Jeff Goldblum Returns

[0] Watch this.

[1] Hello.

[2] My name is Jeff Goldblum, G -O -L -D -B -L -U -N.

[3] And I'm reading for something of the first name.

[4] Oh, yes, first name.

[5] I did it.

[6] First name, last name.

[7] It's good.

[8] The empty something.

[9] Yeah.

[10] And then pause.

[11] Here comes.

[12] That's enough of that.

[13] And I feel.

[14] And then it says here, parenthesis, however I feel.

[15] Well.

[16] Madness.

[17] Madness.

[18] Madness.

[19] Madness.

[20] Hey, that's the last line of what movie.

[21] This is the, here, last line of a movie.

[22] Madness.

[23] Madness.

[24] Tell me the movie.

[25] Oh, my God.

[26] I know that movie.

[27] I know that movie.

[28] Is it older movie?

[29] Uh, yes.

[30] Wait a minute.

[31] Madness.

[32] I can give you a clue.

[33] Madness.

[34] Wait a minute.

[35] Is it?

[36] Madness.

[37] Hold it.

[38] Madness.

[39] Is it, um, uh, apocalypse now.

[40] No. Uh, no. That's the horror.

[41] The horror.

[42] You're totally.

[43] though.

[44] And it has a similar...

[45] Oh, wait, it's the last family ties.

[46] Oh.

[47] No, it does.

[48] It ends with madness.

[49] Madness.

[50] Yeah.

[51] I love that this is the introduction to the show.

[52] We have to wrap up what this movie is and then do the name thing.

[53] All is one giant piece.

[54] We're still rolling.

[55] We're still rolling.

[56] But give us that hint.

[57] This has been real.

[58] You can't use this as the beginning.

[59] But give us a hint on that movie.

[60] Okay, I'll give you a hint.

[61] Um, a lesser cast member, Jack Hawkins.

[62] Probably don't even know who there.

[63] Oh, Mike.

[64] What kind of clue is that?

[65] A ceramic mug features in a breakfast scene.

[66] There's a clue for you.

[67] No, no, Jack Hawkins.

[68] There are those who know very well, Jack Huggins.

[69] And already know this movie.

[70] I'll give you a giveaway clue.

[71] Bill Holden, William Holden.

[72] Oh.

[73] Stalag 17?

[74] No, good, no. Pretty good guess.

[75] It's a kind of a war picture.

[76] He does not deliver the last line, by the way.

[77] Oh, a bridge over the river Kwai.

[78] Yes, Bridge over the River Kwai.

[79] That was my last...

[80] Just as he blows up the bridge.

[81] Yes.

[82] Now, all together, let's whistle the song that is right.

[83] Ready?

[84] No. Oh, wait, that's the wrong one.

[85] Okay.

[86] That's it.

[87] I can't whistle and I don't know that.

[88] You cannot whistle?

[89] I can't whistle.

[90] Is that true?

[91] I don't...

[92] When I was a kid in camp, we used to...

[93] They taught us these old songs from the 50s as we trudged up the Appalachian Mountains.

[94] And we had to sing, Comet.

[95] It makes your teeth turn green.

[96] Comet.

[97] It tastes like Vaseline Comet.

[98] Make you vomit.

[99] So drink your Comet and vomit today.

[100] And then it'd be like, again!

[101] And we would do it again.

[102] And I climbed the Presidential Mountain Range of singing that song, not knowing what it was, how it...

[103] Why?

[104] Why?

[105] Just because...

[106] And then you learned later that it was from that movie.

[107] Yeah.

[108] That's funny.

[109] That's funny.

[110] Hey, do you know this song?

[111] You reminded me of the song, We're on the upward trail.

[112] We're on the upward trail.

[113] Singing, singing.

[114] Everybody's singing.

[115] as we go.

[116] That would have been a more legit version of the marching song.

[117] Yes, I suppose.

[118] Now, where does that song come from?

[119] Because you've confused us once again.

[120] And also, how do you feel about being Conan O 'Brien's man?

[121] Just for God's sake.

[122] My name is Jeff Goldberman, and I feel being here with you now as if I'm revealing myself to myself.

[123] And I feel utterly drenched and purged.

[124] Okay.

[125] Now, that's from a kind of an homage to a movie line also.

[126] That's not my originality and my unconventionality.

[127] Why did you turn my podcast into a kooky trivia show?

[128] I love it.

[129] That's what you've done.

[130] I love it.

[131] Fall is here, hear the yell, back to school, ring the bell, brandy shoes, walking loose, climb the fence, books and pens, I can tell that we are going to be friends.

[132] Because I can tell that we are going to be friends All right, testing, testing, one, two, three, testing, testing, Bumblebee, testing, testing, all day long, we sing the testing, testing, testing song.

[133] Three, two, one.

[134] Why can't you do anything normally?

[135] I don't know.

[136] Why can't anything just be normal?

[137] I don't know, ask Michelangelo.

[138] Here it is.

[139] The ninja turtle.

[140] Yeah, that's who I meant.

[141] Okay.

[142] The best of the ninja turtles.

[143] Three, no, Donna Tello, big time.

[144] I'm a Leonardo guy.

[145] Are you?

[146] And action.

[147] Hey there, welcome to Conan O 'Brien needs a friend.

[148] The podcast that gives and gives until it can't give no more.

[149] What's it giving?

[150] I don't know.

[151] What are we giving?

[152] I think it's spreading disease.

[153] We should stop.

[154] It's spreading disease.

[155] This is a fantastic episode.

[156] 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.

[157] 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.

[158] He really is.

[159] So this interview that we have, I'm told, Matt, that you barely touch this one.

[160] Sometimes you do little edits and tweaks.

[161] I do.

[162] 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.

[163] Occasionally there's, you know, repeated stories or something through just natural conversation that I'll pull out.

[164] You're not missing anything as a listener from the things I'm pulling out.

[165] Right.

[166] But this one, it couldn't have any editing because it's music.

[167] It's a symphony.

[168] And I also always take out little mouth noises and clicks.

[169] But Jeff Goldblum has this repeating feline slurp.

[170] And it was, it's just, I couldn't touch it.

[171] It would be like going, like you said, going to Michelangelo and editing his Sistine Chapel.

[172] Yeah.

[173] Well, again, so not Michelangelo, the teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

[174] No, I still mean him.

[175] He was a wonderful painter.

[176] Because he also worked on the Sistine Chapel.

[177] Yeah.

[178] So it must be tough technically to edit a man who's constantly making low purring sounds.

[179] You can't do it.

[180] Because how do you, you can't do an edit.

[181] I speak and then I stop and there's nothing.

[182] But Jeff Goldblum, even when he's not speaking, hmm.

[183] Well, you can do a crossfade and you can blend one sexual grumble into the next, but I would never do that.

[184] Like, who am I to censor his sexual rumblings?

[185] his subsonic sexual rulings.

[186] I love that you called it, first of all, sexual grumbling, which made it sound like a grumpy guy who's in a sexual mood, you know?

[187] I don't even know how that sounds.

[188] It's like, oh, yeah, I'd like to do it with somebody right now.

[189] I didn't have so much to do.

[190] I didn't have so much to do.

[191] And I have to do the yard first, but I sort of like to do it with someone.

[192] 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 and to that point this introduction is about the interview the interview itself is something like I think 70 minutes long and we do a segment at the end of this episode where we just talk about how wonderful that interview was so this is an all Goldblum episode 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.

[193] And set your filters, your Gobloom filters to high because you want to get all the Goldblum as it comes to or two.

[194] Was it 70 minutes just the part where he goes, my name is Jeff Goldblum?

[195] And I'm, and I feel like that alone was like 45 minutes.

[196] So the listeners will have already heard that moment.

[197] And that was, I think, three minutes and 46 seconds for him to say, hi, my name is Jeff Goldblum.

[198] And ultimately, I feel, I think he said, drenched.

[199] Something like, like, drained and drenched?

[200] All I know is that once it was over, I had no memory of what had happened.

[201] I knew that I had, you know, had an orgasmic high, but I didn't know what happened.

[202] Yeah.

[203] And I think I put it out to the listeners.

[204] Listen to this Jeff Goldblum interview.

[205] And afterwards, I doubt anyone's going to know what was said.

[206] I don't.

[207] You guys said so many names of shows and so many actors, I had never heard of, and all three of you were like, oh, my God, that guy was the best.

[208] Like, it was just, like, constant splooging over, like, 70s obscure shows.

[209] Okay, come on.

[210] You, you were just doing a whole sex thing about grumblings.

[211] A grumpy, sexual guy.

[212] And you're telling me to clean it up because I said splooge?

[213] I didn't say splooge.

[214] I didn't talk about it.

[215] You got what you guys did all the whole interview.

[216] It's true.

[217] I mean, she's just saying the facts, but that's true.

[218] We did.

[219] Can you change that to squeegee?

[220] No. I would just become squeegee.

[221] You guys were just squeegeeing each other.

[222] That, to me, feels erotic.

[223] I didn't say each other.

[224] I said, you were, every time someone would say, oh, yeah, do you remember this one actor who was in one show for three episodes?

[225] You were like, oh, my God, that guy was the best guy I've ever heard of my life.

[226] That's what I, that's my, that's what I've never, that's not what it's, that didn't at all sound like a guy who was about to ejaculate.

[227] That in no way, your guy who was about to ejaculate, it's like, yeah, so anyway, I'm going to go get a sandwich.

[228] Oh my God, I just came Who the fuck is that guy?

[229] You've been hanging out with Bruno the Splujer?

[230] Yeah.

[231] He just has orgasms when he least expects him.

[232] Anyway, so I think what we're going to do is get a guy in here to rivet the beam.

[233] You need a good riveter because the rivets have to be hot too because they've got to go into the eye beam.

[234] Oh, God.

[235] Oh, fuck.

[236] Some people have narcolepsy.

[237] I got Splugeillipsy.

[238] Oh, my, I got spoogealepsy.

[239] Oh, God.

[240] Oh, I don't know.

[241] This year I think the Mets are going to go all the way.

[242] I'll tell you what it is.

[243] It's infielding.

[244] If you can keep the ball in the infielding...

[245] Oh, fuck.

[246] Oh, fuck.

[247] I had to take my earphones off.

[248] Oh, fuck.

[249] I was talking about infielding.

[250] I thought I was safe.

[251] Oh, Jesus.

[252] I love this guy.

[253] This guy, Bruno the Spluge.

[254] You're listening to Bruno the Spluge on KXW9.

[255] Oh.

[256] Oh, all right.

[257] All right.

[258] Well, anyway, on that note.

[259] Let's do this.

[260] Let's do this thing.

[261] Strap yourselves in, my guest today is an actor who has started in such movies as Jurassic Park, Independence Day, and Thor, Ragnarok.

[262] Now he's surprising his role as Dr. Ian Malcolm in the highly anticipated movie Jurassic World Dominion.

[263] To say I'm excited is insane because it's beyond that.

[264] Delighted, excited, orgasmic.

[265] to chat with him today.

[266] Jeff Goldblum.

[267] Lord, I have to tell you, this is the inaugural podcast in our new studio with a genuine celebrity.

[268] We did a little messing around and testing beforehand, but you...

[269] Genuine.

[270] Genuine.

[271] You like that pronunciation.

[272] That's who I say.

[273] You did Music Man at one point, didn't you?

[274] Oh, I wish I had.

[275] I know you did.

[276] I know you did.

[277] I know it.

[278] Yes, well, you know very well.

[279] You're in that movie.

[280] So, listen, I must tell you that I can't think of a better person to start this off with than you.

[281] You know that you and I have something.

[282] A certain frisson.

[283] Admit it.

[284] Admit it.

[285] We have something.

[286] Yes.

[287] Yes, we do.

[288] No, and I will...

[289] A friezone, you know what that means.

[290] I don't.

[291] I think it's French, and it means we're in constant culmination.

[292] The way you're moving.

[293] You're moving like a lascivious snake.

[294] Bring it out, admit it.

[295] No, you are...

[296] I've interviewed you many times you're one of my favorite people to talk to because you have an animalistic quality.

[297] Yes, and I mean that in the nicest way.

[298] Which animal?

[299] Well, I don't know.

[300] It would be a reptile, I believe.

[301] I think a panther.

[302] No, no, no, no. Because it has a long, darting tongue.

[303] I know that he can hit a fly at great lengths.

[304] You are a combination of animals.

[305] You are a panther, but you are also a lizard.

[306] Of course, the fly.

[307] We must add the fly in there.

[308] Yes, yes.

[309] you just reminded me I had 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 it they he I don't forget it detached from the mouth it was a detachable long tongue yes um you know apropos of nothing well first of interest to nobody but uh but you just but that's That's true.

[310] And I have, I forgot that.

[311] What the hell am I doing with that?

[312] The, um, yes, yes.

[313] I wrote these down madly as I, before I forgot this morning.

[314] This is your dream.

[315] Yes, some of my dreams.

[316] Okay, let me pause for a minute.

[317] Ladies and gentlemen, Jeff Goldblum, esteemed actor is about to, he's related dream that he had last night.

[318] And I can see that he's written it down.

[319] It looks like in Hebrew.

[320] I don't understand.

[321] Your handwriting is very bizarre.

[322] Do you speak Hebrew?

[323] It's very strange.

[324] Yeah, yeah, it is.

[325] You can't read that.

[326] It's, oh, yeah.

[327] My dad was a doctor like your dad was.

[328] Yeah, it's like Sanskrit.

[329] It's crazy.

[330] I inherited his thing.

[331] No, but that's what I wrote down.

[332] That's right.

[333] Should we hear it?

[334] Yeah, should we hear the dream?

[335] Yeah, you can.

[336] But I did just remember that, no kidding, that tongue part of it.

[337] That was also last night.

[338] There's nothing funny about these, but it may open a portal into our subconscious, all of us.

[339] Yes, let's hope so.

[340] So Robert Altman, you remember him.

[341] Yeah, the great director, Robert Allman.

[342] I worked in him a few times.

[343] Yeah.

[344] Name dropper.

[345] Well, I know.

[346] I know.

[347] Sorry.

[348] In any case, he was, he appeared in my dream.

[349] We were kind of in a hospital situation or something.

[350] And he appeared, all of a sudden, to my astonishment and delight, alive.

[351] Right.

[352] He's now dead, loathies, several years.

[353] But he was alive, young and radiant with his, I think they were his sons.

[354] And they were kind of sneaking him in and out of this thing.

[355] And I said, look at you.

[356] Because he'd, I guess, I intuited right.

[357] I inferred right away he had faked his death for some reason.

[358] He seemed sly and delighted and it was now our secret.

[359] And he said, yes, be prepared for me to stay at your house.

[360] Something like that.

[361] And then they left.

[362] That was the dream.

[363] That was one sequence.

[364] That's that sequence.

[365] The second sequence was, listen to this, I was in some kind of strange but heavy equipment pod that was delivering us up.

[366] a mountain, the outside of to view a mountain.

[367] And it was the Alps.

[368] I think it was the Alps of some kind.

[369] The Swiss Al. You're in some kind of craft viewing the Alps.

[370] Yes.

[371] And each of us in a separate pod.

[372] My wife Emily was in a pod a little bit away from me and we were all experiencing this separately.

[373] But we could see a wonderful view of these mountains as they got higher and it was like the highest peak on earth as we got further.

[374] We saw these old castles kind of, you know, places.

[375] And that was amazing and wonderful.

[376] Then we got higher and higher until finally it kind of leveled up.

[377] And we knew we were at the top of the world.

[378] And then, and it was amazing and everybody was kind of, oh, you know, in awe.

[379] And then before it started down the other side, like a roller coaster, we were like that.

[380] And then it started.

[381] And it was a harrowing, you know, ride that seemed like that.

[382] I kind of retreated inside an inner compartment in this pod in kind of a bathroom.

[383] And then I said, I'm missing it.

[384] I thought to myself, I'm missing it.

[385] So I went back up and kind of got some of it.

[386] That was it.

[387] And then it was over.

[388] We all, I missed my wife.

[389] I missed the group.

[390] And I seemed to be by myself left behind somehow.

[391] Couldn't find them.

[392] So I was like left behind.

[393] That's the second part of the dream.

[394] Okay.

[395] Kind of.

[396] Yes.

[397] Let me say quickly.

[398] Freud had this theory that dreams have meaning.

[399] And we now know that Freud was wrong.

[400] That has no meaning.

[401] This is insanity.

[402] There's no, there's nothing.

[403] They opened no porthole.

[404] There's nothing there.

[405] Robert Altman returns from the dead and wants to stay at your home, and he's being sneaking, you're in a hospital, then you're in a pod, you're observing the Alps, you go up one side and down the other after spending a brief interval in the bathroom.

[406] What's the last one?

[407] The last one, this may make sense of the whole thing.

[408] I was doing kind of a talk show or a podcast of some kind.

[409] It's not curious to think that I was already...

[410] I guess there are so many.

[411] Thinking.

[412] None would come to the mind of a Jeff Goldblum.

[413] None like this.

[414] This is uniquely...

[415] Tippity -toppy.

[416] That's how it relates to the second one.

[417] This is the crest.

[418] This is the summit of podcastery.

[419] Thank you.

[420] Podcastery.

[421] We are the summit of podcasteries, sir.

[422] And so I, but I was going to perform in some way or being asked to perform.

[423] I wasn't kind of prepared or happy about it.

[424] And then the woman producer type, you know, laid on me some things that I wasn't prepared for.

[425] She said, oh, yeah, you're going to be talking to.

[426] Diane Keaton and Ron Howard, and we're going to try to get you to get him to dance.

[427] And I said, nothing's right.

[428] The microphone isn't right.

[429] I have the pen.

[430] There's nothing right.

[431] And how long am I going to do this?

[432] I said, didn't know.

[433] She said, oh, another, you know, a couple of hours.

[434] Well, that's altogether, that's five hours.

[435] That's too, that's, so it's like a steady job.

[436] This is like a full -time job, right?

[437] Yeah, yeah, I think so.

[438] Well, okay.

[439] I was not happy about it.

[440] Well, tell you what, so you had a dream the night before coming here about doing a long podcast.

[441] Yeah.

[442] with a red -haired celebrity Ron Howard and Diane Keaton, aka Sonam of Sessian.

[443] Oh, yes, yes.

[444] And then finally, I said there was a guy with great big, bushy eyebrows.

[445] Let's see if I'm prescient at all.

[446] No, no. Must be me. I mean, I trim them, but they could comb into my hairline if I needed it.

[447] No kidding.

[448] Well, he was bad.

[449] And I said, what's your name?

[450] Yes.

[451] Well, I want to learn everybody's name first and last.

[452] He said, last.

[453] He was kind of, you know, taken aback by that.

[454] And then I said, yes.

[455] And there was a big crew around.

[456] And I said, yes, I think I should learn everybody's name.

[457] In fact, I think if we were up to me, we'd all be wearing name tags.

[458] They seem to be happy about that.

[459] That's about all of that.

[460] That's that dream.

[461] Now, listen, don't lose that sheet of paper.

[462] Okay.

[463] We can't have that loss to time.

[464] Okay.

[465] You need to frame that.

[466] Yeah, that is, you know, here's what I'll say about you, Jeff.

[467] I never know what you're going to say.

[468] I never know what you're going to do.

[469] You are feral.

[470] You are a man that runs on instant.

[471] instinct.

[472] You don't, and you're very much, I think, attuned.

[473] You should see the faces he's making right now.

[474] You're very much attuned to the universe, and I feel like you are constantly in the now.

[475] Is this correct?

[476] I aspire to presence.

[477] Yes, I'd like to be.

[478] Yeah.

[479] I'd like to be here and now.

[480] That would be great.

[481] Yeah.

[482] Yes.

[483] And you, that you've made a, you've devoted your life to the technology of the here and now, I believe.

[484] Isn't that also correct?

[485] Well, I don't think I have at all.

[486] I don't which we're talking about.

[487] I've...

[488] You do so, you don't deny it.

[489] Okay, all right.

[490] By the way, here, this, this, this, let me mention something.

[491] You know, I did, there is such a thing as, you go to, I don't know whether you're, you go to therapist and you've talked about dreams or interested in dreams, but there's a kind of, there's a thing called dream work.

[492] This may be of no interest to you, but there's a thing, but it occurs to me, 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 C. Cat, that Laura Dern turned me onto, whom Laura Dern turned me onto.

[493] That, you go to bed before the night of a, before you need an answer to something.

[494] You say, dear inner self, you write a letter, please give me an answer to something about this character that I'm playing or my life or aspect of this relationship.

[495] And you have a dream.

[496] And then you go to this dream coach.

[497] And they go, and you go, well, here's what it is.

[498] I wrote it down.

[499] It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the play or bagagga.

[500] And they go, well, not at first, but how about this?

[501] they open you up to consider the possibilities of how your subconscious may be informing your activities and your questions.

[502] What do you think of that?

[503] My mother -in -law, a lovely woman and very smart woman, is a therapist.

[504] Lise's mom.

[505] Yeah, Lise's mom.

[506] And she believes that all dreams have meaning.

[507] If you have a dream and you tell her, you know, she starts to pick it apart.

[508] I'm often having dreams that I defy anyone to make sense of.

[509] Because it just seems like random mush.

[510] It really does.

[511] It's just, and then I realize that in most of my life, I'm speaking in random mush.

[512] Yes, exactly.

[513] Yeah.

[514] So maybe they're related.

[515] Maybe they are related.

[516] Yeah, and you get fertile material in your dream life or not.

[517] You know, I don't know about this.

[518] I'm not advocating for one.

[519] I don't know how I feel about it.

[520] If you tell me dreams are just a kind of a weird, you know, discharge of your, you know, nocturnal, you know, something.

[521] Well, nocturnal discharges.

[522] That's a separate category.

[523] Yes, yes.

[524] Well, there are.

[525] They're just frankly are.

[526] I know there are, yeah.

[527] What's that?

[528] I just don't even bring them up.

[529] No, no, no, I wasn't going to bring them up.

[530] I was just going to say it's a common term nocturnal discharge.

[531] And I wanted to make sure that people didn't misunderstand what Jeff was saying, that you are separating the two.

[532] Right.

[533] Yes.

[534] Yes, exactly.

[535] And if we were not on air and I were more given to the ribald.

[536] Or rebald.

[537] Or rebald.

[538] Oh, I don't know.

[539] What do you think?

[540] Well, he said genuine.

[541] Yeah, I'm allowed to, I, as the host of the show, I'm allowed to make up your own.

[542] Make up the final laws on all pronunciations.

[543] But please, continue way.

[544] Well, I don't know.

[545] So, well, my point is that I'm not going to continue into something about the whole thing that I just thought of about.

[546] I'd love it if you would.

[547] Yeah, yeah.

[548] Don't be afraid of being rebald.

[549] We are all adults here.

[550] And I will say this is a safe space.

[551] Yeah.

[552] All right.

[553] No, I shouldn't.

[554] Well, you know, um, yes, yes.

[555] When I was young, you know, 12, 13, I think it happened.

[556] Yes.

[557] Anyway, that's all, that's all I'll say.

[558] And, uh, you know.

[559] Well, that seems young is all I'm going to say.

[560] Really?

[561] What?

[562] I was 37.

[563] Oh, God.

[564] So awkward.

[565] No, no, I was really watching them wrap up Seinfeld and I just, it happened.

[566] Oh.

[567] I'm sorry.

[568] That's, yeah.

[569] Late bloomer I am.

[570] You know, you have...

[571] Speak like Yoda.

[572] Yeah, I know.

[573] Late bloomer I am.

[574] Discharge late, it came.

[575] Three thousand years old I was.

[576] Yaddle.

[577] By the way, I'm such big fans of yours.

[578] I've been watching a lot of, not just for my conscientious research purposes, but just for my own entertainment.

[579] Often I go to YouTube and see.

[580] I've seen hours and hours and hours of your content.

[581] Foolishness, I like to call it.

[582] Everything.

[583] Oh, that's nice.

[584] I love to think of you out there watching it.

[585] I really am.

[586] So I know, I know.

[587] You know what I think is something that makes me very happy is that none of our comedy was ever really about anything.

[588] No, that's for sure.

[589] So you can see something from 25 years ago, and it doesn't relate to any specific topical thing in the news.

[590] And other than the fact that my head hasn't rotted yet in those clips, people can laugh at them all over again, which makes me happy.

[591] Uh -oh, you put on your specs.

[592] He's examining your riding head.

[593] Yeah, now that you brought it up, you all look great, you know, just great.

[594] Oh, please, you can tell that this...

[595] I have one of those Irish heads that bloats as it gets older.

[596] You've said, I know.

[597] No, this is true.

[598] You know, you leave a gourd in the sun long enough, and then winter comes, and you have yourself a Conan.

[599] That's what happens.

[600] time.

[601] But you, I will say this.

[602] I love talking to you because you're staring at me and you're examining every.

[603] I like your glasses.

[604] I like your glasses.

[605] You know why?

[606] Last we had a conversation.

[607] I think I introduced you to these.

[608] You did.

[609] Now, I will, I will admit freely that my style guru and my lifestyle guru is Mr. Jeff Goldberg.

[610] How can I not be?

[611] And I'll tell you why.

[612] He is a tall, good looking drink of water.

[613] And whenever he's wearing something, I think, well, wait a minute.

[614] We have somewhat similar.

[615] Well, hold on.

[616] Son is about to really correct me. Let's say Jeff had been in an accident at some point.

[617] Then Jeff and I would be very similar.

[618] That's all I'm saying.

[619] You guys are very different vibes.

[620] No, I'm not talking about the vibes.

[621] I'm talking just about when he is a tall man and he knows how to dress.

[622] Right.

[623] 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?

[624] I can always tell you what I'm talking about with Jeff.

[625] in a commercial break.

[626] I go right to, oh, my God, that those shoes.

[627] And, you know, I have large feet.

[628] And you have large feet, and he goes, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, my boy.

[629] Oh, yeah, excuse me. And then so I remembered once you came out and you were wearing these wonderful glasses that that you really carried off well.

[630] And I said, I must wear those glasses.

[631] Yeah.

[632] And I asked you, and you acted as if you were telling me where the secret ring was that would unlock the universe.

[633] You went, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, my boy.

[634] Oh, yes.

[635] Jacques, Jean -Marie, what is it, LaMage?

[636] Jacques -Maj, yeah.

[637] Yeah, Jacques -Mri -Mage.

[638] Oh, and he said, oh, my boy, I'll call ahead, I'll call ahead.

[639] And then you described going downtown, and there's a secret knock and a corridor and a passageway.

[640] And sure enough, they're the greatest glasses.

[641] Did you go, how'd you get them?

[642] Did you go to see Jerome?

[643] I went with Sona.

[644] You went to Jerome, to that studio?

[645] Yes.

[646] Oh, yeah.

[647] I'm sure he greeted you and met you and showed you everything.

[648] Oh, he was wonderful.

[649] Everybody was wonderful.

[650] But, I mean, I have done this several.

[651] times, you once, we were doing something together that was not my project and not your project, we were recording something together.

[652] I remember the day, I do.

[653] And you walked in, and I always couldn't, I could never find jeans.

[654] I have a very unusual build, I'll say, oh, come on.

[655] Anyway, so, sorry.

[656] What's your inseam?

[657] What's your leg?

[658] We have long leg.

[659] You have a fine leg, I think.

[660] What's your inseam?

[661] I have a very long leg.

[662] We'll say it together.

[663] Ready?

[664] Here's our inseam.

[665] One, two, three.

[666] 36.

[667] I'm a 36.

[668] What's just that?

[669] Is it really?

[670] No, I said you were a 30.

[671] Well, I was afraid.

[672] I was afraid to go, I have a very, I have a long inseam.

[673] And so I, um, wow.

[674] So anyway, I see this gentleman come in and he's wearing these amazing jeans.

[675] And I said, oh my God, Jeff, where did you get those jeans?

[676] He went, oh, oh, well, oh, my boy.

[677] Oh, my boy.

[678] Oh, my boy.

[679] Oh, good.

[680] Oh, and he went, oh, me. Oh, my boy, you simply must.

[681] And then you said, and then you said, I'll never forget.

[682] You said, the Schaefer Garment Hotel.

[683] That's right.

[684] And it's this place.

[685] Yeah, you said, oh, the Schaefer Garment Hotel.

[686] And I go there.

[687] And you said, just go, just go.

[688] So I go.

[689] And of course, it's the coolest people in the world.

[690] And they have like an old denim machine.

[691] What?

[692] It's like the John Wick Hotel, but for clothes?

[693] Yes.

[694] Yes, it is.

[695] It's the John Wick Hotel except just for jeans.

[696] Oh, my.

[697] And how about the hat maker in the back?

[698] Oh, there's a guy there wearing like Slash his hat.

[699] And he's like, I'm, you one of these.

[700] And I went, well, I don't know if I can carry that off.

[701] There's a dog that's in the store.

[702] Yeah, that's right.

[703] Do you know who I ran into there once?

[704] I was with Emily.

[705] We went there to pick up a pair of jeans or a hat or something.

[706] And it was just us and Bob Dylan.

[707] Oh, my God.

[708] Yes, because he got his hats from that guy.

[709] I saw him out of the corner my eye.

[710] I kept, I had important business.

[711] I was talking about hat.

[712] And he came in.

[713] And before I could say anything to He left, but I think Emily, I don't know if she said anything.

[714] Wait, you didn't go up to him?

[715] No, no. I wish I had.

[716] I think I, I mean, I've told this before, but I met him once.

[717] Oh.

[718] 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.

[719] It's my one chance to meet him.

[720] And he, and he, all of his conversation stopped, and Bob Dylan looked at me, and he went, I know you from the TV.

[721] It's true 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 I know you from the TV And then I heard Conan Conan It's me Al Gore And I'm like What is this event?

[722] 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 You know And suddenly He's Talking to me and I see Bob Dylan scuttle away, I was cock -blocked with Bob Dylan by Vice President Al Gore.

[723] That's a true story.

[724] If you had told me that that wasn't a true story, but that was a dream you had last day, it would be just as credible.

[725] Yeah, and then, trust me, I wanted to detach Gore's tongue from his body to get him to stop yapping at me. He, no, I'm sorry, you know, all due respect to a former vice president and, of course, a leading figure in climate prevention change.

[726] Just another nocturnal omission happening?

[727] You know what?

[728] He does this to me. Jeff Gollum does this to me. You're not wrong.

[729] He unmanned me. Yeah.

[730] You're just bewitching, and this is joyous.

[731] Yes.

[732] When I'm around you, oh, look, and take a sip.

[733] Isn't it really something?

[734] Everything he does is perfection.

[735] 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.

[736] Okay.

[737] Looks like ginger ale or rum, I don't know.

[738] No, it's a green tea that they made for me here.

[739] But I know how you despise ice drinks.

[740] Oh, oh, of course, I heard that whole, I've seen every, I've heard every episode.

[741] I don't know if we should be excited or horrified that you're coming here.

[742] You know our deepest, darkest, foibles.

[743] I have to say.

[744] We're terrible people.

[745] You know, we really are an awful lot.

[746] You can do better than us, Jeff.

[747] You know what?

[748] You can sip any day because everything you do.

[749] Listen, listen.

[750] Listen, look at it.

[751] Oh, my God.

[752] That is Jeff Goldblum sipping.

[753] Oh, my God, you're the best.

[754] You know, you know what's interesting to me, there is a, there's a sensuality that you exude about, see, even with the smallest gestures, a sensuality.

[755] And then I find, and I'm quite comfortable in my sexuality, but I find that when I'm around you, I'm open for anything.

[756] I really am.

[757] I am.

[758] I'm just saying that.

[759] And Matt is as well.

[760] We're just up for it.

[761] I'd like to offer myself as a sacrifice in some way.

[762] Wait, you mean like if Jeff invited you to like a weird sex party, you'd be like, you know how uptight I am.

[763] Yes, that's why I'm afraid.

[764] But if Jeff Goldblum said, oh, this, come with me into this special sanctum and I want you to introduce you to my secret friends and it's going to be, but first you must apply this wax and oil.

[765] I would do it.

[766] I would do it because he's that.

[767] And it's going to be Diane Keaton, Ron Howard, and Robert Altman.

[768] And Bob Dylan is going to see me and go, I know you from the TV.

[769] I'm going to know you in a whole different way.

[770] And then I'm just about to get it on with Bob Dylan when I'm going to hear, Conan, Conan.

[771] It's me, Vice President Al Gore.

[772] Very erotic.

[773] Yeah.

[774] Well, this little bit.

[775] packet that we're in.

[776] Don't you love this?

[777] Is this the first day?

[778] This is the first day.

[779] Well, I love this blue velvet.

[780] That purse that we're in, you know.

[781] It's like a sex panic room.

[782] What?

[783] I don't know.

[784] With microphone.

[785] Have you ever been in a sex panic?

[786] That's a sex.

[787] I have, yeah, I have been in a sex panic myself.

[788] See, that's the problem.

[789] That's why I envy you is, is, is, I don't think Jeff would ever be in a sex panic.

[790] Jeff Goldwood would never be in a sex panic.

[791] No. I am in a constant.

[792] Even when there's nothing sexual happening, I'm in a sex panic.

[793] I'm constantly in my own head.

[794] Well, he's the antidote because he could be a sex bomb to your sex panic.

[795] This is not a sex whisper.

[796] Yes, sex whisper.

[797] Sex bomb.

[798] Who did that song?

[799] Sex bomb.

[800] It wasn't bomb, but it was bomb.

[801] Oh, yeah.

[802] Sex bomb.

[803] Was it a big hit in Europe, particularly during these couple of years that I remember.

[804] Sex bomb, sex bomb.

[805] You only remember a couple of years?

[806] I think we got it kind.

[807] No, during these couple of, when it was a hit, He's looking it up.

[808] When it was a hit, I was in Europe making a movie, and it was on all the time.

[809] But I don't think it made its way across the pond.

[810] I don't think he should either.

[811] And there was a video.

[812] I'll give you a clue.

[813] That same singer is not unusual.

[814] Oh, Tom Jones?

[815] Oh, yeah.

[816] Tom Jones, exactly.

[817] What James Bond.

[818] Thunderball.

[819] Oh, yeah.

[820] You have a James Bond question.

[821] She ain't okay.

[822] Gah, Gag, Gag, G. He only.

[823] And they're called Thunderball And they strike strikes like Thunderball Do you know that Johnny Cash did a rejected Thunderball theme song?

[824] I didn't know that.

[825] It's true.

[826] Well, he unsolicited, sent it to them and they went, we never asked for this.

[827] It was not that song.

[828] It was his own song.

[829] You know, can I say something?

[830] And this is to be, because I know a lot about Johnny Cash I revere him, he sent in a lot of unsolicited songs.

[831] He was constantly sending in like prel shampoo, alpo dog food.

[832] He was constantly, yeah, he was constantly sending in, I've got a different way you could go with that song, Purina Kachau, Chow, Chow.

[833] I can't even.

[834] I believed you for a second, and now I feel really dumb.

[835] I was like, oh, you're kidding.

[836] You know, the best part of waking up is lifting in your cup.

[837] You know, that's saying to them.

[838] Johnny Cash first sent it in.

[839] He did it in that Johnny Cash way.

[840] Yeah, he first sang that song, You look sharp, you know, look sharp.

[841] Feel sharp.

[842] Yes.

[843] Be sharp.

[844] Ring and burning fire.

[845] Ring a bar down down down a bar and ring a fire I'm stuck on band -aids Because band -aids stuck on me He did the Oscar Meyer song Duh Babylonia has a first name It's O .Sia Maboloni has a second name Oh and you know what I mean No no wasn't the Oscar You know what the sad Last thing he did before he passed away Was the car for kids jingle Yeah I don't know that jingle Sing it Is it 1 800 cars for kids Something like that Oh, that, okay.

[846] No, but I think the Oscar -Meyer thing was, I'd like to be an Oscar -Meyer weaner.

[847] Oh, I'd like to be an Oscar -Meyer weaner.

[848] Yes, I'd like to be an Oscar -Maya weaner.

[849] That's what I'd really like to be.

[850] I'd like to be an Oscar -Mil.

[851] Now all the kids would be in love with me. I fell into a burning ring of fire.

[852] Just so you know, to be fair, that most jingles that you love were written by Johnny Cash.

[853] That's true.

[854] Unsolicited.

[855] He would just send him in.

[856] Yeah, but he did do the Thunderball.

[857] That's how we got started.

[858] Dropping mental breadcrums, he did send in the thunder you say and it sounds like a typical johnny cash song except it has kind of like john berry horns in it it's really something 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 boy that was great is he your favorite bond of all time uh i'm going to say for me it's sean connery but daniel craig is right is right there with it and I thought no one could do that.

[859] I thought no one could.

[860] Sean Connery was so incredible.

[861] Fantastic.

[862] When he peaked, when he went to the summit of the Alps, after Thunderball, I think, nothing against John Connery, those movies, it started to...

[863] He was phoned in a bit.

[864] With her, yeah.

[865] And by the time he got to Jill St. John and...

[866] Diamonds are forever.

[867] It was forever.

[868] You know, not in my favorite.

[869] And I just have never been happier in my life right now.

[870] I know.

[871] This is right up your alley.

[872] I'll tell you, Matt Gourley is a Bond fanatic and a huge Jeff Goldblum fan.

[873] Now he's in a room.

[874] They've both come together and he's having a nocturnal emission.

[875] Oh my God, but there's so many emissions happening.

[876] Diurnal emission all day long here.

[877] This is really.

[878] It what?

[879] The what?

[880] Diurnal.

[881] Oh, is that the daytime, the diurnal?

[882] I believe so.

[883] Di -diurnal, die -diurnal, die -di -earnal.

[884] Diurnal, diurnal.

[885] I believe I know that song.

[886] Johnny Cash first set that in.

[887] Listen, you have.

[888] He submitted all my bar mitzvahs.

[889] Oh, yeah, you know what makes it perfect.

[890] You know what makes perfect.

[891] I fell into a burning ring of...

[892] It's becoming more Elvis.

[893] It's becoming more Elvis than Johnny Cab.

[894] I never said I was the perfect, you know.

[895] Oh, my God.

[896] You know, you are a terrific jazz musician, and I'm bringing this up for a reason.

[897] I think to understand Jeff Goldblum, which is impossible, but to really understand what makes this man tick, I think is your love of.

[898] jazz.

[899] You are constantly improvising in the moment and tuned into that crazy galaxy that real jazz musicians are tuned into.

[900] And a good friend of mine just went and saw you perform the other night and said that you were fantastic.

[901] Really?

[902] That's very nice.

[903] That's very encouraging.

[904] Thank you.

[905] Yeah, we played the Disney concert hall.

[906] Yes.

[907] Oh, my God.

[908] Two couple nights ago.

[909] But what I'm saying is, am I correct that there's something about music?

[910] I just feel like you're in tune with some jazz musical score all the time.

[911] Yeah.

[912] Yeah.

[913] Is that, do you think that's, and this is a compliment, by the way.

[914] Thank you so much.

[915] I like, well, I aspire to it.

[916] 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, the musical world, and everything.

[917] Oh, I had thought, by the way, aren't there, hasn't anybody sung songs, a snippet of song about friendship as you're still looking for friends?

[918] By the way, how many friends do you need?

[919] You've been looking for, how long have you been looking for friends?

[920] now.

[921] How many of you found by this time?

[922] Well, Jeff, they don't often take.

[923] That's the problem.

[924] I am, I don't wear well over time.

[925] That's one of the problems.

[926] 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.

[927] Yes, I'm right there with you.

[928] I think we have.

[929] We need to graft into each other.

[930] Yes, we need to very, very much.

[931] Yeah, but think of, do you know any songs about friendship?

[932] Well, the song that, you know, we are going to be friends, that White Stripes did, Jack White.

[933] He's a good friend of mine and that's the song I wanted.

[934] Name dropper.

[935] He wrote the song with Jeff Altman.

[936] Oh, Jeff Altman.

[937] Robert Alman, sorry.

[938] Anyway, fall is here, hear the yell.

[939] You sing like a nightingale.

[940] I love your voice.

[941] You know, when you're not doing that, when you're not doing that, you have a beautiful, authentic, conversational, delightful voice.

[942] Can I say something?

[943] You must.

[944] I'm always so self -conscious that I put trills and foolishness in there.

[945] And I never just sing.

[946] You just sang and I loved it.

[947] Silent night.

[948] No, he's going to do a thing.

[949] Holy night.

[950] All is calm.

[951] No, it's doing it again, right?

[952] He's doing it again.

[953] All is pride.

[954] Try to take all the vibrato out of it.

[955] Sleep.

[956] No, no. I mean, you can't be normal.

[957] No, but you were just singing.

[958] So sing that whatever you want to say.

[959] like the other voice that that's it uh let's see uh you've got a friend you know oh no i can't sing that song how about the jason isbell song you sang to us that time that yeah oh yeah um um how's that go it goes uh never could be happy in the city at night that's beautiful um yeah um yeah can't see the stars for the neon lights beautiful sidewalks dirty in 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 That's the very moving Very beautiful Boy, you should do You should do a whole album of songs that way I'd love to hear you do that He can't do it I can't do it I just locked in icon 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.

[960] Yeah, I love Amy Mann.

[961] I adore Amy Mann, and I'm intimidated by Amy Mann's talent.

[962] But we promised to write a song together.

[963] And then the last thing she said to me, I said, yeah, I'll do it.

[964] And she said, you know, it's just got to be something like sincere and something that you really want to say.

[965] And I was like, oh, oh, that's not going to happen.

[966] You could do it?

[967] No, he can.

[968] So, will you tell them, please take over?

[969] I was on the edge of my seat the entire time you were singing because I thought he was going to go into some bit and, like, do something with your voice.

[970] Thinks eventually become a bit.

[971] It's a bit.

[972] You like joking around.

[973] 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.

[974] I'd love to hear it just for me and for so on and for us.

[975] I'd love to hear you do it.

[976] And you don't have to jettison your comedic force of nature.

[977] You could be surprising and do one like that and one like that and one like that.

[978] But that's a very useful part of your toolbox in my opinion and a very enjoyable one.

[979] That's, well, that's very nice.

[980] I'm curious about something because we have so much in common, not just our incredible height and physiques, not just our successful, incredibly successful careers, both of us as actors.

[981] My point is that we both, and you mentioned this earlier, both of us, both of our father's, doctors.

[982] Yes, right?

[983] And I don't know, there's this couple of similarities there.

[984] I'm fascinated by this idea that sometimes a salmon just knows it has to swim upstream.

[985] 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.

[986] Yep.

[987] I did.

[988] I did.

[989] Yeah, around 10, you know, we started to go to children's theater.

[990] And I was like, what are they doing?

[991] Who is that?

[992] What are they doing backstage?

[993] And I'd be very excited, you know, to go.

[994] And then around 9th and 10th grades, I went to this summer session of Carnegie Mellon University and took real blue lessons.

[995] Right.

[996] Right.

[997] And, you know, oh, no, but before that, yes, I went to chat a music day camp around fifth grade and was in this show.

[998] And my dad had said, if you have to find something you love to do, that maybe is a key to your vocational choice wisely.

[999] And that night they said, so how'd you like that?

[1000] And I was like, yeah, I liked it.

[1001] But I kept it secret because there was no, you know, I kept it secret.

[1002] I wanted to be an actor.

[1003] And certainly in school, I was a well -behaved, good boy.

[1004] and nobody would have thought that I would do anything like that, except that I played piano here and there and da -da -da -da.

[1005] So that was it, yeah.

[1006] And he was a doctor, but I must say, I don't know.

[1007] What kind of doctor, by the way?

[1008] Internal medicine, kind of a family doctor, you know.

[1009] Got it, got it.

[1010] But, you know, people, his patients loved him, and he would always kind of keep up on his studies and this and that.

[1011] And, you know, he liked medicine.

[1012] 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.

[1013] He had the idea to be an actor And then he stuck his head in the bag 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 Yeah Did he and he got to see you Become Jeff Goldblum the big deal You know not such a big deal Not even a big deal now But he got to see me start to Because I think started to happen quickly He died like in 83 Around the time I did the big chill But he saw a few movies before that and some plays.

[1014] And I remember I did a play called City Sugar where I was the lead.

[1015] I was a radio guy in England with an English accent and Stephen Pollyakov play called City Sugar.

[1016] And I did it at this off -Broadway show.

[1017] He went to see, when he came backstage, and he was not like this, he was burst into tears and threw his arms around me. Yeah, like that.

[1018] I know.

[1019] I know.

[1020] Well, I can't relate.

[1021] Anyway, I don't need to interrupt.

[1022] I just realized something that, speaking of when you knew you wanted to do something, when I was a very young boy, my dad took me to downtown LA because that's where he used to work.

[1023] First celebrity sighting was something being shot.

[1024] A warehouse door opens up, outruns Ben -Varine, and then outruns Jeff Goldblum shooting 10 -speed and branch.

[1025] 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.

[1026] And my brothers, Neil and Luke and I were really into.

[1027] what's the new show, what's the new show?

[1028] We're constantly looking for what's the new show going to be.

[1029] It was a big deal back then.

[1030] Now people are bombarded with TV and streaming all the time.

[1031] Back in the late 70s, early 80s, you know, it was a big deal like ABC is coming out with its lineup in the fall.

[1032] And you'd all summer you'd be excited.

[1033] You'd hear rumors about what it was going to be and CBS is coming out with this and NBC's coming out with that.

[1034] And there was this show that we heard about called 10 Speed and Brown Shoe.

[1035] and my brothers and I watched it and it starred Ben Vareen and this guy I had 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?

[1036] That guy's fantastic and then the show didn't last 13 episodes as well it was fantastic bring you back and Stephen J. Cannell who had done Rockford Files and many other things But I remember that And what's the greatest Demargett Well believe it or not I'm walking on air But da da da da da da that's so good Yep Please don't ask me to sing that one William Cat Johnny Cash first sent that in Oh 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.

[1037] 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.

[1038] You'd have been in so many great movies.

[1039] And I went back into your dressing room and I was like, 10 Speed and Brown Shoe.

[1040] And I remember you were like, oh, yeah, 10 Speed and Brown Shoe.

[1041] Because I thought you might say, oh, well, who cares about that?

[1042] You know, I've moved on to so many other things.

[1043] But it was such, it really tickled me. Yeah.

[1044] When I was a, I don't know, I was like, how old would I have been?

[1045] 14, 15.

[1046] Well, it's like in 1980, I think.

[1047] So you were born in...

[1048] I was 16, 17, yeah.

[1049] So I was seven when I saw you guys shooting that.

[1050] And I just was baffled by the cameras and that you did it multiple times and going, why are they doing it again and again?

[1051] Really?

[1052] How did you wind up there?

[1053] Where are we?

[1054] My dad worked downtown and he would take me to downtown quite a bit, downtown L .A. What did he do your dad?

[1055] He was a division manager for the gas company.

[1056] Oh, I see.

[1057] Well, he also sold drugs.

[1058] Major kingpin.

[1059] So downtown, no kidding.

[1060] And you just happened upon.

[1061] us shooting no kidding and i was i was just blown away 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 our at my hospital the uh peter brent brigham hospital which is now brigham and women's hospital in boston it's a big hospital and he said they're shooting a scene right outside my office and we were like they're shooting at a movie in Boston near my dad's like right outside my dad's office that's in 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 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's 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 with a coat hanger trying to open the door and I gotta find out the name of this movie because I guess what year would have been this would have been like 19771 72 we could look that out we could find up and trying to un un you know lift up the door and they couldn't get it it, and I thought, this is movie -making?

[1062] Wow, yeah.

[1063] What the hell is this?

[1064] 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.

[1065] Hey, I love James Coburn.

[1066] You know, I saw the first run of Our Man Flint.

[1067] Oh, my God.

[1068] In like Flint.

[1069] Oh, we're back.

[1070] Do you remember how the telephone rang in Lee J. Cobb's office?

[1071] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[1072] I have no idea what you guys.

[1073] Okay, this was kind of almost, almost a take off.

[1074] on James Bond, but not really.

[1075] I mean, it was very silly.

[1076] Derek Flint.

[1077] Derek Flint.

[1078] And then Austin Power had kind of barred some things like that, kind of went from there.

[1079] What is the James Coburn movie?

[1080] I've got to find that out.

[1081] I'll bet.

[1082] Let me guess.

[1083] Let me guess after that.

[1084] I think after that he did a movie called the president's analyst.

[1085] You know, it could have been that.

[1086] You know, I remember him talking about it on talk shows.

[1087] I used to love talk shows when I was in Pittsburgh.

[1088] I used to tune in summer.

[1089] Stay home all day and watch the Mike Douglas show.

[1090] Go from Mike Douglas to, you know, Dina Shore.

[1091] and Merv Griffin, and he used to come on, remember he was kind of a countercultural hippie actor then, and he used to come on with a turtleneck, you know, or in a medallion or something like that.

[1092] And his ag, he used to come on, not just talk, he wanted to play the gong.

[1093] And he used to bring onto Carson a big, big gong and go, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, that, that was his act, you know.

[1094] 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.

[1095] You talk about how people would just do strange things.

[1096] 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.

[1097] Out of nowhere, just Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, just in the corner, but he does it sort of like a nervous deer.

[1098] And he slowly approaches and I'm like, oh, it looks like, Jeff Goldberg, shh, everyone will be quiet.

[1099] And he can't.

[1100] And then you like sniff, sniff the salt lick, and then you took a little lick.

[1101] I remember that being one of my favorite.

[1102] Such a stupid, I don't care.

[1103] So James Coburn played the gong with Carson.

[1104] Yeah, let's see.

[1105] Let's see you have Jeff Goldblum.

[1106] What do we got for Coburn?

[1107] The Coburn is the Carey Treatment.

[1108] Carrey Treatment is a 1972 American Crime Thriller film by Blake Edwards Baseball.

[1109] It takes place in Boston.

[1110] In Boston.

[1111] Dr. Peter Carey, played by James Coburn, is a pathologist who moves to Boston, where he starts working.

[1112] Okay, well, I don't know it, but Blake Edwards, boy.

[1113] Well, guess what?

[1114] So this is another fun story.

[1115] My dad's there.

[1116] This wasn't happened when I was there.

[1117] They kept shooting this right outside my dad's window, and he kept thinking, well, I could keep looking out on this microscope for a cure to a terrible disease where I could go outside and hang out with these movie folk.

[1118] So he went outside and he's chatting and he can't believe it, but Blake Edwards is there with his wife, Julie Andrews.

[1119] Yes.

[1120] And a friend of my dad's who doesn't know.

[1121] 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 and she said well I'm you know an actresses around he went well and then later on people told him what what he did and the guy I think put his head in a cyclotron it's like that same from Notting Hill when you know Julia Roberts comes in yeah yeah I know I know that reference.

[1122] Yes.

[1123] There you go.

[1124] We're getting closer and closer to her references.

[1125] When you said Julie Andrews, I was like, yeah, she narrated Bridgeton, so I know her.

[1126] And you know what?

[1127] Oh, my God.

[1128] Sound of music.

[1129] Oh, my God.

[1130] I'm kidding.

[1131] 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, you know, the parade go by.

[1132] And so I'd always take them.

[1133] They were little kids to see the parade.

[1134] And once I'm watching on the television and we haven't gone down yet and the parade is going by.

[1135] And then they said, and here comes Julie Andrews.

[1136] I lost my fucking mind.

[1137] At the time, you know, I'm whatever.

[1138] I'm a 46 -year -old man. I ran without my kids.

[1139] Oh, my God.

[1140] And I ran all the way down.

[1141] They were like, where are you going?

[1142] I was like, and I ran because I wanted to get down there fast.

[1143] And I saw her go by and I was like, it's Julie Andrews.

[1144] And I've been on TV at this point.

[1145] you know, whatever, 12 years.

[1146] And I'm like, ah, Julie Andrews!

[1147] I mean, she didn't see me, but...

[1148] Amazing.

[1149] Yeah.

[1150] How about the movie 10?

[1151] She's in the movie 10, of course, too.

[1152] But Sound of Music I saw when it first came out.

[1153] You know, it was a big deal around that year.

[1154] And I showed it to our kids now.

[1155] I showed us, we showed Sound of Music.

[1156] We haven't shown them many movies.

[1157] I'm going to show...

[1158] They've never been to a movie theater, but I think I'm going to take them to see...

[1159] Well, your kids are...

[1160] Your kids are...

[1161] Seven and almost seven and just turned five.

[1162] Oh, my God.

[1163] Okay, so they're at such a great age.

[1164] And because of COVID, they've missed out on some of these great experiences.

[1165] Like going to a movie theater is so...

[1166] 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.

[1167] Really?

[1168] Yeah.

[1169] And so when I say to anyone in my family now, hey, do you want to go see a movie?

[1170] And they're like, eh.

[1171] I don't know.

[1172] I don't know.

[1173] What are you talking about?

[1174] It's because they can see anything they want at any time.

[1175] Right, right.

[1176] Oh, yeah, going to a movie theater.

[1177] I'm involved in this cycle of publicity for Jurassic Park Dominion.

[1178] 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.

[1179] And I made a list because of that.

[1180] I thought, oh, what are the best times I've ever had in movie theaters in my life?

[1181] Because it's a, you know, that's a way to talk about it.

[1182] 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.

[1183] And she said, oh, remember this one.

[1184] And it's been a nostalgia blast, you know.

[1185] These are the movies that really blew you away.

[1186] Yes, these are the ones we remember.

[1187] 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.

[1188] In Pittsburgh?

[1189] In Pittsburgh.

[1190] West Homestown, a suburb of Pittsburgh.

[1191] Not downtown.

[1192] It's a little suburb, but they had this movie theater.

[1193] And we'd go for, you know, $25, $0 .50 or something, whatever tickets were, get popcorn with butter and salt and hot dogs.

[1194] So Jeff Goldblum is about to read a list of his favorite movies.

[1195] This is heaven.

[1196] The ones that made a big difference that I can remember to this day.

[1197] Let's hear it.

[1198] Okay.

[1199] We saw, see if, see if anything, these mean anything to you, the absent -minded professor.

[1200] Yes.

[1201] You know, Fred McMurray Flubber, all that.

[1202] That made a big impression on me. The blob, which I've seen recently, Steve McQueen, very good, his first movie, you know.

[1203] Now, who was, of course, you'll know, who was in all of these movies, which we saw, you know, we saw whatever they came to there.

[1204] But during this period, the 60, you know, early 60, the Bellboy, Cinderfella, disorderly, orderly, visited small planet, gauchy boy.

[1205] Of course, the Nutty Professor.

[1206] Deliquid, delinquent, rocked by baby, nutty professor.

[1207] Yeah, loved it.

[1208] Then I got a chance to meet him.

[1209] Did you ever meet Jerry?

[1210] I did.

[1211] I got to meet him.

[1212] I got to interview him.

[1213] That's so interesting.

[1214] Well, we could talk all about that.

[1215] Well, did you meet Jerry Lewis?

[1216] Yes, I did.

[1217] I was going to play his son in that last movie that he did, Augie Rose.

[1218] Augie Rose?

[1219] Oh, no, no. Max Rose.

[1220] Max Rose.

[1221] And so I went to Vegas in order.

[1222] I was almost going to do it before I got something else and couldn't.

[1223] And so I hung out with him in his office in Las Vegas.

[1224] How was he?

[1225] It responded.

[1226] Amazing.

[1227] We could talk for, you know, amazing.

[1228] He'd made a big, he was big in my childhood and during this period.

[1229] So I was thrilled to meet him.

[1230] And he was, you know, as you know him at that stage, and great, you know, great and complicated.

[1231] Very complicated.

[1232] Yeah.

[1233] Yeah.

[1234] Yeah.

[1235] Yeah.

[1236] Yeah.

[1237] Right.

[1238] But those movies when we were seeing those movies, big deal.

[1239] Do you know what this movie is the sterile cuckoo?

[1240] No. Liza Manella's first, Lysmanelli's first movie.

[1241] She plays out kind of a nerdy girl.

[1242] The sterile cuckoo.

[1243] The sterile cuckoo is coming in a page.

[1244] Terrible name for a movie.

[1245] It is.

[1246] Nobody wants sterility is never something that draws the masses.

[1247] Come one, come all, bring the family.

[1248] The sterile cuckoo.

[1249] That cuckoo's not having children.

[1250] How about this movie?

[1251] Who knows this?

[1252] I don't think you will.

[1253] Georgie girl.

[1254] Oh, yeah.

[1255] We almost need our dolly girl.

[1256] Walking down the street.

[1257] So fancy free was played by.

[1258] Redgrave.

[1259] Lynn Redgrave, whom I worked with later, believe it or not.

[1260] Oh, well, Bridge on the River Kwite.

[1261] We saw the first viewing up.

[1262] The man who shot Liberty Valance.

[1263] Yes.

[1264] I love that.

[1265] Hush, hush, sweet Charlotte.

[1266] How about, you know, Betty Davis and Joan Crawford together?

[1267] Gay peri, P -U -R -E, about an animated movie about, in an impressionistic style, French impressions, about cats.

[1268] And I think Robert Goulet did a voice, you know.

[1269] Dr. Noah from Russia with Love Goldfinger.

[1270] Fantastic.

[1271] Iron Man Flint, I have Pink Panther the first Pink Panther.

[1272] Now you went to a movie theater and there was Peter Sellers, never seen before as Clousseau, Blake Edwards, unbelievable.

[1273] I remember the day we saw that.

[1274] Those movies changed my life.

[1275] Bobby D. and I went, my best friend went to that theater to see Psycho.

[1276] First time run of Psycho.

[1277] Unbelievable.

[1278] I just spent some time with Jamie Lee Curtis in CinemaCon.

[1279] You know, how about that?

[1280] You know what's so great about There was a, 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.

[1281] And Alfred Hitchcock was genius at this.

[1282] So when Psycho came out, he had like ambulances outside the theaters and he very much publicized.

[1283] We're gonna have medical personnel available for people who faint or have seizures during this terrifying movie and, you know, people went mad for it.

[1284] And there was like a do not be late.

[1285] for this one, remember.

[1286] Yeah, we won't let you in after the first.

[1287] Yeah, yeah, we won't let you in.

[1288] Do not tell your friends what happens.

[1289] Yes, exactly.

[1290] And he did all that stuff.

[1291] He did it with the birds.

[1292] He did, he had all these great, I mean, what a great showman he was in addition to being, you know, this incredible tour.

[1293] Birds was another movie we saw first run.

[1294] I loved that day that we saw that.

[1295] But then we went, oh, I had a crush on this girl.

[1296] And we went, I went on a field trip hoping to kind of be near her.

[1297] I had not made any headway when we saw hard days night.

[1298] Yeah.

[1299] What girl did you have a crush on?

[1300] Stephanie Ignatz.

[1301] Oh, I thought you said, oh, okay.

[1302] I thought you made a crush a girl in the movie.

[1303] No, not in the movie.

[1304] Those were fellas.

[1305] They just had long hair.

[1306] No. In ninth grade.

[1307] In ninth grade, no, Stephanie.

[1308] And she was going, so I was going to tag along, too.

[1309] Have you ever kept up with Stephanie Ignatz?

[1310] You know, I am.

[1311] We have her here today.

[1312] Here she is.

[1313] A little bit.

[1314] Oh my God, look out.

[1315] She's deranged.

[1316] Some 10 or 15 years after this period, we got in touch and we saw each other.

[1317] She went out to California.

[1318] and, you know, I saw her.

[1319] Okay, okay, you saw her, but she didn't see you.

[1320] You followed her from a distance.

[1321] Oh, no, no, not like that.

[1322] They saw each other.

[1323] Oh, okay.

[1324] He closes the deal.

[1325] No, no, no. Oh, I'm making it clear.

[1326] What I do is I look them up and then I just, I peer at them through shrubbery from 50 yards away.

[1327] Oh, my God.

[1328] Yeah, that's my.

[1329] When I say, oh, I saw her.

[1330] Like, what I mean.

[1331] Norman Bates.

[1332] Speaking of Norman Bates.

[1333] Yeah, I know.

[1334] Through a hole in your office wall.

[1335] He's got them all over this building.

[1336] So horrible.

[1337] I have to ask you, speaking of movies, we have to talk about it.

[1338] Because in Trassette Park and this character that you played, Dr. Ian, what's the last name?

[1339] Malcolm?

[1340] Malcolm, that's right.

[1341] Yes.

[1342] You, I mean, God, you nailed that character so much.

[1343] And now you're coming back and you're assembling with the same people to bring this, these people back to life.

[1344] Yes, sir.

[1345] So who else is with you?

[1346] And this is Laura Dern?

[1347] Laura Dern, of course.

[1348] The great Laura Dern, the great Sam Neal.

[1349] So the three of us from the first movie are back together for the first time since then.

[1350] Right.

[1351] And we're reunited and have something to do with in this story with Bryce Dallas Howard's character and Chris Pratt's character.

[1352] But also B .D. Wong is back from the first one.

[1353] And that's great.

[1354] Yeah, isn't that great?

[1355] And Omar C. From most recently.

[1356] and Daniela Pornada and Justice Smith and wait a minute, wait a minute.

[1357] And new characters, DeWanda Wise, Mamadu Ache, and Campbell Scott are in this.

[1358] Yeah, Elizabeth Sermon comes back.

[1359] So it's great.

[1360] I mean, this is something that I think would be worthwhile you to settle with for a second is that movies were such a big deal for you growing up.

[1361] 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 it's interesting how the loop closes in a strange way isn't it it's fascinating 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 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.

[1362] And, you know, there are all these massive stars that come along later on in life 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, you know, or, you know, seeing a Julie Andrews on a parade float go by.

[1363] 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.

[1364] Life is Magic.

[1365] Amazing.

[1366] Vincent Price.

[1367] We saw some Vincent Price movies.

[1368] Then I did.

[1369] He was in the fly, the first fly, which I saw back then.

[1370] I think I saw him in a Ralph's later.

[1371] You saw Vincent Price at a rouse?

[1372] I do believe so.

[1373] I think I went up to him.

[1374] Yes, yes.

[1375] He was, you know, picking out melons or something.

[1376] Like, turkey.

[1377] Yeah, he was a big chef, you know.

[1378] Oh, my God.

[1379] It's too bad Bill Hader isn't here because he does.

[1380] Bill Hader does the best Vincent Price of all, and he'd be going, you know, he'd, I don't do it, but he'd be here doing Vincent Price, Etta Ralph's.

[1381] We should remind him of that.

[1382] Yeah.

[1383] No, we should do.

[1384] We will be seeing him soon.

[1385] We should remind him of that because Vincent Price et Aralphs, and I used to, you know, And 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 Ralphs across the street.

[1386] And he kept seeing all these huge stories.

[1387] He saw Cesar Romero, the Joker.

[1388] And he'd come back and he'd go, I saw him.

[1389] And I was like, what is he?

[1390] He was buying dog food at Ralph's.

[1391] 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.

[1392] Or I saw Harry Morgan from Mash.

[1393] And I read, you know, and then he was.

[1394] you would always tell me what they were buying, you know?

[1395] He was buying a giant thing of beans, you know?

[1396] It always never matched.

[1397] Like, I saw a share.

[1398] What was she getting?

[1399] Industrial Strength toilet cleaner.

[1400] Oh, oh, no, I didn't want to know that.

[1401] She would never.

[1402] She would never.

[1403] I was so crazy about the, I hadn't met anybody famous or who was in movies when I was a kid.

[1404] And the first couple of brushes I had, who did I first?

[1405] We went on a vacation.

[1406] and who was staying at this hotel was Darren McGavin Oh my God He's great Of the night stalker Yes I was like Do you think we'll see him At breakfast Why I do you know I never went up to him But I was just When are we going to see him again You know He's the dad In Christmas story He's the dad 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 that And but he He did I think maybe my favorite show as a kid.

[1407] Oh, Colchalk.

[1408] He played Carl Colchick in The Nightstalker, which was the scariest show on television.

[1409] It only ran, I mean, maybe it ran two seasons, if that.

[1410] It was not a success, but it was such a scary show.

[1411] I have that on DVD.

[1412] Do you?

[1413] No, it's fantastic.

[1414] I've never seen them.

[1415] I don't know.

[1416] And Darren McGavin was fantastic.

[1417] And I got to, I don't think he ever did my show, but I got to meet him once.

[1418] and, yeah, my soul left my body.

[1419] I was so excited.

[1420] I couldn't believe I was meeting him.

[1421] Unbelievable.

[1422] So, yeah, I'm back in this movie now.

[1423] Come out June 10th, you brought it up.

[1424] That's your problem.

[1425] I love that he went, so anyway, back in this movie and, well, da -da -da -da -da -da.

[1426] June 10th, you brought it up.

[1427] I love that.

[1428] I was just trying to remember where we got off that.

[1429] But next on my list was Diary of a Madman, Vincent Price and Tomb of Ligia.

[1430] He was a big deal to us, you know.

[1431] some of those Roger Cormons, I was a teenage Frankenstein, I was a teenage werewolf.

[1432] Too horrible movies, but interesting, Ega.

[1433] Did anyone ever do, I was a teenage teenager?

[1434] I'm just curious.

[1435] It would be kind of meta, but I'd do it.

[1436] It's a good idea.

[1437] Yeah?

[1438] That's a billion dollars.

[1439] It's a teenager who then turns into a teenager who's just slightly older.

[1440] He's like 15 and he turns 17?

[1441] He turns into a 16 year old.

[1442] Oh, okay.

[1443] He's a 15 year old and he goes into a corn and it's like, nah!

[1444] And then he comes out and he's a 16.

[1445] You can legally drive but doesn't know how to.

[1446] Yeah, he can legally drive, but he can't, but he has the same amount of acne.

[1447] What a terrible movie.

[1448] I think it's a great movie, and I've got the rights.

[1449] Okay, no one's going to fight you.

[1450] You can have them.

[1451] I remember when TV shows would come out, what you were talking about, you know, the new lineup.

[1452] Boy, I loved Friday nights when Wild Wild West would come on.

[1453] Yes, huge.

[1454] Oh, boy, Robert Conrad and Ross Martin, who played.

[1455] Yep, Ross Martin.

[1456] Artemis Gordon.

[1457] Mr. Gordon, King Congress.

[1458] We left that open for you, so I know, I know.

[1459] Take it.

[1460] Really?

[1461] No, I don't know.

[1462] How about Giego?

[1463] Nobody knows the movie Giego.

[1464] I don't know.

[1465] Jackie Gleason.

[1466] Jackie Gleeson.

[1467] He plays a mute dead kind of a village idiot.

[1468] Oh, it's great.

[1469] The first movie I ever cried at.

[1470] It's heartbreaking.

[1471] I'm crying, hearing about it.

[1472] That's, uh, you're mentioning a bunch of movies that had a huge impact that I don't know.

[1473] You'll know this one.

[1474] Jason and the Argonauts.

[1475] Yes.

[1476] All that Ray Harryhausen stop motion stuff.

[1477] Yeah.

[1478] Magical Day, Magical Day.

[1479] Vertigo did see the first run of Vertigo.

[1480] Maybe my favorite Hitchcock, movie speaking of Hitchcock.

[1481] You know Verdigo?

[1482] I don't, it's not my favorite.

[1483] Really?

[1484] Yeah, I'm sorry.

[1485] Bernard Herman does the score.

[1486] Wonderful music from that.

[1487] But why don't you like Vertigo?

[1488] I didn't say I didn't like it.

[1489] I just have the Hitchcock films.

[1490] What's your favorite Hitchcock?

[1491] Wow, it's got to be psycho.

[1492] And I also like Strangers on a train.

[1493] Oh, that's, that's, that's, that's, yesterday.

[1494] Yeah, that's interesting.

[1495] Farley Granger.

[1496] Farley.

[1497] Granger was in that.

[1498] I met Farley Granger.

[1499] You can't just say a name twice and have it have more impact.

[1500] Yes, he can.

[1501] Farley Granger.

[1502] Farley Granger.

[1503] Farley Granger.

[1504] I think he's proven that he can't.

[1505] It would be great.

[1506] I think you'd be a great prosecuting attorney because you'd say, you know, the killer is, of course, Steve Miller.

[1507] Steve Miller!

[1508] And people would be like, well, he's got to be guilty.

[1509] He said his name twice.

[1510] Steve Miller from the band?

[1511] Yeah.

[1512] Well, I just threw a name out there.

[1513] Oh, yeah.

[1514] That's a common name.

[1515] He's not suspicious.

[1516] in any way.

[1517] He's the gangster of love.

[1518] He's got to be guilty.

[1519] Oh, God.

[1520] That's true.

[1521] That's true.

[1522] I stand by that.

[1523] What were we talking about?

[1524] Oh, yeah.

[1525] What were we talking about?

[1526] Who's name?

[1527] You were listening?

[1528] Oh, Farley Granger.

[1529] Yeah.

[1530] Yeah.

[1531] You know who introduced me to Farley Granger?

[1532] Shelly Winters, whom I met on this movie called Next Stop Grinch Village that Paul Mazurski had directed in 1975.

[1533] Brian, I came out here, and we were kind of palsy.

[1534] Shelly Winters.

[1535] Lovely woman.

[1536] She was lovely.

[1537] Wow.

[1538] She was on our show in the early years.

[1539] and I loved her because I knew her mostly from Poseid Adventure.

[1540] Oh, that's fantastic.

[1541] You know, she was in the Poseid Adventure, but she was also in Lolita.

[1542] She's great.

[1543] Oh, she's great in Lolita.

[1544] She's great in Lola.

[1545] Place in the Sun with Montgomery, Clifton, and Liz Taylor.

[1546] Spectacular.

[1547] Hey, did you ever meet Liz Taylor?

[1548] I did not meet Liz Taylor, no. I knew Liz Taylor.

[1549] Oh, really?

[1550] Yeah, yeah.

[1551] What was she like?

[1552] Spectacular.

[1553] Spectacular.

[1554] She, yeah, she was one of those people there's a there's a there's a it all depends on when you get into show business uh and i you know you need to get in at the i i missed you know i i shouldn't say that i got to meet all these amazing people who then passed away uh it makes me sound like a killer i met them and then they were gone suspicious eh but uh but before that but i will say that um 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.

[1555] Wisely, very wisely.

[1556] No. No. Right.

[1557] Who were you talking?

[1558] Oh, so Shelly Winters, who was in place in the son.

[1559] And also, what did she win the Oscar for as supporting actress, as they were called in those days?

[1560] What did she win for?

[1561] She won for.

[1562] Why did you become an evil German scientist?

[1563] What did she win for?

[1564] You will tell us, but she won.

[1565] I, just let me. You will not leave.

[1566] until you tell us What Shirley Winter's fun for?

[1567] Supporting actress I teach how schlichten Glein Schlacht Lodenstein -Sliekenblatt What was it?

[1568] Very good.

[1569] Patch of blue Oh, okay.

[1570] Patch of blue with Elizabeth Hartman and Sidney Poitier.

[1571] The prisoner says, Patch of blue and he goes, Ah!

[1572] Okay, you're coming.

[1573] You're the first.

[1574] I'm putting that down because You can go Hit us Did you Did you park You know in our lot Because we validate Yeah I did Okay Well The guy Completely loses his ferv Patch of blue Oh okay So You go out the way you came Just take the elevator I'm crying 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 dinner all in the um Sydney Poitiers category in any case so Shelley winters took me to uh mousseau and franks for the first time oh my god that is the ultimate me and her and uh farley granger oh my god yeah she said get the sand dabs sand dabs are they're known for their sand dabs nobody else served sand dabb you know what is it at musso franks you can get the sand dabbs still a fish kind of a fish that you get it's been Fried often.

[1575] The fried sandibs kind of a soul, a variation of soul, I do believe.

[1576] I just, those, I mean, I live for those experiences.

[1577] 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.

[1578] I was at some restaurant once, and Warren Beatty was at another table, 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.

[1579] Yeah.

[1580] And then I'm sitting there with him and I just can't believe it.

[1581] I'm supposed to play it cool.

[1582] But then you can't because it's too big a moment, just too big.

[1583] Totally amazing.

[1584] Splendor in the grass.

[1585] Even before Bonnie and Clyde, my parents and I went to, we were in New York City.

[1586] And I think we went to Radio City musical, saw the Rockettes and saw Splendor in the grass.

[1587] with him and I think maybe Natalie Wood I saw the Rock Cats but I was 50 yards away I was in shrubbery just peering out Such a creep Up in a catwalk I'm the only guy that watches the Rock Cats from a distance Peering through woodshed 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 got to wait till all of them come out together into that field and I'll be behind those shrubs over there.

[1588] What?

[1589] How are you going to get them all out here?

[1590] We'll have a salt lick.

[1591] We'll get them out there.

[1592] A salt lick.

[1593] You get it up.

[1594] Look, we, I have to wrap this up.

[1595] No, you mustn't.

[1596] I beg you.

[1597] I beg you.

[1598] He always expects a five -hour podcast.

[1599] We can do this.

[1600] It's okay.

[1601] Okay, we'll do it.

[1602] We all need to be rehydrated.

[1603] No, I just want to, it's, my God.

[1604] I want to get the word out.

[1605] Because this podcast, I'm not going to brag.

[1606] You can brag.

[1607] A lot of people hear this podcast.

[1608] 43 million, I believe, is the viewership is the Wad.

[1609] In Hawaii alone.

[1610] And so what I'm saying, that's just on Maui.

[1611] Everybody listens five times.

[1612] Yeah, I read 43 million.

[1613] You have a very successful podcast.

[1614] It's not for me to say.

[1615] Let's not fact check that.

[1616] It's 43 million.

[1617] It's just say, yeah, no reason to look into it.

[1618] But the point is, a lot of people hear it.

[1619] 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.

[1620] That's big.

[1621] No one else would watch it otherwise.

[1622] I appreciate you saying that.

[1623] Because that's what they've sent.

[1624] But that's what I represent.

[1625] You know, I represent a lovely company of investors and people.

[1626] All right.

[1627] Let's not try this into a money thing.

[1628] No one.

[1629] No. Emotionally, emotionally they invested.

[1630] Colin Travara, the director.

[1631] Steven Spielberg is still at the top of the pyramid.

[1632] Yes, Godfathering this all the way through.

[1633] Well, let's be honest.

[1634] You are the butts and seats of this movie.

[1635] Yeah.

[1636] I'm sorry, I was going to say it.

[1637] That's what I, that's how I felt.

[1638] And as much as everyone else was spectacular, but you and one of the dinosaurs really, I don't remember which one.

[1639] It's one of the velociraptors.

[1640] The velociraptors.

[1641] It'd be great if you got everybody back except one velociraptor held out.

[1642] I was like, fuck it.

[1643] The Robert Duvall.

[1644] Yeah.

[1645] I was going to say, Robert DeVold.

[1646] Godfather three.

[1647] Yeah, like, fuck it.

[1648] You meet my price, so I'm not showing up.

[1649] That's right.

[1650] Can I just take a second to share my notes for this episode of the podcast?

[1651] Perfection, erotic, ideal.

[1652] There we go.

[1653] That was just what, wow.

[1654] That really was.

[1655] Yeah, I got to, we should do.

[1656] I have, we have many more hours of fun.

[1657] You know, you have to come back because my time with you is serious.

[1658] I'm going to be sincere, and it's hard for me to do that.

[1659] But you're one of my favorite people.

[1660] You really are.

[1661] You do me. And I just absolutely love talking to you.

[1662] 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.

[1663] And it means a lot to me. And so when I heard that you were going to come in and inaugurate our new studio, my head blew up.

[1664] It exploded.

[1665] Well, me too.

[1666] I've been looking forward to this terrifically.

[1667] And these are my favorite.

[1668] These are peak experiences for me. And people come up to me on the street anecdotally and say, you on Conan, you and Conan.

[1669] You and Conan.

[1670] See, we've got to do something.

[1671] They do.

[1672] Well, I think so, too.

[1673] I've been screen tested, and apparently it's not good.

[1674] It won't be a film, but maybe an animated project.

[1675] Something where my face is mostly hidden.

[1676] And you're singing authentically a lot.

[1677] I like that.

[1678] And I just saw a documentary about or some kind of thing about talk show, the history of talk shows and the current.

[1679] Did you see this one?

[1680] There are many of them.

[1681] I don't watch those.

[1682] I love them all.

[1683] And this one particularly said, here's why amongst the current crop in the last few decades, Conan O 'Brien reigns supreme.

[1684] He's cracked the code and why he's at the pinnacle of what this needs to be right now, et cetera, et cetera.

[1685] Well, I saw it.

[1686] Now, I'm not uncomfortable.

[1687] I just don't believe that that exists.

[1688] They're talking about this Conan O 'Brien?

[1689] No, he makes a, and he makes a, it's an Irish, it's an Irish Conan O 'Brien.

[1690] This guy makes a very good case for exactly why.

[1691] It's a very erudite and...

[1692] There is a guy named Conrad O 'Ryan in Dublin who's huge.

[1693] And he's really cracked the code.

[1694] That's very cool.

[1695] Well, it's true.

[1696] It's true.

[1697] Well, Jeff...

[1698] And you all together, I mean, I'm really starstruck with all of you.

[1699] Oh, come on.

[1700] Stop it.

[1701] Oh, Moxessian.

[1702] You pronounced my name right.

[1703] There should be a perfume, not Obsessian, but Mofsessian.

[1704] I'm wearing the new...

[1705] Mofsessian.

[1706] Oh, my God.

[1707] It's going to smell like garlic.

[1708] Yeah, you're going to say...

[1709] And goarly, and goarly.

[1710] Is it, what's, how do you say, what's that vowel exactly?

[1711] Is it, gore?

[1712] Gour.

[1713] Gourly.

[1714] Yeah, although when I went to Ireland, they said it's girly.

[1715] Ah, curly.

[1716] Is it really?

[1717] Well, they were just saying, you seem kind of girly.

[1718] Yeah, I think so.

[1719] Oh, you seem girly to me. I said it's gory, because, no, it's girly.

[1720] Oh, trust me. We say you're walking down the street.

[1721] And it was girly.

[1722] Well, you two, you three have made me very, very happy for many hours, and we'll continue to be.

[1723] You have delighted us, and you're coming back.

[1724] I want to.

[1725] I want to, along with, you know, I've seen every single Schlansky.

[1726] Oh, my God.

[1727] Every single Schlansky.

[1728] Really?

[1729] Really?

[1730] No, we laugh out loud over and over again.

[1731] I see them multiple times.

[1732] No, no, and it's all true.

[1733] That's the one thing.

[1734] I've been in the darkest, darkest, most remote corners of the world, and people will literally come out from behind the rock and say, Schlansky, is he being real?

[1735] And I'll go, yes, he's being real.

[1736] And then they go back under the rock.

[1737] You're never funny or when he's driving you mad.

[1738] It's just great.

[1739] Oh, my God.

[1740] Well, anyway, you got to get him back.

[1741] You know what?

[1742] I could go on.

[1743] Mr. Goldblum, Mr. Jeff Goldblum, you're the finest man that ever lived.

[1744] Conan Christopher.

[1745] O 'Brien.

[1746] Yes, you are the finest man. That's overlived.

[1747] No, you're better.

[1748] Sorry.

[1749] You're better.

[1750] I'm taking you to a sizzler.

[1751] We're going on.

[1752] Let's go.

[1753] Langustino.

[1754] Langustinos.

[1755] Goodbye.

[1756] Oh, my God.

[1757] Oh, God.

[1758] We have to just take a second here and wallow in the joyousness of Jeff Goldblum.

[1759] And we never do this.

[1760] We talk to the guests.

[1761] Then we move on with matters.

[1762] But Jeff Goldblum came in here.

[1763] He is just an energy field.

[1764] He is calming, but also.

[1765] innervating at the same time.

[1766] He, you know, he electrifies, solidifies, there's no compromise.

[1767] I have real nice thighs.

[1768] He's, he's absolutely.

[1769] No, no, he's incredible.

[1770] He does it.

[1771] He's one of my, I got to say.

[1772] 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 of Sessi, and he knew you as people.

[1773] As human beings.

[1774] Yeah, and, you know, a lot of celebrities, they come in and they're like, oh my God, it's Conan.

[1775] It's Conan.

[1776] Oh, my God, oh my God, oh, my God.

[1777] I've never heard that.

[1778] I've never heard anybody say, oh, my God, it's Conan.

[1779] I know.

[1780] I keep trying to get them to say it.

[1781] I know.

[1782] I have a cue card I hold up.

[1783] I think Cato Caelin was the only one.

[1784] Cato Caelin was said it, yeah, but he was testifying.

[1785] But, no, but.

[1786] That's not funny.

[1787] But anyway, no. Please, murder.

[1788] When time passes, murders are okay.

[1789] Okay.

[1790] It's laugh bad.

[1791] Anyway, my point is that, you know, he saw me as a human being.

[1792] not as some godlike creature.

[1793] And he was so thrilled to see you guys as well.

[1794] Oh, man. He's a human electrolyte.

[1795] He just gives you energy like you were saying.

[1796] And we know that he listens to all these segments and stuff.

[1797] So this is as much for him, how much we loved him.

[1798] Jeff, we absolutely love you.

[1799] We know that he listens to the podcast.

[1800] So unless he's an incredible con artist who paid someone to listen because he said, I can't, I can't listen to that crap.

[1801] Oh, no. No, unless he paid someone to listen and take notes.

[1802] You can put a test in there.

[1803] Jeff, if you're listening this, to prove it, come over to my house and watch some James Bond movies with me. Oh, Matt, that got sad, quick.

[1804] Just please come over.

[1805] Yeah, I know.

[1806] That's better.

[1807] Do you have friends?

[1808] Oh, God, no. You don't?

[1809] No, not a one.

[1810] 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.

[1811] 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.

[1812] Yeah, I'm a human being.

[1813] Well, I don't know.

[1814] I've never heard you reference a friend.

[1815] Do you really think he didn't have any friends?

[1816] I don't know.

[1817] You know that I have friends.

[1818] Well, now Jeff Goldblum's my friend, so I do have a friend.

[1819] Oh, well, now I'm not sure either.

[1820] Huh?

[1821] You're not sure?

[1822] Jeff, come on, let's prove these knuckle heads wrong.

[1823] Your friends are all people you saw on TV and movie when you were kids in your mind.

[1824] I'm E .T. Last night, I had dinner with Gumbie.

[1825] Gumbie?

[1826] This is supposed to be a Jeff Goldblum praise session.

[1827] Yeah, that's true.

[1828] I love him so much.

[1829] Yeah.

[1830] He doesn't have to know who we are, me and Matt, and he does.

[1831] That says a lot about someone.

[1832] Let me ask you a question.

[1833] Ladies love that man. Love him.

[1834] And I understand because, you know, again, we have a similar frame.

[1835] Okay, don't do that.

[1836] Don't do that.

[1837] I don't understand.

[1838] No, but when I don't understand.

[1839] No, I can handle it.

[1840] I can handle it.

[1841] Why is it that there's a fork in the road?

[1842] Confidence.

[1843] Swagger.

[1844] Yeah.

[1845] Ease.

[1846] You know how, like, at a time, Porsche and Volkswagen had the same engine?

[1847] Mm -hmm.

[1848] That's the difference.

[1849] It's also, it's like, he's chill.

[1850] No, I can handle it.

[1851] I really want to know.

[1852] He is a chill person who seems very comfortable in his skin and very confident.

[1853] Not that you're not, but it seems like he's been that way much longer than you have.

[1854] I feel like he went through a very, like, awkward phase where you were like, oh, I don't like myself.

[1855] No. Was that?

[1856] That was.

[1857] 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.

[1858] Oh, me too.

[1859] You know, and I'm being completely honest.

[1860] He has, he does have an ease and he's always in the center.

[1861] He's always centered.

[1862] I think that's incredible to be centered like that all the time.

[1863] And he's like a tuning fork that's perfectly vibrating with the universe.

[1864] And I feel like I'm a, you know, like a...

[1865] You're just a fork.

[1866] Yeah, like a fork that was.

[1867] eating clams, but someone didn't wash it afterwards, and then it fell in some sand.

[1868] And it's got some clam juice and sand on it.

[1869] That's pretty good, yeah.

[1870] Do you think we like him because he's nice to us?

[1871] Oh, right.

[1872] Maybe if you tried being nice to me and Matt, then we would like, Mom, maybe still not then.

[1873] You got a paycheck, right?

[1874] That's not being nice to someone.

[1875] You got a paycheck.

[1876] I'm your employee.

[1877] That doesn't mean you're nice to me. It's kind of worse because it's like you're paying her to be belligerent.

[1878] The fact that you even thought about.

[1879] Do you do okay with me?

[1880] I do, yeah, I do.

[1881] Would you say that, I mean, are there a lot of other people just sending you money besides me?

[1882] Nobody else is.

[1883] Okay, then I'm a good guy and I'm your friend.

[1884] No, you can't do it.

[1885] That doesn't sign how nice this works.

[1886] It's not transaction.

[1887] Jeff Goldblum asks nothing and gives everything.

[1888] You are transduction.

[1889] Why are you pointing at me?

[1890] You profit from me as well.

[1891] In a roundabout way I do, yes.

[1892] In a roundabout way.

[1893] Full disclosure.

[1894] Okay, I didn't realize you were just here in a voluntary basis.

[1895] No, I've seen you driving, since the podcast blew up, and suddenly you're driving a Bentley.

[1896] No. Yes, you're driving a Bentley on, you know, just on Hollywood Boulevard.

[1897] Yeah.

[1898] You know.

[1899] Classic girls.

[1900] Yeah.

[1901] And, oh, your license plate suddenly Pod King?

[1902] And you're driving around?

[1903] You guys have both.

[1904] Pod King is seven lines.

[1905] And your kids wear these, like, crazy satin outfits that you have handmade for them now that the podcast blew up.

[1906] And so both of you have, your lives have been changed.

[1907] by knowing me, which means you have to like me. You have to.

[1908] You know that's not how it works.

[1909] It should work that way.

[1910] You can buy friendship.

[1911] That's not how it works.

[1912] Yes, you can.

[1913] No, you can.

[1914] That's why I moved to Los Angeles.

[1915] You can.

[1916] You can.

[1917] Sonia and I are friends.

[1918] Do you think all of my friends, I genuinely like me?

[1919] 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.

[1920] I wonder why we like Jeff Goldblum more than you.

[1921] I still don't understand it.

[1922] He's my favorite.

[1923] favorite tall person and he just exudes this like sense of ease and you know what he doesn't have to pay me for me to like him yeah and that says a lot hmm this is interesting i have to look more into this into friendship just into the concept of being nice he leads with love you lead with fear yes no Stalin did that yeah i know he control i mean Stalin stolen Joseph Stalin oh oh so now we're gonna rip on Joseph Stalin.

[1924] You don't, I love how there's no sacred, there's no sacred cows anymore.

[1925] Everybody gets torn down.

[1926] Everybody gets torn down.

[1927] Not Jeff Goldblum.

[1928] And now it's Joseph Stalin.

[1929] Jeff Globet.

[1930] Jesus, no one's safe in this hypersensitive era.

[1931] Jeff Goldblum is.

[1932] An angel.

[1933] He's an absolute angel.

[1934] He's such a sweet person.

[1935] He might be an alien.

[1936] He is, you know, we should stick the landing on this.

[1937] He is such an unusually, he's an unusual person.

[1938] There's no one else quite like him.

[1939] 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.

[1940] He brings an energy that immediately transforms the experience.

[1941] 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.

[1942] Yeah.

[1943] And he remembers everybody.

[1944] He's just, he like, when he looks at you, he looks at you and he knows your name and he remembers you.

[1945] And that goes a long way.

[1946] Yeah, but I don't, again, I have a list of all the employees.

[1947] I can consult.

[1948] I don't think you even know my name.

[1949] I can go to Jeff Ross now.

[1950] I don't need to.

[1951] 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.

[1952] And they'll be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[1953] Yeah, yeah.

[1954] Anyway, tell him I wished him a happy Christmas.

[1955] I got to get out of here.

[1956] My helicopter's waiting.

[1957] It's me. Wait, what?

[1958] Yeah, my helicopter's waiting.

[1959] That's your helicopter.

[1960] God, your helicopter is ill. Yeah.

[1961] Wait, how does the helicopter?

[1962] No, but mine is different.

[1963] Mine runs on pure malice.

[1964] It's very eco -friendly.

[1965] It's also super pervy somehow.

[1966] You're a helicopter.

[1967] Wow.

[1968] Mr. Brian, you must really hate people today.

[1969] We've got 600 ,000 miles.

[1970] I just get in it and put an electrode on my head.

[1971] Who are you mad at?

[1972] And it leaves a noxious cloud of just pure bad intent behind me. Metaphorically, that's what's going on here.

[1973] All right.

[1974] Well, anyway, Jeff Goldblum, if you're listening right now, naked in the Lotus position as you meditate, as he does every night.

[1975] We love you.

[1976] We do.

[1977] We love you.

[1978] See it next week.

[1979] At my house for James Brown.

[1980] Okay.

[1981] Let's cut it there.

[1982] Conan O 'Brien needs a friend with Conan O 'Brien, Sonam of Sessian, and Matt Gourley.

[1983] Produced by me, Matt Gourley.

[1984] Executive produced by Adam Sacks, Joanna Solitara.

[1985] and Jeff Ross at Team Coco and Colin Anderson and Cody Fisher at Earwolf.

[1986] Theme song by The White Stripes.

[1987] Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino.

[1988] Take it away, Jimmy.

[1989] Our supervising producer is Aaron Blair and our associate talent producer is Jennifer Samples.

[1990] Engineering by Will Beckton, additional production support by Mars Melnik, talent booking by Paula Davis, Gina Batista, and Britt Kahn.

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