'll actually have a legitimate life. Right, exactly. Yeah. Exactly.

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Jason Bateman

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Yes. And actual knowledge.

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Jason Bateman

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Knowledge of real things. Not like us. No, we're show folk. And and I've always I've always kind of liked that for some reason, bizarre reason in the mid 20th century, being in show business started to have cachet and then it is only grown. And.

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Jason Bateman

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I'm someone who reads a lot of history and I studied history in before the 20th century for hundreds and hundreds of years, people that worked in show business were thought of as, you just use the back door and no, you're not, you cannot, you can't come in. You do your thing and then get the fuck out of here and take your little, you know, and I've always thought I,

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Jason Bateman

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I do think that's the way we should be treated. Right.

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Jason Bateman

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I've always thought, no, we're show folk. We're damaged.

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Jason Bateman

3378.984

I should not be given the food that other people are getting. I should get some cold food. Yeah.

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Jason Bateman

338.053

How much is this?

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Jason Bateman

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We're creating problems.

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Jason Bateman

3404.776

You know, I'm glad I got you to admit that your life is a sham.

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Jason Bateman

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No, you've gone too far. You've gone too far. I think what you and I do is vitally important. And I'll also posit more important than anything being done in science, in medicine.

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Jason Bateman

3424.882

Yeah. So you've completely changed your mind from 15 seconds ago. I want to wrap this up, but I do want to tell you that you started off this interview by selling yourself very short in a way that I found kind of appalling, which is I think what you do on SmartList and also what you did so beautifully on Arrested Development and what you've really done in your career is you're channeling something

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Jason Bateman

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I spent that on lunch.

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that to me is very essential. You're fucking so smart as a performer, as an actor. Well, thank you. And seriously, I think, I mean, Arrested Velvet is a great example of where you're holding, you are the center of all of that. You're seeing everything. And yes, that is a huge job. That is, and that could have been done wrong a billion different ways.

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Jason Bateman

348.559

I order $550 worth of fresh Alaskan crab every day. And I eat it off the small of my head writer's back. Yeah, Mike Sweeney has to get on all fours. I ladle out this crab that's been shipped in in a private plane. And I ladle it onto his small back and then I eat it with a tiny little silver spoon. So anyway, yes, I will buy you that jacket. I will buy you that jacket.

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Jason Bateman

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But I also think I would know if, you know, Arnett and Hayes babbling, the two of them, I couldn't listen to that for six seconds. You know, I just.

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Jason Bateman

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You've got red and then also a very annoying red and a very annoying green. And then you're this like essential taupe. Yes. It's just, it's surrounding it. Sweeping azure. Exactly. No, we fuck around a lot. But any time that you would come to my home, be it a Christmas party or any time would be a big deal. It'd be a huge deal.

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Jason Bateman

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It would be a big deal for me and my son's hair would fall out and his teeth.

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Jason Bateman

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I'll be honest with you. I love playing with you guys. It is that simple. I've never had a real conversation with Will Arnett. We only play to the point where we were scolded once.

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Jason Bateman

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No, that's why anytime there's been any kind of smartless ask from the very beginning, I thought that's being asked to go play, go play ball with three people who you love to play ball with. And I'm using that analogy because I'm a terrible athlete. And so I'm being very vague about play ball.

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Jason Bateman

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Shut up, Sona. Go pass the old puck around with your mitt. But anyway.

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Jason Bateman

3673.113

Well, I'm glad we like each other now. Yeah.

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Jason Bateman

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It's just you and I. Just you and I. Even Aniston can't get in. She can serve us. You can bring us the food. Jennifer's outside. Yeah, yeah, tell her we're good. We're good. God bless you, Jason Bateman. Thank you for having me. Go forth, continue to do amazing stuff. My best to the gang over at Smartless.

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Jason Bateman

3706.068

Wow, we've notched from an 11% acceptance of me to an 18%. It was pretty good at the beginning.

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Jason Bateman

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All right, take care.

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Jason Bateman

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No, actually, I'm not kidding. It would mean a lot to me to replace that thing that's been lost. It would also mean a lot to me to keep making fun of you. I know.

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Jason Bateman

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I'm buying you that jacket. It's a done deal. Okay. I did it. I brokered the deal.

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Jason Bateman

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You were a key in this whole matter. So seriously, Sona, order the jacket. I don't do that. No, no. OK, this doesn't work if you don't do it. You've got to order the jacket. Yeah, because the jacket was lost. To be serious for just a second. Yeah, the jacket was lost in the fire. Yeah. Let's replace it.

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Jason Bateman

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So buy the jacket and don't have me reimburse you. I have to buy the jacket.

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Jason Bateman

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I know you do.

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Jason Bateman

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She's actually done okay for herself. Gee, there have been many times where Sona... How much... How many drinks do you think you've had on old Uncle Conesy without Uncle Conesy even knowing it over the years? Without you even knowing it? Before you even became a responsible member of society.

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Jason Bateman

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Yeah. I love it. I love it.

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Jason Bateman

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Yeah.

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Jason Bateman

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It was always showed up on my Amex statements as least I could do. Least you could do for Sona. And they would be like, oh my God. You dropped $1,800 at a bar? Yeah, so we're done. It's a done deal now. Great. You're getting that jacket.

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Jason Bateman

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I will pay for it. You will wear it. And that is my way of making all of your loss go away. Jesus Christ. Does that cover it? The one leather jacket? Sure. You lost in your house.

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Jason Bateman

494.286

Too bad he didn't make fun of your house. That house is no house. All right. Let's get into it. My guest today starred in Arrested Development, now co-hosts the popular podcast Smartless alongside my arch enemies, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes. I am very thrilled that this gentleman is joining us today. This is his first time. This is very cool. I bullied him into coming here. Jason Bateman, welcome.

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Jason Bateman

538.34

We've straightened this out. Thousands are invited to the Christmas party. I invite thousands and about 50 come. Listen, we're going to just because this has been a thing. And then I went on smart list recently, you know, about you coming to the Christmas party. And it was a thing for a while. You you. You claim you weren't invited.

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Jason Bateman

56.753

Okay. Well, that's par for the course. Okay. No, we're not changing anything. We're keeping this. Yeah, Gorley will cut this out. No. Gorley, keep it in. It's too good. I'm torn between two parents.

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Jason Bateman

576.534

Well, listen, the point is you, you know, let's talk about smart lists. It's a juggernaut. You guys are a pretty hard pivot. It's a real, I mean, I was a four wheel slide. Can I tell you something? Right. I just, I just broke my hip. But no, the point I'm trying to make is of you three guys, you got Will Arnett, you got Sean. Is it Hayes?

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Jason Bateman

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And then you're Jason... Bateman. Bateman. Okay, there's the three of you. And you're the one that I have trouble getting a beat on, I gotta say. You're the one, you're squirrely. You're squirrely, Bateman. I've always had a problem getting a beat on you. A huge fan of yours. I adore you. But I can't get a beat on the guy.

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Jason Bateman

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I agree with it about your podcast. I agree because I've checked it out and I'm I'm like, I can't believe that this is something. I mean, this what we're doing here.

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Jason Bateman

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My guest today. Oh, sorry. Now you got to keep it in. Hello. Goodbye. Hey there! Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. I don't know why I'm talking like the old movie phone guy. I'm Conan O'Brien, joined by Sona Movsesian, Matt Gourley, and I was disheartened to learn, Sona, last week that the jacket that for years I've made fun of, because you wore it all the time, just constantly, constantly.

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Jason Bateman

671.227

I'm looking, hold on a second, let me put my glasses on.

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Jason Bateman

688.447

Also, can I just point out, I've been interviewing people around the clock since 1993. I'm a seasoned professional. What Muhammad Ali was to boxing, I am to interviewing.

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Jason Bateman

705.494

But, yeah, you guys with this, you know.

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Jason Bateman

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No, I buy whatever truck he's selling.

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Jason Bateman

763.612

Yes. I was going to say the same thing. I was going to say, I'm glad you said it. No, no, I, you know, I think you could come, you could go, you know, whatever.

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Jason Bateman

777.188

Okay, I'm gonna draw a parallel to what I maintain, and I've said this to Mr. Arnett many times, is one of the finest comedy television shows of all time. And I take this stuff, as you know, very seriously. My television comedy loves and my interests. I think Arrested Development is one of the finest, finest pieces of work done in television comedy.

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Jason Bateman

804.819

And I think that you are hilarious and essential in that show because... I'm surrounded with funny folks. No, but that's not it. You're not just the guy who's yes-anding all of the funny people. You're doing it in a... hilarious way. You're taking it all in. You're trying to understand. You do a beautiful job in that show.

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Jason Bateman

846.762

Yeah, but that is a very hard thing to do. It's... In the history of comedy, straight men were always listed first. So it was Martin and Lewis. It was Abbott and Costello. And it was because a good straight man was actually harder to find than a good wacky person. And that is the history of comedy, is that the act was controlled by the straight man, Burns and Allen.

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Jason Bateman

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It was always controlled by the straight man who was... It was a skill that was seen as more appreciated. So without getting too heavy, too serious, which I've probably done, I thought you did...

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Jason Bateman

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Like Picasso. No, you know what's really nice? I've told this to Arnett a million times, but that show was a very key bonding element for my son and I because my son has a very keen eye for comedy and really liked certain shows. And when he discovered Arrested Development, that was it. How old was he when it started to kind of work for him? He was in his late 50s. Yeah.

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Jason Bateman

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Yeah. I had him a long time ago. You look great, by the way. I've had so much done to me and for me. No, I want to say he was... I want to say he was 11, 12, and chapter and verse. There's not an episode I can name. And we've watched them repeatedly. So sometimes when he's blue or we'd be somewhere, it would be, okay, there are certain specific episodes that we would watch.

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Jason Bateman

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I mean, you wore it at your wedding. It was ridiculous. Okay. Didn't wear it that much. And you wore it all the time, every day. Do you agree that you wore it a lot? No.

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Jason Bateman

974.156

Was the medicine, yeah. And it's nice because we all knew what's coming because we've seen them a thousand times. And I bet, how old is he now? He is 19.

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I couldn't. I was your... You couldn't be bothered. Yeah, I couldn't be bothered. I was like, don't I have people to do these things for me? No, I got a call from Liza, my wife at work, and she said, okay, they told us we got to go. And I said, okay. She said, I'm just going to grab... like two t-shirts, two pairs of socks, two pairs, whatever, a pair of jeans. I said, great.

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She said, do you need me to take anything else? And I said, just grab the E.B. White letter off the wall, which is this letter that I, when I was 16, I wrote E.B. White a letter about how much I admired his writing and, how I aspired to try and make something of myself, but I was afraid of criticism because I'm thin-skinned. And he wrote me back this beautiful note, and it's signed E.B. White.

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Take this, yeah. And so that's kind of... I said, grab that, but I didn't think about anything else. And I...

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i don't know why i get into and i think i've always been this way i think i was you know uh i can channel when i first moved out to l.a and i had a had a on cochran avenue had a 380 a month apartment and a 1977 isuzu opal that i bought at the airport for no money um and i just always channel like yep I've been there before and I was really happy, and I just have this kind of, if that, whatever.

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If whatever something happens, I'm not gonna get another Isuzu hopeful. No, you'll never get to that height again. But very, I don't know, I get on almost very calm about that and the material world and things like that. But then I also know if the reality came, there's my perception of how I would feel. And then, um, how would I really feel if that had happened? And we got really close.

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I mean, it was right up to our line of our house. And, um, and then you just, I don't know. Uh, I could easily be here saying we don't have our house. And like I say, a lot of spoken to many of my friends who lost their homes and, um, Uh, so I don't know, you can't know how you would feel if that happened.

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So I have, you know, the possible illusion that I would say, well, it's just stuff, but no, I'm sure I would be, uh, devastated and emotional for a lot of reasons. But, um, it's just, uh, it's such a confusing time. And obviously it's just, um, what can we all do for people? If only I knew someone who had lost their, oh, right, you were mentioning.

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No, but like I'm saying is what, you know, that's the question is how can, what can we do for you? You know, you're loved. You've got all of us here. Money aside.

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And. Oh.

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Money and food.

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Can I just say the parameters first? Money aside, food aside, clothing aside. Love and affection aside. Love and affection aside. Sheltering you in any way at any one of my 19 mansions scattered. Any further contact aside. Yeah. Is there anything I can do for you? And also, I'm letting you go. Oh, no.

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The band-aid is mostly torn off. Let's go the rest of the way.

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I had to make a decision. You were Gourley, and he does so much in the editing.

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Conan Fire Sona on podcast where she talks about losing her home. I'm looking forward to that. I know.

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I'm going to have mine destroyed. It makes you feel better.

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My leg kind of hurts. So I think I win. Well, you are, and it's funny because people, I think, I hope it comes through, but this is a real relationship. Yeah. You and I have been, I mean, Gorley, I don't barely know the guy.

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Johnny come lately. Icy to the touch. Well, if you just touched me once, maybe you'd know. Dad rubbing that icicle. But, you know, you've got us and and we will all help you in any way we can. Thank you. And I do think that this is. There's no way to fast forward through this. It's going to be a day-to-day thing for you for quite a while.

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So don't downplay it. Let's lead with Tack, your husband, and your boys.

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1404.171

So many people have risen to the challenge and been... remarkably generous and human. And I lived in New York during 9-11, and I'm seeing the same thing again where people ask each other, you know, how are you doing? How are you? Where do you live? Are you okay? And had that conversation this morning at Bricks and Scones, which is the coffee place right next to us.

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You just start asking people, how are you? Where do you live? Are you all right? Are you okay? And it... It does, these things do bring sometimes the worst out of people, but often the best out of people. And I was remembering we, you know, the last time we did our outdoor chill chumps podcast was from Sona's backyard in Altadena, which is a really nice memory.

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Mikey and Charlie. What do Mikey and Charlie know? Do they know anything?

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And what I remember most is, uh, what a great time we had, but also that your neighbors came by, you had neighbors coming by to say hi.

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And there's a vibrant community there that I think is resilient and can come back.

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I mean, it's easy for me to say, but I do think there's... I think there's such a will to bring that city back.

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I mean, that's the other thing, too, is we could find out and plug it in. But if there's a charity or there's a place that makes sense.

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My wife has been on to this and I shut it down because I was like, I was thinking of taking up golf and I want to buy those golf. No, no.

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Are you donating money to people that really need it? I set the clock the minute this happened. It's possible I could one day play golf. In which time clubs would need to be procured. No, she... She found that and it's amazing. It's easily findable, I think. Well, obviously... it can get sensitive. What's the right, where's the right place to, to give money if you can give money or to donate.

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Um, and we need to be sensitive about that. We will do research. We'll maybe in the links that connect to this episode, give some suggestions. Uh, but there are so many different ways. Oh, what happened?

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It's just, it's cute.

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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires

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I think the burn I just suffered is every bit as bad as the one that attacked your home.

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If you want to, I think now, after the way I was just attacked, for, okay, maybe am I fluent in this new techno world? New? Of the last 40 years? Maybe not.

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But... I've now been humiliated and I feel I deserve compensation.

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I have a GoFundMe to help me, Conan O'Brien, recover from this dastardly blow. Um, I know the minute I start talking, why do I, why didn't I, what am I going to learn? Let you do it or let you do it.

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You're talking to me like something like I'm damaged.

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When this episode comes through, through your machine. Oh no. And you're tuning it to get the right frequency. Look for a linkage. Just try this.

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Charity links in the show notes. Yeah, but I know you and it's the right thing to do. You're going to keep all of my blundering and stumbling in there. You're not going to edit it so I look good. And I applaud you for that because it's going to make a lot of people very happy.

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I cannot tell you how many people go, are you really that bad? And I say, it's not a bit. I honestly don't know how this world works. That is a common thing people say to me is, no, no, just tell me something. They want to know if Jordan Schlansky's real. And I go, yeah, he really is. And they go, and when you talk about like tech stuff, are you really that bad?

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Yeah. My son is very gifted at these things, and he enjoys it so much. When I'm trying to do something, I do become... It is Zoolander where they're looking at the computer and he just enjoys it. And he won't jump in and go, here, I'll do it. He'll go, so what you trying to do there? What you doing? Well, I'm trying to see if I can clear this screen. Uh-huh, yeah.

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So is that why you're hitting the plastic part, the cover? Yeah. Just tell me what to do. No, no. Why don't you tell me what it is you're trying to do? So he just tortures me. Oh, man. He's a genius at it. He's good.

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God gave him a wonderfully foolish father for him to enjoy. But is your... is your greater family. We talk about this a lot and we joke about it a lot, how connected you are to your family and your mom and dad. But it's also this great gift right now that you have these people in your life that they're so close.

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I've been living so far away from my family for so long that your family unit is there.

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Right.

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You become a brat. I have.

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When am I allowed? And I will respect this.

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I'm just curious. I mean, and I will respect if you say it's going to be three months or four months. And I love your dad. I love you.

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I know.

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And then he became real. Yes.

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No, but I don't.

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My true sickness is getting other people to start to do the bit themselves about that. I know. That's my true evil power. It's like comedic Stockholm syndrome.

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But your father's mustache wasn't damaged.

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It's his mustache insured.

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I want 20% off. And just put a little smudge there. No, you can't get the discount. Why not?

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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires

2017.586

They don't know that. They see a guy come in with half a mustache.

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They're three and a half?

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Who's going to challenge that? I challenge you? That looks freshly shaved? Not singed? I don't think anyone challenges that. Look, maybe I've gone too far. It's possible that I'm doing the exact wrong thing at this moment and that I'll pay for it. Terribly, but... I'm just glad he's okay.

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A gift. Yes. How's Tack specifically?

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I hope my fireplace and iron survived.

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I hope my bowling ball survived. My solid. Yeah.

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I think he is. I mean, he's an incredibly cool guy. He's very chill. He's very chill and he's very cool. And I love him. I admire him. And I think he's a good partner to have in a situation like this.

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Because people are just, everyone's saying, oh my God, the boys, the boys, the poor boys. And they're just, they just know. I mean, I used to think this way about snowstorms when I was a kid. I was just good news. And the people, it didn't matter what happened to anyone else. If school was canceled- So in their perspective, all they know is there's going to be some fun construction. Yeah.

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Your dog is having baked Alaska food. Sushi. Yeah, sushi. I think it's incredible.

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Cordon bleu, chicken cordon bleu.

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There's no way. I mean, so many people are going to have some form of PTSD or whatever you, however you want to classify it from this. And so it is, as you know, I'm a huge proponent of, of it. And I, I don't necessarily come from a people that are, were believers in talk therapy. But, and I think Freud famously said, the only people who are immune to psychotherapy are the Irish.

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Hello, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. It is a massive... Understatement to say this is a special episode or a unique episode. We are doing this episode without any guest. This is the first time we've all been together. since the wildfires broke out. And there's a lot to discuss and to process. We don't usually do this, but I'm just going to say the date.

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But I do think it's hugely helpful. Yeah. It would be good for you. And also talk to us about it.

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Yeah. Well, I'll say this. I have found today... to be cathartic for me because I've been thinking about you a lot, Sona. And on a selfish level, I thought, I really want to get into a room with Sona. We've texted, we've talked on the phone, but I didn't see you until today. And I've just wanted you... I've wanted to be in a room with you and talk to you. And so this was...

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weirdly, even though you're the one who's really been affected much more, a million times more than I was, a billion times more, this was really special for me to get to talk to you and tell you face to face that I love you, whatever you need, we'll all get you through this. And we are a family and I'm including, oh God, Gourley. Don't do it. I'm gonna do it, Adam. Eduardo, Blay, we are a family.

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And they get to build the house.

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And also everyone who works here. And we, there was such a lovely outpouring, and I'm not gonna, online, of people, fans, reaching out to wonder how we were doing that was, just bowled me over. We are blessed. We're blessed a million times over with so many fans. So many people are rooting for you, Sona, and thinking about you. And...

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You're going to get through this with flying colors, and I am going to gradually work my way back into mocking and harassing you. It's going to take a long time.

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Which I think you should let them do. OK.

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No, I mean, when I say a long time, I mean, like, many hours.

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I spent the last hour doing it already.

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Yeah, I was going to say, is there really evidence? Oh, right. We do record these. I...

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I think they can. But can I ask? And again, I'm not. How these things unfold is such a mystery. I know that for all of us, I was here working on Tuesday. We weren't podcasting, but I was meeting with writers and we were talking about the Oscars and we were working on that with that team. And I got a phone call from my wife saying, well, there's some smoke.

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Well, you're really on the line. No. You saved it today. You're not fired today, but there's this very expensive electric bike I'm thinking of getting with company funds.

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Do I need this bike? No!

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I don't know what's wrong with me, but love you. We're back. We're going to continue to make our foolishness and update you on, I mean, what is... This is, we'll update you on keep everyone listening and, and how, uh, how this process unfolds for you.

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And, uh, you know, we, um, we're thinking not just of you Sona, but everyone out there who's been affected by this and, and to all the really incredible people who from all over the world that have reached out and been so lovely to us. We are blessed people.

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Yeah.

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It's unbelievable. And our own Sarah Federovich, who works here, has been working for me for, I want to say, close to 30 years, if not 30 years. Her husband, Brad, helped out there fighting these fires. Yeah. And so, yeah, enough cannot be said about—we have a screwy value system in our country where it's like, look, there's a celebrity.

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And never has it looked more stupid, our value system, than right now, than when you see these people that really do put themselves in harm's way to save people's homes, save people's lives. It's absolutely incredible.

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But boy, I can't wait till we get back to revering Nate Swift.

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He's the true hero. You got that right, buddy. Anyway, everybody out there, stay safe. And thank you again for all of your good wishes and positive energy.

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And I remember thinking, well, we've been through this before. We've been evacuated. There's also been smoke and we haven't been evacuated. So there's very much, it's part of life in LA. And so I wasn't thinking that much about it. And then the next thing I know, she was like, we've been evacuated. And so I went from here to, you know, whatever, we went to a hotel.

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And I went to sleep that night thinking, because we live in the Palisades. And I just remember thinking, I'm pretty sure that our house will go. And it did not. But just the number of people I've heard from, people I know personally who lost houses is stunning. It's crazy. And I know you're in Altadena and it must be the same thing where it's not just you. You must know so many people.

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Is there anything I'm is there anything that you're doing now that at least helps you feel like you can take steps? Like, I don't know what the process of we've been I've been locked out of we've been no one gets close to our neighborhood. I don't know when we'll get back to our neighborhood. But you've got this other consideration of, OK, what? What are the steps involved?

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Meaning, yeah, do you with insurance claims, things like that?

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The school's OK.

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Yeah. And you can't process it all at once.

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But sometimes is that helpful to engage in like, okay, this is a tangible thing I can do that gets us to the next step rather than just sit and think about, perseverate, worry about what's happened.

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You sent me this great video of them on the beach. Yeah. Just having a wonderful time. Your boys.

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It's Thursday, January 16th, 2025. Fires broke out, I believe it was a week and two days ago, right? Yeah, Tuesday night. I think it started Tuesday afternoon and then got worse and worse and worse throughout the day. And we've all had our own experiences. But really, we have to start by acknowledging that, Sona, you lost your house. Yeah. And there, you know.

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Can I ask, did you have a chance before you left your house? Did you have a chance to get anything?

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I went back in and got my Crocs. One of them. I got one of my Crocs. I just wanted one of them. I really liked the left Croc. But you got some heirlooms.

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That's right. He was on our Tonight Show. Yeah. And I remembered I introduced you to him and said, this is your number one fan. And he was so nice to you.

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I think, too, there's a mantra everyone has now, which is correct, which is, oh, it's just stuff. And as long as we're OK and as long as my family's OK, and that's true. But you also have to acknowledge it's a loss. It's a loss because it's not so much the stuff itself. It's what it signifies. It's the memories. And you have to process that. You can't skip over that. you know, we're all okay.

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You can't skip right to that and stay there because, um, you are going to feel all these things.

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So do you need to, do they want you to prove that? Yeah. How do you do that? I have a piece of roof that I keep in my wallet. I mean, I don't know what the hell they're talking about.

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Yeah. I mean, I've been displaced. Me too. And I do not deserve a 20% discount. Can you imagine me going around, oh, I've been displaced. I have to live in a pretty nice hotel.

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Sir, this is a frozen yogurt establishment. Sir, you're buying a Rolex. I don't want to pay full price. And it's Patek Philippe to you, sir. No, it's it's it's it's it's absolute fucking craziness.

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Yeah. What if you're doing that five years from now when you live in a beautiful new home and you're thriving and you've written like your third bestselling book? And you pull up in a, you know, in a, like a, you pull up in a BMW. Hey, house burned down. I'm getting some unleaded gas. Looking at the price. What's the SNAP 20 off that? When did your house burn? Five years ago.

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Yeah. Well, listen.

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Oh, I also won the lottery last week.

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No, but it's, it's, man, it's, it's, it's, it's been very hard to process. I, I don't know about you, but it's also just, uh, um, well, I'm going to switch to you for a minute, Gourley, because, you know, I know that you were in, there was a while there where I was pretty certain that, Oh, Pasadena. I don't think that looks good. And I know your house.

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I just thought, is this going to get you too? And I guess it didn't get to you, the fire. Is that right?

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You don't have to keep it together. There's, you know, you and I have texted a lot and talked some on the phone, but words just seem so stupid when somebody lost their home.

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Are you back in your house now?

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No, but you see me trying, right?

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And it's one I've thought about in comedy, which is you can be funny or you can be happy. And I really believed in that dichotomy. And I remember years ago living in L.A. and stating that. Getting molested.

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I do a lot of, like, squats and bends, and I'm trying. And I was doing a live show with Tig Notaro once, and I was backstage just trying to stretch before I go out, and she had the microphone and could see me and was just calling me out in front of the whole audience. Like, Conan's doing these stupid stretches that will in no way... It was hilarious. Of course, she's hilarious.

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We all did what we had to do. You know, I'm here now. Hey, it was a different time. Different time. A lot of couches. You know what? No one wanted me on a couch. Right? I mean, let's just be honest. Not even your therapist. No one, yeah. No one was like, I got to get me a piece of that Conan. That featherless ostrich. Why? Why do I invite you back? I don't know. It's not right.

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But to your point, I really did believe that that was a choice you had to make, and I was okay with...

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And it sort of woke me up. See, I've had people tell me I should do that. I've never done that. And I also have a long way to go. I'll admit that. I think I've made progress.

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You've always thought pot would be good for me.

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Okay. I'm just saying.

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I know. Sorry.

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I'm kind of fascinated with this idea that I think there's part of me that thinks because of what I come from, this... very tightly wound, I don't know, Boston Catholic, whatever you want to do. Sure. And then my own propensities that it's never going to happen. And then there are days where I think, no, I could do this. I could do this. I could become a flexible person.

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I gotta say, pretty good.

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Well, you've changed your life a lot, right? You've cleaned up your act a little bit.

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Yeah.

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I'm just saying we live in an experimental age. We live at a time when- Hey, man, you're sucking an aluminum dick. Hey, and I have no shame about it.

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there's always a clip on my wife my wife is is yeah she's the best she's you got you guys came over for dinner and uh she's fantastic and i and and i feel i accomplished the same thing i found the right person i found someone who is on me uh understands me uh does not let me get away with shit sometimes she lets me get away with a little just because she's like uh let him go yeah just let

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But then I think there's another school of thought. No, if you're not flexible at the age I'm at now, you can look it up. Google away.

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No, no one says attaboy.

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Must be nice.

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Also, I'm sorry. This guy is coming to you with a real low bar. Oh, you know. Oh, no, that was it.

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That's the craziest motivation for I got to hit the gym. I know. I'm signing up. Hey, well, what made you come in? Well, I'm fighting my 17-year-old son, and he got the better of me. So this is my wake-up call that I need to work out so I can beat the shit out of him.

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I'd like to become a sexual athlete. Oh, dear.

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No, no. What I would like to do is, yeah, I just, I don't want to stiffen up as I get older. I guess you're wearing some, like, Yeah. And I'm bringing it up today because, as you know, I'm still displaced, whatever. Very fortunate to still have my place. But I do sometimes just pick clothes out of the back of my car.

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I was of the era where my brother and I would go down to Fenway Park without it. Just would think, hey, let's go watch a Red Sox game. And we'd walk down and you could get bleacher seats. Oh yeah, for like eight bucks. Yeah, and we would get bleacher seats and we would sit in the bleachers. No planning, no, like we got tickets. And we would go and we'd sit up there.

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And what they did was they hired, this is back when the Red Sox- They'd stand on Conan's shoulders and then hold himself up over the green monster.

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That was supposed to be a surprise, Random House, next year. Fuck you, you fucking red-headed cunt. I was doing a pre-promotion for it. Thank you. No, but we would sit in the bleachers, and what was hilarious was they used to hire, like, football players, these massive linebackers from, I think, BU, and they would...

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You know, guys with massive necks and they were the crowd control, but not professional crowd control. Their job was just if anything got out of line, if they saw some people like having a little too much to drink and maybe getting into it, starting to fight a little bit. These guys with massive necks from BU would go running up and they would wail out.

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I'm called a bottomless hole. There's no filling this. Every time you're going to have to repeat.

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And today I picked this stuff out and I realized I basically wore what you would wear to like a gym today, which I rarely do. I usually like to dress.

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I like that you can't get through this without laughing. Because, dude, that's the most Boston part of this. So anyway, his spine is severed!

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It was kind of like... That is Belle Bib DeVoe. Yeah.

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Yeah, sure.

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It's funny. You did this special in Seattle. I almost sensed you love to go to a place where you feel like you're not just going to... You could... You go to certain places where you're just going to get where you know what their attitude is and you know you're going to get unconditional love.

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Obviously, you have a lot of fans in Seattle, but you go there, I think, because you want to challenge some of what Seattle may stand for right now in some ways. Is that possible?

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Yeah. This is this. My wife got these for my son. He didn't want them. And I put them on.

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Yes, exactly.

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It's the cold shave for you. There's part of you that wants to go someplace. And you did this for years on my show, which was why I always loved you. But you would have the take that wasn't the comfortable take that everyone would applaud at. You would always want to put yourself in a situation where you weren't- Push people away from you. Yeah. That's what I'm doing. No, but it was hilarious.

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And I think something that's quite unusual about you.

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I know we should be. There is this weird cross hatching. It looks to me like I'm on the set of Logan's Run, the TV show from or Tron. Right. Right. This is not me. I never do this.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, you talk about, you say there's these ages when men, not women, men just drop dead. And you say it's 49 to 61.

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No, you got it. But you say that's the age. That's this window. And he said, it doesn't happen. It's really funny. I don't want to blow your special. I want people to watch it.

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Yeah. But because I'm wearing this, I do feel there's a little bit of an 80s vibe. But also because I'm wearing this, when you wear clothes like this, you start doing stretches. And it was on my mind because I started doing stretches today out in the main room where everybody is. And I got on the floor and other people. RJ.

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I tried it once and I thought it's going to take so much work for me to be very bad that I want to put that time into maybe getting a little better at guitar. Like that was my inspiration. And nobody seems to be enjoying it.

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Like he's dunking. It's just like, well, this makes me happy because I've sometimes, I'm adjacent to a lot of people that are golfers. Jeff Ross golfs a lot and likes to talk about golfing.

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Yeah.

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RJ, who works here at the podcast. He told me he's been stretching like on a professional level since he was five. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It really is. You know, you talked about one thing. There's so many things you bring up that I relate to. And one is you don't own a gun, but you like guns and you bring this up in your special. And I kind of relate, meaning I'm too scared. I would not. No, no. I don't want a gun in my house. I'd love to have one. Oh, you would? I don't want a gun in my house. I don't want to.

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But I've kind of always been fascinated by guns and the times that I've been in situations where someone's let me shoot guns. I've found it to be very cathartic. It's really interesting to me. I like to kind of get the basics down of it, but I don't want to own one.

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He stretches an hour a day. And here's the thing, he can't stand. He's so relaxed and loose. I admire that. No, no. He's brought into work in a bowl like gazpacho. And they pour him into his seat and he does his work. But no, he's very impressive. He's super physically fit. I think he's a black belt.

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How many fucking opportunities do you need? Jesus Christ. It's like 900. Anything that's firing 900 rounds a second. You don't have to. There's no skill.

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Game show host. Yeah.

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Well, he may be, actually. I don't like to add fuel to the fire. Oh, okay. I was with him in the CIA for a while. You were in the CIA?

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They said, we don't want a hairless ostrich. Featherless.

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Oh, okay. Featherless. No, it was me. It was Fallon. There was a bunch of us that were in heavy CIA training. I was asked to leave. Fallon kept singing. They asked him to leave.

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My least favorite thing in this era we're in is everyone's certain. There's certainty. And I like whatever happened to uncertainty, whatever happened to... I like comedy where I admit I don't know. I don't know what the answers are. Yeah. And I'm going to think of some stuff that is amusing to me and share it with you and hope that you find it funny. But I see it a lot in comedy now.

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Can RJ come in? Because I'm very impressed with RJ. And you know what? A lot of people work here. Not impressed with a lot of them. I literally go around looking, is there someone here who I'm impressed with? Please, have a seat.

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There's a lot of certainty. And in politics, everyone's absolutely 100% certain. Yeah.

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Hey, guys. So, RJ, I should be asking you this question. First of all, what is your actual position here at the show?

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That's OK. So you're you're positing that there's a lot of carcinogens out there and no one's talking about it.

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Oh my God.

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Spitting out fish. Like a cartoon. I know. I know like a cartoon.

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Yeah, that sounds... Dead bodies. I saw you the other day breaking into an ATM with a crowbar. He asked for money. I know, I know. And he said, I don't want to use a card. Anyone can use a card. Use this crowbar. We were talking the other day, you mentioned stretching. It's been in the back of my head.

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That's the shit you built, you fucking asshole. What made you think of the St. Francis Dam? Look that up. When did that happen?

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So we're sitting here talking about current events, and you just go right to the St. Francis Dam collapse.

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I do.

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I have a pretty good library. He does. They're all leather-bound. Oh, come on. They're not all leather-bound.

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It's all in my mind.

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Oh, my God. It was the longest night of my life.

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Take an easy cha-cha. Yeah, Jesus.

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One of my old girlfriends took a photo of me and it's like on this beautiful beach, like 1994, when I took like my first vacation ever and I'm on the beautiful beach in the Caribbean and I'm sitting there and I'm reading William Shire's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It's like a telephone book with a swastika on the cover. And I'm completely in shade because God forbid.

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What country were you in? No, I was in the Caribbean somewhere. And so God forbid I get any sunlight at all. And I'm wearing, you know, Rose Kennedy's sun hat underneath an umbrella. And I'm reading this giant morality tale about the rise and fall of the Third Reich in tiny print.

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I was doing my travel show with my team and we checked into this town in Lentz, named Lentz. And we're walking around and I said, every building here looks like it was built starting in 1950. Man, for whatever reason, they bombed the shit out of the place. And so I got on my phone, looked up Linz, like what happened in Linz.

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And then today, before I know it, I'm on the ground, you're on the ground, and you're showing me these different stretches. And you did one where your hips basically just flattened out like a spatchcocked chicken. And I was like, my hips will never do that.

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And Linz is the, it wasn't his birthplace, but it was the town where Hitler grew up. The allies knew that. It was also, I think it was in armaments. They built armaments there. And so they bombed the shit out of it. And you can see that every single building, and I've seen this in Cologne too, where the only thing they didn't hit was the cathedral. The church, yeah. the cathedral.

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And I've talked to people there and they've said, people who think, you know, war, who romanticize war need to come to these places. Oh no, it's brutal. Because every single, every single building was demolished. Everything.

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The resistance assassinated him.

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Well, I knew this is where the podcast was going to go. At the very beginning, I said, I'm going to get us to the devastation in World War II.

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He did at the end want them to burn Paris. And one general was like- Because he couldn't have it. He was like a fucking jilted lover. Yeah, exactly. So at the very end, he wanted to, you know, I'm just, I'm tired of you letting Hitler slide. Bill Burr.

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god bless you norm totally presented it like he was the only guy who would ever read up i don't know if you ever heard about one of the worst people of the last century but uh i'm getting into it um listen i want to make sure we get the word out on your special it's out right now and uh it is called uh drop dead years yeah and it's on hulu streaming on hulu and uh

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Yeah, yeah. Me and Ed Sheeran will come together with Ron Howard. Yeah, from the day I met you, no one's mind works like yours, and it's a beautiful thing to behold.

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That's another Norm line. He had a line once where he said, I went home to Christmas break and at one point I accidentally made eye contact with my father. I know what he's talking about. We all know what he's talking about. Oh, man, that guy.

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Sona will tell you because Sona has spent many years observing me. She watches how I wash makeup off. Oh, my God. She watches how I brush my teeth and I could start a fire on my face. Everything I do is, is to get everything, but like quick and hard, like let's get this done. Yeah. And there's a self-loathing involved in it. So stretching is the antithesis to all of that. Yeah.

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Um, if my, I'm going to say if I had an operation, if I had an operation where my knees were removed and my feet were presented to me.

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No, I am. Uh, my problem is of course I have a, I have a little bit of an unusual build, very long legs, shorter torso proportionally. So yeah, if I really lean for a while, yes, I can get down there. I can't even do that. Well, you're a mess. I mean, I don't know.

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Here's my question is, RJ, would you be willing? I shift you away from your responsibilities with Adam because whatever shit you're doing for him, he can do for himself. And you just become my full-time stretch guru.

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Oh, really? We'll both dress like a guy from an early 80s space television sci-fi.

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Hey there, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, sitting here with Sona Mosessian and a giggling, I don't know why, Matt Gourley. It's the way I introduce the show, so just get over it. You can't giggle every single time.

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show okay uh yeah i do i i'm i'm into this i want to try it i want to try and become more flexible yeah i want to evolve this is something i'm saying as a serious thing i i am interested in this concept that i can keep evolving that i can keep changing in certain ways uh a lot of cool things have happened in the last 10 years that i didn't see coming so why couldn't i become flexible

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No, I want RJ to do it. I want him to do. Is there any way that you can do all the stretching?

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That's crazy. But also, you started when you were five.

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I think I just joined like the evil side button. There's probably one walking around Hollywood Boulevard. Yeah. And you're just going to start kicking his ass. Poor guy's going to have like a fanny pack. He's just trying to get money. He just wants a tip. He just wants a tip so he can take a selfie with you. Suddenly he's getting wailed on by this red bearded martial artist.

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Uh, well, RJ, uh, I'm very impressed by what you can do. And, um, I will, I will try to learn from you. I will try to absorb. You are now my, uh, you are Yoda to my Mark Hamill in the second.

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The text was the second one. And then, but I guess now it's actually the 15th. Um, well, I'm with you on that.

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It'll suck. Hey, let's go see the new Don Rickles. He's really nice to the audience. He gives everybody some fruit salad. Later. Don Rickles is broke. Thank you, RJ. All right, guys, let's get into it. My guest today, that's right, RJ's a redhead. I'm a redhead. My next guest today, also a redhead, hilarious comedian whose latest special, Bill Burr, Drop Dead Years, premieres March 14th on Hulu.

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He's also making his Broadway debut in Glengarry Glen Ross later this month. I love this guy. I'm thrilled he's with us today. Bill Burr, welcome. You and I have, we have a special connection. I really believe that. We're both gingers. We both grew up-

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I'm a professional broadcaster. Yeah. Okay. And I have a question and this is a serious question, which is, can I become flexible at my age? I mean, physically flexible. And this is something I've been thinking about a lot lately because I know people do yoga and stuff. I am a particularly tight, tight assed gentleman of a later vintage lifestyle.

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There's only two of us that are allowed to be together. Two gingers from the Boston area that are incredibly a weird mixture of. Bitterness, right? I would have gone with anger first, but okay, we'll go bitterness, anger, confused. I hide my anger, I think, or have in the past. Don't I hide it better than Bill? Oh, God.

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But Sona, you've seen, and Matt, you guys have seen up close the Beast, right? You've seen the Beast. We have. But for many years on television, I was a, quote, good guy. But there was a Bill Burr inside me.

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How do we know? How do we know? How do we know? We were in the same era.

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Do you go back to reunions and things like that? A high school reunion? I don't know if I told you this, but I went back to one of mine years ago, a high school reunion, and I was doing the late night show, well-known person. I go back and this guy comes up to me and he goes, hey, go on and remember the time

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that you and me busted into that liquor store down by the point and we stole all that booze, but the cops came and we both took off and you went left and I went right and you got all the booze and then you drank it yourself. And I'm listening. I'm like, you have the wrong guy. I have never had a parking violation in my life. I didn't drink until I was like 26. He's got the wrong guy.

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But he inserted me into his story, and I thought, I bet that happens to you. Unless, no, you were probably the guy that was stealing.

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Right. Yeah. There was that guy I went to high school with who looked like Jane Lynch. I couldn't remember. I think I committed a crime with him. No.

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You see me all the time trying to stretch it out, don't you, Sona?

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You got young kids.

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My kids are in their late 50s. Children. They have sciatica. You started a little bit late, too, and I'm still way behind you. Yeah, you're way behind me. You know, I watched your special. In many areas. Yes. Exactly. Don't rub it in. I watched your special, Drop Dead Years. Yeah. Loved it. And I know it's coming out. When's it coming out? I want to make sure I get it. It's out right now. Okay.

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Very excited about the Red Sox next year, the 75 Red Sox. It should be amazing. And I'm glad that busing crisis is finally over. Oh, finally, yeah. No more racism. No more racism in Boston.

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Yeah.

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Austin will be fine. Yeah. No, but I watched your special and you talk about going to the funeral of a friend. First of all, it's a very, very funny, I feel it's a redundant saying Bill Burr had a really funny standup special. Why is it so hard for you to say that about me? You said it twice. I just root against you.

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No, Burr has achieved some success. Another ginger from Boston. There's only room for one. Just what I needed. But I watched your special and it's fantastic. You talk about losing a friend and going to the funeral. And of course, you have some very funny observations about that, but it opens up.

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It feels like you're opening up a little more in this special about your personal life and some of your struggles. And it's fantastic.

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Because for most of the many, many, many years I employed you, you wore the same jacket every day.

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Yes. I've said this for many years, and I don't think most people would understand it. I think the assumption is if you're working on something cool that's going to be iconic, everyone knows it as they're working on it. And that is not the case. And I've always said it takes a lot of very talented people working very hard to to make something terrible. Yeah.

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You know, it's why I get very impatient around Oscar season. There are all these reviews of movies and a lot of them are really brilliant movies and they'll say, yeah, but then they really blew it in that one part. Right. And I'll be thinking, do you know how hard it is just to make a movie? I know. Let alone a great movie. Yeah.

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It's always- One thing geeking out about Severance, the visuals, the way it shot, the colors, there's all this thought going into stuff The machines they use are oddly out of time. The cars and stuff. The cars are out of time, which leads to all different kinds of theories, but the choices, directing and creating a lot of the time is about choices and just, everything is just a little odd.

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off in this weird way that I can't quite put my finger on. And I find I could watch it, you know, watch it with the sound on, and then you could watch it again with the sound off and just look at the colors and what people are wearing and how things are framed in the shots.

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I just assumed it would be okay because you wear it all the time. So the one time you took it off, you left it in your house and that's when your house caught fire?

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We recommend that people, when they're driving, turn the sound off. Yeah. And you'll have a completely superior experience.

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It's funny because you've had one of those careers, too, where you've you popped in different things over the years. Sona, you're a we all love Step Brothers. You're a Step Brothers.

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And I know that your arc in Parks and Rec was a little strange, right? When the show started, there's a story to it.

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So it all sort of came around. Now, this is the inevitable question. Did you ever get to ask Mike, Hey, man... What the fuck? What the fuck? I was here, remember, when I auditioned for you? That's just something that, and it's so funny because I've had, we've had this experience here on this podcast where we're talking to iconic, legendary actors.

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Yeah. Well, I could buy you 30. They don't look that expensive.

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And when they bring up the guy who snubbed them, the casting director, Harrison Ford, did it on this podcast. And he was like- you know, the year was 1967. He was still like pissed about it. And he's pissed.

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And also, you know, famously, famously Michael Jordan, when he was accepted into like the, you know, Basketball Hall of Fame, his speech was all a list. Yeah. He started listing people who, you know, this guy benched me in fifth grade. Remember that? It's Josh Killaway. Yeah. You know, and it's his fuel like that documentary. Yeah. Constantly bring it. It's his fuel.

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But it does bring up the idea of you're working with someone who rejected. I had this with.

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You know what? You're right. Yes. God damn it. This is the goal of my podcast. To dig up old animosities. Here's a very well-liked, Adam is a very well-liked actor, celebrity, critically acclaimed. His wonderful family. He's happy. He's having this big moment that will keep going. And all I want to do is get him mad. I'm going straight to Mike's house after this. Ding dong. Hey, Adam.

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Bang, asshole. Boom. Fuck you. And then we never speak again. Then later he hears the podcast. Oh, I see. Then he rings my bell. Oh, hi, Mike. Bang. Soon. Just a cavalcade of people punching each other. And just lawsuits for years. Yeah, lawsuits for years. We're all tied up in the courts.

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I... I had this with Ray Romano, Ray Romano, who we didn't, he wanted to be a monologue writer for my show. Great comedian, great joke writer. We didn't have a slot, but he had a good packet and people knew him. So I met with him. Yeah. And sat across, he came into my office and, you know, at the time I'm like 32 years old. Do you remember meeting him?

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All I'm saying is I used to give you a hard time about that jacket. And I'm sure we've discussed it in different episodes. I called it the old Dr. Zaius. It was it's a dark jacket. Dr. Zasis was kind of an orange, but it was black.

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vaguely and he was sitting there and he was real nervous and I just kind of said that your stuff is great, but we didn't have an opening. So he goes from that experience to maybe a year later getting Everybody Loves Raymond and then becoming this monolithic TV star. Yeah. I remember later on running into him and saying, I was really bummed I didn't get that job.

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I'm like, what are you talking about? Do you realize what we pay monologue, right? Why? Was it me? There wasn't an element. Ray! Ray! Hello! Ray!

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You're Ray Romano. That doesn't happen if you're with me writing, oh, you know.

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Yeah, exactly.

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You can buy and sell me 35s. I know, but I think I could have done that.

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Anyway, you know, it's just, I don't know. I love people that just get stuck on something like that. And I'm trying to get you stuck on it, but it didn't work out.

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Al Pacino too.

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Yes. And he sat right where you're sitting and he's one of my all time. That was a great interview. And talk about, you can't believe, I couldn't believe that I'm in, you know, I mean, I had bumped into him a couple of times. He had always been very sweet to me. knew who I was, would like call me, called me over to his table once in a while.

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I mean, just, I couldn't, I couldn't believe that this guy, there's of all the space in his brain, there's one cell that knows about me. Like I couldn't, I couldn't believe it because I'm such a massive fan, but he was sitting here and yeah, he was very in touch with no bitterness at all, but very much in touch with the fact that, you know, Coppola and the studio really didn't want him.

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I mean, Coppola wanted him to have the role in The Godfather, but studio didn't want him. And then for maybe half the shoot of the movie, the studio doesn't like him. And Coppola is like, yeah, no, he's not bringing it. He's not bringing it and tells him that. And he remembered being called over to Coppola's table at a restaurant and Coppola didn't even stand up.

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Yeah, you didn't ask him to sit down. Didn't ask him to sit down. And so he was very much in touch with that and still is. And I remembered him saying to me, like, you know, Conan, they didn't want me. They didn't want me. And I'm like, yes. But then you did get it and you became the face of the set. Michael Corleone. Yes. For not one, but two of the greatest films ever made.

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Yeah, it was black, but had some crenellations and folds, had a little bit of an 80s vibe to it.

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And then you go on to do all this other iconic work. And it's like, I know, but they didn't want me. And, um... It's just incredible. Al Pacino. Al Pacino is sweating stuff out.

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Also, I love, and this has happened before too, I love the concept that there are crew people going, who the fuck is this guy? And when they were shooting the opening of The Godfather and it takes place at the big wedding at Marlon Brando's estate and everyone's dancing and having fun and they cut over to Michael and Kay, he's really underplaying it. He's just...

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He's just out of the army and he's explaining who people are. He's like, oh, that's Luca Brazzi. He works for my father. He takes care of... So what does your father do, Michael? But apparently those dailies came back and the people at, I guess it was Paramount maybe, were like, who is this droopy noodle of a guy in a big army hat? He's terrible. Yeah. Like zero charisma.

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But anyway, you just wore the same thing every single day. And I used to say, did I not? I'll get you a jacket.

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And he's not being... And the crew, the crew is like, what's with this guy? And apparently the other time that happened, you're a graduate. Yeah. So Dustin Hoffman is, you know, in the book, The Graduate, The Graduate is a blonde haired, blue eyed. And so they wanted like Robert Redford. That was just who it was supposed to be.

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And the big brave decision was, no, it's going to be this little known actor, theater actor, Dustin Hoffman, who's not a blonde haired, blue eyed kid. And the crew and everyone is like, what the fuck? This guy's mumbling. Is this the same crew? What about you? Hey, trust me, this is the crew. Hey, trust me. They didn't believe in what they were working on.

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This is the crew I had at late night in 93, 94, 95. Because we inherited Dave's. And I swear to God, people were, I don't blame them, but they were like, you know, they had just had David Letterman.

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I had a third... Yeah, his cork. I had his camera, some of his camera, because they stayed behind. Dave went to CBS and took some people. But there was a cork, and I don't blame them. There was like cable pullers and stuff. And David Letterman, after 11 years of reinventing the format and dominating, has now gone on to greater heights. And... They're like, they got this new kid. Here he comes.

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And I come in. And I'm like, hi, everybody. My name's Conan. I know. Anyway, I like improv. We're going to try some weird stuff. I don't know. I think it's going to be okay. Hey, does anybody... What dries up acne? Does anybody know? Like, I still had acne break out occasionally. And I'd be like, does anyone... Because I use this stuff, but is there something better? Oh, no.

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Oh, it was worn in all right. Yes. No, no, no. It was, wow. I am shocked that jacket's gone because that is such a part of... It's okay.

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Hi, if anyone's out there watching...

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But that was the thing that blew my mind was the, and I didn't blame them, but there were just, I mean, there were guys on my crew that had worked on Sullivan when the Beatles played there. Wow. And I would ask them like, what was that like? And they were guys from Long Island.

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You know, and they'd say stuff like, I don't know. I was mad because it's a Sunday night. I'm not supposed to work Sunday night. And then they call me because Steve got, I got to come in. And so I'm up in there and I did, but,

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it was the Beatles it was the Beatles and I'm like I don't know that fucking hair I don't know and then I'm on the way home and then the carburetor blows out so fuck that shit you know and I don't get paid overtime and you're like that's their memory of it yeah you're like great this was a really special talk that we just had thank you very much historic on the subject of music I know that you have done many podcasts music centric podcasts you have your obsessions R.E.M.

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yeah you love R.E.M.

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My college girlfriend, when I was, I think a senior, she was so cool. She knew about music. She knew bands before they broke, but I remembered her being very cool and saying, yeah, REM. I'm like, REM? What is that? That's a band? And kind of thinking, great, you like your niche little band that's not going anywhere.

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I think I said to her, nothing you say is of value to me. She walks out on me. What's that all about?

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Yeah. And to this day, a lot of great music. Yeah. So it's, what are your bands? Your bands are R.E.M., U2.

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What are you watching when you're a kid? What are the shows that mean something to you on TV? Letterman was a huge one.

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You hit pure joy and then you clearly couldn't do it. Like you had eaten something rotten and you couldn't keep it down.

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Oh, I'm obsessed with, I've had huge fights. I had a huge fight with Bill Burr who loves chips. And I went after Bill and said, chips is a piece of shit. And he's like, what are you talking about? He's getting crazy on me about how much he loves chips and how much it meant to him. But if you watch those shows now, the editing, they'll, I don't know if everyone's on Coke that's making them.

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Adam Scott

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But the shots are lazy. So the whole point of the show is there's going to be this big meeting. Right. You know, and so a guy's going to pull up in his car and go talk to someone who's in another car. Yeah. The car will pull up in some big parking lot 30 feet away. The guy will get out and shut the door and walk 30 feet to the other guy. Totally. No cutting. No.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

217.045

I love that I just pointed to a vagina and said, what is that?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2182.773

No editing because they're like, yeah, we can kill some time walking from that giant bad late 70s American car to this one. That's right.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2204.4

So hilarious.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2224.831

Like really see if he can hang in there. Yeah. Well, I'm sure I'll be getting a call from him very soon. I just saw him the other day. We had a lovely meal and now he's going to feel like I betrayed him. But I think we are in TV's golden age.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

224.551

I've heard tell. A new discovery. Yeah.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2240.587

I keep saying that clearly the whole business changed, but what you're describing and now we sound like, you know, the two old men on The Muppet Show in the balcony. You watched what was on. Right. And you had an awareness sometimes, this doesn't seem that good. Right. But it was all there was. Yeah. There's three networks. And also there's what comes in, meaning what will my reception capture?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2265.782

Yes. Because sometimes there's a good show and you'd go to turn it on and there was the antenna. I keep moving the antenna around. Yeah, that's right. And so just this, I don't know.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2280.209

Right. And so now there's the other problem of I have 7,000 options.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2286.893

And yes, there are some very obvious choices I can make. Yeah. When I know there's a really good documentary out or, hey, Severance is back. I know what I'm doing. It's appointment television. But then there's so much. Yeah. where people have told me, you've got to watch GubGubNation. And I'm like, what is it? I love GubGubNation. You're surrounded by people that love GubGubNation.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2308.633

And I'll be like, what's GubGubNation? We're GubGubbers. Yeah, we're just from way back. GubHeads, what's up, everybody? Season one, GubHeads.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2316.943

And I'll say, what is it? And they'll be like, oh, it takes place at an advertising agency. It's British. But you're going to really. And then I'll watch like two episodes.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2327.936

Seven. Get to seven. No, you have to. Get to seven because that's when the gub gubbers show up.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

234.958

Yeah, it has fallopian tubes that are flowers.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2359.381

Never mind, never mind, never mind. I remember my writing partner when I came out to LA for the first time, Greg Daniels, of course, the great Greg Daniels. He and I came out here and we're both 22 years old. And there wasn't that much television. There was just, as I said, a couple of networks and a couple of big sitcoms and some dramas. And so you'd seen everything.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2383.08

There was no such thing as a show that you had never heard of because there aren't that many shows.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2388.544

So I remember once Greg and I are working late and I think we were over at Sunset Gower Studios, which isn't too far from where we are now. And we're these like wide-eyed 22-year-old guys right out of college. And we're working on this show called Not Necessarily the News. But then we're also wandering around because we're like, wow, this is where they make television.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2405.749

And we wandered on to, oh my God, this is the set where they make Benson. Whoa. And Benson with Robert Guillaume.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2414.633

I think they were still making it. And this would be 1985. Yeah, yeah.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2425.699

That's it. And it's all the lights are kind of down. There's a couple of lights on, but there's like cloth over things. They put the things, the sheets over the furniture. And we're wandering in and Greg and I, I mean, it's so funny now Greg has made so much iconic TV, but I remember very clearly him being like, wow. And I'm like, yeah.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2445.094

And then we walk in and we get up close and we look and we're looking at the actual like vase and table. And it's supposed to be a rich like governor's mansion.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2457.357

It's like, because- Fake. It's all fake. And it's all slapped on kind of fake gold paint. And the vase looks like it costs $2. And I remember having this revelation of, it's all a lie, man.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2471.92

Totally.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2474.18

Yeah.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2476.981

You know, and then having that realization over and over and over again, whenever I was on a set and sitting down and like, this is the chair? Right. Where the girls on Facts of Life sit? Wow.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2491.623

I used to go over there a lot, hang out in the chair. That sounds so creepy. The chair.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2500.005

What chair?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2504.809

There's that one scene. No, I don't. Which one does Mrs. Garrett sit in? Point me in the general direction. Uh, no, but I mean, it's just so, uh, such a revelation when you got to see.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2517.744

Um, and it would be, I mean, it's, it's never really changed, you know, when you're on a set. Oh yeah. The first time that I saw Letterman show, which so weirdly, but I was in college and I went to New York and saw a live taping of late night with David Letterman.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2533.048

Having no idea that I would take over that show. That's wild. And in that studio. And that some of those crew members would be my crew members. And I'm, so I remembered sitting, being led in by NBC pages and sitting down and thinking, what's going on? Yeah. This is really small.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2552.543

Because on television, the perspective is widened and things look big.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2557.928

And realizing, wait a minute, what the fuck? Like where Dave is standing doing his monologue, he can reach over and touch, you know, Paul Schaefer. Yeah. He can touch him. Whereas on TV, the way they shoot it, it doesn't look that way at all.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2572

And Studio 6A is notoriously, it's a small, it was built for radio. Yeah. It wasn't built for television. Yeah. And that's the magic of it, is that it's small. So comedy rockets around the room and bounces off the walls.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2598.767

We never thought of that.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2622.381

I was sitting pretty far back and I would have to... Because that's incredible. I got to find that episode, actually. Who was the guest? Do you remember? It's a blur. I have a memory of one bit, and I'm going to really have to think about it. But a door slides open, and a boxer comes out of the wall. But I bet I could figure out what the episode is.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

263.099

Oh, you've never done that thing that women are supposed to do to empower themselves where they get a mirror and they look there and they love themselves and all that whole thing?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2644.254

I don't think there's a shot of me in the audience. I was sitting pretty far back with my friend Maya Williams, and... And afterwards, Maya knew one of the writers on the show, Steve O'Donnell.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2657.124

And Steve brought us up to the offices. Whoa. And we're sitting in Steve O'Donnell's tiny office, and I'm sitting there with Maya talking to Steve, and Meryl Markle walks by, and a guy in a leather jacket walks by with her carrying a box, and it's Dave Letterman. Wow. He kind of just nods at us and keeps moving.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2676.041

And I, it was, well, there's no, if I was a kid, I'd say it was like the president of the United States walked by, but that no longer works. Right. That was the president. Now, I'm sorry. I don't care who's president now in this world. It would be like, oh, it's the president. It's been so demystified. Who cares? So, but I'll never forget. I remember the jacket he was wearing.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2699.906

I remembered and remembered thinking, wow. Yeah. He gets to have this show. And then the idea that, what is that? That's probably 1983. The idea that 10 years later, I'm hosting that show to this day makes no sense to me. And I think was a mistake. I really do in my heart think it was a fucking blunder. No, I mean, I'm taking it all in. I'm whatever.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

271.545

That wasn't disdain. He's saying it with utter horror. Horror.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2725.191

I'm saying it's a beautiful thing, but it doesn't make any sense. Did you ever tell Dave that? It's funny. I don't know that I have. I don't know that I have, because I don't know. I mean, not that Dave and I talk that much, only because we don't cross paths much. When we do, I treasure those moments.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2746.345

But from his perspective, it's a story of, I saw you once and you were wearing a leather jacket in a hallway. Yeah. And I had acne. Right. And I asked you, do you have anything that can clear this up? Do you have anything? And will your crew hate me as much as I think they will? No.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2771.26

He might, I don't know. Or he might have me taken away by his retinue of goons. What was the story when you were on the bit? Oh, yeah, you didn't tell us. You did a bit. What happened?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

280.514

Well, ours, you could see it all the time. That's true. And sometimes it looks right at you. They're on the outside.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2823.671

You know what I love? You so don't want to tell us what it is. I know. You keep qualifying it. I know. And another thing you should know. Is that the Roman Empire did not have movable type.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2878.995

But then, and then you start to go through like, for example. Yeah. Reese is like, go ahead.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2960.464

Yep, you sure did.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

298.007

Wait, the pin or your actual undercarriage?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

2988.626

And you and Andy would be like, oh, it would take on this life of its own. And it's like nuclear fission or fusion. It's just going to. Yes. Molecules are going to be bouncing off each other and the rest will take care of itself. That's right. Yeah. And we'll be fine.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3006.782

No, no, and this is the perfect place to discuss this because it's anatomy of a, you are not alone. I've had many prominent people come up to me over the years and say, I just want to say I'm sorry. And I'll say, what? And they'll say, oh, in 1998, I came on and I tried this thing and I bombed so hard and I don't remember. Right. Yours, I remember. Right.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3031.747

I wake up every morning thinking about it and my wife is like, what happened? Is it the Wilburys? I'm like, it is, it is. And she's like, you're not there anymore. It's over. It's over. You're safe. You're with me. And we get a cold cloth and we, but it was so long.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3051.931

And so, but what I remember about that moment is you, a lot of other people would have bailed and you clearly were like, no, I made my bed and I'm seeing this through to the end. And I think at the end you say something like, and that is why. Yeah. People can look it up now, which is the beauty, but- No.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

307.512

Well, I think I don't know. I'm not sure. It's vagina. That's what it is.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3102.118

I think I tried. You tried. I do have the reputation of trying to help.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3109.545

At a certain point, I saw nine sharks chomping away at Adam Scott and blood and gore filling the water. And I decided to get back on the boat. That sounds like you. I removed my foot from the water and got into the boat. And then, because I saw, like, he's lost too much. It's over, you know? I had no legs. Like, what are you going to do?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3134.964

At the end of the episode, we did cut it out, but at the end of the episode, you went from telling a good story to just being a head. That's right. Just floating like, where are you going? A head sitting on a chair. I still haven't done Roy Orbison. We never did get to Roy Orbison. Yeah. Well, you know why it's funny now?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3157.27

Because it's funny now because you're, you're just, you could not, things could not be going better for you. And you're in this show where you get to, in every way, show the power you have and the range you have. And yes, the, They could have found someone else to do it, and I think I could have done it. That much is clear.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3183.262

I think that's, if you take one thing from this episode, is I know how to have my face change a little bit in an elevator. I've done it before. And they wouldn't need special effects. I can just do it. Right, right. And that saves $600.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

319.176

Now I'm doing it like Jeff Ross would do. Vagina.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3198.529

Yes, no, you can do it. Oh, I know you guys do something. No, I just, I couldn't be happier for you because you're just a great guy and you deserve all this.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3220.042

Gorgeous and hilarious.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3225.13

I know you're a busy guy, and thank you so much for being here. Thank you. Let's break bread someday soon. You know what I want? I want to get Bill Burr involved, and then you and I both go at him about chips.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

324.317

I'm good.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

325.257

I'm good. People will think I just spilled some tomatillo sauce on me. I don't think I'll wear the pin. I'm good.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3281.662

Yes. Yes. They were on the back of, I think they were on the back of Matchbooks.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3303.505

There used to be these ads, speaking of scams, on the back of comic books that would say things akin to, if you clip this out and you include $1.50, we'll send you a hovercraft to your home. Definitely. Or there was one that was a submarine. Yeah. A working submarine. So send us $1.50. And I always was curious, do you get something in the mail? That's a good question. And what is it?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3325.057

And how could it be anything close to a submarine? I mean, I would love someone out there to find out what did you actually get in the late 60s and early 70s if you cut out the coupon that said you get a submarine.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

334.199

But I think I want women to know I'm in their corner. Just keep that thing away from me. Now, would your mom be OK with you wearing that pin?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3345.3

Maybe, but still, I remember the price being absurdly low and the drawing was very deceptive. It showed like basically a German U-boat prowling the North Atlantic. So I would love to know what did you get? I'm sure it would be very disappointing, but the fact that you got anything that might approximate the foundation of a submarine for $1.50?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3383.324

There's Tippy who looks to be a tortoise in a turtleneck. Well, that makes sense. Turtleneck sweater.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3389.529

It's just a neck sweater to him. Exactly. He just calls it, this is my sweater. Yeah. This is my me sweater, my me neck, as opposed to a V-neck. And then there's a pirate, clearly. No idea why pirates always have an eye patch. That'll get worked out later on.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3420.846

Very good. Very nice. That's good to know. And then there's Tiny, who is either. Now, this is a little confusing. Could be a little kitten. I think it's a mouse. It's a mouse. You're right. It's a mouse because of the ears.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3433.255

Yeah.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3435.517

What?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3441.322

Yeah. They wear the eye patch so that they can.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3447.147

And also, I don't even know if that's true. I'm telling you, I heard it from a guy. Yeah. I heard it from a guy not too long ago.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3465.614

Okay. Well, I guess there's no getting around it. I'm going to be the pirate. Okay. Sona, what would you like?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3473.719

All right.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3507.175

You're not giving us a lot of time for this. Well, that's the point.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3512.162

How much time do I have left? You got plenty of time. Good, because I need more time.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3519.286

No, no, don't do that. Don't do that.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3521.987

That's not. I want it to be somewhat.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3526.71

No, I want it to be somewhat decent. I take some pride in my drawing.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3558.159

No, no, no.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3559.641

Yeah, we're not waiting for that shit.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3562.826

It's the pen's fault, huh?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3570.035

Why is everything a she?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3572.875

I'm giving you a jacket. You don't deserve any more than that. I can't believe that jacket went up. I can't believe the fire didn't recoil when it saw the fire.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3583.22

Nah. Let's get out of here, guys. That thing's ugly. Three, two, hold it, one.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3591.308

All right, what do we do?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3686.877

I think my true, I'm like a forger.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3715.036

No.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3719.379

Yeah.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3720.8

Well, also, I was copying something else. I didn't want to get the reputation of someone who steals. So I didn't want to do it. The original artists, whoever they are, it's really their work, and I give it up for them.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

374.174

Blay, weigh in. Blay has seen two in his lifetime. What was the one I came out of?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3767.13

I mean, I don't know. They're all very different. I don't know how you choose a winner. Who's the winner?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3773.517

No, no, no, not, not. I mean, I know who the winner should be. I'm just impressed with how quickly you did this.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3785.15

Let's not get crazy. Can you believe he rendered a mouth of the hat in 60 seconds? Honestly. Never in the annals of man. Less time.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3798.773

So he gets points for forgetting to do the assignment. Well...

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3804.68

I don't think that should factor in. If I enter a marathon late, you know what I mean, and manage to get a mile in, I don't think you guys would be, whoa.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3861.338

$6.98. And it says fires, rockets, and torpedoes over seven feet long, big enough for two kids. Now, that's what they're showing. Now, when I was a kid, I lost my shit over this thing. Yeah. I was like, wait a minute. This is incredible. And I want to know, what was the company? Did anyone in America purchase this thing? And what did you, in fact, get?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

388.854

It's like when you're in a train and it's not your station.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3889.425

And it says, over seven feet long, seats two kids, controls that work. Oh, wait, I think I remember what it is. You know what this is?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

3903.813

You know what? We need to find out. We need to find out because this haunted my childhood. This is up there with the Uncle Sam Halloween mask. I must find out. Someone please out there, the Polaris nuclear sub for $6.98. Plus 75 cents shipping charges. Yeah.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

408.051

Yeah. Well, why didn't they keep going and have parts of the bladder? Why not just keep going at that point? Why did they put the fallopian tubes in there?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

436.757

Don't stop saying don't say this and don't say that.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

443.823

It takes two to tango, as they say. And we do. Biologically, biologically, I think we are for now a necessity.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

461.118

Well, we do things too. We're like, honey, can I get you some tea before I go out to the strip club with my pals? Honey, can I prop your feet up before I head out and ogle the ladies on the boulevard and eat ham sandwiches with my chums?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

480.032

Sorry.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

493.793

I don't put them on my... Well, in your case, you biologically have truck nuts, right? I do, yeah. That was just a gift from God and General Motors.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

509.06

They're a little different. Those are cold weather nuts. Those are four-wheel drive, cold weather, European-designed nuts.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

519.564

Sure, yeah. Yeah. If you can see these nuts, you're way too close, buddy. Back up.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

528.513

What are those nuts doing over there? This is America.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

536.877

Yes, I am sorry for the loss of that jacket. I really am.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

540.42

I really am.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

542.261

No, I am. I am. I mean, you went through a terrible thing, and I'm... Yeah. I do. It was fun making fun of that jacket, and now that it's gone and the way that it went, I'm sad.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

55.592

Hey there, Conan O'Brien here. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. And I do need a friend, fortunately. I have 1.5 in Sonom of Session.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

554.69

That's what it is. I have lost... One of the arrows in my quiver. I now have one less thing to attack Sona with. And I think that's the greatest tragedy here.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

565.389

Let's wrap it up.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

573.775

Yes. I'll get you to the end of time. Sorry about your loss. My guest today starred in shows... Like Parks and Recreation and Party Down. Now you can see him in the second season. I am so excited about this. I'm loving the second season. And I do honestly think this is one of the most beautifully crafted things on television. The hit Apple TV series, Severance. So excited he's here today.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

602.881

I celebrate this gentleman. Adam Scott, welcome. Very excited to have you here. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. I'm a massive fan of your work, but also you as a person. And we've had the joy of hanging out a little bit. And I'm just, I could not be happier for you. Oh, thanks. That you are right now at the center of the coolest show on television. universal acclaim.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

642.311

Everyone's been waiting on the second season. It shows up. It was appointment television for my son, my wife, and I. We just, like, we sat down, loving it. We debate it. It is beautifully made. You're killing it. And I'm just, I'm happy for you. Thank you, Conan. Do I wish it were me? Yes, I do. Sure. Sure, I understand. Do I feel that maybe there was a chance that I'd get that part? Yeah.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

66.336

And Gorley, Matt Gorley. Am I 0.5 or are we both 0.75? You know what? It's something you'll have to figure out on your own. That's the beauty of my mystical little quips. You never know what I really mean. This is an exciting day.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

667.83

There was a mix-up of some sort? Yeah. I know Stiller called me at one point, and I didn't get the call. I couldn't quite pick it up. No, I'm just... That's show business. Yeah. And then he had to go with his second choice. That's right. Adam Scott? That's right. What the fuck? Well, whatever. You know what? It ended up working out. And no, it is just so artfully done, so beautifully done.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

695.064

So much thought has gone into this. And I watched the opening shot of the second season several times. Oh, really? Yeah. Because you're, I'm not giving anything away, but the opening shot of the second season, you are running down this hallway that just doesn't end. And there's something about the way it's shot. I don't know what it is. I've watched a lot of film. I've watched a lot of television.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

720.964

And I have never seen anything quite like it. And I can't put my finger on what's happening there. But it is a absolutely incredible piece of filmmaking that's the start of a television show.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Adam Scott

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Every time I've seen you out on the street, I usually ask you, oh, waiter. Yes. Can I get some more ice water? It's a party down confusion. That's right. Yeah. But anyway, I know that Ben takes this really seriously. And it's not just making a TV show. This is a whole other thing.

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Because Sona's wearing a jacket I haven't seen before. And this is a woman who will wear the same jacket day in and day out. And I don't believe someone should be a clothes horse. I don't think someone should be, you know, styling it every day. You know, that's not my way. Yeah. But I am not a material man. But...

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The sense I get is that Ben is playing three-dimensional chess. Yes. And, you know... And we're playing Connect Four. Exactly. And you, I'll ask him a question. You'd be like, do not worry. He's seeing like his nine dimensional chessboard. But looking at the whole span of your career, this is quite a different gig. Yeah. First of all, I know it, it took you a while.

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You paid, talk about paying your dues. You paid your dues for, for a long time. It took you a long time to find your footing, catch your break. And then it was really in, I mean, starting out in like background work. Weren't you doing background work?

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I have to say, I don't know if you guys do this. I, and you might do it because this used to be your profession. I look at background people sometimes in scenes. And if I don't find the scene particularly riveting, I really do look at the background people. And I'm, I'm usually impressed. Yeah. Like they're in it. Yeah. They're both not talking at the same time, even though. Right.

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And then every now and then there's someone who's just too happy about having a cup of coffee. Yes. Or having a conversation where they're like, you know. Yes, yes. Take it down a notch. Yes. Yeah. Or wearing a beret. Or wearing a beret. Anything to get noticed. But you know, then when your breaks start to come, it's very much ensemble work. Yeah.

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And you are in an ensemble now, but you are the face of the show. Yeah. So this is, I mean, there must be something kind of comforting about ensemble work. Yeah. Clearly, I mean, working on something like Party Down, you're just working with these wonderful improvisers. I mean, what a cast. It's incredible.

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Oh, no! Oh!

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This is so sick. It's not like the treat's just for you. It's everyone else, which is creating this group thing that's evil.

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On how to run a podcast company. But, oh my God, that is wrong slash kind of ingenious.

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Yes, exactly.

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If I was in my house and that was being projected and coming in through the window, I think I'd lose my mind.

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You have this great quote, when playing a role, I would feel more comfortable as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. Yeah. And I thought that is, I understand someone's telling you. Yeah. All the anxiety you might have, Jesse, about what am I supposed to say or do in this one particular situation? Right. But if you're in the seagull. Yeah.

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You know, like, no, I'm supposed to enter and then I'm supposed to leave and shoot myself. Right, exactly. This is what I'm supposed to do. Exactly.

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No, and you step outside to go get the paper and these lasers are firing candy canes into your eyes. You get your paper in the nighttime? Yeah, I get it delivered at night. When I want it, when there's bad news, I want to hear it right away.

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It's funny because now I'm having this other like flashback memory of I don't know if you remember this, Sona, but when we were doing the shows during COVID.

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I think you were one of the first people. Yes, that's right. You may have been the first guest I talked to. COVID hit, all the shows shut down. Then we all came back, I think on the same day, and we were doing- Virtual. Virtual interviews, Zoom interviews.

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And I think everyone else really had their shit together and they were talking to guests who were in their home, but with state-of-the-art Zoom.

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And I was very excited that you were gonna be like the first guest back. Oh, great. We got Jesse Eisenberg. This is going to be great. And your family had gotten into a van and you were just driving across America. I think you're trying to escape COVID in a van in America, which doesn't work, by the way. But I remembered you having... possibly the worst Zoom signal I've ever seen.

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And this was on television. You could probably look it up and see it, but it looks like I'm talking to, it looks like it's 1962 and I'm talking to a Russian cosmonaut who's in space. Exactly. Yuri Gagarin, how are you? And then it would go out and then you'd come back in again. And occasionally I could see, you know, like your family in the background trying to swat away COVID.

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It was craziness.

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Oh, no, no. It...

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What I've remembered is I remember, those are the things I remember in show business. There've been many, you know, flawless, perfectly executed Technicolor interviews that I'll never remember. Yeah. But I just remember you in a baseball cap and your family trying to outrun a virus in a van.

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Yeah. The only one who didn't get it, Sona, who ate garlic, right?

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Really?

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Maybe he's out with COVID right now.

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I pay him a little extra to come by at night. It makes me feel, I don't want to read news in the morning. I want to read it at night. And it's the only way to get it through the newspaper, I'm told. Hi, I don't know much about the Internet. But anyway, I don't I don't that looks like way too much to have something projected on the house. But I have a brother who's a fully adult man.

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Oh, and he got real cocky about it. And he said, he kept, he was always shouting, COVID can never get me.

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Remember? That's right. And if someone had COVID, he would grab them and open mouth kiss them. Right. He got me too a couple of times for that. That's right. And then finally, You ordered a hamburger and you said, put a little extra COVID on it. And you finally caught it. Got it. So it ultimately was your fault. In my stories, it's always the other person. Put a little extra COVID on it. Yeah.

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I said I wanted COVID. I want two scoops. Make it real COVID-y. You call this COVID? I got to ask you, I know you did Zombieland with him. And so I have to ask you about Woody Harrelson because he's an unsolvable mystery to me. And I ask because he, in my little podcast company, he does a podcast, a very good podcast that he does.

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With Ted Danson, they do it together in this very room. And whenever I encounter Woody, I'm convinced he's not real. I'm convinced he's not a real person in all the best ways.

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He's a fascinating creature.

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Yes.

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It's like him and Paul Rudd are the people that everyone's agreed. We love them.

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And we've, I mean, mentioned it, but it was a big episode here, but it was, you may not be aware of this, that I was here with Ted and we were waiting on Woody and they said he's good. And then we got this message. Yeah, Woody's running late. He was in a motorcycle accident. And I was saying, he was in a motorcycle accident. Let's all rush to the hospital and go make sure he's okay.

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And they're like, nope, he's just going to be 15 minutes late. Yeah. And he showed up 15 minutes late and he had gone like ass over tea kettle over the hood of a car. Right. Not wearing armor. Yeah. And Ted bandaged him. And then we did the podcast. Oh, my God. And I'm and he's like, I'll be right, man. You know what? No. Yeah. You're no. What are you doing?

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He goes all out on Christmas on the inside of his house. And I think that's really sweet. I love that. I'm all for people going for it. You know, it's funny every now and then someone gives me an ornament. I put it on the tree and then kind of forget about it. And then it just shows up because it all goes into a box and then it goes back on the tree the next year.

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Yeah. I'm also furious with him because he pulled me aside and said, hey, man. you want to go 50-50 with me on a houseboat in Amsterdam? And I'm like, to co-own a houseboat in Amsterdam with Woody Harrelson, I could dine out on that for the rest of my life. And so I said, yes, yes. And he said, don't you have to talk to your wife? And I said, no, I'm just saying yes right now.

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He said, do you need to see pictures? I said, no. If you know if I've never see it. Of course. I'm going to tell people, yeah, Woody Harrelson and I co-own a houseboat in Amsterdam. Three days later, we don't talk. He's taping a podcast right in here, and he's talking to Flea. And on air, he goes, hey, Flea, you want to go half and half? And I practically crashed the door down.

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And I'm like yelling at him, you never intended.

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He is sold. It's like that con man who sold. A million halves. Yeah. You each get a half. All thousand of you. Now if I could just leave town with this suitcase full of cash. He's the music man. The monorail. He's the music man. Yeah, or the monorail. It's Lyle Landley. Yeah, exactly.

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But one of the things I love the most about being in this business is just meeting all these characters, these authentic people. And I just and just to me, that's the price of admission.

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I think it's less, yes. I know what you mean. I think there's eccentricity that's manufactured by celebrities, famous people, whatever you want to call them, people of note. There's some eccentricity. I think the thing that's manufactured the most is difficulty. I think that's what I've noticed. Purposely manufactured.

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Purposely manufactured difficulty because it almost creates a sense of importance. Sometimes I think when someone's being very difficult or there's a lot of demands and they have a giant entourage and everything has to be just right, I think this person's unhappy. This person is trying to create something because they don't feel authentic enough.

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And a couple of years ago, Zach Braff was here and he gave me an ornament. It's him and Donald Faison hugging each other. And I remember just coming home and like, it was in my pocket. And I'm like, what's this? And the tree was up and I went, oh, okay. And I just put it on the tree. Like three years go by. And the other day I passed my tree. I'm like, what the fuck?

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I know that when I was doing the late night show, Bruce Springsteen came to perform and he showed up himself. Right. And he's wearing a flannel shirt. Right. And he's hanging out in the hallway. And afterwards, someone bought a case of beer and we all cracked it open. We were standing around drinking beer. Because he didn't need validation. He didn't need that.

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And then occasionally there's someone who they're not even the number one name on the call sheet or- of the show they're on, and there's a lot of demands. Of course, yeah, that's always the case. And I'd like to keep the limo afterwards, and I'd also, when I get there, this is what the temperature should be. Right, of course. And to me, that's the pathology of it a little bit.

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Of course, that makes a lot more sense, of course. And when you meet an authentic person, there's a little piece of zinc in our brains as humanoids where we know, oh, okay, this person is authentic. This Woody Harrelson guy is not making shit up. He's real.

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Cell phone tower, yes, yes. Yes. Well, I think he believes it. That's true. That is true. The truth is he believes it. That's true. What's made up is that he has a houseboat in Amsterdam. That's the bullshit.

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No, it's not the same. Flea's just going to be doing bass scales the whole time. Really fast. And I'll be like, Jesus, Flea. Do you know another instrument? Yeah.

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This actually leads me to your film. Naturally. Which it does. It does. It leads me to your film because A Real Pain co-stars you and Kieran Culkin as cousins. I saw a trailer first, for I saw the film, as often happens. And the second I saw you and Kieran together, I was just, oh, this is going to be great.

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Thanks. Because I adore both of you. I think you're both fantastic actors, but you also both play very well different registers. The two of you play these cousins who in many ways could not be more different. For a movie that has a lot of dark and meaningful subtext. You two are so funny and real together.

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He wasn't cast because he sexually assaulted.

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There was a whole, he had to do a little time. He had to go away for a bit.

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Why is Zach Braff and Donald Faison hugging each other on my tree?

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Let's lay it out for people just because, you know, I never like to give too much away, but it is a really lovely movie and like a tone poem. But also it's a it's a it's a travel story. It's the story of two cousins that you're taking this very meaningful trip. Your grandmother. Mm hmm. She survived the war. She survived the camps in Poland.

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So you guys are coming back as part of this tour to tour Poland, see some of the sites, you visit a concentration camp, and then you go to see the home where she lived in a kind of Felix and Oscar way, you're so good at being very high strung and trying to hold it all together and very responsible. And he is so irresponsible in these very funny ways.

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And I was watching this movie thinking, well, there can be more movies where you two, I mean, you two characters can do anything.

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Because it's just going to be funny.

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There was a, you know, it is actually a sentimental memory, but our first season, we premiered September 13th, 1993, when I was a 30-year-old kid, and the reviews were pretty much, this won't last. And There was a late night with Conan O'Brien Christmas ornament that someone made and gave to me. I remember to hang it on the tree in Christmas of 93 and kind of thinking, well, at least I got this.

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There's also this feeling that we've all had. There are moments in the film where... you're meant to feel something. You're not quite feeling it in the same magnitude that you feel you should be feeling it. And I thought that is something we've all experienced where you go to a hallowed space or you're learning about something

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I mean, I'm a history buff and I've been to many places where very traumatic things happened. And then you're like, well, we're going to miss the tram if we don't get. You know, it's very weird. It's very weird. It's very weird to lay the two on each other.

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And here we are, 70 years later, on a train with really cushy seats, eating this fancy meal in first class. This isn't right. And he goes storming off to go to another class. And one of the characters yells out, it's not gonna be that much worse than there.

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To me, the beauty of the film is when you can kind of dance on a knife's edge between the darkness, but also the humanity that is people are imperfect. We don't always feel exactly what we're supposed to feel. There's always someone in the room who, if you say, oh my God, I just bit into this sandwich and it's got mold all over it. This is terrible. Oh yeah? Well, guess what? Yeah, exactly.

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Some people never got to have a sandwich and they're dead. And so you can't always pull it. No, I still want the good sandwich. I don't want mold on my sandwich. I'm sorry that someone else didn't get a sandwich 800 years ago, but God damn it, I want the good one.

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Not that that's a good feeling to have. Well, I had a similar experience. You know, your movie is about, because this is based on something you've done. You and your wife, your family have taken trips. Poland is very important to you. Yeah, yeah.

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No, seriously. And then all these years later, I look at it and I'm like…

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Man, you're chalking up the points left and right. Yeah.

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But it'd be so cool to have it. Yeah, I can. I have some envy here because I my. I'm 100% Irish. Right. But the rule is your, I think your grandfather had to have been from Ireland.

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It's this nice little feeling. I want to break that ornament. I know you do. I need to smash it.

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And it's my great-grandfather, so I do not qualify. But I've always thought, wouldn't it be amazing to have an Irish passport? Yeah. Because I could flee if there was an issue. Sure. Yeah, and I could escape from my crimes, my heinous crimes. Okay. Don't go anywhere.

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Are you a mystic around?

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Oh, okay. He'll get another Conan O'Brien.

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But I had the experience of going back to Ireland to shoot a show, this travel show we did for Max. And I'm shooting a lot of comedy and a lot of very silly stuff. And then there was one part where this woman took me to the actual plot of land that my great-grandfather lived on.

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And I get there and I'm looking at this beautiful view, gorgeous view of the Galbally Mountains and like the ice in my heart started to melt a bit. Really? Yeah, I did. I felt very, and I said to her, I said, God, look at this view. And this is where he lives. She said, yeah, they lived in a, the shack is gone now, but this is where they lived.

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And I've looked at the records and it would have been basically a one, one or two rooms and they lived here and I'm looking at it and feeling very emotional and I said, well, this is so beautiful here because it was absolutely gorgeous. It was like an Irish spring ad, you know, it was just a gorgeous, you know, leprechaun Ireland in mountains in the distance.

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Yeah, throw the Zach Braff Donald Faison ornament at it.

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And foolishly, I said to the woman, why did they... Why did he leave? Yeah. You know, and she said, because you can't eat the view. Oh, my God. And it was. There's the tagline for Ireland. I know. But, I mean, it was very powerful. Yeah. They had, there was not enough food. They didn't, you know, and she's just like, yeah, there are good, that's beautiful mountains.

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You can't eat the feckin' mountains. They had to go.

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I added feckin'.

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That's amazing. Ha! Why you can't see South African mountains, can you? And then there was a burst of smoke and she turned into a bat.

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Yeah. She went, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee.

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smashing it uh but yeah so i mean i get sentimental i'm i pretend i work really hard at not being sentimental but i'm very sentimental you like to play the scrooge and i like to try to but then i'm a i'm a total mush about christmas time here's a big divisive thing where do you guys fall on tinsel on a christmas tree tinsel can go fuck itself you know what you've chosen a side yeah i'm i'm

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view yes I was thinking that man would have looked at this he had to go I also knew very sad things about him he he back then there was no going back there was no writing to people there was no I mean a lot of people left they went to America my people went to central Massachusetts to farm country and starting in but this relative of mine who left struggled with alcoholism and it was a real problem for him and

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And just when people have said to me, oh, are you in touch with the people back home in Ireland? Well, no, there was no keeping in touch with anybody. They just went, you know, it was very dark. It was a very, and so anyway, your story, your movie had some resonance for me as it would for, I mean, I think so many people, so many of us are, Immigrants.

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We're all immigrants and it's much discussed in the news now, but all of us have moved on and all of us have come here and we're all curious about where we came from and it does sneak up on you. It gets emotional in a strange way.

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And it's the house that I've seen in the movie.

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Mountains made of meatballs. Yeah. A pastrami volcano. Come to Poland. A view you can eat.

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I'm not a tinsel person. Growing up, there'd be some tinsel on our family tree, but I've never wanted it on our tree. It just looks like shredded aluminum to me.

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Um, well, it's always difficult to feel the pressure to have an emotion because that's not how it's supposed to work. That's true. And, um, this is reminding me, uh, I've shot a bunch of shows around the world because I'm just very fascinated. I, you know, have a real wanderlust and I... I loved my talk show days, but I was always very jealous when someone like you would sit down next to me.

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And next, you know, Jesse Eisenberg. Jesse, how are you? Well, I'm good. I just got back from Budapest where I was with it. And I would think, I've never been there. And I have to be in this seat I get to. I loved it. So the minute I started to invent this way to go to these different countries, and one of the countries that we went to was Armenia, and Sona came with me. And we were...

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shooting all this very fun stuff in Armenia and silly things. And you and I are dressing up as shepherds and we're in fields and we're wearing, you know, so we were shooting all this stuff. And then we went to...

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The genocide memorial. And suddenly, I mean, we're not idiots. I didn't go thinking, oh, this will be fun, you know.

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Hey, why am I feeling these feelings? What is this water coming out of my face? But we went there and it was, well, you take over.

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Exactly.

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Also, I always have... I don't know if you felt this or you felt that, but I'm so lucky to be here. Of course. That's the feeling I have. Of course.

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Yeah, but it looks like someone left you a beautiful present of shit. I try to get my dog to eat a bow, a red bow, so that later I can put it under the tree. I say, look what I got you, honey. It's a shit bow.

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Yes. I'm enraged by people. We live in this world where we're in this business. We're extremely fortunate. And the thing that really angers me is when people act entitled. It makes me insane, except when I do it. Yeah, of course. But no, I get very angry at entitlement.

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I profoundly understand that I'm here because a lot of people, this relative of mine, and it's not that long ago, late 19th century, said, I gotta go. and walked out of that town, made it to central Massachusetts. And there's all these other people that come after that, that don't get one, one billionth of my opportunities. Exactly.

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And then I'm here and standing on millions of shoulders, you know? And so that's the feeling I have. And I do think without getting overtly political, people forget that. People think I'm here because I made this happen. Of course. No, I didn't. I've made some things happen in my life. Right, but in the context of opportunity.

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In the context of amazing opportunities that everyone else provided for me.

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Okay, all right. Eisenberg! Okay, I don't know what it's like to be blessed with talent, but I did what I had to do. But no, it's like, it's such a, you know, going back to this film you made is about a lot. It's interesting. It's a very lovely film that's a very, and it sounds crazy, it's very enjoyable

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to watch, it's a really good movie and it's beautifully scored and it's beautifully directed and you guys are terrific actors and it's got so much lightness in it and it's got, obviously it has some heaviness in it as well, but it's about so much.

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And it's not overt in that way, but it's just, it's one of those films where I watched it and I just thought, okay, I have, this is making me feel all kinds of stuff in a very good way. Oh, that's so nice. And I'm an unfeeling man.

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Why do I invite you back? I don't understand. I think I like the punishment, don't you?

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I think it's grounding you.

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I saw on our Amex bill a $200,000 charge for, it said, Eisenberg therapy.

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Well, listen, I... Congratulations on A Real Pain. And this is not just me. Everybody is talking about this film, and I know it's awards season, but people are abuzz about this film, and rightly so. And congratulations. And also just, you know, I'm very proud to know you. I'm so sorry. No, I really do. I'm proud to know you. You have a lot of character, and I know you're tough on yourself.

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Yeah. The really hard part is getting the dog to swallow a card that says, ha ha, this is shit. But if you can get it to swallow a bow and a card... And the dog and it all stays kind of together. It's fantastic. It's such a good prank. Yeah. Anyway. Happy holidays. Aren't you glad you listened? Hey, Merry Christmas, you two. Merry Christmas. Hey, you too. And happy holidays.

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And you're a real human being, which doesn't always happen in this town. And so just a joy to have you here. Thank you so much.

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Well, we're going to edit all this out. Okay. We're going to add it. Once you leave, I stay for an hour, and it's just Eisenberg zingers. Got it, got it, got it. And then we tape in you going, aww. Well, I can't keep up. I can't keep up with Conan. And I'm like, yeah, another thing, Eisenberg. Zing, zing, zing, zing, zing.

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How did he know? He's probably the funniest guy I've ever met. Hey, why does he sound like Jimmy Stewart?

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Well, I made this movie. It's called Real Pain. I go back to, I go to Poland, you see.

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Man, Conan, you're the funniest, funniest character I've ever met. And I swear to God, I've met them all.

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My people, we had to, you know, had to leave. We're in a shtetl. You got any borscht on you? I like a borscht. Mr. Smith goes to cross the stove. God bless you. You too. Jesse Eisenberg, man. Thanks a lot.

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Oh, wow.

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No, no. No, I was just curious. I was just curious who they got after I turned them down. And then I turned them down.

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Yeah, they called me and I was like, well, I can't do it. And then Gorley was like, no, thanks. Which was really rude. No, thanks. I had a legitimate excuse. So this is exciting. What happened?

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So these are non-Armenians coming to an Armenian festival. Yes. Yes. And see, what did I tell you long ago? I have no idea. We unify people.

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We do. We bring people together.

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Just say, yes, you're right.

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Well, then what the fuck did you bring her up for? What's wrong with her? If he's listening, what is she doing? Just plugging her ears?

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No, they didn't.

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No, no, they didn't drive from the Midwest to go to an Armenian festival. No, they didn't.

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Wow. I have to say, I am not familiar with the genre of fan fiction. I've heard about it, but I'm not familiar with what it actually entails. So he's writing fictitious things that happened to me. You're leaving out a major descriptor. Okay.

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That doesn't surprise me.

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I am an erotic character. Neurotic. You're thinking neurotic. Oh, aren't they the same? Yeah. I think I exude a sexuality.

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Well, that's taking it too far. All inclusive. Oh. Well, just everyone. I just want everyone to have a good holiday. Be they Christian, be they not. Did you want to give us like Christmas bonuses and cash right now or anything? Oh, I could Venmo you. Okay. And Sona will probably tell you I know exactly how to Venmo people. That's the hardest I've seen Sona laugh in a while.

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Breaking out.

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See, this guy gets me. His name is Dean. Yes. Okay. Let me tell you something. When someone's repressed, if anything, it means there's more sexual energy because it's trapped. It is. I guess. You're right. You're right. So when you say like, I never think of you as you're so repressed. Yes. Yes. A volcano just before it blows. Yes. shooting its hot lava. Oh, gross. Oh, God.

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Oh, God.

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Uh-oh, now I'm thinking I know what Gorley's up to because he's looking at his phone. Yeah. And he's either, either there's a 1940s hat sale in the area. My erotic fixation. Oh, wow. Hamburg, yeah. Um,

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You said... You thought he jizzed on... No, no, you're going down an awful road.

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First of all, this is not fiction. I remember Lily. LAUGHTER

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Wait, wait, wait. Don't read the text. So you can click on any of these and it will lead to something about me in that scenario or no?

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Yeah, let's help this guy.

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Okay.

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A bunch of things here. I am married. Her name's not Natasha. And I've never been invited to a Red Sox VIP suite. Nor what I... The Afflecks are always in there.

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Says the guy who calls his wife when she's in New York and I'm in L.A. and goes, can you Uber Eats me some of the chicken salad? Are you serious? I got better, but there was a while there where I was petrified. I'm sorry. It was new technology for a very old man.

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This might be one of the best things that's ever happened to me. Oh. Maybe went too far.

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You know what? This person knows her stuff.

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I shot a dominatrix segment in Berlin and I'm still in pain from it.

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Yeah, these are just the beginning. You're leading just the... These are just the...

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It is too late. It's way too late. It should be called Way Too Late. Their hips clicked as they entwined. My skin hurts, said Conan. What was that? Said his sexual partner. I can't hear you because of my oldness. Ow, it hurts. Conan yelled, peeing pure blood into the toilet.

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Hey there, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. Sona is giggling away uncontrollably. I don't know what's happening. Sona Massessi, and I see, of course, Matt Gorley. Hi. The whole gang's here, and feeling the holiday vibe. Are you feeling it? Oh, I love Christmas. You do? I truly do. You're a Christmas guy? I am, yeah. What do you, I'm guessing, do you go all out with the traditional stuff?

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Hold on. This is getting good. But I'm glad someone is finally seeing me as a sexual being. Because I've been ignored too long in that category. And that's just what a sexual person would say. For far too long, my sexuality has not been seen, said the dynamo, the lothario.

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Oh, my God.

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What's happening?

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Can I just say one thing? You have to stop now. Can I say one thing? I always pause at the clavicle. Do you? That's your move? That's your signature move? My signature move is the clavicle pause.

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I'm not going to read. I know. You have to stop.

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It's good for if you want yogurt after salad. We'll take a break. We'll be right back. I'm stopping you.

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This stuff is... Well, then stop. You keep doom scrolling through it.

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Or she'd be in Seattle visiting her parents and I'd be like, um, I really like that turkey burger. And she'd be like, yeah, yeah, you just get it. It's, you know, you know, it's on, what is it called? Chomp, chomp, chomp.net? That's it. Chomp.net. Chomp.net? Throw a couple my way and I'll tell you which one.

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And you gave this person a forum.

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You know what? It's nice to be appreciated. Let's put it that way.

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Can you guys just be quiet? I'm trying to read. Okay. I'm going to end the segment. Yes. But I'm glad that you hosted the Armenian Ma Ma Ma event.

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Yes, yes, yes.

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Yeah, it sounds like these people really care about your culture. Sona's there. We can read her our smut. Well, anyway, thanks for caring and for sharing to our fans. Put that down. Put the phone down. I want to hear the phone.

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Grubhub. DoorDash. DoorDash. Postmates. Postmates. Okay. Postmates. There it is. I'd say, hey, honey, I like that turkey burger. And she'd be like, well, I'm in Thailand right now at a meeting. And I'd be like, yeah, yeah. And I'm asleep. Yeah, yeah. I like that turkey burger. Can you get it on chompchomp.gov? And she'd say, do you mean Postmates? And I'd go, yeah. Just send it over to the house.

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The turkey burger, no barbecue sauce. Oh.

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Yes. Yeah, I remember.

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You were young, a young fellow. That's right. This is back when I had a steam powered computer. We had to wait for it to heat up to work. That's right.

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You have a piece of paper. You go like, I got the research notes. And I say, what? And you'd say permission to come aboard. And I go, permission denied. Now, I think that's quality leadership. Yeah. Anyway, shit bow. That's the way to go this Christmas. Get your dog to eat a bow. And then give that to someone as a present. Shit bow. Coming soon to a theater near you. Theater? No, it's not a movie.

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I've lost my mind. Merry Christmas.

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That's a double wrap.

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You just slid the wrap at me. It's a wrap sign that you slid to me a second time and I just keep ignoring it. That's what I'd do if I was a teller and someone slid a piece of paper that said this is a robbery. I'd say, yeah, and another thing. Shit bow. And then they'd slide it again. This is a robbery.

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Triple wrap that shit. Get your dog to eat some tinsel and you've got some shiny shit. Look, we've got families we've got to get home to for Christmas. And I'm trying to rob a bank. Happy holidays, everyone. Christmas. Or whatever. Yeah. All right, you guys, let's get serious.

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Hey, guys, quit screwing around. And so enough with the poo-poo jokes. My guest today is an actor, director, author, and playwright who's probably left after that intro, who has starred in such movies as The Social Network and Zombieland. Now you can see him in his new movie, A Real Pain, which he also wrote and directed, and it's fantastic. I watched it, and I love it.

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I'm very excited he's here today. I'm a big fan of this gentleman. Jesse Eisenberg, welcome. I'm going to quickly recap that I met you many, many, many years ago. You did The Squid and the Whale. I think it was the first time I met you. Yeah. You must have been... How old were you then? I was 21. 21 years old. I just adored you immediately, I think.

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Do you have lots of stuff you put out, little holiday trinkets? I think so, yeah. What do you mean?

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And then I've mentioned this before, but several days later, one of the loveliest handwritten notes I've ever received showed up. I've mentioned this last time. But... And I thought there's something different about this person. He's oozing with like character and gentility in this kind of old world way. And then you've gone on and you've had this extraordinary career. Thank you.

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And I'm just so happy for you. Thank you so much. And I feel like, To pat myself on the back, I feel like I called it.

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This is about me.

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This isn't about, this is what I'm really good at, pretending it's about, you know, Jesse. Right. But then it's about me. Okay. I called it.

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Bluebell came in first.

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I am. I'm a sentimental old sap about Christmas. I really am. Yeah. Are you, Sona?

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No, but like, you know, it's even sicker. My immediate thought is he saw the real me. Yeah, that's how I feel.

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I mean, it means a lot to me. And and you've gone on and I'll I'll mention this up front and we'll we'll talk. There's so much I want to talk about. And we're going to get to this film you made you. I mean, let's let's take it off you. wrote, directed, you co-star in it with Kieran Culkin and this extraordinary cast. You made this film and it's absolutely beautiful.

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And it's got people ranting and raving in a good way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've had people ranting and raving in not a good way. It's called A Real Pain and we'll talk about that. But what was special for me was to watch this movie and see that, oh, you are a consummate artist. You've made this beautiful thing with such aplomb and it will endure.

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First of all, I know you celebrate it a little later on.

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I always have this connection with you from that time that you sent me that note and I had that nice first meeting with you. And then here you are all these years later and you're doing extraordinary work and I'm just so happy for you.

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No. It's funny. Occasionally. Yeah. I, you know, Stalin did a lot of bad stuff. Right. No, no, no. No. No, but sometimes I'd be like, come on, you can do it, Stalin. You can turn this around. And you were really young at the time. I was very, I'm older than people think. Sure. I was born in 1911. Do the math. No, I can separate. There are people who do excellent work and are not good people.

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And I do believe in separating the two. You are a man who's, I think, has real character and you do exceptional work. I like it when the two come together, but they don't have to. Got it. Do you know what I mean?

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And there are how many artists can you see, you know, whose work is hanging on the wall and you later learn, or amazing athletes who were absolutely deplorable human beings. But I still applaud their athleticism.

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I mean, Stalin's been dead a long time and I still talk him up. I think he could still get me. He could still get me. It's funny. We probably have a few things in common. I grew up with my share of anxiety. and hated going to school.

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I didn't want to leave my house, but I still to this day can remember the carpool ride from my house on Kennard Road to the Michael Driscoll School, every second thinking, okay, we're not there yet. Like just filled with that kind of, like your mouth tastes like aluminum. You have so much anxiety. And I've later thought, well, I hate to say it, but it probably... contributed some things to me.

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And I know that you have this struggle too. Yeah. I've had many therapists and many people tell me, well, you didn't need that. You'd have been, and I don't trust them. It's like Dumbo's feather. I think I needed that. I don't know where you come down on all this.

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I don't want to be that house. You don't know the house that has. They have a thing now. I saw an ad where they project. You can put little projectors that project like candy canes, snowflakes and snowflakes and little Santas and reindeer. And they crisscross your entire house. And I think I would go insane. Yeah.

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No, but... More and more, I think I'm here out of a weird compulsion that I don't have a control over. And I think about you and your anxiety and you are not the typical, hey, put that light on me. Right, exactly. Because I'm ready to shine.

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But something pushed this young, anxious kid. I mean, I know that you were so anxious as a child getting on the bus to go to school. Yeah, yeah.

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I'm trying to do the math and I don't see how it affects the operation of the vehicle. Oh no, it could, yeah, I could see leap down into the transmission.

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None would come to the mind of a Jeff Goldblum. None like this.

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So you had a dream the night before coming here about doing a long podcast with a red-haired celebrity, Ron Howard, and Diane Keaton, a.k.a. Sona Movsesian. Oh.

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Now listen. Wow. Don't lose that sheet of paper. Okay. Okay? We can't have that lost to time. Okay. We need to frame that. Yeah, that is, you know, here's what I'll say about you, Jeff. I never know what you're going to say. I never know what you're going to do. You are feral. You are a man that runs on instinct. You don't, and you're very much, I think, attuned.

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You should see the faces he's making right now. You're very much attuned to the universe. And I feel like you are constantly in the now. Is this correct?

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Well, I don't think I have at all. I don't know what you're talking about.

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Yes.

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What do you think of that? My mother-in-law, a lovely woman and very smart woman, is a therapist. Liza's mom. Yeah, Liza's mom, and she believes that all dreams have meaning. If you have a dream and you tell her, you know, she starts to pick it apart. I'm often having dreams that I defy anyone to make sense of because it just seems like random mush. It really does.

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And then I realized that most of my life I'm speaking in random mush. Yes.

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Well, no, there are nocturnal discharges. That's a separate category. Yes, yes. Yeah. Well, there are. There just frankly are. I know there are. What's that? I just don't know when to bring them up.

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Oh, wait, that's the wrong one.

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No, no. I wasn't going to bring them up. I was just going to say it's a common term, nocturnal discharge. And I wanted to make sure that people didn't misunderstand what Jeff was saying, that you are separating the two.

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I'm allowed to, I, as the host of the show, I'm allowed to make up the final laws on all pronunciations. Really? But please, continue-ay.

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Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)

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Don't be afraid of being reballed. We are all adults here. And I will say this is a safe space. Yeah. All right.

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Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)

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Well, that seems young is all I'm gonna say. Really? Yes. What? I was 37 for me for the first time. Oh, God. Yes. Congratulations. So awkward. No, no, I was really watching them wrap up Seinfeld and I just, it happened. I'm sorry. Late bloomer I am. You know, you have... Speak like Yoda. Yeah, I know. Late bloomer I am.

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When I was a kid in camp, we used to, they taught us these old songs from the 50s as we trudged up the Appalachian Mountains. And we had to sing, Comet, it makes your teeth turn green. Comet. It tastes like Vaseline Comet. Make you vomit, so drink your Comet and vomit today. And then it'd be like, again!

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I like to call it.

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Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)

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You know what I think is something that makes me very happy is that none of our comedy was ever really about anything. No, that's for sure. So you can see something from 25 years ago and it doesn't relate to any specific topical thing in the news. And other than the fact that my head hasn't rotted yet in those clips. Yeah. People can laugh at them all over again, which makes me happy.

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Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)

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Uh-oh, you put on your specs. He's examining your rotting head. Are you examining my rotting head?

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Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)

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Oh, please, you can tell that this, I have one of those Irish heads that bloats as it gets older. You've said, I know. No, this is true. You know, you leave a gourd in the sun long enough, and then winter comes, and you have yourself a Conan. That's what happens over time. But you, I will say this, I love talking to you because you're staring at me and you're examining every- I like your glasses.

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Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)

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You know why?

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Now, I will admit freely that my style guru and my lifestyle guru- is Mr. Jeff Goldblum. How can it not be? And I'll tell you why. He is a tall, good looking drink of water. And whenever he's wearing something, I think, well, wait a minute, we have somewhat similar. Well, hold on. Okay. Sona's about to really correct me. Let's say Jeff had been in an accident at some point.

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Then Jeff and I would be very similar. That's all I'm saying.

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Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)

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I'm not talking about the vibes. I'm talking just about when he is a tall man and he knows how to dress. Right. And I love, so during commercial breaks, Often, often when he was on the show, people always wonder, what do you talk about with people? I can always tell you what I'm talking about with Jeff. Yeah. In a commercial break.

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I go right to, oh my God, that those shoes and you know, I have large feet and you have large feet. And he'll say, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh my, oh my boy. Oh, oh yes. And then, so I remembered once you came out and you were wearing these wonderful glasses that you really carried off well. And I said, I must wear those glasses.

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And I asked you and you acted as if you were telling me where the secret ring was that would unlock the universe. Oh, oh, oh, oh, my boy. Oh, yes, yes. Jacques, Jacques-Marie, what is it? Limoges? Limoges. Jacques-Marie Limoges, yeah. Jacques-Marie Limoges. Oh, and he said, oh, my boy, I'll call ahead. I'll call ahead.

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And then you described going downtown and there's a secret knock and a corridor and a passageway. And sure enough- They're the greatest glasses.

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Sona came with me.

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I mean, I have done this several times. You once, we were doing something together that was not my project and not your project. We were recording something together.

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I do. And you walked in and I always couldn't, I could never find jeans. I have a very unusual build, I'll say. And... Oh, come on. Anyway. What the sound? Sorry. What's your inseam?

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And we would do it again, and I'd climb the presidential mountain range just singing that song, not knowing what it was, how it, why?

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Well, I was afraid, I was afraid to go, I have a very, I have a long inseam, and so I- That's long. So anyway, I see this gentleman come in, and he's wearing these amazing jeans, and I said, oh my God, Jeff, where'd you get those jeans? He went, oh, well, oh my boy. Oh my boy. He said, oh my boy. Oh good, oh, and he went, oh, oh my boy, you simply must, oh.

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And then you said, and then you said, and then you said, I'll never forget, you said, The Schaefer Garment Hotel. That's right. What? And it's this place. Yeah, Robert Schaefer. Yeah, he's like, oh, the Schaefer Garment Hotel. And I go there, and you said, just go, just go. So I go, and of course, it's the coolest people in the world, and they have like an old denim machine. What?

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Yes, yes, it is. It's the John Wick Hotel, except just for jeans. Oh my.

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Oh, there's a guy there wearing like Slash's hat, and he's like, I'll make you one of these. And I went, well, I don't know if I can carry that off. There's a dog that's in the store.

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I think I, I mean, I've told this before, but I met him once. Oh. I got pushed to the front of the, I was, I went to see some concert of his and I was backstage and someone pushed me to the front of a line and there he was, the great Bob Dylan. And it's my one chance to meet him. And he, all this conversation stopped and Bob Dylan looked at me and he went, I know you from the TV. It's true.

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It's true. The TV. He said, I know you from the TV. And just then, the other person backstage was Vice President Al Gore. And so all I hear is, I know you from the TV. And then I heard, Conan. Conan, it's me, Hal Gore. And I'm like, what?

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And I go, what? We're all there for a concert to see Bob Dylan perform. And he goes like, I love rock and roll.

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I was cock blocked. with Bob Dylan by Vice President Al Gore. That's a true story.

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Yeah, and then, trust me, I wanted to detach Gore's tongue from his body to get him to stop yapping at me. No, I'm sorry. All due respect to the former Vice President and, of course, a leading figure in climate prevention change.

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Yeah. He does this to me. Jeff Goldblum does this to me. You're not wrong.

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Yes.

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When I'm around you, oh, look at him take a sip. Everything he does is perfection. You just want to take a sip and it's like there's a golden liquid in there, but I know it's just something. Okay, looks like ginger ale or rum, I don't know.

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I know, you know our deepest, darkest foibles. I know everything, everything. I have to say, Jeff, you know, we really are an awful lot. You can do better than us, Jeff. You know what, you can sip any day because everything you, listen, listen, listen, listen. Oh my God, that is Jeff Goldblum sipping. Oh my God, you're the best. You know what's interesting to me?

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Yes, I suppose. Now, where does that song come from? Because you've confused us once again.

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There's a sensuality that you exude about, see even with the smallest gestures, a sensuality. And then I find that I'm quite comfortable in my sexuality, but I find that when I'm around you, I'm open for anything. I really am. I am, I'm just saying that. I feel the same. And Matt is as well, we're just up for it.

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You know how uptight I am, right? Yes, that's why I'm surprised. But if Jeff Goldblum said, oh, come with me into this special sanctum and I want you to introduce me to, introduce you to my secret friends and it's gonna be, but first you must apply this wax and oil I would do it. I would do it because he's that.

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And Bob Dylan and Al Gore. And Bob Dylan's going to see me and go, I know you from the TV.

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And then I'm just about to get it on with Bob Dylan when I get to hear, Conan, Conan.

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What? I don't know. With microphones.

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Yeah, I have been in a sex panic myself. See, that's the problem. That's why I envy you.

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I don't think Jeff would ever be in a sex panic. Jeff Goldblum would never be in a sex panic. I am in a constant, even when there's nothing sexual happening, I'm in a sex panic. I'm constantly in my own head.

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Was it V-52s?

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Sex bomb.

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I think we got it.

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You know, can I say something? And this is to be, because I know a lot about Johnny Cash. I revere him. He sent in a lot of unsolicited songs. He was constantly sending in like Prel Shampoo, Alpo Dog Food. What? Yeah, he was constantly sending in I've Got a Different Way You Could Go with that song, Purina Cat Chow, Chow Chow Chow. I can't even. Not true.

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I did too.

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You know the best part? of waking up. No, stop it. He slipped it in your cup. No. Johnny Cash first sent it in.

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Ring a burn. Ring a fire.

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He did the Oscar Mayer song. That was really good. Duh. My baloney has a first name. It's O-S-C-A-R. My baloney has a second name. Oh, and you know what? I mean. No, no, no. Wasn't the, wasn't the astronaut. You know what the sad? No, no, no. Last thing he did before he passed away was the car for kids jingle.

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Yeah. Oh, man.

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Sing it.

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That's what I'd really like to be.

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Just so you know, to be fair, that most jingles that you love were written by Johnny Cash. That's true. Unsolicited. He would just send them in.

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Is he your favorite Bond of all time? I'm going to say, for me, it's Sean Connery, but Daniel Craig is right there with him, and I thought no one could do that. I thought no one could. Sean Connery was so incredible.

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I know, this is right up your alley. This is, I'll tell you, Matt Gourley is a Bond fanatic and a huge Jeff Goldblum fan. Now he's in a room, they've both come together, and he's having a nocturnal emissions.

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Why don't you turn my podcast into a kooky trivia show? I love it. That's what you've done. I love it.

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It's becoming more Elvis than Johnny Cash.

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You know, you are a terrific jazz musician, and I'm bringing this up for a reason. I think... To understand Jeff Goldblum, which is impossible, but to really understand what makes this man tick, I think is your love of jazz. You are constantly improvising in the moment and tuned into that crazy galaxy that real jazz musicians are tuned into.

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And a good friend of mine just went and saw you perform the other night and said that you were fantastic. Really?

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Yes.

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But what I'm saying is, am I correct that there's something about music, I just feel like you're in tune with some jazz musical score all the time.

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Well, Jeff, they don't often take. That's the problem. I am... I don't wear well over time. That's one of the problems.

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Yes. I'm right there with you.

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We need to graft into each other.

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He wrote the song with Jeff Altman.

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Robert Altman, sorry.

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Can I say something? You must. I'm always so self-conscious that I put trills and foolishness in there, and I never just sing. You just sang, and I loved it. Yes. Oh. Silent night. No, he's going to do a thing.

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Holy night. All is calm. No, it's doing it again, right? All is bright.

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Let's see.

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Oh, no, I can't sing that song.

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Yeah. Oh, yeah. What's that? Oh, yeah. How's that go? It goes, never could be happy in the city at night. That's beautiful. Yeah. Can't see the stars for the neon lights. Beautiful. Sidewalk's dirty and the river's worse. Underground trains all run in reverse. Nobody here can dance like me. Everybody claps on the one and the three. Am I the last of my kind? Am I the last of my kind?

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I know. But can I tell you something? Can I tell you something, Jeff? I couldn't. And I'm supposed to. And I want to write a song with Amy Mann.

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I adore Amy Mann. And I'm intimidated by Amy Mann's talent. But we promised to write a song together. And then the last thing she said to me, I said, yeah, I'll do it. And she said, you know, it's just got to be something like sincere and something that you really want to say. And I was like, oh. Yeah. Oh, that's not going to happen. You could do it. No, I can't.

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All right, testing, testing, one, two, three, testing, testing, bumblebee, testing, testing, all day long we sing the testing, testing song. Three, two, one.

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Sona, will you tell them please take over?

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Things eventually become a bit.

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That's, well, that's very nice. I'm curious about something because we have so much in common, not just our incredible height and physiques, and not just our successful, incredibly successful careers, both of us, as actors, My point is that we both, and you mentioned this earlier, both of us, both of our fathers, doctors. Yes, right. And I don't know, there's this couple of similarities there.

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I'm fascinated by this idea that sometimes a salmon just knows it has to swim upstream. I don't know why, but somehow you knew when you were a kid that you needed to be an actor. You needed to be a performer.

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I don't know, ask Michelangelo. Here we go. Three, two, three. There it is. The Ninja Turtle. Yeah, that's who I meant. Okay. The best of the Ninja Turtles. Three, two, one.

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Got it.

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Yeah. And he got to see you become Jeff Goldblum, the big deal.

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Hey there, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, the podcast that gives and gives until it can't give no more.

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Okay, and I was going to bring this up, that the first time we met- I was, TV was our life preserver when we were kids. And my brothers, Neil and Luke and I were really into what's the new show? What's the new show? And we're constantly looking for what's the new show gonna be? It was a big deal back then. Now people are bombarded with TV and streaming all the time.

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Back in the late 70s, early 80s, there was a big deal like ABC is coming out with its lineup in the fall and all summer you'd be excited. You'd hear rumors about what it was gonna be and CBS is coming out with this and NBC is coming out with that. And there was this show that we heard about called 10 Speed and Brown Shoe.

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And my brothers and I watched it and it starred Ben Vereen and this guy I'd never heard of before named Jeff Goldblum. And it was fucking fantastic. It was so good. And I was like, who is that guy? Who's that guy? That guy's fantastic. And then the show didn't last.

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It was fantastic. Bring it back.

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I don't know.

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Please don't ask me to sing that one.

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Walking on air. So I, you know, but it's funny that we all have, it's so funny that you bring that up, Matt, because that is the first time that I met Jeff Goldblum. I'm using your full name just out of reverence. You know, it would have been a couple of years into the late night show that I met you and you've, you know, you've done, I mean, everything. You'd have been in so many great movies.

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I think it's spreading disease. We should stop. It's spreading disease. This is a fantastic episode. I never say that up front, but we know for a fact because we bring to you today the amazing Jeff Goldblum, a force of nature. A star, and I don't mean a star in the sense of a Hollywood star, he certainly is that, but he is a celestial event in my opinion. He really is, yeah. He really is.

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I remember, you know, it's so funny when you think about these brushes with show business. As we said earlier, I was so far removed from, you know, show business in my childhood. And then I'll never forget, my father came home one day and he said, they're shooting a movie at my hospital, the Peter Brent Brigham Hospital, which is now Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. It's a big hospital.

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And he said, they're shooting a scene right outside my office. And we were like, they're shooting a movie in Boston? Near my dad's, like right outside my dad's office? That's impossible. That can't be. And so we rushed over there and it was a scene where actor James Coburn just has to walk out and open a car door and get in it and shut the door. And he walked out, they go, and action.

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And so James Coburn walks up and he walks up to the car and it won't open and it won't open and they go, cut. The car has been, someone had locked it with the keys inside. So then we watched James Coburn just stand there while three, like seven guys crowd around and start with a coat hanger trying to open the door. And I got to find out the name of this movie, because I guess you can watch it.

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This would have been like 1971 or 72. We could look that up. We could find out. And trying to lift up the door and they couldn't get it. And I thought, this is movie making?

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What the hell is this?

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This was kind of almost a takeoff on James Bond, but not really. I mean, it was very silly.

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What is the James Coburn movie? I've got to find out. I'll bet. Let me guess.

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We had, you know what I love, in the tradition of, just to let people know that we did our best during my late night run to keep the madness going. You talked about how people would just do strange things. One of the stranger things we did once was we just put out a salt lick on my show to see if we could attract a celebrity. And then you did it so nicely.

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So this interview that we have, I'm told, Matt, that you barely touched this one. Sometimes you do little edits and tweaks. I do. They're occasionally a guest will be on and they start to go into, you know, very inappropriate rant and we have to take it out.

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out of nowhere, just Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, just in the corner, but he does it sort of like a, like a nervous deer. And he slowly approaches and I'm like, oh, it looks like, looks like Jeff Goldblum. Shh, everyone be quiet. And he came out and then he like sniffed, sniffed the salt lick and then he took a little lick. I remember that being one of my favorite. Such a stupid, I don't care.

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So James Coburn played the gong with Carson. Yeah, let's see, let's see you have Jeff Goldblum. What do we got for Coburn?

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So this is another fun story. My dad's there. This didn't happen when I was there. They kept shooting this right outside my dad's window, and he kept thinking, well, I could keep looking under this microscope. for a cure to a terrible disease where I could go outside and hang out with these movie folk.

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So he went outside and he's chatting and he can't believe it, but Blake Edwards is there with his wife, Julie Andrews. And a friend of my dad's who doesn't know much, because he's always looking in a microscope, is talking to Blake Edwards. And then he turned to Julie Andrews and said- The friend of your dad's? The friend of my dad's and said, now tell me, Miss, what do you do? Oh, no. Oh, no.

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And she said, well, I'm, you know, an actress as well. And he went, well. And then later on, people told him what he did. And the guy, I think, put his head in a cyclotron.

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And you know what? Oh my God. Sound of music, sound of music. I'm kidding.

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You know, when the Thanksgiving Day Parade, when I lived in New York, we lived on the Upper West Side and my kids were crazy about seeing the parade go by. And so I'd always take them. They were little kids to see the parade. And once I'm watching on the television and we haven't gone down yet and the parade is going by. And then they said, and here comes Julie Andrews. I lost my fucking mind.

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At the time, I'm whatever, I'm a 46 year old man. I ran without my kids. And I ran all the way down. They were like, where are you going? And I ran because I wanted to get down there fast. And I saw her go by and I was like, it's Julie Andrews. And I've been on TV at this point, you know, whatever, 12 years. And I'm like, ah, Julie Andrews. I mean, she didn't see me, but...

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Your kids are fantastic.

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Oh my God. Okay, so they're at such a great age. And because of COVID, they've missed out on some of these great experiences. Like going to a movie theater is so, that was the biggest thing in the world that could happen to me, was to get to go to a movie theater and see a movie. Really? Yeah. And so when I say to, you know, anyone in my family now, hey, do you want to go see a movie?

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And they're like, eh. I don't know. I'm like, I don't know. What are you talking about? It's because they can see anything they want at any time.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Terrible name for a movie. Yeah. It is.

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Come one, come all, bring the family.

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Yes.

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You know what's so great about, there were all these great, they don't do it anymore, but there were these great promotional tricks that they did back in the day to get people to come see movies. And Alfred Hitchcock was a genius at this.

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Yeah. Well, again, so not Michelangelo, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

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So when Psycho came out, he had like ambulances outside the theaters and he very much publicized, we're gonna have medical personnel available for people who faint or have seizures during this terrifying movie. And people went mad for it.

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Yeah, do not be late. Won't let you in after the first one. Yeah, yeah, we won't let you in. Do not tell your friends what happens. Yes, exactly. And he did all that stuff. He did it with the Byrds. He did, he had all these great, I mean, what a great showman he was in addition to being, you know, this incredible author.

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What girl did you have a crush on?

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Okay.

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Oh, I thought you said, oh, okay. I thought you meant you had a crush on a girl in the movie. No, not in the movie. Those were fellas. They just had long hair.

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Because he also worked on the Sistine Chapel. Yeah. So it must be tough technically to edit a man who's constantly making low purring sounds. You can't do it. Because how do you, you can't do an edit. I speak and then I stop and there's nothing. But Jeff Goldblum, even when he's not speaking,

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Have you ever kept up with Stephanie Ignatz?

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Here she is. A little bit. Oh, my God.

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Okay, okay, you saw her, but she didn't see you. You followed her from a distance. Oh, no, no, not like that. They saw each other. Oh, okay.

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Oh, I'm making it clear. What I do is I look them up, and then I just peer at them through shrubbery from 50 yards away. Oh, my God. When I say, oh, I saw her, that's what I mean.

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Oh, man.

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Yes. You, I mean, God, you nailed that character so much. And now you're coming back and you're assembling with the same people to bring these people back to life.

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So it's great. Give me a think about, I mean, this is something that I think would be worthwhile for you to settle with for a second, is that movies were such a big deal for you growing up. Mm-hmm. You've now been in a bunch of movies. And you think about Jurassic Park. So many young people, that was an eye-opening experience for them. And you were a big part of it.

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It's interesting how the loop closes in a strange way, isn't it? It's fascinating.

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I have to say that that is something – and I brought this up before. But also I've had a dreamy life and getting the chance to just – to me, getting to interact with someone I saw on a movie screen or a television set when I was a child, nothing tops that. And there are all these – massive stars that come along later on in life.

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And it doesn't have the same effect as meeting someone like a Dick Van Dyke or meeting someone who was in a movie and a huge deal when you were a kid, like a Jerry Lewis, or seeing a Julie Andrews on a parade float go by. And even though she's 50 yards away, I can't believe that That, oh, wait, I saw you there as a child, and now you're still here. Life is magic.

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Oh my God. It's too bad Bill Hader isn't here because he does, Bill Hader does the best Vincent Price of all. And he'd be going, you know, I don't do it, but he'd be here doing Vincent Price at a Ralph's. We should remind him of that. Yeah. No, we should do, we will be seeing him soon. We should remind him of that.

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Cause Vincent Price at a Ralph's and I used to, you know, when I first moved out here to LA a long time ago in 1988, my brother Neil came out and visited me and there was a Ralph's across the street and he kept seeing all these huge stars. He saw Cesar Romero, the Joker. And he'd come back and he'd go, I saw him. And I'm like, what is he? He was buying dog food at Ralph's.

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He was always going to Ralph's and he would hang out there and he would go right up to them and go, I loved you as the Joker. Or I saw Harry Morgan from MASH. Harry Morgan. And then he would always tell me what they were buying. He was buying a giant thing of beans. You know what I'm saying? It always never matched. Like, I saw Cher. What was she getting? Industrial strength toilet cleaner. Oh.

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Oh. I didn't want to know that.

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Oh, my God.

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In Christmas Story. In Christmas Story, he's the dad. Oh, yeah. But he's also one of the great, he's also in The Natural. Obviously he's one of the villains in The Natural. He's got one fun guy in there. But he did, I think maybe my favorite show as a kid was, he played Carl Kolchak in The Night Stalker, which was the scariest show on television. It only ran, I mean, maybe it ran two seasons.

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I love that you called it, first of all, sexual grumbling, which made it sound like a grumpy... who's in a sexual mood, you know? I don't even know how that sounds.

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If that, it was not a success. but it was such a scary show.

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Coming out June 10th. You brought it up. That's your promo. I love that you went, so anyway, I'm back in this movie and well, da-da-da-da-da. June 10th, you brought it up.

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It would be kind of meta, but I'd do it.

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It's a teenager who then turns into a teenager who's just slightly older.

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He turns into a 16-year-old. Oh, okay. He's a 15-year-old and he goes in a corner and he's like, no! And then he comes out and he's a 16-year-old. He can legally drive, but doesn't know how to. Yeah, he can legally drive, but he can't. But he has the same amount of acne.

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I think it's a great movie and I've got the rights.

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It's kids today. I didn't have so much to do.

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It's heartbreaking. I'm crying hearing about it. You're mentioning a bunch of movies that had a huge impact that I don't know.

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I know that one.

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I didn't say I didn't like it. I just have the Hitchcock films. What's your favorite Hitchcock? Wow, it's got to be Psycho. And I also like Strangers on a Train.

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You can't just say a name twice and have it have more impact. Yes, you can. Farley Granger. Farley Granger. Farley Granger. I think he's proven that he can. It would be great if you, I think you'd be a great prosecuting attorney because you'd say, you know, the killer is of course, Steve Miller. Steve Miller. And people would be like, well, he's got to be guilty. He said his name twice.

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I don't know what that means, but I'm, yeah, there's not much to say. When you have Jeff Goldblum and you've managed to capture a Jeff Goldblum in the wild and you get it to talk, It's an event. It's a real event.

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Steve Miller from the band? Yeah. Well, I just threw a name out there. What's a common name? He's not suspicious in any way.

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She was lovely.

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She was on our show in the early years, and I loved her because I knew her mostly from Poseidon Adventure. Oh.

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Oh, she's great in Lolita.

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Yeah, yeah.

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She, yeah, she was one of those people, there's a, it all depends on when you get into show business. And I, you know, you need to get in at the, I missed, you know, I shouldn't say that. I got to meet all these amazing people who then passed away. It makes me sound like a killer. I met them and then they were gone.

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But before that, but I will say that, you know, there are all these great stars that passed away, you know, before I came along in 93. And you think of, you know, all the great, so many great stars from the, she had not passed away, but refused to take my calls. Elizabeth Taylor. Wisely, very wisely.

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The prisoner says, Patch of Blue, and he goes, ah! Okay, you can go. You're the first.

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Oh my God, that is the ultimate experience.

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What is it?

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Wow. I just, those, I mean, I live for those experiences. I live for the idea that you would see an iconic star in a restaurant and you would end up hanging out with them. You know, someone you grew up watching on TV. I was at some restaurant once and Warren Beatty was at another table.

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And the next thing you know, I got invited over and I'm sitting with Warren Beatty and he's, I mean, Bonnie and Clyde was such a huge deal to me. I saw it first run with my friend. Yeah. And then I'm sitting there with him and I just can't believe it. I'm supposed to play it cool. But then you can't because it's too big a moment. Just too big.

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I saw the Rockettes, but I was 50 yards away. I was in shrubbery. Oh, God. Just peering out. Oh, God.

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Up in the catwalk. Yeah. I'm the only guy that watches the Robcats from a distance. You know you can buy a ticket and be first row. No, no, no, I have my own way I like to do it. Doesn't do anything for me. Yeah, I gotta wait till all of them come out together into that field and I'll be behind those shrubs over there. What? How are you gonna get them all out here?

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It really is. And you know what? When I say all Goldblum, I don't hear one complaint. No. No one's going to stop me on the street and say that was too much Goldblum. No. And set your filters, your Goldblum filters to high because you want to get all the Goldblum as it comes to it.

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Salt lick, we'll get them out there.

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You lit up. Look, I have to wrap this up. No, you mustn't, I beg you.

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Okay, we'll do it. We all need to be rehydrated. No, I just wanna, it's... My God. I want to get the word out. Because this podcast, I'm not going to brag. You can brag. A lot of people hear this podcast.

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And so what I'm saying, that's just on Maui. Everybody listens five times.

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Very successful podcast. Not for me to say. Let's not fact check that. It's 43 million. Yeah, no reason to look into it. But the point is a lot of people hear it. And so when I say Jurassic World Dominion, Jurassic World Dominion is coming out and that you are reprising your role as Dr. Ian Malcolm, that is going to pack the theaters alone.

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All right, let's not turn this into a money thing.

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Yeah. I'm sorry, I'm just gonna say it. Yeah, that's what I, that's how I felt. And as much as everyone else was spectacular, but you and one of the dinosaurs really... I can't remember which one. It was one of the velociraptors. The velociraptors. It would be great if you got everybody back except one velociraptor held out.

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Yeah, like, fuck it. You meet my price or I'm not showing up. Ah. Ah. That's right.

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Yes. Yes. Perfection. Erotic ideal. Yep.

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You have to come back because my time with you is serious. I'm going to be sincere. It's hard for me to do that. But- You're one of my favorite people. You really are. You too, man. And I just absolutely love talking to you. And it is, whenever we're together, whether it's been on the show or this podcast, it is unlike any other experience I have. And it means a lot to me.

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Yes. Wait a minute. Madness. I can give you a clue. Madness. Wait a minute. Is it? Madness. Hold it. Madness. Is it Apocalypse Now? No. No. That's the horror. You're close, though. Yeah. And it has a similar. Oh, wait, it's the last family ties. No, it does. It ends with madness. Madness. I love that this is the introduction to the show.

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And so when I heard that... that you were going to come in and inaugurate our new studio, my head blew up.

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See, we got to do something.

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I've been screen tested and apparently it's not good. It won't be a film, but maybe an animated project. Something where my face is mostly hidden.

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They're talking about this Conan O'Brien? It's an Irish Conan O'Brien.

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There is a guy named Conrad O'Ryan now. in Dublin, who's huge. And he's really cracked the code.

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Well, they were just saying, you seem kind of girly.

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Ah, you seem girly to me.

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Oh, trust me. We saw you walking down the street and it was girly.

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I see them multiple times. No, no, and it's all true. That's the one thing. I've been in the darkest regions, darkest, most remote corners of the world and people will literally come out from behind the rock and say, Schlansky, is he being real? And I'll go, yes, he's being real. And then they go back under the rock.

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Oh, my God. Well, anyway. You know what?

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Mr. Goldblum, Mr. Jeff Goldblum, you're the finest man that ever lived.

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Langostino.

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We have to just take a second here and wallow in the joyousness of Jeff Goldblum. And we never do this. We talk to the guests, then we move on with matters. But Jeff Goldblum came in here. He is just an energy field. He is calming, but also enervating at the same time. He is... You know, he electrifies, solidifies, there's no compromise. I have real nice thighs. No, no, he's incredible.

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He does it. He's one of my, I got to say, and I was really looking forward to seeing him today and then to see how happy he was to see you, Matt Gourley, and you, Sonam Ovsessi, and he knew you as people. As human beings. Yeah, and you know, a lot of celebrities, they come in and they're like, oh my God, it's Conan. It's Conan, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.

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I know, I keep trying to get them to say it.

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I have a cue card I hold up. I think Cato Kaelin was the only one. Cato Kaelin said it, yeah, but he was testifying. Oh boy. No, but... That's not funny. But anyway, no. Murders. Please, murder. When time passes, murders are okay.

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I knew that I had, you know, had an orgasmic high, but I didn't know what happened. Yeah. And I think, I put it out to the listeners, listen to this Jeff Goldblum interview. And afterwards, I doubt anyone's gonna know what was said.

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Let's laugh about it. Anyway, my point is that, you know, he saw me as a human being, not as some godlike creature. And he was so thrilled to see you guys as well. Oh, man.

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Jeff, we absolutely love you. We know that he listens to the podcast. So unless he's an incredible con artist who paid someone to listen because he said, I can't listen to that crap. Oh, no, no. No, unless he paid someone to listen and take notes.

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That just occurred to me. I don't know if you have friends and you have people that you podcast with and you shuttle from place to place. Podcasting with people you may not really know well on a human level, but do you have friends that come over and do the things that you like to do?

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Well, I don't know. I've never heard you reference a friend.

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I don't know. You know that I have friends.

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Your friends are all people you saw on TV and movie when you were kids in your mind. I'm E.T. Last night I had dinner with Gumby. Gumby?

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Yeah.

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That says a lot about him. Let me ask you a question. Ladies love that man.

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And I understand because, you know, again, we have a similar frame.

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I don't understand.

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No, but what I don't understand. He said, like, not. No, I can handle it. I can handle it. Why is it that there's a fork in the road?

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No.

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No, but what I'm saying is that it does amaze me that he does have something that I wish I had that I don't have. Oh, me too. And I'm being completely honest. He does have an ease and he's always in the center. He's always centered. I think that's incredible to be centered like that all the time. And he's like a tuning fork that's perfectly vibrating with the universe.

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And I feel like I'm a- You're just a fork. Yeah, like a fork that was eating clams, but someone didn't wash it afterwards, and then it fell in some sand. And it's got some clam juice and sand on it. That's pretty good, yeah.

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You get a paycheck, right?

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I do.

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Would you say that, I mean, are there a lot of other people just sending you money besides me?

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Then I'm a good guy and I'm your friend. No, you can't do that.

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Do you get a paycheck from? Why are you pointing at me?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Full disclosure. Okay, I didn't realize you were just here on a voluntary basis. No, I've seen you driving, since the podcast blew up and suddenly you're driving a Bentley. No. Yes, you're driving a Bentley on, you know, just on Hollywood Boulevard.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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You know, and- Classic girls. Yeah, and whoa, your license plate suddenly Pod King and you're driving around. You guys have both-

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And your kids wear these like crazy satin outfits that you have handmade for them now that the podcast blew up. And so both of you have, your lives have been changed by knowing me, which means you have to like me. You have to.

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It should work that way. You can't buy friendship. That's not. Yes, you can. No, you can't. That's why I moved to Los Angeles. You can. No. You can. Sona and I are friends. All of my friends work for me. And I'm very comfortable with that because if any of them piss me off, I can terminate that friendship very easily.

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Yeah. I still don't understand it.

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Yeah.

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This is interesting. I have to look more into this.

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5211.355

Oh, so now we're gonna rip on Joseph Stalin.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Everybody gets torn down. Everybody gets torn down. Not Jeff Goldblum. And now it's Joseph Stalin. Jesus, no one's safe in this hypersensitive era. Jeff Goldblum is. He's an angel.

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A grumpy sexual guy.

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He's otherworldly.

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He is, we should stick the landing on this. He is such an unusually, he's an unusual person. There's no one else quite like him. And I do have to tell you that when I, in my travels, people always bring up to me, oh my God, I love it when Jeff Goldblum is on the podcast or he's on the show. He brings an energy that immediately transforms the experience.

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I think we all are changed by him when we're in his, he creates like a biosphere, a Jeff Goldblum biosphere that's very enjoyable. Yeah.

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I didn't say splooge. I didn't talk about.

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I don't, again, I have a list of all the employees. I can consult. I don't think you even know my name. I can go to Jeff Ross. I can go to Jeff Ross now. I don't need to. All I have to do is go to Jeff Ross or Adam Sachs and say, the guy with the, you know, he's kind of a hipster and he lives in Pasadena. And they'll be like, yeah, Matt Gourley. And I'll be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Anyway, tell him I wished him a happy Christmas. I got to get out of here. My helicopter's waiting.

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It's true.

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Yeah, my helicopter's waiting. That's your helicopter. God, your helicopter is ill. Yeah.

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That's true.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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No, but mine is different. Mine runs on pure malice. It's very eco-friendly. It's also super pervy somehow. Wow. Mr. O'Brien, you must really hate people today. We've got 600,000 miles. I just get in it and put an electrode on my head. Who are you mad at? And it leaves a noxious cloud of just pure bad intent behind me.

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Yeah. Can you change that to squeegee in edit? No. So it just becomes squeegee? You guys were just squeegeeing each other. That, to me, feels erotic.

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All right. Well, anyway, Jeff Goldblum, if you're listening right now, naked in the lotus position as you meditate, as he does every night, we love you. We do.

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Who's splooging around you that talks that way? That didn't at all sound like a guy who was about to ejaculate. In no way, your guy who was about to ejaculate is like, yeah, so anyway, I'm going to go get a sandwich. Oh my God, I just came. Who the fuck is that guy? You've been hanging out with Bruno the splooger? Yeah. He just has orgasms when he least expects it.

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Anyway, so I think what we're going to do is get a guy in here to rivet the beam. You need a good riveter, because the rivets have to be hot, too, because they've got to go into the eye beam. Oh, God! Oh, fuck!

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I don't know. This year, I think the Mets are going to go all the way. I'll tell you what it is. It's infielding. If you can keep the ball in the infield.

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Oh, fuck. I was talking about infielding. I thought I was safe. Oh, Jesus. I love this guy. Yeah.

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All right. Well, anyway. On that note. Let's do this. Let's do this thing. Strap yourselves in. My guest today is an actor who has starred in such movies as Jurassic Park, Independence Day, and Thor Ragnarok. Now he's reprising his role as Dr. Ian Malcolm in the highly anticipated movie Jurassic World Dominion. To say I'm excited is insane because it's beyond that. Delighted, excited, orgasmic.

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to chat with him today. Jeff Goldblum, welcome. Lord, I have to tell you, this is the inaugural podcast in our new studio with a genuine celebrity. We did a little messing around and testing beforehand, but you- Genuine. Genuine. You like that pronunciation? That's what I say.

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Oh, I wish I had. I know you did.

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I know you did.

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So listen, I must tell you that I can't think of a better person to start this off with than you. You know that you and I have something. A certain frisson. Admit it. Admit it. We have something. Yes.

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No, you are, I've interviewed you many times. You're one of my favorite people to talk to because you have an animalistic quality. Yes, and I mean that in the nicest way. Which animal? Well, I don't know. It would be a reptile, I believe. I think a panther. No, no, no, no, no. A panther? Because it has a long, darting tongue. I know that he can hit a fly at great lengths.

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You are a combination of animals. You are a panther, but you are also a lizard. Of course, the fly, we must add the fly in there.

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The tongue detached from the mouth? It detached.

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This is your dream? Yes, some of my dreams. Okay, let me pause for a minute. Ladies and gentlemen, Jeff Goldblum, esteemed actor, is about to, he's relayed a dream that he had last night, and I can see that he's written it down. It looks like in Hebrew. I don't understand. Your handwriting is very bizarre. Do you speak Hebrew?

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Yeah, let's hope so.

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Oh, Mike, what kind of clue is that? A ceramic mug features in a breakfast scene. There's a clue for you.

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Yes, let me say quickly, Freud had this theory that dreams have meaning. And we now know that Freud was wrong. That has no meaning. This is insanity. There's no, there's nothing, that opened no porthole. There's nothing there. Robert Altman returns from the dead and wants to stay at your home and he's being sneaky and you're in a hospital. Then you're in a pod, you're observing the Alps.

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You go up one side and down the other after spending a brief interval in the bathroom.

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And that is appropriate.

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They'll help you.

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There's a kindness in there, but it's got this crusty shell. Whereas here, everything has this kind of smooth shell.

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But I want that for you. I want that. I want that for you. Yeah. If you died, it would mean nothing to me. You know, it's odd to think about it now, but you and Tina, you're this wave of women that came along, and I think it's easy for people to take it for granted now.

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Yes, there were women before you, and I know you have your idols are like Gilda Radner, Lucille Ball, Catherine O'Hara, who I sat next to at the 50th anniversary, and I couldn't... I mean, I see her from time to time and I love Catherine O'Hara. And sometimes she's very earnest.

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I don't know. That's enough to get by on. I think so.

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So when the show was about to start and Paul Simon came up and I get the microphone and Sabrina Carpenter came up and she's at her microphone and they're both ready to go. And she went, oh, this is Paul Simon. This is going to be good. And I said, well, we'll see. And she looked at me like, what do you mean? And I said, you know, these things come and go. You never know. She's always great.

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She was like, fuck you. He's always great. And this is like where I'm picking a fight with Catherine O'Hara before they're calling out three to one.

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Yeah, that's right.

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Don't overthink it. It's vaudeville.

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She'll win with Magellan. What is that? Is that a product?

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I think when those things happen, I just go with it.

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I just say, of course, Jack Nicholson's here.

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Letterman sat like three rows down from me and I went over and said hi and was struck by his beard. I mean, literally.

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He turned and I was slapped by his beard.

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Oh, I know the one you're talking about, yeah.

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I called you up and I said, B minus, that was like a C plus. So you met Tina at Improv Olympics in Chicago, 1993. What made you know that you two were going to be like sort of peanut butter and jelly?

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You're right.

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Yeah. Excuse me. The arch support I've been looking for. That's a free ad. Are they still making those?

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On update and anytime I've seen you two together, you always have A plus jokes. You have great jokes, great delivery. Some people think, what's the trick? It's like, well, yes, have good delivery is really important. And sometimes you need to have a saver, but have the stuff. And you two always have really good stuff.

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Yeah.

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I have to bother my writers. I have to think myself what stuff I can say, what's going on, find out what the local references are and construct the whole thing from scratch. And I get to, before we get started, I go down to the lobby and I see Sting is there and he's just got a guitar on his back and a leather case. And I went, oh, hey, how's it going? He's like, oh, it's going all right.

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And I said, what are you doing? He said, I'm doing a benefit. And I said, I'm doing a benefit too. I'm doing something for, and I've been working and I've been working. I said, what are you going to do? And he said, I'm going to play Roxanne. And I'm going to play every step. And he's not even thinking about it.

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I haven't seen one in years. I haven't seen one in years. That was a terrible catchphrase. That's one of the worst catchphrases.

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He's not even thinking about it. And everyone's delighted.

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Yeah. No one's. I was at an event with you. I remember this really well. It was an event with you at the Museum of Natural History.

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And I don't know if I was performing or what, but then the music came out and it was Jon Bon Jovi and he did cowboy on a steel horse. You jumped up. You lost your mind and you were screaming all of the lyrics, which was great. And then I look over and Jon Bon Jovi's wife is doing it.

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Yeah, she's there too. And she's like, yeah, yeah. I love this. And I'm thinking, that's a good marriage.

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Kind of. Don't you think it was a terrible catchphrase? Yeah. I'm Jelen with Magellan? That's terrible.

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I like how he went into his storage. No, he had it in his closet.

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He was wearing it that day. He has all of his poster clothes in his closet right off his bedroom.

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2003, yeah. Wow. Okay.

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No, I haven't started yet.

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It's days away, and I just figured, you know, this will write itself.

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Yeah, do it in the parking lot on the way in. But, no, that's all Lorne. Lorne Michaels, and it's not everywhere. There used to be this era, for a long time, writers were kept like rats in this back room. I had a really good first job in L.A. at not necessarily the news, but we weren't part of the production. We didn't really interact with the crew. Mm-hmm.

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We were in a room, Greg Daniels and I were in a room with Billy Kimball, and we just had desks that faced each other like accountants, and we just banged out sketches all day long, sight gags, whatever. And then at the end of the day, we'd submit them and go home. But that was, and I remember thinking, this is not the show business I wanted to be in. I want to be backstage.

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That was America trying to recover from the 9-11 attacks. What? No, we were. We were trying to get back on our feet, literally. And so we were all about inserts.

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I want to see showgirls, people in horse costumes, people dressed as a knight. I want all that craziness and get to SNL. It didn't matter if you were like me, 23, 24 years old. He'd just say, all right, what have you got? What's your name? Conan. Okay, and let's hear your idea. And you'd tell him the idea. Okay, go pitch it to Steve Martin. Me? Or go pitch it to comedy, pick any comedy icon.

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And I remember thinking, you're allowing me to go into a room alone with this person? I could have a, you know, like, why do we, have you done a background check on me? Oh, yeah, finish that sentence. I know, you could.

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It's a Brookline thing. You were spinning your knife.

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And I used to just, it was one of those ones that flips out and flips back, and I was always around, and I remember it a lot. I was like, can you not do that?

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Look at this.

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But one of the things I always loved about you, and I don't know if this comes from... I read somewhere maybe it comes from your dad, but you were fearless physically, comedically, and you are. Like, you know... You would, if the joke called for you as Andy's little sister to go charging down the aisle and leap and hit him so that he falls over. I look at that footage now. It's online.

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You leap like a leopard. You hit Andy. He goes over. It's one of the biggest laughs I've heard in studio. Because the running joke was you have a crush on me and I'm always trying to politely explain that I'm and then you think Andy's whatever getting in the way and you attack and you would give these great speeches. But you run by the great Brian Stack by the great Brian Stack. I remember you.

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I'm just saying that there's a historic reason why a gelled insole was a big deal back then. People wanted comfort and they wanted to feel supported at a time when our nation was in a lot of peril. Anyway, I love the way I talk right now.

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I do think there is. I hope it's still not the case. But there used to be this kind of long ago. Yeah.

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There used to be serfs in the medieval period.

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In a sense that you got to be ladylike. Do you know what I mean? That if a guy's... I mean, I remembered my mom being a little bit that way, which is if I'm being completely inappropriate, it was funny. If one of my sisters was doing it, it was like, no, hold on. That's not really... And it was a thing. She came from a very traditional Irish Catholic background and you've got to be a lady.

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And so... I don't know.

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Well, I remember my shock being coming out to Los Angeles and hanging out with, meeting Lisa Kudrow and hanging out and going over to her house. And her family was just, would talk, they lived in Tarzana, her dad's a doctor. They would talk very openly about sex and it would freak me out. It still does. Like, sex has never been discussed or acknowledged in my home with my parents.

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It was never, ever. And if something remotely sexy came on TV, it was, you know, like we could all see our breath.

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And then we'd just all get out of the room as fast as we could. And so, and to this day, I mean, nothing, people don't talk about that stuff.

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Okay, that's not going to happen yet.

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Yeah, I remember dating someone once a long time ago and meeting her parents for the first time. And I said something like some kind of teasing mock put down of her, like, yeah, well, keep working on that. And her mother went, we don't do that in this house. We don't put people down. And I remember thinking, I need to go. I need to leave right now because that's not going to fly.

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Um...

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I had one of those IVs last night. I don't think it did anything, I'll be honest with you.

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It's like everything we learned was... So there's a reason to toast. That was just implied. You know, it's interesting because you were talking to me about how you just always thought our show was there to stay and it was fine. A lot of people don't know because this interesting thing has happened with Parks and Recreation where...

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It is now just one of those shows that's chapter and verse and comedy people know it and not just comedy people, but it's like it plays a lot. People really know it. It's esteemed. It's it's and they don't know that it was a running gun battle to keep that thing on the air.

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Well, suddenly Susan didn't make it.

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They put a bunch of, because I wasn't feeling well, and I've got a big gig coming up, and I wanted to feel my best. And so my doctor said, oh, you could try this. And there's like a bag, and the guy just keeps injecting different things into the bag while it drips into my arm. And I'm thinking, I don't know what he's putting in here. And at one point he put, yeah, it was the substance.

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I am every, I mean, almost every day I thank the streaming gods and the internet because I never thought the stuff that we were making, I always thought we did this really weird thing tonight. It'll never be seen again because it's just tonight and maybe it'll be rerun once in the summer, but then that's it. It's gone. And I was at the SNL thing.

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And when you buy a Samsung television, there's a Conan O'Brien channel.

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And it won't go off my TV.

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Bill Murray came up to me and he was like, ah, yeah, Conan, there's this thing on my TV. It's just you. And it's you. And I went, honey, and I can't get it off me. I was like, well, I can't help you. And he went, yeah, you know, some of it's really good, you know. But it was just so weird that that stuff that I thought would never be seen. Yeah. There's moments on the Internet.

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And the good work gets picked out. It rises to the top. There's plenty of stuff we all did that we're like, okay. But that tends to not get passed around as much. And it creates this illusion that everything we did was super funny. That's true. Which in my case was like, no, that's a complete illusion. You're just not seeing the other ones because they don't get clicks.

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You know, we were like, what? I remember he had parties. He had an apartment that was like on 19th or 20th Street downtown and it was kind of a loft. And he, you know, I wasn't having parties. I was just, you know, but I would go to Andy's parties and it was everyone from UCB. Yeah. You and Matt Walsh and Besser and Ian. And it's just like this whole salon of super funny people.

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Plus, sometimes you go to an Andy party and there'd be like a guy in a fez in the corner with an eye patch. It looked it had there were like people with parrots on their shoulders.

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Yeah, I turned into Eddie Redmayne. At one point I said, what's that you're putting in there? And he said, mayonnaise. Let's put mayonnaise in there. And he read me and crawled out my back. And he said, cheerio, chaps. To make a moving picture. I don't know who the young version of me would be. The Wendy's girl.

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I remember I was saw.

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I did it. I was just at this SNL and I saw Tina and I saw she's with her husband, Jeff, Jeff Richman. And I immediately, I'm sorry, Jeff, but I immediately go to when we first, we use Jeff Richman.

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who scores all this stuff. He's very brilliant. He's incredibly successful. We used him and he played Cupid. So he was in a diaper hanging on a rope with a bow and arrow and some glitter in his hair and no shirt. And he's kind of just spinning at rehearsal awkwardly. And I didn't know who Jeff was.

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and then it's over and I think I'm doing something and Tina had passed a monitor and she went, that's my husband, you fucker. What have you done to him?

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I don't care what he does. He'll get an Oscar for scoring something and I'll still think, you were Cupid.

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It's funny to me because I remember SNL really wanted you to do it and you were hesitant.

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Yes, I remembered. I don't know if that's, but I remembered it wasn't like, yes, yes, yes, yes. Unless I'm remembering it incorrectly, but that's how it felt to me.

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You and Tina did update for four years. Was it four or five?

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I think I called your publicist that we need exact times.

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Well, that doesn't help me.

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Okay, let's just not do this anymore.

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Yeah.

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There was a famous article that said, I don't know if it was Kurt Anderson or someone, it just said, irony is dead. Nothing will ever be ironic again. Except that statement. Yeah, exactly. It's just like, well, no, this is what humans do.

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We go through, whether it's the fires in Los Angeles, whether it's 9-11, we get hit over the head, we are stunned, we collect ourselves, and then we go back to doing what we do.

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Okay, take it easy. I'm sorry.

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That's what the substance do. He doesn't have these pipes.

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I think, first of all, you're going to kill it. But second of all, I think, I mean, everyone's going to want to talk to you. You can do both. You can be funny, but you can also talk about real things. I mean, to me, that's the secret is just to be open and accessible, I think.

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I have to say, I just... Us.

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Sorry. These aren't my prescription glasses. Let me see who's talking. Oh, okay.

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Who's that? Me? Oh, God, no. Me?

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I think what I like about it is after all those years of... Okay, we're back. Now our next guest. You know him from the song Rocketman. Elton John's here, whatever. Six minutes, and then, Elton John, everybody. All right, whatever. What's the matter with you?

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Yeah, anyone can do that. Cheerio, chap. Here comes Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I'm really not trying at all. Those are bangers and mash. I'm just saying things without an English accent. Not even doing an accent. You can't do a normal British accent. Watch this. Look at over there. It's Big Ben.

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If you don't mention Rocketman, no one knows who Elton John is. That's a true fact. I brought him out and said, you know him from Benny and the Jets.

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People boo. But I think my favorite thing is that this... The format is really liberating. And so how many times have you and I encountered each other over the years? How many times have you done the show? But now I really get to sit and talk to you. And it's a treat for me. I look forward to it.

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I was excited today that you were coming in because I haven't talked to you for like a solid 45 minutes before. Yeah. And this is fun. There's no like magic trick. It's just fun to do.

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Yeah, I agree with you. I think what you hear or if you're looking at clips online on this podcast or see is what it is. So this is what it is. And then if we break and go to lunch, we fight and bicker and joke and put each other down the way we would here on the pod. This is just what it is. It's not, OK, got to get ready to pretend to be this person. And I'm saying this for better or for worse.

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Yeah. This is, you know, this is who I am. This is who you are. I'm not sure what you're doing. No, I'm not. You're just a big mess, man.

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You're a shapeshifter.

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Yeah. Someone told me, and I just want to, I want to, because my wife has a fascination with the show Below Deck.

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And I watch Below Deck and I don't get it. And my wife is very smart and she has excellent taste. But when she's watching Below Deck, I'm like, I don't understand. Not that much is happening.

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Yes.

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But there's so many iterations of it now.

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But you're right. You're right.

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There is something about I, you know, there'll be like young, good looking couples that hook up on the boat. And I find that that isn't as exciting to me as I get into the chef has to make a meal. And it's always these incredibly entitled, rich people.

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Do you know what I mean? And they're always there and they're like, this is for my wife's anniversary. And then they'll say things like, maybe it's fake, but they'll say at 11 o'clock in the morning, you know, we want tonight's theme to be, and then they announce some insane theme. Yeah.

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They're on a boat in the middle of the Aegean Sea, and they're suddenly scrambling around trying to find, okay, the theme is volcanoes. They're building little volcanoes. People are dressing up as, and then the cook has to make, the chef has to make the food for everybody. It's always going wrong, and then it comes together.

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Thanks, American tourist. And that's Parliament.

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And it's very satisfying.

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You know, you might be onto something and maybe, Adam, I'm just going to throw this out there. We should include a segment where we're like hosing this table down.

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No, I don't.

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And Eduardo designed this, so he's freaking out that we're getting soapy water. We're happy to clean this table every post-session. But, like, just we could make that a new thing on the show.

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All these cool, tactile, that's incredible.

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People love it.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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2805.129

I hate pranks.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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And I always, my whole life, if someone wanted to do a prank on someone, my mind would always go, what if someone gets hurt?

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I don't know why. It could even be just the simplest prank. And I think, I don't know, someone could get hurt and end up paralyzed. And people would be like, what are you talking about? We're just giving them a birthday cake, but it's not their birthday. I'm like, yeah, I don't know. Someone could end up paralyzed. I don't know why I always went to that.

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That's all right. No, that's Cockney.

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I wasn't even trying to right there. I had a small polyp in my throat from this cold that I was trying to dislodge. Listen, guys, I'm not your chimp. I'm not going to sit here and do voices.

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Betrayal.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Anyway, you're launching this weekly video podcast, Good Hang, with Amy Poehler. It's going to come out this March. I will be listening to this podcast. I'd be thrilled to do it if you ever want me on.

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I would love to do it.

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I love hanging with you, and you're one of my favorite people of all time, and I know you're going to kill this. It's a gift that those all those years ago, you came into my life and were so funny and elevated everything on our show. Not everything, but a lot of things. Why did I have to correct that? No, I mean, you were in and it was just it was just a magical time. And I do feel nostalgic, too.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Yeah.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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I like a little bit of a cut.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Yeah.

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I treated them all like they were a boy band in South Korea. And they were like, this is awful. Amy Poehler, thank you so much for being here.

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I'm not going to.

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It is important that every business rigorously investigate the employees and kick the tires on this thing. Make sure that every cog in the machine is working properly, don't you think? Yeah. With that in mind today, we're going to someone I've known for a very long time. Her name is Paula Davis. Hi, Paula.

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I'm not some entertainer who, when cued, performs entertainment for people.

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Don't just push the microphone up to your, that's the thing that, yes, there you go. That's how it works. Is that good? That's good right there. Paula. Yes, sir. You are my head booker. You've been my booker at late night from day one.

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And we knew each other before that because you were one of the first people I met when I showed up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed In February of 1988, I show up at Saturday Night Live with my friend Greg Daniels. We both walk in and I sit down up in the area that's kind of near where Lorne Michaels' office is. And I start chatting with this very funny, wise guy, young lady. It's you.

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Okay. It's the Bosch, Bosch traveling knife, the traveling knife for me. First cabin captain's quarters, real company. Pull out, stab it down. Bosch with a capital P-O-S-H. You do good, Paul McCartney. oh yeah, well he's very, you know, Dana and I like to do, I learn a lot from Dana, which is very sing-songy and doobly-doo. He's ups and he's downsies. It's good. It's all over the mapsies.

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And I remembered immediately thinking, she's like my sister. She's really funny and quick.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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And I connected with you right away. Do you remember that?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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You asshole.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

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Conan O'Brien walked into a room and you kind of remember?

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3045.054

That was before I changed my name.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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You were just new writer guy.

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But I did like you. Yeah. And we, so we knew each other in that world. And then you were with me all through Late Night, Tonight Show, TBS.

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And then... When this thing started up, you were doing that.

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So you've been finding the good people for us to talk to all these years. Yes, I have. I'll start off by commending you for your fine work.

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you know I get irritated with you oh yes I do know that because I try and talk to you in the morning and you're teaching a yoga class that's true and first of all she's very serious about yoga you teach yoga I do it's a great thing I didn't know you teach yoga I got certified a couple years ago wow congrats Paul that's cool thanks you guys yeah

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And I always pick something insane to to be offended by. And I arbitrarily decided that you and also you work with like you do wonderful work. You're helping. Aren't you helping people, older people sometimes with yoga?

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You volunteer. You do really nice things. And I've decided that this is an affront. Yeah. because that's time you could be booking some people. Okay. And I'm talking like seven o'clock in the morning. She's doing this wonderful work with, you know, basically elder care for free where she volunteers and I'll harangue you. You should book some of those seniors and that'll show.

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Joy killer.

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I don't know what that is. Why? Why, Paula? Psychoanalyze it. You're very smart. And by the way, Paula, once I was having this amazing interview and I will say it again. I've said it many times. The best interviewer on the planet is Howard Stern. I think he's a genius interviewer. Always has been. And he just gets better and better. I idolize him as an interviewer. He was interviewing me once.

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We and I were having this moment and I brought you up and he said, well, is Paula here? And because you're a huge Howard fan, you came in and you were petrified.

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Petrified.

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But you immediately psychoanalyzed us both brilliantly. It was great. Really? Yeah. And then Howard was like, wow, she's great. What did you say about Conan?

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Yeah. No, no. She has a. I'm not going down this road with you. Oh, yes, you are. Yes, Paula, a long time ago, and this is before I was getting cognitive therapy and realizing that without getting crazily boring, but our thoughts can take us places that then the emotions follow and it can get very negative. Anyway, you were the one that was like, no, no, no, we're not going down that road.

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We're not going down that negative road that you have in your head about yourself. And then you would say it the way you say to a dog, nope, out, like off the couch.

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Yeah. Off the couch. Yeah. I do that with our, we have a puppy now, Odin, and he'll just jump up on the couch and Liza and I'll be like, nope. And he quickly jumps off. That's how you are with me.

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We're not doing that.

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It's great.

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That's good.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Sure.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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And after all this time, is there someone that you would want to?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Yeah. And then my John Lennon is just, what the fuck are you talking about? It's just, it's more nasal and just yelling at Paul. Yes, it's a lot of fun to hang around with Dana and do voices. It's really fun. Yeah. He's the maestro. Yeah, he is. He is the maestro. Yeah. And I'm going to give it up for him right now.

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Wow, what a leading question. Leading question for the process.

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Anyone Armenian.

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33.857

Well, hello there. Oh.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Listen, I would love to talk to Cher. I have great admiration for Cher. I don't know. She's never promoting something. I don't know. Or maybe she is and she doesn't want to do our show. I don't know.

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Really?

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Oh, that'll, yeah. Good luck getting that past her. Nine layers of security.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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I'm a median, too! Let me in! Let me in and share! I know that your real name is Cher, Cher, Cher, and in.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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3339.144

What is her real name?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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No, I don't know. That's a tricky thing because you're putting Paula in a situation where she may have to say a name.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Also, I think it's someone who's been dead for a while.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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3369.334

Can she whisper it on mic?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

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Paul is always trying to book people that died quite a long time ago.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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No, be serious.

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No, no. Be truthful.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Okay.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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3415.07

Are there too many bits?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Do you like the bits? I do like the bits. Sometimes, Paula has a great laugh. And if I can really, one of my favorite things to do, which I can't recreate right now, but I used to walk into an office and you'd be there with Gina Batista. And I think I tricked them almost every time, but we'd be talking and I would make sure that we were in a pretty serious vein.

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And they always had, you know, magazines, celebrity magazines there because they're in booking and they would flip through them to get ideas. You know, did we not have this person?

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And so, you know, I'd pick up one of those, an Us magazine, whatever, and I'd flip through and I'd go like, oh, fuck. And you would go like, what, what's the problem? And I'd go, why, if I'm in this, if I'm in this, why did you have the magazine here?

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Yeah.

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And you guys would think for a second, oh shit, there's like a paparazzi photo of Conan and it's not flattering or he gets upset if he sees himself. And I would then proceed to read copy Very fluently. Yes. Like, fluidly.

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Legit. Meaning, I'd be flipping through and I'd go like, hey, I didn't know I was in this. And why do you have this magazine out if I'm in it? Why do you have this Us magazine if I'm in it? And Paula and Gina would go, oh, oh, oh, shoot. I guess we didn't realize he's in it. And then I'd say, Red Terror Rides Again. Good.

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Amy Poehler

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And you guys would be listening, and at first I'd make it plausible. Cited, you know, a certain carrot-topped quipster was cited. Oh, always. You know, whatever. I always work that in. A carrot-topped jokester was cited on La Cienega Boulevard, you know, entering whatever, and I would say like an ice cream store. And then I would proceed to describe the most horrible thing about myself. Yeah.

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Amy Poehler

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Yeah, well, who else is there? What other famous Danas are there?

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Amy Poehler

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It was completely fake, but it was always me dropping my pants... spilling ice cream, kicking an old woman. Please stop hurting me, the old woman, a veteran of the Korean War, cried. You'll take it and like it, O'Brien said. As I remember, we didn't win that war, granny. I mean, I would describe this absolute monster. But Brian then said, where's my ice cream?

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When the ice cream was not brought quickly enough for the, and then I would say the freckled, you know, late night star, he grabbed the cone of a nearby boy in a wheelchair. Looks like you lose out, wheelie. I mean, absolute insane.

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Dana Delaney. Dana White. Dana White. Yeah.

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And I think that's one of the things that's never come out is my joy. I'd like to try to be a good person, but I love imagining myself as the worst person alive. And I would read these things and you would laugh till you were crying and it would make me so happy.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Makes me angry that she gives of herself at seven o'clock in the morning to yoga with elderly people instead of she could be on the phone booking Dakota Johnson.

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Amy Poehler

3611.665

That's right. You know what? Dakota Johnson said she's available to take our call for a booking at 7 a.m. She's the white whale. She's the white whale. Yeah. Yeah. This is meant to be a cruel staff review and we just can't do it. Once again, you've made it all about you.

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He probably does. Yeah. He comes out as a character. Comes out as a 1920s Depression era newsboy and tells everybody that Titanic was just sunk. They should get ready for the fight.

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Well, she's amazing. I'll make it about Paula at the end.

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You're great. Everyone loves Paula. Everyone loves Paula. Boring.

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But thank you for getting us all these amazing people. Oh, you're welcome.

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Amy Poehler

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But you donate your time for the oldies. Isn't that weird?

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Well, I'm sorry. They had their fun in the 1940s. Why should they be getting a free ride now? Oh, wait. That's the guy from the fake Us magazine ad. I know. All right, Paula. We love you. Bye. Thank you. Bye. Bye.

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Amy Poehler

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It's Conan O'Brien. And this is Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. I'm joined by my good pals. What is it? Son of Obsession. Son of Obsession. Yeah. And... Take your time. Take your time. And this is one of those occasions, doesn't come up that much, where I've got a bit of a cold and I'm just loving my voice. And that's why I think I slow it down a little bit. And I think I sound real sexy.

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They all start hitting each other with chairs. They love it. We love it. To the Lusitania saying. Do it. Do it. They love it when he invokes Woodrow Wilson. Yeah, it's great. It's good stuff. Well, I think we've had a good time.

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What? What? Well, that's a terrible thing to say.

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That's the audience. You just clued the audience in that we were trying to fill time as opposed to having a magical journey.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

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You know, show business is, and our current president has taught us this, you declare it and you make it so. And so I'm, you know, not saying that's the right thing to do, but he just says he makes declarations.

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Amy Poehler

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I'm not, not, not, not saying. No, but what I'm saying is... He makes these declarations and people then start chanting, lock her up, lock her up. They don't even know who she is or where they're locking her up. You should just do that. Yeah. So I think I'm going to start doing that on the podcast.

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Lock her up. Yeah, Sona. I want Sona arrested.

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Amy Poehler

440.493

Bummer.

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Amy Poehler

441.614

I don't know. You shoplifted, didn't you? A long time ago and not a lot of stuff. I guess old crimes don't count.

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Amy Poehler

452.103

Hi, law. How are you? I didn't recognize you.

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Amy Poehler

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You look fantastic. Hey, I love the scales you're holding. Why are you blindfolded, law?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

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Oh, wow. Your improv is so good. Your improv is off the charts. Incredible. So do you train to like Second City? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

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And yes.

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Amy Poehler

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You got it. That's all you got to do. Yeah. And I got to do.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. And shut up. Yes. And you shut up. Yeah. That's what I would do.

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Amy Poehler

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And then yes. And you shut up. Yes. That's a good. Yes. And wrap. Okay. Well, I think this is a perfect introduction. Improvisational geniuses on the show today. My guest today was a cast member on SNL and starred in the hit series Parks and Recreation. Now she has a new podcast titled Good Hang with Amy Poehler. You know what? She's never been on the podcast. I know. And I adore her.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

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A lot of our fans know this, but for the uninitiated, when I was doing my late night show in 93, a couple of years into it, we started saying, oh, we need cast members to help us out on the fly. And UCB was just getting off the ground.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

533.723

And so suddenly it wasn't just that I was getting really good people. I was getting the best sketch performers who were coming in from downtown and coming in and you would play and you could play anything, but you would play Andy's little sister and we'd give you I think a script that was like, yeah, it's a solid B. And you would take it to an A++++++. It was insanity.

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Amy Poehler

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And I never took that for granted. I always thought, I mean, now I look back on it and I think, I got to have Amy Poehler do bits on my show. Got to.

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Amy Poehler

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Well, it's interesting because young people just sort of made it their show. And we were doing all this weird stuff. And they were saying, yeah, this is what we like. We like the masturbating bear. We like pimp bot. We like Andy's little sister. We like all this weird stuff. But I was constantly taking shit from people that were used to Letterman who were maybe 20 years older than me.

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I think I sound like I've got big dick energy.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

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And so there was a solid three years of you might get canceled. Yeah. Can you try, you know, can you get rid of that weird stuff you're doing? And I'd tell them I will, and then I just wouldn't. And it was just madness.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

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Yeah, yeah.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

650.558

That's right. That diaper comes off pretty easy.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

656.84

He's got his own thing going on. That's not how he gets off. So we also have a few things in common, which is you're from Burlington, Mass. And I'm from Brookline, Mass.

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I was sexy by that point. What do you mean? I don't know.

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Amy Poehler

671.903

That's right. My butler's had a butler.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

71.767

You wish my voice was like this all the time.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

716.823

Didn't you work at the pewter or something?

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Amy Poehler

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Yeah.

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Amy Poehler

744.771

And you know what's interesting is that your Boston accent went away. I used to think I never had a Boston accent. And then someone recently found a clip of me interviewing my brothers and sisters from like 1971. And I'm going like, yes, away. And I'm like, who is that guy? And I never consciously tried to get rid of it, but you tried.

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Yes, definitely.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

785.013

I also love that when I go to Boston, I don't know if this happens to you.

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Bostonians, it is. It's terrible.

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Cranston, Rhode Island.

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Cranston, Rhode Island might win.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

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I can't. I'm terrible at it. This made Rachel Dratch crazy because she did this. She wrote a sketch for Saturday Night Live, which is all these Boston people. And I was hosting that week. I was just having trouble getting the Boston accent because I had been away for years. And Rachel was losing her mind.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

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No, no. She was getting really frustrated. Like, no, no, no. It's like on the corner. You know, and I'd be like, yeah, on the corner. She was really... I was making her as upset.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Right.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

836.1

It's not just the accent. There's an attitude, too. I don't know if you have this, but if I'm in Boston and I go there a lot to see my family, there's a, Conan, come here. Yeah. Come here. Yes. There's a, you kind of work for me. I know you're from Boston, so get over here. So I'm walking the other way. Hey, Conan, come here. Come here. Fuck, it's Conan. You know, come here. Climb over this thing.

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Amy Poehler

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I think I've mentioned this before, but I was in Boston and I was staying at a hotel and I was staying at a bar and I go into the men's room and this woman, who I want to say was 55, followed me into the men's room while I met the urinal. And she was like, hey, go on. And I was like, yeah, I met the urinal. And she's like, oh, Mr. Hollywood. Like, no, it's... I think this is illegal.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

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Yeah.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

918.632

Yeah. I don't think you're supposed to be in here.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

92.511

If I had this kind of voice all the time, I'd just do a lot of, yeah, yeah. Just to fill out the conversation.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

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Also, I remember growing up, first of all, you'd listen to school cancellations and you'd wait for your town to come up. But the second thing is there were all these ads for like the Light and Leisure building. Yeah. I think it was in Burlington. And they were like, it's in Burlington, the light and leisure. I don't know exactly what they were selling.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

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I think it was lights and leisure clothing, which doesn't make any sense. But it was like light and leisure, Burlington, you know, get off this, whatever. And I just, so that's drilled into my head.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Amy Poehler

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Because you don't have to think of anything clever. People will, hey, what's going on? Yeah, yeah, that's right.

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This guy just called in to wish you a happy birthday and suddenly you're saying I don't give a flying fuck when he does?

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Wait. Now listen to me. Oh, so Geddy Lee has to know your birthday exactly?

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I think within two months is a fairly good shot. There are 12 months. That's a sixth of the year for God's sake.

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He came within a sixth.

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What kind of scale are we on right now? If I got within a sixth of Bridget Bardot, I'd be fucking happy. Now you listen to me, you son of a bitch. What I'm saying is- You ingrate. We just arranged. You know what it costs for us to get Geddy Lee on the phone? Nothing. $600,000.

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You have a radio show with me.

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Okay. First of all, you're saying that if you passed a cafe... If you're walking, strolling along. Right. You were strolling along and you passed a cafe and Geddy Lee was sitting there and he happened to remember you. And he said, oh, Jason. And you went, what's Jordan? Yeah. And he said, have a seat. Let's share a bottle of French wine. You wouldn't join him.

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No. I'm different than you. I want to know the man. I'm someone who likes people. I interact. I know we're on this spinning blue globe we call Earth for a short time. And so, no, I don't want to huddle off in the dark and, you know, put my headphones on and have the same technical experience that I've had many times before.

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I'm going to give you my takeaways from what we just experienced. Your favorite band of all time, Rush, Geddy Lee. I surprised you with Geddy Lee and you went, ah, yes. Which stunned me because unbelievable. What did you expect? What would you have expected? I thought you would crack a smile and go, oh my, oh, whoa, oh, hey, whoa, this is.

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You acknowledged him like you went into a supermarket. Yes. You were looking for, you know, you were looking for a bag of Snickers bars. Yeah. And you went in the candy aisle and you went, oh, there they are. Yeah. That's the reaction you gave. You saw, you know, you saw some Nutter Butter cookies you were looking for. Hmm. Yes. There they are. There was no that's all.

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And I thought I found that to be unusual. The other takeaway is you go on and on and on about the difference in these audio pressings. He didn't know. He didn't know what you were talking.

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Okay. Now, listen, I've had the experience of, you know, being an artist. I have a great, uh, vast body of work going back. I mean, even before 1993. Oh, I'm familiar with it. Well, yeah, let's not go that far back. Not necessarily the news. Okay. Now you overdid it, but the groundlings. Well, before that. So what I'm saying is I've been making comedy pretty much steadily since 1981.

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Even earlier since. You as a fan probably have liked to go back sometimes and watch my old work.

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No, no, no, no. As a fan.

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Yes, you do. You must sometimes when you and I are walking around together be thinking, oh my God, this is Colin O'Brien.

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OK, so for any given music, I'd have a different term for you now, but this goes out to families. So I'm not going to do it. So, again, I'm going to try and get you to the point rather than taking us to. Well, this is a radio show.

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There are certain. What a list. Neil Diamond, Tristan Rogers from General Hospital?

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Stop for just a second. OK. You're saying that you didn't have a personality. You were an empty vessel and you decided to, you watched a soap opera and you saw a person acting on a soap opera and modeled who you are after that person.

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Can I say something? Yes. What boy your age is watching these soap operas These soap operas were meant for housewives.

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1990. I'm sorry. Oh, I missed it. I missed it by less than how much he missed your birthday.

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And I say, you guys, he performed on the rooftop of Beth Israel Hospital. And I just want to say, so I've seen most of it. But some there's a section where you guys take a bathroom break and it's missing. And so you're asking for that footage. He doesn't know what the fuck you're talking about.

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Okay, so your list is Neil Diamond.

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I'll do an impression of you bringing him up. Oh, guess what? We have a treat for you. The person you modeled your entire personality on who you've never met before. And here he is. And you go like, oh, yes.

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Oh, OK. Well, then guess what? He should be shot. OK, he should be sued. What do you mean the charisma you have?

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Going back to the day. I just want to know what's different about this.

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So have you ever wondered or I don't know if you've had therapy and my guess is you have not. I think you would. I don't think a therapist would be able to help you. I don't need help. Hold on. I think it'd be like a therapist sitting and there's a toaster oven on the couch. I'm fine. Yeah, people that say, I don't need help, I'm fine, shouting it, usually are fine. So my question is...

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Do you ever wonder why you needed... Why couldn't you just let your own personality form? Why did you need to take it from a character on General Hospital?

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Listen, I want to say something, Jordan. You say you're fine. You say you're okay. I'm just going to notice. Yeah. We've all noticed it. You've been shouting. Okay. For much of the last 15 minutes. I keep seeing Eduardo reach over and turn the dials down because you're going to blow out these beautiful microphones. These are gorgeous. Shure SMB7s.

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It stuns me that SXM, they're a big company, big company, and they are in business with all the biggest talents. Yeah. And somehow you're on there now.

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Yeah, and it's stunning to me. Yeah. The amount of bibble, babble, blither, and blather that spews out of this face of yours that I'd like to smash. It's incredible that people are listening in their cars right now. They're Dodge Neons. They're Chevrolet Gugus. I'm just making up car names. I don't know.

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You just passed that mark.

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So you thought that by sitting next to me on a radio show, I thought there'd be some sense of accomplishment. You'd be ushered into a better seat. Yes. Yes, I did. At the Lucky Duck Chicken House. You know, you thought, okay, that's incredible. You're a mystery to me. You continue to be a mystery. I try to make you happy by bringing you one of your icons daily. I try to get you therapy.

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Well, that iconic song can only mean one thing. It's the Conan and Jordan Show. And I'm joined, of course, I'm Conan O'Brien. I think that shouldn't have to be said. And I'm joined by my enemy, my friend, my frenemy, a man I loathe, a man I love, Mr. Jordan Schlansky. Yes, hi. You've been in my employ for how many years now, Jordan? Decades. Okay. Nice.

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You say you don't need it. Yeah. You still shout. I don't know. This was an incredible experience for me. to watch you. I try to help you. I try to do nice things for you. I took you to Italy. You can all watch it. I do all these extraordinary things for you and you always end up angry. You seem angry. No, I'm not angry.

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You just said to you.

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You can choose your conjunction. Freud's on line one.

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OK, well, we got off on a crazy tangent. I think you brought up Mussolini and I think that's weird. OK, listen, we had a wonderful episode. I think you got to meet one of your great heroes and talk to him. I know you say you've met him before, but he got to call you two months after your birthday, which is a big deal.

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Well, I think you don't even have to worry about it. I don't have to worry about it.

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No, I was not worried about that. All right. Well, listen, this has been our episode of the Conan and Jordan show featuring a guest appearance by Jordan's all-time hero, Geddy Lee. We're going to try and get this gentleman from General Hospital. Tristan Rogers. Tristan Rogers to be on soon. And you say you molded your personality around him. That is a sad, sad story about a sad little boy.

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Pinocchio, who one day wished he would become real and be a real boy. Listen to him speak. Okay. Peace out.

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I wasn't going to touch the disc. How did you know that I had liquid grease for lunch?

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Yeah.

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No pun intended. I did not mean to rush you.

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You got something? Do I have something? Yes. Okay. Okay. I have a little. I guess this is more important than what I was talking about. I think you're going to agree that it is. Okay. I have a special guest for you today.

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He's joining us right now. All right. Let's get him in here. I think this is a big moment. There he is, Geddy Lee.

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What do you mean? Oh, yes. This is your God. Geddy, how are you? Great to see you. I can't believe I just bring Geddy into the conversation and you go, oh, yes. Freak.

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Where are you right now, Geddy? Where are you zooming into us from?

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Lovely. And first of all, let me thank you, Getty, because you are an iconic musician. You're a big deal. And for you to join our ridiculous show is very cool. And so thank you so much for doing that. The reason I wanted you to join is I... I talked to Jordan. We've traveled the world together. We have a famous relationship.

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I think 40% of the time, Jordan is trying to talk to me about you, your music. And it's very flattering, but I thought you should come together now and you should talk to Jordan because Jordan claims that this pressing is much better of superior quality. Can you hear the difference, Geddy?

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Isn't that incredible? Jordan is basing his whole life. It's like a religion to him that this is the only version that can be played. You, Geddy Lee, can't hear the difference.

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OK. OK.

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Are you feeling that you're in the presence of, I don't know, a madman, someone who.

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Thank you for identifying the exact nature of the illness. Well, you're a nerd.

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You know, it might be interesting to hear Geddy Lee talk about Rush. Geddy, would you like to say anything about those days and some of the innovations and what the sound you were going after? Are we going to let R2-D2 over here spit out this bullshit?

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You have the microphone.

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All those nerdy facts are true. And thank you for doubling down on the nerdy thing. But Geddy, I'm curious, could you have had any idea back in 1980, you're up in Quebec, that all these years later, I mean, here we are, some 44 years later, and that someone like a Jordan, and Jordan is not, I mean, Jordan's very peculiar, but Rush fans really know this stuff.

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That's got to, it must blow your mind to think that what you guys were doing back then is now, uh, chapter and verse. It's, it's like talking about something in the Bible or the Talmud. It's, it's gotta be kind of freaky for you, huh?

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Now, Geddy, this is an awkward question, but say Jordan were to show up outside your home in Toronto, would you invite him in and let him stay for a week? Fuck no. Sorry, am I allowed to say that? Oh, that was the greatest thing that ever happened. Geddy Lee, thank you so much. Jordan, I'm sorry, but that's just the answer. That's the answer. That's the way it's going to have to be.

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This is your big chance.

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Do you know what he's talking about, Geddy?

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Yeah, Geddy, it doesn't seem to be... He's not writing any of this down, by the way.

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And I did notice he has, like me, he has a button in his study that alerts security, and he's been leaning on that thing for about 10 minutes. Yes. Getty, you are a very good sport in addition to being an incredibly talented musician and a great guy. And it was very nice of you to drop in and speak to Jordan. I worry about Jordan, frankly.

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And I think after this conversation, you're a little worried about him, too.

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With maybe security present. Yeah. It's also my bar mitzvah today, Getty. So if you want to say a word about that. Okay, yes. Getty Lee, thank you so much. It's very kind of you to call in and our regards to your bandmates and to all the good people in Toronto. That's one of my favorite towns in the world. So thank you. Thank you, Conan.

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Take care, Getty Lee. Thank you very much.

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What an incredibly nice guy. That was a really nice treat that he could drop in here. How did it feel? Had you spoken with Geddy Lee before?

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Yeah. No, they were all given to me. I understand. Well, that's impressive. That's cool when you just know famous people that give you guitars. Yes. Well, we can all aspire to that. So this is a special cut to the chase. This is a what's different about this pressing of that song. OK. Like all of us, I like music.

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I make words, too, and put them into sentences.

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That feeling is shared by, I think, by Geddy Lee and the rest of the members of Rush, which I think works out nicely. You don't feel the need to meet them. Right. And he does not want to meet you. Right. And shouldn't really meet you.

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We have many aspects to our personality. No, you don't. No, you don't. What I'm saying is you're a fucking floor lamp that I've been looking at for years. I've walked around it. I've pushed it on and I've turned it off. And now you're saying there's many sides to me.

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I can't. I'm picturing all of your products have tiny little guns. And every now and then in your house, you're trying to sleep and you hear a... A tiny little shot. You go in and, oh, my hairdryer's dead. Sometimes they leave a little note. If I had to listen to him pronounce Socratic bullshit one more time.

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Oh my God, my stomach hurts. My chest hurts. My whole body falling apart.

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Nose trimmer. Yeah. And then you went to the trouble to replace the blade.

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Wait a minute, wait a minute. I don't see a huge difference. Well, that's telling that you don't see a difference between those two objects.

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You don't have a hair and makeup person anymore. Little scissors. Oh, thanks for saying you don't have a hair and makeup person anymore. Wait a minute. Why do you have to bring that up? That's hurtful.

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Is that personally insulting? I still do big gigs. I still do live shows. Of course.

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My nose is not pumping out tons of hair every day.

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I make little, I'm like Edward Scissorhands, I make little topiaries. I have a little dinosaur in this one and I have a lizard in that.

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Say about my neck.

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Would you like me to tell you?

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Okay. I get very bad. I have very sensitive skin. And when I shave my throat, I get those razor bumps. You're telling me you deliberately leave that hair there? You think that looks better than a red neck? No, I don't deliberately. I don't deliberately leave it there. Do you see it?

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I shave it, but sometimes I try to do a cursory job so I don't irritate the skin too much, and maybe I leave a stray hair. And you know what? This is hurtful. No, this is not a stray hair.

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Hurtful.

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You've got 15 in a bag, you motherfucker. Give me one. Why are you saying I have to buy one? I'm not giving you one of these. Yes, you are. I employ you. What are you talking about? I'll buy one from you for twice its price. You paid $8. I'll give you $16. This is priceless to me.

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I'll give you $100.

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I'll give you $200. I'll give you $200. Okay. Say yes! Shake on it. That's 200 clams that you're going to get. You made a huge profit on that. Give it to me right now. Do I have $200 on me? I don't know if I do. Maybe I do.

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What the difference is it?

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Yeah. I go to strip clubs sometimes. I think that's, you were yelling at me and you upset me because you said that my face was all fucked up.

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Okay, there's 100. Really, 200? You offered 200. I know, but what if I take it down a little bit now? No. I'll give you 100. Hold on, hold on. You want 200 seals the deal? Yeah. Okay, there it is. It's $200. Okay, which one do you want? Why don't you choose? Do you want this one? No, I want one in a box, asshole. I don't want one that's been up your ass two hours ago.

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Oh, what do you use for that?

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What goes up there? Seriously.

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Yeah. I think the other's been displayed at times, frankly. What battery does this take? That takes a AA battery. Do we have a AA around here? I'd like to try and see if I can get this thing going.

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Well, first of all, that's your doing, not mine. You've been paid a salary since almost day one. Is there any way I can turn him down a bit? The other one on your left thigh. Yeah, it's just, it's awful. Well, you had another guest in here at the same volume. What was the problem there? That was someone I respected. That was Tracy Ellis Ross. She's fantastic. Your other thigh. Why is the button?

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It's okay. This is brand new.

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So what you're hearing is the actual grinding of some hair. I think I did a pretty good job with scissors. Not from what I'm hearing.

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You know what?

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I do hope you're murdered soon. This is a new nostril.

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Yeah. This is better than the scissors.

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Look at you now. You know what I love? I love that your look at you now is about this. You know, it's supposed to be about something bigger, like, you said that you were better than me, and that was 50 years ago, but now I encounter you when you're a hobo. Look at you now!

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But you use it on, you said that my information was incorrect, but I suggested this nose hair trimmer, and now you're using it. Look at you now! It's so small.

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Jordan, if I wanted to demand the best in everything, explain your presence.

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I mean, seriously.

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You're right. You're right. All fair points. And I am going to use this, and I appreciate it. Again, let's get the word out on the Panasonic ER-GN11, only available in Japan. You can't get this.

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Yeah. I just love that you have this sad little bag. I don't know. I'm sorry. Come on. Don't stare at me with hate. You have to admit you have a little...

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Why is this goddamn? Oh, oh, oh, that's great. Oh, that's great. I said your left thigh. Why did you even have it in the same room? Why didn't you put the switch?

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Yeah. Now be honest. Have you used it on the ass? Be honest. No. Have you used anything on the ass? No. Have you ever looked back there?

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Not that I'm aware of. Sometimes when you're in a certain transcendental state, you might take a look.

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That's a very personal question. Yeah. It was just asked of me, so I'm familiar with the question. All right. Well, I think this has been a very successful segment once again. Jordan has hoodwinked me. It's a good product. Did I pay too much? Yes, I did. Will I try and get the money out of Frank Smiley afterwards? Probably. Will I also keep the Panasonic ERG-N11? Yes, I will.

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So I'm determined to come out ahead, but I'm going to let it go for now. But yes, during the show, it will have all the appearances of me shelling out 200 clams. Oh, quick advice. Where does the hair go?

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Well, guess what? Yeah. That's Conan O'Brien nose hair. Yeah. I could sell that. They sell Elvis's sweat. I could sell Conan O'Brien's nose hair. And you know what? There'd be someone listening right now who would want to buy it.

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Someone's been listening and they're on the line? Yes. That's fantastic. Let's put this person on the line. This is exciting. What if I can sell my nose hair? Let's patch through. Hello, this is... I'm told this is Stephanie in Illinois. Stephanie, are you there?

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How are you?

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Well, I mean, day isn't much. I was hoping you'd say like week or month, but... Okay. I'll take, you know what? I'm going to take day. I'm not going to get greedy. Stephanie, it's very nice to talk to you. As you know, we've been, I just use this amazing product. I trim the insides of my nose, my nostrils. And I was talking about maybe someone would buy my nose hair.

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Is that something that you would ever consider?

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When you said you would consider it, it sounds like you'd consider it for a microsecond.

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Yeah, you know what? I respect you because I think only an idiot would buy my nose hair. And I think you made the right call. Tell me a little bit about yourself, Stephanie. What's your occupation?

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Seriously? Yeah. So this is good because I'm sitting here. I do this show occasionally with, I guess I'm going to call him a friend of mine. I don't know what the term is. Jordan Schlansky. Are you familiar with him at all?

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Okay. People seem to know him. A lot of people stop me and ask me, what's the deal with Jordan? And I want to say that I've spent a good chunk of my life trying to explain him to other people. You say that you're a psychologist?

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yes and so you are trained to understand um the human psyche the mind behavioral patterns you've probably done personality uh tell me and and jordan's here you can say hello hello stephanie yeah what what is your take on jordan schlansky hello

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Oh, that was a that was a pause. Oh, my God. That's not good. That's not a good sign. I thought we had I thought all communications had dropped and that you had gone off the grid. That was a pause because you don't know what to say. That's stunning.

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Well, I mean, let's talk. Do you want to have any questions for Jordan?

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Let's get into it. He just walked into your office. You're familiar with some of his videos. Let's imagine, you know, Jordan, you've seen his videos and he walks into the office. Um, and, uh, let's get to it.

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Well, listen, you are referencing a podcast interview.

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I'm sorry. You're just describing the human species.

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You're talking you're talking about Homo sapiens. That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about you specifically. And and, you know. Well, I feel content.

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What I want to say, Jordan, is that you are not you say you're content, but all you ever do when we talk is bitch at me that you don't think you've gotten enough out of the Conan O'Brien.

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Excuse me. I'm going to let you jump in here, Stephanie, because if I don't bully him out of the way, you'll never get a chance.

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I supported your train of thought. All I mentioned was Tracee Ellis Ross was the previous person here. All I mentioned is an aspect of the Tracee Ellis Ross interview. Right, which no one listening to this right now on SXM has probably listened to yet. So everything you're doing right now is just babbling like a chimp. You're babbling like a chimp about various liquefied fats.

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So you're saying, so basically what you just said is you're a normal guy. 40% of people despise you. 40% are fine with you, and then 20% in the middle have no opinion. That does not sound, Stephanie, to me, like the normal response an average human gets. What do you think?

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Stephanie, let me ask you quickly. You're the expert here, and I'd like to hear a lot more from you and a lot less from Jordan. But my take here is I hear a lot of smooth talking from Jordan, a lot of words, a lot of sing-songy cadence, mannerisms, but it almost feels like it's talking to cover up. Is that what you're hearing, too?

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So you're saying that maybe I could be the issue is maybe what you're saying.

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Jordan, let's stick to the basics, okay? You've come in very hot. All I'm trying to say is you and I have known each other for 30 years. I've supported you. I've paid your salary.

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Yes, it's like when they first caught Ted Bundy, he was quite chatty, pleasant, saying to everyone at the jail, it's so nice to see you, what a lovely jail, because that had always worked for him in the past. Is that the analogy that you're making right here, Stephanie?

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Sure, as all aliens do when they visit.

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I did do that recently, Stephanie. So he was sitting way across from me on an airplane flight. And I yelled across. We were on a shooting a travel show and I shouted way across the aisles in front of everyone on the plane just so I could make a ridiculous face at him. And I did it because I saw his face and it was just had no expression. It was lifeless. It was a mask.

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And I had I mean, I was sitting on an airplane.

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I think American Airlines deserved more. They do a good job and you could have given them something. And so I needed to the pond was too placid and I needed to drop a stone in and watch the concentric rings. Do you understand that, Stephanie?

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There was no magic. I just saw a weird face across the aisle wearing the same T-shirt you always wear, staring straight ahead. And it was annoying. Stephanie, why don't you break in and you talk for a little bit so that Jordan can go ahead.

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So you're saying that anyone who performed even the most negligible task on Late Night with Conan O'Brien 30 years ago should be a billionaire.

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I usually say we think it's a childhood accident. Yeah. That's the best I can come up with. And that tends to they they just nod and go, yeah. You know, and I say I don't really know what it was, if it was, you know, a truck that stopped too fast and there was a railroad spike in the back and it took out some kind of traumatic brain injury. Yeah. Yeah.

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You know, those X-rays you see where there's a skull and there's a the the the giant spike going right through it. But they tell you the guy lived and he's a practicing lawyer. That's I'm always guessing that it was some kind of event like that, that there's a piece that's missing from Jordan that should be there.

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But because someone in a Ford F-150 left a railroad spike in the back and then stopped short, Jordan has been an alien his whole life. Jordan, what do you think?

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I'm sorry. It's the Conan and Jordan show and it's on the Conan channel.

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OK, so I guess that would make me the judge.

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It's like you're this guy that wandered into the Supreme Court in your loud suit and you're shouting up at a Supreme Court justice. Who are you to judge? I'm a Supreme Court justice.

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Stephanie, can you just step in quickly and tell Jordan that I'm better than him?

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I love that that's coming from. Oh, my God.

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That settles it. Thank you very much, Stephanie. You're a wonderful person. And thank you. Thank you so much for calling into the show and for settling this question. And that's science. That's real science right there. Yeah, clearly that I'm better than you. And Stephanie, best of luck to you. Well, thank you so much, Stephanie. Really nice talking to you.

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She was lovely. She was. And also, I think she she nailed it. I think she just really nailed it.

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We didn't know. Yeah, we didn't know. It was an accident. It was a psychologist. And who knew that it would be a psychologist who immediately took you apart? Yeah. and deduce that you are the monstrous freak that you are. Hey, that's all the time we have for now. Okay. And that's not really true. I have plenty of time left, but I just can't do this anymore. So I'm going to wrap this up.

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Do you say, hey, stewardess, get over here and give me some of those bag nuts.

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That's been this episode of the Conan and Jordan show. I think we made big progress. We learned a lot about a lot of things. And then a pretty much a woman of science said that I win and Jordan loses. Clearly a sound psychological opinion. We'll see you next time.

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This is your big reward. Yes. Of all the people who started interning with me way back in whatever, 1995, 96. I think as I look around, you're the only one that has your own show with Conan O'Brien on SXM. So shut up. Shut up. Kind of like a Trumpy voice. Shut up. You're fired. You know, that kind of Trump thing. You're fired. Right. Right. Isn't that a funny impression?

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I'm just saying that you're sitting here now. Yeah. You are one half of a show that's on SXM, and you should be grateful for that. Yeah, I am. Do you see other interns that you started with? These things are not mutually exclusive. The other interns you started with are all dead or in jail. You are here with your own show on the SiriusXM dial. Okay. Okay? Yes. So just settle down. Sure.

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Now, I do want to talk to you about something kind of exciting. Okay. You mentioned on a previous episode of the Conan and Jordan show, I just keep looking over at the graphic to make sure this is really happening. Because this is a nightmare for me. You mentioned earlier that you had once entered a Guinness contest. That's true. Where you write a limerick. I wrote a limerick.

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I'm saying you mentioned at the time. And so that's why I was using the past tense. I was talking about what you did do.

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I very much wish I had a firearm, but that's beside the point. You, if I'm not mistaken, said that you entered this contest. And at that time, you wrote a limerick. I did. As part of the contest. You liked your limerick. And I remember thinking, that's a pretty good limerick. Do you want to repeat it for us? Oh, yes.

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I think that's very good. I'm serious. That is a very good... You entered it and you did not win. And what was the prize?

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You get to own a pub. Even better. And can you imagine... Owning a pub. I was just there. Owning a pub in Ireland would be just amazing. Right. Fantastic. It could be a dream. That's like having a, you know, an Airbnb on the water in Maine. That's just like a quintessential wonderful experience. You entered and you did not win. Is that correct?

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It's not on. It's not on. It's so funny. I just thought, wow, he really has no personality. I couldn't hear you. Let's try it again. Say hi. Hi. You got to leave that in. It's just too good. Now I hear you, and I prefer it the other way. Listen, Eduardo, it's not your fault. A lot of sound engineers forget to turn on one of two mics. I'm not sorry. Uh...

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I was never notified about any development one way or the other. Well, I have the information here. Okay. And the winner, the 1996, that's when you entered? Somewhere around there. Guinness Essay Contest winner was Shan Weston from Friday Harbor, Washington. I don't know Friday Harbor. Of course, my wife is from Washington.

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I think near the San Juan Islands. Yeah, the San Juan Islands, which I'm quite familiar with. I've been there with my bride. Great wine in Washington State, by the way. Let's just stay on track. Retired wildlife education coordinator. She won. She entered the contest and she won... The Schoenecke Pub in County Clare. She won a pub. Oh, well, there's a picture. There she is. Oh, yeah.

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She won the contest that you failed to win. And 55,000 people in the United States entered the contest. And she won.

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Frank, well, first of all, you look like a lot of things, and it's all-encompassing. Frank, you've done the research on this, and you've talked to Guinness, and they said that the contest that Jordan entered it did not have to be a limerick.

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Yeah, Guinness is.

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You're yelling.

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Okay. Anyway, Guinness, I'm sure they're going to rescind this once they hear your insane rant, but Guinness did respond to your limerick. Okay. They got back to us with their own limerick. Oh. And here's how it goes. There once was a man who loved Guinness. He entered a competition feeling ambitious. Still upset he didn't win with 30 years in the bin. Jordan, please accept a pint as forgiveness.

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And Guinness has sent Guinness over for everyone at Larchmont, that's our company here, to enjoy. So, Jordan, you didn't win, but I'm getting a free Guinness, which is nice. And I don't know why Frank's getting one. What the fuck did he do? It's important. I set this up. You did? Yeah.

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You're pouring that wrong and it's making me crazy. I took a Guinness pouring class and you're doing that all wrong. It's making me insane. Anyway, that's okay. That's all right. I don't have a glass because you only look after number one. Oh, you have a glass. You just didn't want to share it with me. That's great. When I said that was all sarcastic, I don't really think it's right.

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We're also joined by Frank Smiley, who's here to help us out, navigate these waters and maybe intervene if a fistfight should break out. That's right. You know, Jordan, how many years have we been together? Approximately 30. Approximately 30 years. You came to work for me as a very young man and fretted your life away. Sure. You have built me a relationship. incredible amount of money.

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I'm not going to touch that line with a 30 foot pole.

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Can I just say one thing? You're supposed to imagine there's usually a harp on any Guinness glass and you imagine on the first pour, you get it, you angle it, you hit the side of the glass and you go up to the harp and then you wait for the head to settle. Because these are from cans, it's not quite the same experience, but then you finish it up and I'll do that in just a minute.

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Jordan, you didn't win, but we got our free Guinness, which is nice. Yeah. And I think they just, if I'm not wrong, Guinness, we just talked about Guinness for about 15 minutes and we were each paid one can of Guinness, which makes Guinness really smart and us incredibly stupid.

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How do you know why I haven't been paid off? Frank, very possible that you had us talk about Guinness for a really long time because there's going to be Frank Smiley's pub in the town of Billy Galili on the coast of Gali Balali. So I wouldn't put anything past him.

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Nice. Creamy. Oh, my God.

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And frankly, while I appreciate the sentiment, I see now why you lost the contest as a beer hater. Well, here I am with my limerick about Guinness known beer hater, Jordan Schlansky. Yeah. I once tasted something I hated and then I knew I was faded. And then this rest, you know, to lose the contest, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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I took mine off the table when I realized we weren't getting paid for this. Frank, who probably is getting a pub, has kept his can on the table. You should take yours off because you're getting nothing out of this. I didn't know you could win a pub. That's so cool. Sounds a little bit like a headache, though. Not at all. No, no, no. There's never any problems in an Irish pub. All right. All right.

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We're going to take a little break. Okay. We'll come back with more of the Conan and Jordan show. And we're going to have show and tell. We're going to have show and tell. Oh, that'll be interesting. Jordan, show and tell. Okay. Hey, we're back. I'm here with my co-host, Jordan Schlansky. We have a little segment here.

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This is called Jordan Show and Tell, where you've brought something into the studio that has some resonance for you. That's correct. And you want to show it to us?

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Okay, well, if you're hearing that classic tune, it means you're listening to The Conan and Jordan Show. And this is a show where I, Conan O'Brien, sit with, well, there's no other better way to say it, my nemesis, my foe, someone who over the years has irritated me to an incredible degree, Mr. Jordan Schlansky. Hi. Did you, is your microphone on?

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I don't know what you do. We've never quite figured out what your task was on the old late night show or now. Did you say I built you money or I've milked you? Bulked. Bulked. B-I-L-K-E-D. As in Sergeant Bilko, as in bilked him. I took him for a ride. I squeezed him for cash.

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So this, let me explain to the viewer. You've just handed me what looks like a very small vibrator. Okay. And it's a Panasonic. Yeah. And this is from the 90s, 2000s?

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Nevertheless... If it was around you for 20 years, it probably killed itself.

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To cut a tiny little gun and shot its brains out. LAUGHTER Have you noticed that a lot of your products commit suicide at a certain point?

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But can I say something I'd like to just bring up just for the record? Oh, I'm sorry.

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Did you guys watch the OJ trial?

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Yeah, I think he's a murderer. And I'm not sure I buy what he's selling. Do you respect me? Because and here's what I'm going to say. There's tons of footage of him criticizing. my skin, the shape of my face. He sometimes more than implies that I've put on a little weight that I, he calls me, uh, I think he's referred to me as the beast and the monster.

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Yeah. OK, well, if we could cut that, I would. But I don't know that we have the money to edit. I'm just going to let it sit there. Just well, you brought you brought up the subject. So I just brought it up. Oh, there's no need to expand. What if you'd been sitting next to Lincoln when he gave the Gettysburg Address? Four score and seven years.

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Um, you're presenting this information with no context.

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Only an alien keeps saying I'm a human being and not a robot.

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Jordan went into great detail once, doctors, about how he thought that I was in great shape because he reviews all the footage. And then, well, my monitor is going up now. And then he said that there was a period of time, like a two-year period, where he thought I gained weight. And he said, it sickened me to look at you during that period of time. Did you not say that?

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You said there were periods in the late night show when you thought I gained weight, probably in the early 2000s.

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You know what happened is I got married and I was very happy after years and years of trying to find the right partner. I gave up and married this woman. No, kidding. I found my wife very happy. And she was cooking me all this great food. And yeah, I probably put on a little weight. My face got a little round. I started to resemble Ted Kennedy in the late 80s. And Jordan was quite, I see it now.

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You have to take that thing off. It's just going crazy. It's like a smoke alarm in the towering inferno. You just need to take it off. But I see now, because of your help, that you were, as a friend, I think, rather than just making fun of me, you were telling me as a friend something that no one else, Jeff Ross, isn't going to say you gained a little weight. Paula Davis isn't going to say that.

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They're all yes people. They just, whatever's good. But you, you were trying to tell me the truth. Do you respect that? I do.

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I'd just like to point out, of course, that four score and seven years ago, of course, that's a shorthand. He is referring to the Declaration of Independence. And, you know, no, Lincoln didn't need someone to expand. Well, this is a radio show and I do have a microphone in front of me. So the implication is I'm supposed to speak.

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I wish he hadn't said the word grotesque. And he called me the beast and the monster.

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Oh, it's stuck in my mind quite clearly.

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Well, I'm going to speak purely as a professional. It's not as funny. When we're being really mean to each other, people are laughing. Right. When I'm hearing Jordan and appreciating him and he's telling me he respects me, I just see an empty audience and I panic.

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And when they see you, there's actually no data on that. Yeah, I think there's a lot of data on it. Well, we've looked for it.

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And I think this is important to review some of the more toxic areas. Okay. I'm going to say that you have made fun of the way I sometimes don't get all the hairs on my neck shaved.

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I do things quickly. I'm always in a rush, very type A. I take quick swipes with the razor. Also, I now predominantly, you know, work in radio. The lenses here aren't that exact. My wife, you know, Doesn't get to see me up close too much. She's grown very distant. That's not true. I just threw it in there to see if I could pique your attention.

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I spent half an hour trying to saw that microphone off its stand because I want to do a radio show with you where you don't have a microphone. That's what I would like. Jordan, part of our appeal, if we can call it that, some of the fascination is that people can tell that my irritation with you is real. I see. Do you agree with that? I mean, there is... This is not for me to assess.

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But I don't think she's getting a good look at my face anymore. She saw it. She liked it in 1999. It was enough. It was enough. Thank you. Thank you, John. It was more than enough. And so that's why he is very much into manscaping. Stop. Stop.

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Are you saying that I could make Jordan sick?

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By putting him down? Yes. Well, this is fantastic. Thank you. Giving you a weapon? You just handed, yes. You are such a rascal. Well, I am. That's the nicest way to put it.

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So by holding contempt for Jordan, I'm also damaging my own immune system. I'm lowering its ability to fight infection. That's right. So this is this is self-defeating.

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You're implying the hair is growing out so much I could braid it.

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High profile area. I am a very masculine man and I know you're going to stop me in a second and say this isn't relevant, Conan, but I would like to say in my own defense, I am, for a man my age, I think pulsating with testosterone, I pump out a lot of facial hair very quickly. I think sometimes that's not my fault.

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And for you to attack me for being one of the most masculine men you know is, I think, probably unfair.

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He wants you to be quiet about it.

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uh i will not mention it to anyone else nor nor you well you also tend to uh mention it when there are cameras and microphones around wouldn't it be fair to approach me quietly and say conan you have a long tuft it looks like a ponytail coming out of four pores to the right of your adam's apple and i'll i will uh take care i'll seek out the proper authority so you prefer i pull you aside

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It's not a bit, is what I'm saying. There's no way I could invent this contentious relationship. This is not wrestling. This is real. You're constantly getting under my skin. You and I have had many issues over the years. For a long time, I didn't know what you did on the show. Okay. I'm just being kind because I still don't know why you're working for me. Right.

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I love that you refer to light and the mirror as technology. Jordan, my personal appearance is one of the things that we have trouble with. Another thing that we have difficulty with is that Jordan loves to expand as he did on the phrase doctors. I find that insulting because you're both doctors. You're both highly educated. You're very successful, highly intelligent people.

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And then this guy is telling you the Latin root, what it comes from and what it means. Everywhere we go. I love it. Me too. You like it.

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Here's the one thing I'm going to say, Julie. Okay. If it's okay. He's often wrong. The information he told you, I would look it up because there's a 75% chance he's wrong. He has held forth and expounded on where Karate Kid 2 was filmed, wrong. The origins of pizza, what you're allowed to drink with pizza. He said, you don't drink wine with pizza if you're doing it correctly.

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He was corrected in Italy by the people making the pizza that, yes, you drink wine with pizza. He's constantly, You're wrong.

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Oh, man, that was humiliating. Right. And Ralph Macchio, who played the Karate Kid.

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Um, and you've committed, I think some crimes, you know, you've purchased expensive equipment that you yourself used and you charged it to the show. You came in late for a while. Uh, you've traveled the world with me or a know-it-all you've I've caught you many times saying the wrong thing. Uh, and you never backed down.

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Well, I'm going to point out something because I'm still wearing my monitor because it hasn't been beeping at all. Yours has exploded and blue foam is coming out of it every time it gets near you. It does not recognize you as a person. Mine, during his whole rant when he was yelling at me, went down to below 90 to 89. Interesting.

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My heart rate, I think I have so little regard for his opinion that it's almost like he's a hat rack to me. I'm not saying this is correct. I know what I'm saying is terrible. And these are the confessions of probably a Ted Bundy hours before his death. But I... My heart rate went down when you were yammering and jabbering because I thought I was just looking at a chimp in the zoo, you know?

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And so I was calmed and pleased. Okay, pause. Now, if you're going to try and say chimp in the zoo is an insult, I think you're way off base. And I know that John's with me on this one.

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Very good. My wife would do that. My wife would do that because she's very grammatically correct all the time.

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We're not in a courtroom.

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Let me tell Julie and John one thing, which is that we were recently in Buenos Aires together. It wasn't for work. It was a romantic getaway. And he kept referring to the famous dance, the tango, as the tango. Now, and he got in my face and said, it's called the tango. Everybody in Argentina backed me up and said, no, we call it the tango. And he went, please, it's the tango.

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No, it's not the tango. So it's not that your whole premise is wrong, that you have the correct information. And isn't it kind of you to share it with me? Yeah. you're wrong.

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No, no, I would. And this is one of the questions I wanted to ask you is, is there a part in your book where you actually say it's OK for me to start hitting Jordan? Is it is physical violence probably usually discouraged, right? Probably so.

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What if I hired someone to do it? I don't get my hands dirty.

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And, um, here we are after all these years and I don't feel we've made any progress. Do you think we're making progress? I didn't know we were attempting to make progress.

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Jordan, please don't put me down. Okay. I groom quickly. I don't take the great care that you take with your groomings. I don't have all of the equipment you have or the oils or the balms or the waxes. Careful. You're right. I have to tell you, you're right. I was starting to get into judgment. Yes, you were.

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And you know what? I appreciate that. I did not feel insulted.

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Oh, yes. Trust me. I was cranking up the catapult. Oh, yeah. Pulling it back. I was pulling it way back. And then I was going to hurl a giant boulder at your castle and destroy it. You're wearing like a wizard's hat. You're up in a tower. Too much information. My point is that I, I groom quickly and I don't often take the same care that you take because you are very fastidious.

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He's very fastidious about his grooming and I'm not putting him down, but he has all kinds of products. He mostly for grooming. He has other products for various, uh, other practices of his, which I find a moral, but, uh, that's his thing and I'm not going to judge it. So whatever, uh, sexual stuff he's into, but my point is, um, I don't take the same care you do.

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I don't have the same standard of beauty, the same cannon of beauty that you have. So I just have to say, when you constantly point these things out to me, I feel less than I feel, uh, I get into a defensive crouch. I think I grew up in an environment. I've talked about this a lot, but I come from a very large Irish Catholic family. the son of very, very intelligent, educated people.

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I would like us to not fight all the time. Is that possible?

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And yet for some reason, we fought like animals. We threw potatoes at each other. We really did. I saw my mother throw a potato at all of us once. It's the only thing we had around. We just had so many goddamn potatoes. We've been in the country for a while and they're very well-educated people, but they brought the country with them.

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And my point is that I often felt attacked and I learned growing up sarcasm, passive aggression, my verbal judo chops would be the way that I would get through life. And then along comes this big block of wood that's just perfectly made for a judo chop. Do you know? I mean, you've seen the karate, karate, sorry, Jordan, masters chop a board in half.

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Verbally, my whole emotional reaction to things in life is a judo chop.

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attack before you can be attacked and then in comes this inanimate large um block of wood block just a block just a giant block of wood that's what he is he's it's not like you know having a conversation with a block of wood you know what i'm saying so and so i just chop away and that's what i do to you jordan and it's probably not always fair conan can i point out something

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What does that mean? You're bringing up a sexual connotation now.

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I think so. You think there's some caring in there?

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I think there is a lot. You know what he wants? He wants his paycheck. I mean, I know that sounds crass, but I am his employer. We aren't husband and wife yet.

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Three decades. Three decades, yeah.

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You and I. Whenever I'm intimate with someone, it quickly becomes sexual.

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He looked for work.

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He's unemployable. No, no, seriously. And you told me that because of your actions that are out on the web, you are seen as unemployable. Yes? There have been... Why don't you get back to your point, Julie? I'm sorry. I'm very sorry. That's right. You know what I did? I... I went again on the attack. And again, the old judo chop. And I apologize, doctor. Please go ahead.

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And John, you were right to stop me. I was.

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Well, you're intimate with me. Yeah. And I'm afraid it's going to get sexual very quickly. Okay. I'm already aroused. I'll be honest with you. Okay. I mean, nothing's happened down there in four years. So this is a huge, huge deal for me. It's like a zombie waking up after a long sleep. Jordan, I would like to get along with you. Okay. Would you like the same thing? I think we do get along.

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Why, why, why?

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I don't let any of those in. No.

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Let me ask both of you. I would like you to give your assessment, and this may be selfish to take Jordan out of the equation, but Assess me. You've watched a lot of tape, probably against your will, but you had to because you were coming on here. Do you see a damaged man? And I want to start with you, John. I want to make sure you get your- No, I don't.

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I think I'm, I disagree. I think I'm very badly damaged, a madman maybe. But I do think humor saved me from actually committing crimes, you know? Yeah, I understand. From going on the loose and leaving a trail from...

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We both feel that. And you feel that love is coming from Jordan, but I'm blocking it with humor. That's right. Right. And put downs.

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With my... He's objectively... He was wrong about where they shot Karate Kid 2. Objectively wrong. They shot it in Los Angeles.

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Oh, Hawaii.

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No, I still remembered him being wrong. Okay. It came back like a train coming at me.

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What are you talking about? All we do is I mean, we're two friends and I don't think we're friends. I'm your boss. You have both of these. Those are there are barriers.

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We are friends. We are friends.

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I pay you. OK. And I wish you did as I told you to do. OK. But yes. And if that still means we're friends, then yes. And I dream of firing you. OK. But we're still friends.

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So, um... If Jordan and I, let's say in another universe, because I don't think it's going to happen in this lifetime, but let's say we got along, people wouldn't be fascinated. It's because they see us taking chunks out of each other that it becomes... It's a wrestling match. It's a wrestling match, yeah.

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A very strong wrestler against a very, well, bodily shaved wrestler, but one that's very weak and has bad information. Careful. You're right. That could have almost become an insult.

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And are you going to be us in this conversation?

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In terms of communication. Idealized versions of us. Idealized versions of us. Okay. And an idealized version of me is apparently me. Communication. So who's Conan and who's Jordan?

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He's being me.

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Listen, I don't know what kind of response you're looking for. OK, Jordan, let me ask you something and be completely honest with the viewers. I do have people that say to me, oh, this must be some kind of bit. This must be some kind of thing that they work out. We have never worked anything out. That is absolutely true. Well, I would like us.

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He once threw a cyclotron at me. Go get her.

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What? I don't hate my father. I love my father. My father's a great guy. And? I respect him. I love him. He threw those test tubes at me for a reason. I was acting up. This is on me. It wasn't my dad. I was way out of line. Dad, I'm sorry. I think we should try it right now. Oh, yeah. So, Jordan, why don't you try and talk to me the same way that these two just talked. Let's try it.

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And incorrect.

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No, it doesn't. I'd never want to hear that stuff, ever.

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Jordan, take it in. I never want to hear it. Oh, you never want to hear it. I never want to hear it. I should not even ask. Exactly. I see. Yeah. There's no like, well, it depends on the moment. All this information I...

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have just goes to waste yeah it mostly it's it's mostly shit it's not good and i'm sorry listen i'm sorry that seemed harsh julie i'm sorry um uh it's not factually correct most of it and um i think you're just shooting from the hip uh so no i don't need to hear it um i can always and trust me i have their phones you can look up everything you need to know right now and uh and it will tell me well sometimes you don't know what you don't know right jordan yes let me ask you something yes why is it so important to you

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I'm at a stage in my life, God knows if I have much time left, and I would like to make progress. I'd like to make peace. And there are, I don't know, there might be 50 hours online of you and I bickering that circulates the globe at all times. And I would like to stop the cycle if I could.

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This is also a different thing. I want to grab one thing just so there's no love my dad. Dad, not the problem, not the issue. My brother, Neil... Man, and Neil, if you're listening, and I know he's a listener, he was older than me and he would sit on top of me and I couldn't move and he would laugh. And yeah, he would laugh.

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He did it two years ago when I visited. Yes. You know, and I had to call the police. Neil, if you're listening, that really got my goat. My father, a great man, great man and very lovely and a sweet man. There's some issues. Everyone has issues with their father and their mother. Of course they do. Okay. But listen, I won't have my father slandered on this show.

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And that you're not replaceable. I just point out, I think I'm not replaceable, you know, sort of a once in a hundred year talent, um, like a Haley's Comet, if you will, in comedy.

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And my point is, I think of you as, you know, an Ikea trundle bed, you know, that, OK, this one broke. I'll get another one. Right, right.

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I would like you and I to get along and figure out what is it maybe I'm doing, but mostly what is it you're doing? Like me, maybe 10%, you 90%. You're like the iceberg on the Titanic. Really, you're the one that's at fault. You're the one that tore the side off my ship. And now all those women and children, men are going to die. But anyway, again, your iceberg, mostly your fault.

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He didn't notice it. Yeah, he didn't notice it. And then he controls the paperwork, so he probably just gave himself a raise.

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Yes. I mean, and to be fair, especially with the money part, that's mostly goes to me. Like it's, I am, you know, this is just another thing. I don't know that you see a lot of money from this. No, no, I don't. But I, you know, I mean, I haven't seen your house, but mine's just, it's insane. Well, we're not equal. Of course you are superior and I am inferior.

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11 of your houses would go into my house. And we might do that as a bit.

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Thank you so much. I was told this was an erotic novel. What's going on in there? This is excellent. I want to thank you very much. And my eternal thanks to the Gottmans for being here.

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Thank you, Frank. And our job, Jordan, we're both going to read this book. And I would actually like to hit you with this. So that might be the way that I use it. No, that's Neil.

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Well, he's really strong. He might hit back. I want to thank you both very much. You both are, all joking aside, very good at what you do. Oh, it's been a pleasure. We just may be a lost cause. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. That's been this very just fascinating for me episode of The Conan and Jordan Show. And thank you for tuning in. And we'll see you next time.

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You struck me, ended up getting hurt in the process. It was dark. Right. It was dark. Right. It was very dark. There was no technology. Yes, but you knew it would be dark. It's not a surprise that it was dark. Darkness happens. There's day and there's night. It was a maiden voyage my first time at sea. And I didn't know that the night came on so darkly in the North Atlantic area.

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You fucking iceberg. You came along and you weren't lying there. You were, of course, everything floats and moves in a current. You came hurtling down from the north and you smashed into me. I was having a good time. Bowen Yang does a wonderful sketch on this where he's the iceberg and claiming it's not his fault. Uh, no, it was the iceberg. I disagree with Bowen Yang.

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How long have we been shooting remotes and things together, Jordan? You've worked for me for how many years? Approximately 30 years. Okay. And we started shooting things... I don't know, like 20 years ago, maybe? 15 to 20. Okay. I like that you always give a range. It's really not completely relevant. I think it is. I am educating. Listen, I go anywhere in the world.

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Okay. My point is you're large and inanimate. You're frozen to the touch. I'm a mesomorph. I'm medium. What's that? You're large.

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I've never heard an iceberg speak so, you know, insanely about their body type. I think icebergs float around and say I'm a mesomorph. No, they don't. The point I'm trying to make is that I have drifted through my career peacefully with little friction. I'm a high class operation, beautifully built ship. And then this lunky piece of ice slammed into me and ruined everything. So let's fix this.

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Are you ready to fix it? Sure. I am. Now, I'd like to introduce Frank Smiley. Hello. Who's the producer of the Conan and Jordan show. I have to keep looking to make sure that that's actually the name. I'm glad my name is first. Right. Well, this is a very special episode.

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By the way, I don't know what's going on. And you know what I love? You never know what's going on.

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They also, I'll mention it now. I'll mention it again as a plug. This has nothing to do with what we're doing, but it actually has everything to do with what we're doing. They have a book. called Fight Right. They are such experts. They've written a book. It's all about how to fight correctly. And these are experts.

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I mean, these might be the two foremost authorities on fighting conflict resolution partners. You and I are partners. We didn't ask to be, but we've been thrust together into this situation. And I think there's a good chance the Gottmans, do you agree, Frank? The Gottmans, if anyone can help us, it's the Gottmans.

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Here they come. Here they come. Oh, hello there. How are you? Do I call you Julie?

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Dr. Julie and Dr. John. I'd stand, but I met you already and my legs don't work. That's enough. One standing for you guys was enough. Do I call you Dr. Julie, Dr. John? What do you like? John Julie. OK. All right. Well, listen, let me start by saying I don't respect what we do in the studio.

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And so when people like yourselves who are real professionals take time in to come in and help us, it's it's a blessing. Yeah, it's really nice.

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I did not get that. I did not get that. I saw them shoot kindness towards you, and what I received was a hostility. And mixed with indifference. Let me start by saying thank you very much, Drs. Gottman, for being here. You really do know your stuff, and it's thrilling to be in the room with you because...

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I'm sitting here with my friend Jordan, and I'd like to start by saying, how aware are you of my relationship with Jordan Slansky? Have you viewed any of the footage? Yeah, we both have.

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I was just in Ireland shooting some stuff for Max. It used to be called HBO. Then someone said, no, that name's too cool. Let's call it Max. So anyway, I was shooting something for them in Dublin and people were coming up to me on the street and saying, where's Jordan? People all over the world know that you and I have this fraught relationship.

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Wait a minute. What are you talking about? What are you talking about here? This gentleman, John, just held up two strange devices. I don't know if those are legal. I don't know if they're sexual in nature.

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That's what I said to my wife on our wedding night. This will not shock you or stimulate you. Sorry, that's terrible. Oh, this is cool. I've put this pulsometer on my pulse oximeter. I'm sorry, pulse oximeter. Right. And tell us what a pulse oximeter does.

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I'm sorry. Why is yours going off right away?

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Well, can I point out quickly? We're not sure he's from Earth. We don't know. He may have six Vulcan hearts.

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This is fantastic.

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Fascinating. Don't hide it. Yeah. Don't hide it. You are. You set off that alarm immediately and you're sitting in a chair.

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You might have to take that off. We should take that off for a second because I think listeners listening right now will go insane. So take yours off just for a moment and for it to allow it to recalibrate.

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I understand.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

The Conan and Jordan Show – Marriage Counseling

859.625

That sounds fantastic. I'm watching my heart rate is now 93. It's plummeting. It says here I'm having a small stroke. I'm glad you guys laughed.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

The Conan and Jordan Show – Marriage Counseling

87.269

It lives online and now it lives on Sirius XM and I couldn't be happier.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

The Conan and Jordan Show – Marriage Counseling

9.198

Okay, well, if you're listening to the song Tom Sawyer, you know that you are enjoying the Conan and Jordan show. This is a show, you can't find it anywhere else. And so far, I'm told people love this show. It's doing quite well. And it's growing. It's growing rapidly because... People are fascinated with the relationship between Conan O'Brien and Jordan Schlansky.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

The Conan and Jordan Show – Marriage Counseling

909.032

You know, it's interesting.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

The Conan and Jordan Show – Marriage Counseling

946.144

Now, here's where it gets tricky because you said, I need to ask Jordan for what I really need. But what if what I really need is for him to shut up?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

The Conan and Jordan Show – Marriage Counseling

966.563

Yes. That's what I want to do.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

The Conan and Jordan Show – Marriage Counseling

971.006

I'd love to. I'd love to flip him upside down.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

The Conan and Jordan Show – Marriage Counseling

988.297

Very good. You could work for someone else. In a different profession. I think in a different city. That's something that might make me happy.

NPR News Now

NPR News: 03-02-2025 7PM EST

259.149

I'm going to host it and host it and host it. I'm going to host all night long.

NPR News Now

NPR News: 03-02-2025 7PM EST

266.611

I'm someone who hopes that things sometimes go a little off the rails because that's where the real memorable moments happen, in late-night television and on the Oscars.

The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 2149 - Trump-Zelenskyy Meeting GOES TOTALLY NUCLEAR

5052.461

For such a prestigious night, it's important that everyone is properly dressed, okay? You're dressed well, Adam Sandler.

The Daily

Trump’s Bid for Greenland

401.274

Hello, I'm here to buy your country. Hello, I'm here to buy your country.

The Headlines

Iowa Moves to Eliminate Trans Rights, and Zelensky Heads to the White House

450.7

I've never been to the Oscars. This is the only way I could get invited.

The Headlines

Iowa Moves to Eliminate Trans Rights, and Zelensky Heads to the White House

472.521

It's not the communal campfire that it maybe once was, but I still think the Oscars has meaning. I still think that really good cinema has an incredible amount of resonance and importance right now. And this is the night that celebrates that. And so that's the attitude I'm going into it with, which is just very excited and appropriately worried.