Jeff Goldblum
Appearances
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
This is uniquely tippity-toppity. That's how it relates to the second one. This is the crest. This is the summit of podcastry. Thank you. Podcastry? We are the summit of podcastry, sir. And so I... But I was... Oh. And I said, nothing's right. The microphone isn't right. I have a pen. I have nothing. There's nothing right. And how long am I going to do this? I said, didn't know.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
She said, oh, another, you know, a couple of hours. Well, that's altogether, that's five hours. That's two. So this is like a steady job. This is like a full-time job, right? Yeah, yeah, I think so. Well, okay. I was not happy about it. Well, I'll tell you what.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yes, yes. And then finally, I said there was a guy with great big bushy eyebrows. Let's see if I'm prescient at all. No, no.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
No kidding. And I said, what's your name? Yes. Well, I want to learn everybody's name first and last. He said, last. He was kind of taken aback by that. And then I said, yes. And there was a big crew around. And I said, yes, I think I should learn everybody's name. In fact, I think if it were up to me, we'd all be wearing name tags. They seem to be happy about that. That's about all of that.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I aspire to presence. Yes, I'd like to be. I'd like to be here and now. That would be great. Yes. And you, you've devoted your life to the technology of the here and now, I believe. Isn't that also correct?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
You do, so don't deny it. Okay. By the way, here, let me mention something. You know, there is such a thing as, you go to, I don't know whether you go to therapists and you've talked about dreams or interested in dreams, but there's a thing called dream work. This may be of no interest to you, but there's a thing that occurs to me.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yes, Bridge Over the River Kwai. That was my last... Just as he blows up the bridge.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
There's a thing called dream work whereby this may not seem like it has any relevance to anything or makes any sense. But there are those who think, and I did it once with a good teacher, Sandra Seacat, who That Laura Dern turned me on to. Whom Laura Dern turned me on to. You go to bed before the night of a... Before you need an answer to something. You say, dear inner self. You write a letter.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Please give me an answer to something about this character that I'm playing or my life or aspect of this relationship. And you have a dream. And then you go to this dream coach. And you go, well, here's what it is. I wrote it down. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the play or... And they go, well... Not at first, but how about this?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Exactly. Now, all together, let's whistle the song that is... Ready?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
And they open you up to consider the possibilities of how your subconscious may be informing your activities and your questions.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Exactly. Yeah. So maybe they're related. Maybe they are related. Yeah. And you get fertile material in your dream life or not. You know, I don't know about this. I'm not advocating for one. I don't know how I feel about it. If you tell me dreams are just a kind of a weird, you know, you know, discharge of your, you know, nocturnal, you know.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Right. Yes. Yes, exactly. And if we were not on air and I were more given to the ribald- Or ribald. Or ribald. I don't know. What do you think? Well, he said genuine. Yeah, genuine.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Well, I don't know. So, well, my point is that I'm not going to continue into something, the whole thing that I just thought of. I'd love it if you would. Yeah, yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
No, I shouldn't. Well, you know. Yes, yes. When I was young, you know, 12, 13, I think it happened. Yes. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
By the way. By the way, I'm such big fans of yours. I've been watching a lot of, not just for my conscientious research purposes, but just for my own entertainment. Often I go to YouTube and see, I've seen hours and hours and hours of your content. Foolishness.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Everything. Oh, that's nice. I love to think of you out there watching. I really am. So I know a lot about you.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yeah, now that you brought it up, you all look great, you know, just great.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
You know why I like- Last we had a conversation, I think I introduced you to these- You did.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
How'd you get them? Did you go to see- I went with Sona.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Oh, yeah. I'm sure he greeted you and met you and showed you everything.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I'm a 36. I'm a 36. Is it really? You said you were a 30...
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
And how about the hat maker in the back?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Why? Just because. Wow. And then you learned later that it was from that movie. That's funny. That's funny. Hey, do you know this song? You reminded me of the song. We're on the upward trail. We're on the upward trail. Singing, singing, everybody singing as we go. That would have been a more legit version of the marching song.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yeah, that's right. Do you know who I ran into there once? I was with Emily. We went there to pick up a pair of jeans or a hat or something. And it was just us and Bob Dylan. Oh, my God. Yes, because he got his hats from that guy. Oh. I saw him out of the corner of my eye. I kept, I had important business. I was talking about hat and he came in and before I could say anything to him, he left.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
But I think Emily, I don't know if she said anything. You didn't go up to him? No, no. I wish I had.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
If you had told me that that wasn't a true story, but that was a dream you had last night, it would be just as credible.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
No, it's some green tea that they made for me here. But I know how you despise iced drinks.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
For God's sake. My name is Jeff Goldblum, and I feel being here with you now as if I'm revealing myself to myself. And I feel utterly drenched and purged. It's okay. Now, that's from a kind of an homage to a movie line also. That's not my originality and my unconventionality.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Very erotic. Yeah. Well, this little packet that we're in, don't you love this? Is this the first date? This is the first time, yeah. Well, I love this blue velvet purse that we're in. It's like a sex panic room.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
A sex whisperer. Yes, a sex whisperer. Sex bomb, sex bomb. Who did that song? Sex bomb. It wasn't bomb, but it was bomb. Oh, yeah. Sex bomb.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
No, it was a big hit in Europe, particularly during these couple of years that I remember. Sex bomb.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
You only remember a couple of years?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
No, during these couple of, when it was a hit, he's looking it up. When it was a hit, I was in Europe making a movie and it was on all the time, but I don't think it made its way across the pond.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
And there was a video. I'll give you a clue. That same singer, it's not unusual. Oh, Tom Jones? Tom Jones, exactly. What James Bond? Thunderball. Do you know that Johnny Cash did a rejected Thunderball theme song? I did not know that. Unsolicited sent it to them and they went, we never asked for this. It was not that song. It was his own song.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
He did it in that Johnny Cash way. Yeah, he first sang that song. Look sharp. Feel sharp. Yes. Be sharp. Ring a burning fire.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I'm stuck on band-aids. Because band-aids stuck on me.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Oh, that. But I think the Oscar Mayer thing was, I'd like to be an Oscar Mayer wiener. Oh, I'd like to be an Oscar Mayer wiener. I'd like to be an Oscar Mayer wiener.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Now all the kids would be in love with me. I fell into a burning ring of fire.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
But he did do the Thunderball. This is how we got started. Dropping mental breadcrumbs. He did send in the Thunderball. He did.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I love that. I love that Thunderball. I was right at the right age for that because I'd consumed Dr. No from Rush With Love. Goldfinger. I was so ready for Thunderball.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Fantastic. When he peaked, when he went to the summit of the Alps, after Thunderball, I think, nothing against Sean Connery, those movies, it started to... He was phoning it in a bit. With her, yeah. And by the time he got to Jill St. John and- Diamonds Are Forever. Diamonds Are Forever. Yeah, you know, not my favorite. Can I just say, I've never been happier in my life right now.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Diurnal. Oh, is that the daytime? That's the opposite. The diurnal? I believe so. Di-diurnal, di-diurnal, diurnal, diurnal, diurnal. I believe I know that song. Johnny Cash first sent that in.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
He submitted all my... Bar Mitzvah Salah. You know what makes it perfect? You know what makes it perfect? I fell into a burning ring of... It's becoming more Elvis.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I never said I was the perfect... Oh my God.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
That's very nice. That's very encouraging. Thank you. Yeah, we played the Disney concert hall.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Oh, my God. A couple of nights ago. Wow.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Do you think that's – and this is a compliment, by the way. Thank you so much. I like – well, I aspire to it. I'm a humble student of jazz and of the technology of presence in all its various ramifications in the podcast world, in the jazz world, in the musical world, in everything. Oh, I had thought, by the way, aren't there – hasn't anybody sung songs, a snippet of a song about friendship?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
as you're still looking for friends. By the way, how many friends do you need? You've been looking for... How long have you been looking for friends now? How many have you found by this time?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yeah, but I feel that we are. You know, sometimes plants... They have to graft. They have to graft into each other is what you're saying.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yes, we need to very, very much. Yeah. But think of, do you know any songs about friendship?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Oh. Anyway, fall is here, hear the yell. You sing like a nightingale. I love your voice. You really like my voice? When you're not doing that, you have a beautiful, authentic, conversational, delightful voice.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Try to take all the vibrato out of it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
No, but you were just singing. So sing that, whatever you want to sing, like the other voice, that's it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Very moving. Very beautiful. Boy, you should do a whole album of songs that way. I'd love to hear you do that. He can't do it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Well, who knows where it will be consumed or how it should be presented. But just for your own, just for, you know, just do it. I'd love to hear, just for me. Yeah, me too. And for Sona and for us, I'd love to hear you do it. And you don't have to jettison your... comedic force of nature.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
You could be surprising and do one like that and one like that and one like that, but that's a very useful part of your toolbox, in my opinion, and a very enjoyable one.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yep. I did. I did. Uh, yeah, around 10, you know, we started to go to children's theater and, and I was like, what are they doing? Who is that? What are they doing backstage? And I'd be very excited, you know, to go. And then around ninth and 10th grades, I went to this summer session of Carnegie Mellon university and took real lessons. And, um, and, uh, you know, Oh no.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
But before that, yes, I went to chat a music day camp around, uh, fifth grade and was in this show. And my dad had said, if you ever find something you love to do, that maybe is a key to your vocational choice wisely. And that night they said, so how'd you like that? And I was like, Yeah, I liked it. But I kept it secret because there was no, you know, I kept it secret. I wanted to be an actor.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
And certainly in school, I was a well-behaved, good boy. And nobody would have thought that I would do anything like that, except that I played piano here and there. So that was it. Yeah. And he was a doctor. But I must say, I don't know. What kind of doctor, by the way? Internal medicine, kind of a family doctor. Got it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
But, you know, people, his patients loved him, and he would always kind of keep up on his studies and this and that. You know, he liked medicine. But early on, supposedly, the story goes he, when he wanted to decide what he was going to do, he was either going to be a doctor or an actor. He had the idea to be an actor.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
And then he stuck his head in the back of a class and thought to himself, this is out of my league, whatever that meant. So he was a doctor. But so he was a little bit tickled when I. Of course.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
you know, not such a big deal, not even a big deal now, but he got to see me start to, cause I think started to happen quickly. He died like in 83, but around the time I did the big chill, but he saw a few movies before that and some plays. And I remember I did a play called city sugar, where I was the lead.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Stephen Jay Cannell, dude, who had done Rockford Files and many other things. And what's the greatest American hero? Well, believe it or not, I'm walking on air.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
William Catt. Johnny Cash first sent that in.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Well, it was like 1980, I think. So you were born in – I was 16, 17.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Really? How did you wind up there? What happened?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
So downtown, no kidding. And you just happened upon us shooting. No kidding.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Well, still, one is struck by that when you go to, you know, some movie and that's, you know, all the little things going on. Hey, I love James Coburn. You know, I saw the first run of Iron Man Flint. Oh, my God. In like Flint. Oh, we're back. Yeah. Remember how the telephone rang in Lee J. Cobb's office? I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Watch this. Hello. My name is Jeff Goldblum. G-O-L-D-B-L-U-M. And I'm reading for some of the first name. Oh, yes. First name. I did it. First name. Last name. Empty something. Yeah. And then pause. Here comes. That's enough of that. And I feel. And then it says here, parenthesis, however I feel. Well. Yeah. Madness. Madness. Madness. Hey, that's the last line of what movie?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Derek Flint, Derek Flint. And then Austin Power had kind of borrowed some things like that, kind of went from there.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Let me guess. After that, I think after that, he did a movie called The President's Analyst. You know, it could have been that. Oh, yeah. You know, I remember him talking about it on talk shows. I used to love talk shows when I was in Pittsburgh. I used to tune in to, in summer, stay home all day and watch the Mike Douglas show. Go from Mike Douglas to, you know, Dinah Shore and Merv Griffin.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
And he used to come on. Remember, he was kind of a... counter-cultural hippie actor then. And he used to come on with a turtleneck, you know, or in a medallion or something like that. And his act, he used to come on, not just talk, he wanted to play the gong. And he used to bring onto Carson a big, big gong and go, you know, that, that was his act, you know.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Okay, well, I'm not- I don't know it, but Blake Edwards, boy. Well, guess what?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
It's like that scene from Notting Hill when, you know, Julia Roberts comes in.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
There you go. We're getting closer and closer to her references.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Amazing. Yeah. Amazing. How about the movie 10? She's in the movie 10, of course, too. But Sound of Music I saw when it first came out. You know, it was a big deal around that year. And I showed it to our kids now. We showed Sound of Music. We haven't shown them many movies. They've never been to a movie theater, but I think I'm going to take them to see Jurassic World.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Seven, almost seven, and just turned five.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Right, right. Oh, yeah. Go to a movie theater. I'm about to do. I'm involved in this cycle of publicity for Jurassic Park Dominion. And one of the things we're encouraging people to do, genuinely on my part, is to go out and see it in the movies, you know, of course. And I made a list because of that. I thought, oh, what are the best times I've ever had in movie theaters in my life?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Because it's a, you know, that's a way to talk about it. And so I started to remember, and with the help of my sister, too, all the movies I saw, importantly, when I was a kid. And she said, oh, remember this one? And it's been a nostalgia blast, you know. These are the movies that really blew you away. Yes. These are the ones we remember.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
She and I used to go to, they used to drop us off to the Leona Theater, this big, beautiful jewel box of a three-tiered movie palace. In Pittsburgh? In Pittsburgh. West Homestead, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Not downtown. It's a little suburb, but they had this movie theater. And we'd go for, you know, 25 cents, 50 cents or something, whatever tickets were.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Get popcorn with butter and salt and hot dogs.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Let's hear it. Okay. We saw, see if any of these mean anything to you. The Absent-Minded Professor.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
You know, Fred McMurray, Flubber, all that stuff. That made a big impression on me. The Blob. Oh, the original. Which I've seen recently. Steve McQueen, very good. His first movie, you know. Who was, of course, you'll know who was in all of these movies, which we saw, you know, we saw whatever they, that came to there.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
But during this period, the 60s, you know, early 60s, The Bell Boy, Cinderfella, Disorderly Orderly, Visitor Small, Planet, Geisha Boy. Of course, The Nutty Professor. Delinquent Rockabye Baby Nutty Professor. Yeah. Loved it. Then I got the chance to meet him. Did you ever meet Jerry? I did. I got to meet him. I got to interview him. That's so interesting. Well, we could talk all about that.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Well, did you meet Jerry Lewis? Yes, I did. I was going to play his son in that last movie that he did, Augie Rose. Augie Rose? Oh, no, no. Max Rose. Max Rose. And so I went to Vegas. I was almost going to do it before I got something else and couldn't. And so I hung out with him in his office in Las Vegas. How was he? Amazing. We could talk for hours. amazing.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
He'd made a big, he was big in my childhood and during this period. So I was thrilled to meet him. And he was, you know, as you know him at that stage and great, you know, great and complicated and very complicated.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yeah. Right. But those movies, when we were seeing those movies, big deal. Do you know what this movie is? The Sterile Cuckoo? No. Liza Minnelli's first movie. She plays a kind of a nerdy girl. The Sterile Cuckoo. Sterile Cuckoo is coming.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Nobody wants, sterility is never something that draws the masses.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
The sterile cuckoo. That cuckoo's not having children. How about this movie? Who knows this? I don't think you will. Georgie Girl.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Walking down the street so fancy free was played by Lynn Redgrave, whom I worked with later, believe it or not. Oh, well, Bridge on the River Kwai. We saw the first viewing of the man who shot Liberty Valance.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I love that. Hush, hush, sweet Charlotte. How about, you know, Betty Davis and Joan Crawford together? Gaypuree, P-U-R-E-E, an animated movie about, in an impressionistic style, French impressions about cats. And I think Robert Goulet did a voice, you know. Great. Dr. No from Russia with Love, Goldfinger. Fantastic. Iron Man, Flint. I have Pink Panther, the first Pink Panther.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
We went to a movie theater, and there was Peter Sellers, never seen before as Clouseau, Blake Edwards. Unbelievable. I remember the day we saw that. Those movies changed my life. Bobby D and I went. My best friend went to that theater to see Psycho. First time run of Psycho. Unbelievable. I just spent some time with Jamie Lee Curtis in CinemaCon.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Byrds was another movie we saw first run. Loved that day that we saw that. But then we went, oh, I had a crush on this girl. And we went, I went on a field trip hoping to kind of be near her. I had not made any headway. And we saw Hard Day's Night.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
In ninth grade. In ninth grade. No, Stephanie. And she was going, so I was going to tag along, too.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Here, last line of the movie. Madness. Madness. Tell me the movie. Oh, my God. I know that movie. I know that movie. Is it an older movie?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
You know, I am. We have her here today.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Look out. She's deranged. Some 10 or 15 years after this period, we got in touch and we saw each other. She went out to California and, you know, I saw her.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Speaking of Norman Bates, threw a hole in your office wall.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
He's got them all over this building.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yes, sir. So who else is with you in this? Is it Laura Dern? Laura Dern, of course. The great Laura Dern, the great Sam Neill. So the three of us from the first movie are back together for the first time since then. Right. And we're reunited and have something to do with in this story with Bryce Dallas Howard's character and Chris Pratt's character. But also B.D. Wong is back from the first one.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yeah, isn't that great? And Omar Sy from most recently. And Daniela Pineda and Justice Smith. And wait a minute, wait a minute. And new characters, Dewanda Wise, Mamadou Ache, and Campbell Scott are in this. Yeah, Isabel's sermon comes back.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I know. It's a dreamy life that I've had. I can't believe it. I'm very grateful. And it's amazing that I get a chance to be in some movies and some movies with people, like I've said, that I saw early on. It is amazing.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Amazing. Vincent Price. We saw some Vincent Price movies. Then he was in The Fly, the first Fly, which I saw back then. Oh, that's right. I think I saw him in a Ralph's later. Oh, my God. You saw Vincent Price at a Ralph's? I do believe so. I think I went up to him. Yes, yes. He was, you know, picking out melons or something from Turkey. Yeah, he was a good chef, you know.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I was so crazy about it. I hadn't met anybody famous or who was in movies when I was a kid. And the first couple of brushes I had. Who did I first? We went on a vacation. And who was staying at this hotel was Darren McGavin.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Oh, my God. He's great. Of the Night Stalker. Yes. I was like, do you think we'll see him at breakfast? I never went up to him, but I was just, when are we going to see him again? He's the dad.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Unbelievable. So, yeah, I'm back in this movie now. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I love that. I was just trying to remember where we got off that. But next on my list was Diary of a Madman, Vincent Price, and Tomb of Lygia. He was a big deal to us. You know, some of those Roger Cormier. I was a teenage Frankenstein. I was a teenage werewolf. Two horrible movies, but interesting. Eegah. Did anyone ever do I Was a Teenage Teenager? I'm just curious.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I remember when TV shows would come out, what you were talking about, you know, the new lineup. Boy, I loved Friday nights when Wild Wild West would come on. Yes, huge. Oh, boy. Robert Conrad and Ross Martin, who played— Yep, Ross Martin. Artemis Gordon. Artemis Gordon. King Kong versus— We left that open for you, so maybe you didn't take it. Really? Why?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
How about Gigo? Nobody knows the movie Gigo.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Jackie Gleason. Jackie Gleason. He plays a mute dead, kind of a village idiot. Oh, it's great. The first movie I ever cried at.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
You'll know this one. Jason and the Argonauts. Yes, of course. All that Ray Harryhausen stop motion stuff. Yeah. Magical day, magical day. Vertigo did see the first run of Vertigo.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Maybe my favorite Hitchcock movie, speaking of Hitchcock. You know Vertigo? I don't. It's not my favorite. Really? Yeah. I'm sorry. Bernard Herrmann does the score. Wonderful music from that. But why don't you like Vertigo?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Oh, that's yesteryear. Yeah, that's interesting. Farley Granger. Farley Granger was in that. I met Farley Granger.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
He's the gangster of love. He's got to be guilty. Oh God. That's true. That's true. Stand by that. What were we talking about? Oh, yeah. What were we talking about? Whose name? You were listing. Oh, Farley Granger.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yeah. You know who introduced me to Farley Granger? Shelly Winters, whom I met on this movie called Next Stop Grinch Village that Paul Mazursky directed in 1975. I came out here, and we were kind of palsy. Shelly Winters. Lovely woman.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I know that one. Oh, that's fantastic. Yes. But she was also in Lolita. She's great in Lolita.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
She's great in Place in the Sun with Montgomery Cleveland and Liz Taylor. Spectacular. Hey, did you ever meet Liz Taylor? I did not meet Liz Taylor, no. I knew Liz Taylor. Oh, really?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
What was she like? Spectacular. Spectacular.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
No. Right. Who were we talking about? Oh, so Shelley Winters, who was in Place in the Sun. Yeah. And also, what did she win the Oscar for as supporting actress, as they were called in those days? What did she win for?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Very good. Patch of Blue. Oh, okay. Patch of Blue with Elizabeth Hartman and Sidney Poitier.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I'm putting that down because I- You can go.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Do you want me to validate that? Very good. Yeah, I'm adding Patch of Blue because I'd forgotten it because we saw Lilies of the Field and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, all in the Sidney Poitier category. In any case, so Shelley Winters took me to Musso and Frank's for the first time.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Me and her and Farley Granger. Oh my God. Oh my God. Yep. Wow. She said, get the sand dabs. Sand dabs. They're known for their sand dabs. Nobody else serves sand dabs. You know the fish sand dabs? What is a sand dab? At Musso Frank's, you can get the sand dabs still.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
A fish. Kind of a fish. It's not a fish that you get. It's been fried often. The fried sand dab's kind of a soul, a variation of soul, I do believe.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Totally amazing. Splendor in the Grass. Even before Bonnie and Clyde, my parents and I went to – we were in New York City. And I think we went to Radio City Music Hall, saw the Rockettes, and saw Splendor in the Grass. Right. with him and I think maybe Natalie Wood. Wow. Yeah, amazing.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
43 million, I believe, is the viewership. In Hawaii alone.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I appreciate you saying that. Because that's what they've sent me. That's what I'm representing. You know, I represent a lovely company of investors and people.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
No, emotionally. Emotionally, they're invested. Colin Trevorrow, the director. Steven Spielberg is still at the top of the pyramid. Yes, godfathering this all the way through.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Wow. There we go. That was just what today was. There we go.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yeah. I got to. We should do it. We have many more hours of fun to have.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
It exploded. Well, me too. I've been looking forward to this terrifically. And these are my favorite. These are peak experiences for me. And people come up to me on the street anecdotally and say, you and Conan, you and Conan, you and Conan.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
And you're singing authentically a lot. I like that. And I just saw a documentary about or some kind of thing about talk show, the history of talk shows and the current. Did you see this one? There are many of them. I don't watch those. I love them all. And this one particularly said, here's why amongst the current crop in the last few decades, Conan O'Brien reigns supreme.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
He's cracked the code and why he's at the pinnacle of what this needs to be right now, et cetera, et cetera. Are you uncomfortable? I'm not uncomfortable. I just don't believe that that exists.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
This guy makes a very good case for exactly why. It's a very erudite.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Well, it's true. It's true. It's true. Well, Jeff. And you all together. I mean, I'm really struck with all of you. Oh, come on.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
There should be a perfume, not Obsession, but Movesession.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Is it, what's, how do you say, what's that vowel exactly? Is it? Gore. Gore, like gore, like gore. Gorley. Gorley.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Well, you two, you three have made me very, very happy for many hours and will continue to be. You have delighted us and you're coming back. I want to. I want to, along with, you know, I've seen every single Schlansky. Oh my God. Every single Schlansky. Boo, boo.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
You're never funnier when he's driving you mad. It's just great.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Conan Christopher O'Brien. Oh, my God. Yes, you are the finest man. That's overlooked.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
You're better. I'm taking you to a sizzler. We're going there. Let's go.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
You did Music Man at one point, didn't you?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Trumpet, yes. Well, you know very well. You were in that movie, yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yes, we do. A frisson. You know what that means. I don't. I think it's French, and it means we're in constant...
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
You're moving like a lascivious snake. Yes. Bring it out.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
You just reminded me. Do you remember your dreams? I had a dream last night. I wrote down some of it, but I didn't remember until just this moment this thing about the tongue. Somebody last night in my dream had a tongue that was very, very long, and it came out completely. They, he, I don't know.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
It was a detachable, long tongue. Yes. Okay. You know, apropos of nothing. Well, first of all. Of interest to nobody, but you just, but that's true. And I have, I forgot that. What the hell am I doing with that? Yes, yes. I wrote these down madly as I, before I forgot them this morning.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
We're still rolling. But really, this has been real. You can't use this. No, we can't. But give us a hint on that movie. Okay, I'll give you a hint. A lesser cast member, Jack Hawkins. Probably don't even know who that is.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yeah. It's very strange. Yeah, it is. You can't read that. My dad was a doctor like your dad was. Yeah, it's like Sanskrit. It's crazy. I inherited his thing. No, but that's what I wrote down. That's right. Should we hear it? Yeah, should we hear the dream? Yeah, you can. But I did just remember that, no kidding, that tongue part of it. That was also last night.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
There's nothing funny about these, but it may open a portal into our subconscious, all of us.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
So Robert Altman, you remember him. Yeah, the great director, Robert Altman. I worked with him a few times. Name dropper? Well, I know, I know.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
In any case, he was, he appeared in my dream. We were kind of in a hospital situation or something. And he appeared all of a sudden, to my astonishment and delight, alive. He's now dead, lo these several years. But he was alive, young and radiant with his, I think they were his sons. And they were kind of sneaking him in and out of this thing. And I said, look at you.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Because he'd, I guess, I intuited right, I inferred right away, he had faked his death. Oh. For some reason, he seemed sly and delighted. And it was now our secret. And he said, yes, be prepared for me to stay at your house. Something like that. And then they left. That was the dream. That was one sequence. That's that sequence. The second sequence was, listen to this.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I was in some kind of strange but heavy equipment pod that was delivering us up there. A mountain of the outside of to view the mountain. And it was the Alps. I think it was the Alps of some kind. It's the Swiss Alps. You're in some kind of craft viewing the Alps. Yes. And each of us in a separate pod. My wife, Emily, was in a pod a little bit away from me.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
And we were all experiencing this separately. But we could see a wonderful view of these mountains as they got higher and higher. And it was like the highest peak on earth. As we got further, we saw these old castles. kind of, you know, places. And that was amazing and wonderful. Then we got higher and higher until finally it kind of leveled out and we knew we were at the top of the world.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
And then, and it was amazing and everybody was kind of, oh, you know, in awe. And then before it started down the other side, like a roller coaster, we were like that. And then it started and it was, I
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
harrowing you know ride that seemed like that I kind of retreated inside an inner compartment in this pod in kind of a bathroom and then I said I'm missing it I thought to myself I'm missing it so I went back up and kind of got some of it that was it and then it was over we all I missed my wife I missed the group and I seemed to be by myself left behind somehow couldn't find them so I was like left behind that's the second part of the dream okay kind of
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
No, no, Jack Hawkins. There are those who know very well Jack Hawkins and already know this movie. I'll give you a giveaway clue. Bill Holden, William Holden. Oh, uh... Stalag 17? No, good, no, pretty good guess. It's kind of a war picture. He does not deliver the last line, by the way.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
What's the last one? The last one, this may make sense of the whole thing. I was doing kind of a talk show or a podcast of some kind. It's not curious to think that I was already-