Kurt and Wyatt Russell Live from SiriusXM Miami Studios

[0] Fawn is here, hear the yell, back to school, ring the bell, brand new shoes, walking blues, climb the fence, books and pens, I can tell that we are going to be friends.

[1] Yes, I can tell that we are going to be friends.

[2] Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Conan O 'Brien.

[3] How you all doing?

[4] Are you all from Miami or people from Miami?

[5] Okay, come on.

[6] You can say yes.

[7] Don't be ashamed.

[8] I'll tell you why I'm thrilled to be here.

[9] The humidity.

[10] I got off the plane and my hair expanded.

[11] Fantastic.

[12] It comes to life in humidity.

[13] In L .A., it's always dying.

[14] My hair is always like, I will kill myself.

[15] And I got off the plane here, and it's just fantastic.

[16] I've never seen it this high.

[17] I woke up this morning.

[18] It's super high.

[19] I don't know why.

[20] I honestly don't know why I'm doing this movement.

[21] Miami Conan.

[22] This isn't helping anything at all.

[23] Anyone going to be hitting the clubs tonight?

[24] Because I hear that's what you're supposed to do in Miami.

[25] Are we hitting the clubs?

[26] What the hell is wrong with you?

[27] I'm in Miami and it's Art Basil and I get the library crowd.

[28] No, we'll be reading and I tell you.

[29] Did you say it's Tuesday?

[30] That's why you can't...

[31] I thought people went to the clubs no matter if you're like someone who goes to the clubs.

[32] Don't you go on Tuesday also?

[33] I've never been to the clubs.

[34] When I say go to the clubs, I don't know what I'm talking about.

[35] Is it clear that I've never been to the clubs?

[36] Thank you.

[37] Thank you for your sad, embarrassed silence.

[38] Nothing says, I don't know.

[39] I just think we have to do something tonight.

[40] I don't know what I'm going to do.

[41] Because we're here through tomorrow night.

[42] So I'm going to have to do something.

[43] So maybe if we all got together as a group, we could hit the clubs, you know?

[44] Make our own club.

[45] Make our own club.

[46] Is this, these movements I'm doing now, this isn't going to go not so good.

[47] You're in the front row.

[48] You're sitting next to this gentleman in an orange wig.

[49] and you're just looking very sad when I dance like this.

[50] Come on, if you were in the clubs and you didn't know me, I wasn't famous, but you saw this guy in the corner doing this, intrigued or horrified?

[51] A little bit of both.

[52] Yes!

[53] That's what I was going for.

[54] That's exactly what I was going for.

[55] God bless you.

[56] All right.

[57] We're going to get started here.

[58] I'm going to bring out my assistant, Mr. David Hopping.

[59] Let's get David Hopping out here.

[60] David Hopping!

[61] You joining me up here?

[62] We go up here.

[63] Now, let me explain.

[64] Usually Sonam of Sassian assists me. She has little twins.

[65] She does.

[66] And I said, she said she can't come to Miami.

[67] But my real assistant now is David Hopping.

[68] Because Sona doesn't do shit.

[69] She never did shit.

[70] And now that she has babies, she really doesn't do anything.

[71] She still does some stuff.

[72] No, she does absolutely nothing.

[73] She does absolutely nothing except say, where's my check?

[74] And then you just keep giving it.

[75] I keep paying her.

[76] I pay her and I pay her and I pay her because I love her.

[77] I'm trying to figure out how to get to that level of your assistant.

[78] Yeah.

[79] Yeah.

[80] So can we hire another assistant?

[81] Yeah.

[82] If you had an assistant, if you hire an assistant, then you could goof off.

[83] Great.

[84] Who wants to be Conan's assistant?

[85] Yeah.

[86] Wow.

[87] That's a lot of hands going up.

[88] Now, that means you'd be subject to a lot of passive aggression.

[89] Yeah.

[90] Do you guys listen to the podcast fairly regularly or have you heard of the podcast?

[91] Okay, so then you know that, yeah, I'm no treat to work for.

[92] Because I'm a very needy person.

[93] I think I have a good soul, but I'm a needy person.

[94] But then on trips like this, Conan pays for everything.

[95] So that part's really nice.

[96] Yeah, that wasn't clear to me until we got here.

[97] I thought this was like paid by serious and they said, no, Conan, you're paying for this.

[98] Yeah, you're just...

[99] Let's visit the fact that we're here.

[100] in Miami, we came from L .A. It's, and I'm wearing I'm wearing denim.

[101] I'm wearing a denim jacket and I don't think that's the right clothing to be wearing in this temperature and you are wearing like an LLB.

[102] It's a very thick shirt.

[103] Yeah.

[104] You look like you're headed out in November in Maine.

[105] Yeah.

[106] So why are you dressed that way?

[107] I just liked this shirt.

[108] Yeah.

[109] Okay.

[110] But Blay's ready.

[111] Look at him over there.

[112] Blay.

[113] Let's get here for Blay who ready for Miami.

[114] If you cross your eyes, you could see a sailboat.

[115] We should go get matching shirts.

[116] Yeah.

[117] Did you wear that shirt?

[118] Because you rarely wear any shirt with a button.

[119] You usually wear a really stupid t -shirt.

[120] No, and I meant that in a nice way.

[121] That wasn't an insult.

[122] Well, I will say last night, you know, we got in late and we grabbed some food.

[123] And I made the mistake, you know, when you're on the plane, you want to be comfortable.

[124] And I made the mistake of wearing a t -shirt and had a dinosaur reading a book.

[125] And I will never hear the end of it for the rest of my life.

[126] Well, you always dress that way, and you're 72 years old.

[127] I'm very old.

[128] And you clean up nice.

[129] You're a good -looking 72 -year -old, but it's this generation that refuses to ever dress like an adult.

[130] So I think when I go and I have my funeral, you're going to show up in a who farted t -shirt.

[131] And like a hat with like a propeller on it because it's ironic.

[132] Possibly.

[133] Quite possibly.

[134] Yeah.

[135] Yeah, I just think, you know, we're down in Miami.

[136] I wanted to look nice and sew flowers.

[137] Now, I've asked these people, and I think they're a very attractive crowd.

[138] There's a very good -looking group, and I just assumed they'd be hitting the clubs.

[139] And when I said, hey, I guess I'll see you all in the clubs tonight, I got nothing.

[140] Because this is a group that I think just doesn't go out.

[141] Well, if I may be so bold, maybe they are going to hit the clubs, but they don't want you to know that they're going to get the clubs.

[142] I think that's a terrible assumption.

[143] Okay, sorry.

[144] This young woman here saw me dance.

[145] and I have to admit you didn't seem thrilled about it but I think over time that dance would start to seem cool to you She's trying to leave She's actually trying to leave right now She's desperate to get out of here Now those of you who didn't wear a Conan wig today You feel a little shame I mean this guy went all the way With the Conan wig And the rest of you probably have to feel right now Like man I thought I was a Conan fan And this guy Where did you get that?

[146] wig, by the way.

[147] What grave did you dig up?

[148] You got it on Amazon?

[149] They didn't have, I couldn't give my hair like the poof, so I bought a wig.

[150] But I lost a bet against my late brother.

[151] So which one, whoever gets to see you first in person, where's a dumb wig?

[152] Oh my God.

[153] That's incredible.

[154] Wait, this was a, and your brother passed?

[155] Yeah, two years ago.

[156] I'm very sorry about that.

[157] Yeah.

[158] And was he a fan as well?

[159] Yeah, we, we both saw him like almost 20 years ago my mom would come to my room like at midnight yeah what are you guys doing are you doing are you like smoking pot and we're like no we're watching conan which is which is worse way way worse it's so much worse it's so much more mind altering she thought you were the guy from the lucky charms commercial what was your brother's your late brother's name uh christopher all right christopher i'll be thinking about christopher today he's here in spirit and i'm so glad that you were able to be here.

[160] Thank you so much.

[161] That's really beautiful and I'm glad that I ruined your minds when you were, when you were children.

[162] Parents hated me because kids would stay up and say, we've got to watch Conan and it ruined everything.

[163] My mom still doesn't understand you at all.

[164] Your mother still doesn't understand?

[165] No, she's like, what do you see in him?

[166] It's like, well, thank you.

[167] Thank you for that.

[168] Thank you for that kick to the stomach.

[169] You know what?

[170] I have to say, that's what my father says.

[171] My father doesn't get it.

[172] He's like, what are you talking about?

[173] But, you know, over time, over time, I'll get to your mom as well.

[174] Yeah, my, after he passed, I couldn't watch Conan for a while because there was a lot to me. Oh, I can see that.

[175] And my mom, I woke up one day and she was watching your show.

[176] She was trying to understand it.

[177] So I sat next to her.

[178] It's not, I love that it's like, I'm going to try one more time to see why anyone likes this idiot.

[179] This is fantastic.

[180] So I sat next her.

[181] She was watching the baseball one, which is my favorite.

[182] The old -timey baseball one is a classic, yeah.

[183] And she looks at me at the end, and she's like, why?

[184] Why?

[185] All right, I'm going to call your mom.

[186] Are you sure?

[187] I'll call your mom.

[188] Maybe after the show, I'll call your mom, okay?

[189] And we'll have a conversation.

[190] What's her first name?

[191] Lesbia.

[192] Lesbia.

[193] Okay, I'm going to call her, and I'm going to convince her that I'm the greatest comedian that ever lived.

[194] Please do.

[195] There's going to be some money exchanged, so.

[196] We need it.

[197] All right.

[198] Well, we should get on with the show.

[199] We have a terrific show today.

[200] I just go right into it, right?

[201] I think I do.

[202] Oh, wait, these are not my cards.

[203] These are my cards.

[204] Ah, there we go.

[205] Secret cards.

[206] You get on the plane, you do a lot of cocaine.

[207] Come on.

[208] We've all done it.

[209] What the hell was that?

[210] I hated that.

[211] Nixon, yeah.

[212] That's Nixon on cocaine.

[213] Let's do another line.

[214] I love these guys.

[215] My guest today are a father -son duo who are currently starring in the new Apple TV series.

[216] Monarch Legacy of Monsters.

[217] I am thrilled they are here today.

[218] Ladies and gentlemen, Kurt and Wyatt Russell.

[219] Let's get him out here.

[220] Hi, my name's Kurt Russell.

[221] Yeah, so far so good.

[222] And I feel totally justified about being Conan.

[223] Hey, I like that.

[224] You like that?

[225] It was like it was in question.

[226] Yes.

[227] But you stuck with it over the years.

[228] We just talked to an audience member who said his mom, just doesn't get it.

[229] Now your turn, sir.

[230] Hi, my name is Wyatt Russell, and I feel a strong sense of impending doom about being done.

[231] Nobody's making out of this room.

[232] It's actually an escape room.

[233] You guys are fuck.

[234] This should be an escape room.

[235] We've already had like three audience members to try to get out.

[236] Try to get out of here.

[237] And it's like, I just, and you're like, did you know what's?

[238] No, no, I just want away from this man. I hope you like this room because we're going to be here for a week.

[239] We have a fan here who's wearing a tribute Conan wig right there.

[240] Boy, that's close.

[241] It's very close.

[242] Thanks a lot, Kurt.

[243] Hey, hey, I want to meet up with Kurt, Russell, and Miami and have him insult me. That's one of my lifelong dreams.

[244] You know, I have to say, you have this incredible movie career.

[245] You've made so many different types of movie.

[246] Like, you've inhabited more genres than just about anyone I can think of.

[247] There's no clear, like, pathline in your career, is there?

[248] It's just, you've made all these iconic movies.

[249] It's amazing.

[250] Keep going.

[251] You're doing it.

[252] And that's all our time.

[253] No, you know, I've always been thrilled to talk to you because...

[254] I've always enjoyed you.

[255] We were just talking outside.

[256] You're actually funny, and you're fun and you're nice.

[257] I don't know.

[258] You're a really good guy.

[259] You're actually funny.

[260] And really good guy.

[261] I want that on my gravestone.

[262] actually funny but you know what's amazing is that uh i was introduced to your son a couple of years ago i didn't even realize it was your son uh i'm watching one of my favorite shows is black mirror and i'm watching this black mirror episode starring this young actor who i didn't recognize big beard and uh it is a acting tour to force and i watched it i was like who is that guy that guy is absolutely fantastic.

[263] And then I find out it's Wyatt.

[264] It's your boy.

[265] And I'm like, that guy killed it.

[266] You absolutely killed it.

[267] And I thought, and what's interesting is neither one of you started out thinking you'd be an actor.

[268] You both started out as athletes.

[269] Yeah.

[270] Who got injured.

[271] And then it started with you.

[272] You played baseball.

[273] Yeah.

[274] You were a child actor.

[275] And then you said, no, it's going to be baseball.

[276] Well, the only reason I got into acting was because my dad wasn't, I did everything my dad did.

[277] My dad was an actor.

[278] He looked like he was having a fun life and I wanted to get some bicycles for my sister and myself and I had a paper route and then I started like thank you listening see he does everything could you adjust my lighting as well absolutely anyway I had the opportunity to like you know going on some interviews and stuff and I got a job and the the minimum pay scale was enough to pay for those two bicycles so I asked him I I said, was this pretty much it?

[279] And he said, yeah.

[280] I said, well, you know, he said, if you want to do it, call up, call Hilda up.

[281] He said, my dad's agent, call her up and tell her you want to, you know, keep doing it.

[282] So I did.

[283] And that was, you know, that was why I got into it.

[284] I was playing baseball.

[285] And then, yeah, I mean, that was sort of what I thought I was going to do for sure and didn't really think about acting as something that I was going to continue with.

[286] I did like writing a lot.

[287] I liked acting.

[288] It was really fun.

[289] And the money in it was just sort of unbelievable for what you're doing.

[290] You're having fun.

[291] You're, you know, just having a good time.

[292] And then I guess I was when I got hurt out of baseball, I played three years of pro ball and then I, I, uh, and I was doing well.

[293] Um, so I was a big surprise to me. And then I, um, you know, I said, well, what am I going to do really?

[294] You know, after crying for three days.

[295] And I said, you know, I guess, well, maybe I'll, you know, stick with that.

[296] I can always do that.

[297] And then I realized, you know, if I'm going to do this, I got to be really interesting and I'm going to have to do this my way.

[298] And my way was to try to create characters, you know, memorable characters where you said, I don't remember that, that character or that character.

[299] in really fun stories or great stories.

[300] And I just got lucky had the opportunity to work with some really great directors and some great material and then still doing it.

[301] Who's the one, do you think that follows, is Snake Pliskin the one that follows you around the most?

[302] Or is it, you've done so many different things that you've never know when you bump into someone, is it going to be one of the Tarantino movies?

[303] Is it going to be Snake Pliskin?

[304] Is it going to be...

[305] It just changes.

[306] And the biggest one I've ever had is Santa Claus.

[307] I mean, that was Santa Claus on Netflix was just, everybody saw it.

[308] I mean, it was really fun to do.

[309] something I always wanted to do.

[310] Kind of fun to go from Snake to Santa Claus, you know, over your career.

[311] They're basically the same character.

[312] I've always thought of them.

[313] What is interesting about it is living in the family that we live in, obviously, you know, Goldie's an icon, and Kate, you know, nominated for an Academy Award, like, second crack out of the box, and Oliver Hudson's done more work than all of us combined.

[314] Right.

[315] And always there was this thing that, well, we used to, not kiddingly, I was serious about it.

[316] It's one of the best actor in a family is a hockey player.

[317] and along came the hockey player okay so you you grow up and you think i'm not going to be an actor right you weren't you were interested in that you were interested in hockey yeah well it's like you've you've kid you've got your kids like don't want anything to do with the show business it's so funny that you say that because my boy becket when he was about six because i was trying to kept kept them away from what i did um because i was deeply ashamed of it and I mean, this guy's cool.

[318] What am I doing?

[319] But my son came and saw me do a big show like at the Beacon Theater.

[320] I mean, I don't know, 2 ,500 or 3 ,000 people, you know, crowd going wild, really good hot show.

[321] My son, my wife took my son, was about six, and he saw it.

[322] And then they're leaving the theater, and she's holding his hand.

[323] And she said, what did you think?

[324] And he said, when I grow up, I want to do something where there's no stage and no audience.

[325] And he was basically saying what that guy is doing, I want to do the exact opposite.

[326] So he's really into computers.

[327] He's a really smart kid.

[328] He's going to have, I think he's a, he's a brilliant guy.

[329] He's going to have a great life.

[330] Yeah.

[331] And he's not.

[332] He's, he appreciates what I do, but he's like, uh -huh.

[333] No, not me. Right.

[334] So when you were a kid, that's what it was.

[335] Because I, you know, you see what it is on screen and it's fun and whatever.

[336] But when you're like six years old and you go to a Kings game and that energy is directed towards your parents who are just your parents.

[337] It's like really off -putting and scary in a way.

[338] You're six or five or whatever it is.

[339] And I grew up with that and I was like, I just want to watch a Kings game with my dad.

[340] But you can't.

[341] And so that really seeped in and I was like, well, I just don't want to do that.

[342] It doesn't, it's not something that interests me. At that time, also, you don't understand like what an artistic avenue can give you when you get older.

[343] And so I was focusing on hockey.

[344] He took me to my first rank in Toronto.

[345] I was three years old and mom was doing a movie.

[346] And I can swear to God to you, as cheesy as it sounds, it's like my first real memory where I was on an ice rink, outdoors in Toronto.

[347] I would skate from like bench to bench.

[348] And it stuck with me in this way that I was like, this is what I want to do.

[349] And I swear from four years old, I was like, I'm going to be a hockey player.

[350] It also differentiated myself from what they did and from a very early age.

[351] Yeah, it's important to have your own thing, especially when your parents are so dominant in a field, you want to find your own way.

[352] Yeah, it's really important.

[353] And also, they never brought work home, like, ever.

[354] So it was just having fun, sports, playing hockey, baseball, whatever it was.

[355] So that was like...

[356] They didn't act like celebrities around the house, like movie stars.

[357] Like we normally do.

[358] Like we normally do.

[359] I mean, yeah, I did have to learn how to do it.

[360] When I come home, when I come home, I'm in full makeup.

[361] Yeah.

[362] And I'm like, you have any idea!

[363] Who and what I am.

[364] A little applause would be nice to come home, too.

[365] We have an applause light at our table.

[366] I'm always leaning on it.

[367] That's how to have a little applause.

[368] I had to learn how to do my dad's hair from a very early age.

[369] You don't get your egg -o -waffle until I get three minutes of applause.

[370] But yeah, so I did that.

[371] And then when came time to be, he was really good.

[372] A sports parent, obviously playing sports.

[373] And when I was about 10, he said, look, you're good at this.

[374] And if you're still wanting to do this when you're like 12, 13, then it gets real.

[375] And it's not as fun anymore, but it becomes a different thing.

[376] And if you do, I'll always support it.

[377] And I did.

[378] And I told them, yeah, this is what I want to do.

[379] And then we ended up moving to Vancouver for me to play junior hockey.

[380] And that was my career path.

[381] And that's how I gained all of my, that's where I learned to do everything in my life.

[382] And you were, I mean, you were playing professional hockey like in Germany and had fans hanging outside your house.

[383] Yes.

[384] You would wake up in the morning and there's just fans.

[385] I mean, this is, you had real success.

[386] It was so, I mean, it was a small town.

[387] I would, I would, I would, real success is a big stretch.

[388] But it was pro hockey.

[389] Let's just say compared to my athletic career.

[390] You killed it.

[391] You killed it.

[392] But like, I don't know what the, the guy who ran the social media for the team was a bit of an idiot and he like put my address on like Facebook, on my like Facebook profile.

[393] And one day after we.

[394] won the championship.

[395] I woke up to fans outside my door, like wanting to get in.

[396] So at like 7 .30 in the morning, I was drinking vice beer and pretzels with like, because it felt, it felt like safer to let them in somehow.

[397] Yeah.

[398] Yeah.

[399] I always let fans into the house.

[400] I don't see any reason not to.

[401] Yeah.

[402] So that went well.

[403] And then I played in Holland for a little while.

[404] And and, um, and then I got hurt.

[405] I tore my hip apart.

[406] And that, that's when I really was like, look, I mean, I don't want to say I shouldn't do film because I really think it's great.

[407] And I started watching movies.

[408] I had had a hip injury prior to this and it started to be like, well, maybe I won't do this forever, you know, like I got to figure out something else.

[409] And I started watching movies.

[410] I started with like the AFI 100 and I love movies.

[411] I went to USC film school in the summertime, made friends that weren't hockey players and just realized like how much fun the entertainment industry can be if you do it on your own terms.

[412] I always felt like having that, you know, your son probably feels the same like it's like directed at you towards you there's nothing you can do about it feels helpless and get a little older and you're like well actually I can kind of do it my own way which which has been great and it was like I'll go down swinging in a ball of fire if it doesn't work it doesn't work and he also had worked you know he he had play he did a little moment in a picture John Carpenter movie that I did John escaped from L .A. And then he did that's right you were you had a scene where you're supposed to kick snake in the shin is that right?

[413] Oh, no, no, no, I'm sorry.

[414] You're supposed to sneer at him.

[415] You're supposed to...

[416] It's funny, you combined two stories.

[417] He kicked Elvis in the shin.

[418] You kicked Elvis in the shin.

[419] That's right.

[420] See, I thought that was funny, but it was just mistaken.

[421] Well, most of my big laughs are me just miss speaking.

[422] But yeah, that's right.

[423] You as a child actor were in an Elvis movie.

[424] And you got to kick Elvis in the shin.

[425] But, I mean, he was there and he had this small thing to do.

[426] I said, well, you're a kid in prison, but you're a kid in prison, but you're the The only guy in here who's not afraid of Snake Bliskin.

[427] So when I look at you, you look back at me, like, you know, what are you looking at, buddy?

[428] And so then we found this tape or somebody sent it recently, or it's on the Internet or whatever.

[429] And somebody did a little thing.

[430] And he said, yeah, what are you in for?

[431] He said, I'm in for, what was it, eating a hamburger, which you know red meat.

[432] And it was the deal.

[433] I'm in for eating a hamburger and I'm selling cigarettes.

[434] And so when he looked at me and John came over and he went, that kid's not afraid of you, man. That's really great.

[435] Right.

[436] And then I did a movie called Soldier, where the whole beginning of the movie is about these kids who are really, they're brought up to be soldiers because they show aggression or they show this or they show that.

[437] Character I was playing was the one you're going to follow later on.

[438] And he played him.

[439] And he's really the bad.

[440] He's like one of the best things, or if not the best thing in the movie.

[441] And the director once again said, man, he's really good.

[442] And I said, yeah.

[443] And he had actually pointed something out to me where he thought it was a mistake.

[444] I went down and talked to the director about it.

[445] We looked at the video.

[446] He was on top of it.

[447] It was very clear that this was going to be something.

[448] And then I directed the soldier.

[449] And never got paid for it.

[450] Now, to me, what I'm hearing is you both grew up with this sense that it's a craft.

[451] You got to work hard.

[452] Obviously, athletes know there's a lot of preparation.

[453] there's a lot of hard work and that that all informs the fact that it doesn't seem like there's no entitlement and I've always I've always had that sense because I've been around you a bunch of times that you are a guy who likes to work hard you see this as a craft you see this as something that's a job and that that was kind of the way you grew up and clearly you have that too Wyatt yeah I mean look growing up where we live you see entitlement all around you and it's it's like, I don't know why the fuck you'd ever look at that and be like, that's what I want to be.

[454] I want to be an entitled asshole.

[455] Like, like, it's like, here's where you and I different.

[456] It's all I've ever wanted.

[457] But no one lets me get away with this.

[458] I desperately want to be entitled.

[459] But yeah, so I always, I was in Lakewood in Culver City and hockey is played in places in California where they're not in the greatest areas, like Norwalk.

[460] had to be walked to the rink from the car by parents because they were driving by shootings in the 90s.

[461] And you saw a different side of the world.

[462] And then when I went to go play indifferent, you bill it.

[463] You don't like live with your family.

[464] Always after they left Vancouver when I was like 16, 17.

[465] I lived with different families in Chicago and Toronto.

[466] And you just live with other people.

[467] So you get to see a real sense of like what the world is like.

[468] Obviously, it's not a real sense of the world is like in, you know, in Los Angeles where we live.

[469] So yeah, that's like, it's like my great.

[470] There's fear in the world is somebody being like, what an entitled day.

[471] You're making me think about it.

[472] You're making me think about Norwalk.

[473] It was like, of course, I was probably the only parent that said, no, go ahead.

[474] You'll be fine.

[475] If you get shot, just walk it off.

[476] Hey, it's hockey, Wyatt.

[477] You're a kid.

[478] You're supposed to get shot every now and then.

[479] What are you talking about?

[480] You're an awful dad, it turns out.

[481] Terrible, terrible father.

[482] I love Tarantino's movie.

[483] And I know that you've been in a couple.

[484] And what's interesting is I read this interview with Tarantino where he said, Kurt's one of the only guys I can talk to because he's making a movie about L .A. and 68, 69.

[485] Kurt knew all these people.

[486] You experienced that world.

[487] And he said, you informed so much of, like he picked your brain about what was L .A. like back then because you started out doing, you know, Disney films early on.

[488] And did a lot of television earlier.

[489] Yeah, well, just working, you know, working actors.

[490] My brother, Neil, is a TV head, and I swear to God, I wake up this morning.

[491] He's like, ask him about being on Lost in Space.

[492] And I'm like, no. You should, because it's a good one for your world.

[493] My character's name was Guano.

[494] Yeah.

[495] But they finally figured out after the show, you know what Guano means?

[496] Yeah.

[497] Bad shit.

[498] I play Michael Ansara's kid.

[499] That was one of the first experiences I ever had where I was kind of like, yeah, I know what I want to do here.

[500] And I, because Michael Onsaur was bald.

[501] Yeah.

[502] And we were, you know, it was lost in space.

[503] You're not on Earth.

[504] You're somewhere out there.

[505] And I went, oh, great.

[506] I know, I know what I want to do.

[507] And I, I don't know how, I don't remember how I convinced that.

[508] I said, I want to, I want to be bald too.

[509] Right.

[510] So I got to be, I got to play a character that was, you know, looked, I looked like that.

[511] We were clearly not from Pekwima, you know.

[512] From a different planet.

[513] But Big Paw, Big Paw knew all those, wasn't a lot of that based on Big Fun?

[514] Yeah.

[515] Your dad had worked in film, but he had he done television as well?

[516] No, my dad, my dad, you know, worked for a long time.

[517] He put, you know, shoes on his kids' feet and food on the table by being an actor, and he did everything.

[518] It worked for a long time.

[519] But he was, you know, we kind of looked at each other as plumber actors, you know.

[520] I mean, just take your work, pale and go to work.

[521] You know, but with Quinn, we talked a lot about stuff.

[522] He's very, he loves the history of Hollywood.

[523] Yeah.

[524] He probably knows it as well as anybody.

[525] and so he does it's more than picking your brain it's where you're going to go out and have a good time and he used a lot of the conversation i think the things that he has learned over the years for many different people and it was it was very nice he made a dedication in the book that he wrote about once upon a time in hollywood and he did have me come over to his house to read it and it was really interesting because i think he wanted me to read it in the lair you know and it was right in the heart he lives in the heart of hollywood as it were and uh you know it was a great feeling it's that then i must say i said to him i said i don't know if there's anybody alive who can appreciate this as much as me because it was my it was like your lot my life you know it was like completely i understand everything about it you know i have a fascination with that era so there's a clip you can see online i guess someone in like 1966 just drove along sunset boulevard now today everyone has a phone but back then it was very rare for people to you know have a a color film camera and someone just shot out their windshield driving along the sunset strip in 1966 and it's a different world and i've looked at that thing so many times i love time travel and that's just an amazing you look at that la and we don't live in that l .a anymore it's it's gone but it's so strange and so different i i love what i love watching those videos it is an essential nostalgia that you're like oh wow and you're living back in that time i'm sure you go back in that time and you're like this is a fucking nightmare.

[526] Get me back into 2023.

[527] But I love, yeah, I know those ones where you kind of like, they put it on the hood of a car and they just kind of drift through Los Angeles.

[528] Yeah, and they drive through L .A., and you see what the cars look like, how the people dress, what...

[529] It is strange to me to live long enough to see that there really is a difference as time goes by, because it always kind of feels the same to me, you know?

[530] But you're...

[531] Why I was telling me, this is cool because we have something fun for you.

[532] But you're a pretty serious history buff.

[533] Yes.

[534] You like...

[535] Love, I love reading history.

[536] Yeah.

[537] I gotta get a good.

[538] I gotta get a tough on that.

[539] It could be totally false.

[540] I don't think it is, though.

[541] I don't think it is.

[542] No, I think this one's pretty bear.

[543] So, um, uh, there was a time where I wasn't working very much.

[544] And, um, I, subscribe to Ancestry .com, um, like, like a 75 -year -old grandmother.

[545] Yeah.

[546] Uh, and so I got obsessed with, uh, like, following the history of our family.

[547] Yeah.

[548] It was like, oh, you know, our history of family's cool.

[549] And so you go back, a couple generations, keeps going back and it gives you these, like, heat leaf hints, right?

[550] Yeah.

[551] This is also, I'm getting paid by Ancestry .com right now.

[552] And I enjoy driving a Porsche.

[553] Never works.

[554] And so it just kept going back and kept going back.

[555] And it was like to the Gackenbacks and all these different people that we were in.

[556] And then it always shows war records, right?

[557] Like that says, it traces your family history through war records.

[558] It goes all the way back to the Revolutionary War.

[559] And everybody in our family for whatever reason has fought.

[560] in a war.

[561] This is the Russell side.

[562] The Russell side of the family.

[563] We get to 10 generations back from me. His name is Jason Russell, Jr. On the first day of the Revolutionary War, shot heard around the world at Lexington and Concord, when the Minutemen retreated, there was a house, and they took refuge in the house.

[564] They sheltered in the house.

[565] The Red Coats surrounded the house.

[566] went in, shot everybody in the house, ban added the owner of the house 11 times, and it turns out that the owner of that house was Jason Russell Jr., who is our direct lineage great -grandfather.

[567] That's insane.

[568] On that day, it was the bloodiest day of fighting on the first day of Revolutionary War in the house.

[569] If only it had a ring camera.

[570] Ding dong.

[571] Hello?

[572] You want to come in.

[573] Nobody here.

[574] Well, the jokes.

[575] The joke is, the joke is like, you know, it's this patriotic story, and he got ban on it at his door, and the story is he came back from his family, sent his family way, and he came back, and, you know, the red coats came in and stabbed him, and I was like, well, how do you know he wasn't going to the door and being like, they're in here?

[576] There, in there.

[577] No, not me!

[578] Ah!

[579] I love the king.

[580] Yeah, exactly.

[581] Lisa Kudrow has a lineage show and she approached me a number of years ago and she said we find prominent people and we do their lineage and she and I've been friends for a long time and she said would you take a swab and we'll find your lineage and I said I promise you you're not going to find anything and she said Conan everyone says that but we always find no you're related to you know Winston Churchill you're related to it's so cool you're going to see and I said you'll see, didn't hear from her for six months.

[582] And then I call her and I go, Lisa, I never heard back for you when she went, there's nothing.

[583] She said, what I'll tell you is your, and she said, we've never seen this before.

[584] You're 100, 100, 100 ,000 .0 .0 % Irish.

[585] And I got really like, wow.

[586] And she said, that never happened.

[587] So I called my doctor who knows some stuff about, you know, genealogy and gene science.

[588] and I said, I'm 100 .0 % Irish.

[589] Isn't that great?

[590] And he went, no, it means you're inbred.

[591] You idiot.

[592] It means your sister's been marrying your brother.

[593] And then it's true.

[594] Like we came over from Ireland, both sides of the family, moved to this tiny little town in central Massachusetts.

[595] And people are like, you're pretty.

[596] You're my brother.

[597] I don't care if you don't care.

[598] So there's a reason why I've got to promise.

[599] all these problems.

[600] Well, that's where, maybe we, there could be something there for us.

[601] We're from Massachusetts.

[602] Our history is now.

[603] Oh, is that true?

[604] You guys.

[605] So, you know, I'll look into it.

[606] It was my chance to maybe hook up with a Russell at some point or someone.

[607] We could have been so much cooler.

[608] I could have had a film career.

[609] Well, if you go to Rangely, Maine, where we're, sort of from, you go to the town.

[610] We went for my grandmother's 100th birthday and you literally go around to every house and it's like, on front of the house, it's like, Russell, Philbrick, Russell, Philbrick.

[611] And I'm like, is everybody in?

[612] in this town a rustler of Pilbrick.

[613] So last night, I was watching this project that you did together, and this fascinates me because, first of all, this thing looks, it's beautifully done, this project.

[614] It's funny because you probably grew up in an area where in an era, Kurt, where there's TV and then there's film.

[615] And I think we're in this world now where stuff that comes out on TV streaming Apple, you look at it and you think this is cinema.

[616] This is, it's so beautifully done.

[617] It's just a different world.

[618] Well, that's what, you know, when this came to us to look at, we were...

[619] Monarch, a legacy of monsters, yeah.

[620] And it was Godzilla.

[621] It's all, you know, first of all, you go, well, Godzilla or, you know.

[622] It's like, you know, it's the French Godzilla?

[623] No, no, the refined Godzilla.

[624] And that's what we were...

[625] Yeah, we were like, well, you know, but what, you know, so we started talking about it because it was obviously, it could be epic.

[626] It could be cool.

[627] I'd seen Godzilla when I was probably eight or nine years old and never forgot him but it just became you know the movies are about the monsters you see them that's what it is and it's fantastic in a certain way for a certain audience they love it but we also you know when it came to us we started talking about him he said I mean that's not something we would probably want to be interested in doing because it's just not I don't know it's not doesn't hit us but that was not what they were wanting to do they were wanted to look at this thing and take the human condition that was living with it and do a real true sci -fi where it's a it's a relatable human experience and there are people who are dealing with this and uh that was very interesting to us and so uh yeah we started talking about it and and i ended up uh you know ended up doing and loving that we did it because it really the fact that apple would put this kind of effort into it the fact that the showrunner and the head writer were as invested in it as they were the fact that they really went out to get really good, good actors to do it.

[628] It made us feel like, yeah, this is something that maybe we should seriously take a look at and we'd have the opportunity to do something nobody had ever done that with two known actors, father and son, playing the same person.

[629] That's the part that blows me away is you are the younger self.

[630] You are the more mature self.

[631] Yes, slightly older.

[632] I say more mature.

[633] Wiser.

[634] Well.

[635] No, no. somehow less wise but it's it's really cool that you you're both playing the same character and so I would think if you're preparing for a role like that you're kind of be going to be eyeing each other you don't have scenes together because that's not possible obviously but you're going to be trying to figure out each other's physicality I mean I'm guessing that might be part of it that was that was sort of the unspoken thing that was in the back of our heads the whole time right um the thing that was fascinating for me because Wyatt's was going to be different was first of all the opportunity to watch him work and how he worked and the things that it would remind me of or things that I would learn from him watching him but I've never done a character where somebody else was starting it out yeah it's like wait a minute we talked about this with the guy not having a big limp and now I see you limping around I don't have a limp or whatever right and so yeah yeah Whatever he lays out there, that's it.

[636] Because it's you, it's you in the 1950s.

[637] Whatever he lays out there, you have to pick up on.

[638] So just to be mean to you, he could drool a lot.

[639] That's what I mean.

[640] That's exactly what I mean.

[641] Just cruel all the time.

[642] It's like, and scratch his face like this.

[643] And it's like, pick up on that old man. I better see that in your role.

[644] That's exactly right.

[645] I mean, it's funny, but it's also like, well, okay, I'm going to have to do what, you know.

[646] And so we, the thing about it is that I don't know why I talked to it.

[647] because he really, you know, he's absolutely fantastic in the show and I love seeing the reaction to him in it.

[648] He was going to establish these things that we were going to do.

[649] So we had to be in line.

[650] His rhythm, his, we have idiosyncrasies that are the same, you know, familial things.

[651] We knew that those would be there and then we'd work on the look and kind of this and that.

[652] But it was really the fact that we have different rhythms.

[653] That was something we were going to have to deal with, you know, and find, And then what you find yourself in doing and that is finding a character that you really want to play.

[654] But I mean, it was fun to go down to his set, watch him work.

[655] Do you get intimidated at all if you're, I mean, first of all, you know, my dad's a microbiologist, so it's not like he would, you know, but I would still, if I knew my dad was in the audience when I was doing a show, it felt like more pressure.

[656] You know, even if there's 7 ,000 people in the crowd, if I know my dad's there too, because it's my dad.

[657] It felt like a level of, but I don't know if you had that when your dad's watching you.

[658] um i think early on there was a sense of like yeah i want my dad to think that i'm good you know like i'm a good actor or whatever um and then there'd be things he'd see or that i'd write and he'd be like no no it's okay like in the beginning um and so yeah you always want that to be part of it but i learned i think beyond my dad and getting a little bit of success and film and also in hockey it was the same thing like you just can't do it for that otherwise like you will sink yourself for your whole life it just will suck you dry like you'll never that's an insatiable desire that you cannot um quench and so i really started going down the road of like well i'm just i really am just going to do what i want to do and if it like i said earlier if it doesn't work it doesn't work and if my dad doesn't like it like that doesn't mean that it doesn't work it's just you know but he's been always so supportive it wasn't ever something that like he that that they were just great parents.

[659] I mean, they always wanted us to do well.

[660] They were always supportive.

[661] And then they also disassociated from enough to where it was like, hey, it's great work if you can get it.

[662] But I'm not going to be in your hair about this stuff all the time.

[663] And we never talk about it.

[664] You know, this was the most we'd ever talked about film outside of, you know, being on a movie set.

[665] It was like, we had to talk about it a lot because you had to like make sure the character was congruent and point A to point B and even arc. And you got to like hit those spots.

[666] and stuff like that.

[667] So it was really fun to work with him off camera, um, seeing how he, I'd seen how he'd work all the time when people would come over to the house and I'd be playing a video game or watching sports center or something and you'd hear meetings, right?

[668] And then all he ever did in those meetings was try and make the movie better.

[669] Never was it about like me, me, me. It was just not that way he is.

[670] It wasn't the way.

[671] And it seemed like a good way to do it because his movies were always cool and people loved them and they were always good.

[672] Your movie's good.

[673] You're going to be good.

[674] And so I took that approach.

[675] And then as I moved on in my career, that's been good for me and worked for me. And now we were able to do it together.

[676] And it was awesome.

[677] It was really fun to be able to do.

[678] Funny story about getting cast as Godzilla, though.

[679] Our doula, who, dula, for those of you don't know, they'd help you deliver your child.

[680] she was with my wife and we were getting the offer to do Godzilla and I have like a relatively large jaw you can't see it without my beard ever since Jason Russell and so yeah and my wife goes yeah he's going to do Godzilla and him and we're going to do Godzilla why it's going to be in Godzilla and the dealer goes oh my God he's going to be so great as Godzilla that that's I always pictured him with that shaw.

[681] And I'm like, I'm not playing.

[682] He's such a radioactive lizard.

[683] Yeah, I was like, oh, no. That would be great if you agreed to it thinking it was this other thing.

[684] And it's your dad doing all this complex acting, and you in a rubber suit going, yeah.

[685] Your dad's like, you're killing it.

[686] You're doing a really good thing.

[687] Way to go, son.

[688] I'm proud of you.

[689] Well, this is, man, this is extremely cool for me because this is a double treat.

[690] I've, as you know, long been a huge fan of yours and we've talked about it many times.

[691] Even some of the movies that people don't all know, I've watched those movies like Bone Tomahawk and said, man, I'll go see, if you're in it, I go see it and I never regret it.

[692] And then as a, to get to meet you, because I really love your work.

[693] I love what you're doing.

[694] And I also, you are so much your own person.

[695] And it's very, it's very satisfying for me to like get to meet your, your son.

[696] I keep wandering around the neighborhood because I know you live nearby.

[697] And I always see this bearded guy kind of see me and then duck behind a head.

[698] Well, next time, next time I'll wear bells and you can.

[699] hear me good it's like a bear you're like a bear i have to make noise around you so you don't attack me do you ever see sandler adam sandler lives in our neighborhood adam bought our old house that's right and this is what adam does you know it's l -a so people are supposed to you know you call first you send a text maybe we'll get together at a neutral it's not like that's a weird thing about l a people just don't go over to other people's houses and ring the bell right except for sandler sandlin will come and stand outside at my house and go, Cody!

[700] Cody!

[701] It's like streetcar named Desire, he's yelling.

[702] And I'll open the door like, what?

[703] He's like, how's it going, buddy?

[704] And then he says, everything's the best.

[705] How's it goes?

[706] Ah, it's the best.

[707] It's the best.

[708] Did you know that Kurt Russell and Goldie live right?

[709] Yeah, yeah, the best.

[710] You've seen Wyatt?

[711] He's the best.

[712] You ever had botulism?

[713] It's the best.

[714] The best of the diseases his buddy and then he takes off again yeah but thanks for saying that i know how hard it is for you to be earnest i appreciate it i do not have an earnest bone in my body but i earnestly am thrilled that you guys i know you're super busy and to make the time to to do this in miami uh just makes it's a makes my day makes my week so thank you so much for doing it here let's hear it for these gentlemen right now yeah What happens now, Blake?

[715] Wow, that was so confused.

[716] Like I was out so late cardying.

[717] I drank the stuff that was in the glow stick.

[718] Yeah, you don't drink that.

[719] You're not supposed to do.

[720] It doesn't open for reason.

[721] Now we're going to take some questions from the audience with your fantastic assistant.

[722] These people sound insane.

[723] I don't want to talk to these people.

[724] All that stuff they said about entitlement.

[725] I don't buy that at all.

[726] I can see you glazing over.

[727] Yeah.

[728] Where's my butler?

[729] Exactly.

[730] So, yeah.

[731] So if anybody has a question for Conan, raise your hand.

[732] Yeah, be, don't be shy.

[733] Don't be shy.

[734] Just don't be what the hell.

[735] I'm all hanging out here in Miami.

[736] That's right.

[737] Hi, I'm a teacher.

[738] I'm a middle school teacher.

[739] What is your name?

[740] Tyler.

[741] Hey, Tyler.

[742] How are you?

[743] I'm very good.

[744] How are you?

[745] You don't pretty good, thank you.

[746] Good, good.

[747] Thanks a lot.

[748] Next question.

[749] You're a middle school teacher.

[750] Good for you.

[751] I love teachers.

[752] There is currently a substitute teacher in my classroom.

[753] And if you were the substitute teacher, I want to know what sort of lesson you would do.

[754] How would you entertain the children?

[755] How would you spend the day?

[756] Okay.

[757] I get this rap.

[758] It's like, oh, he's so needy and he needs to try and make everybody laugh.

[759] And it's absolutely true.

[760] When my kids were little, there was this thing, and you've probably seen this, where they get the parents to come in and read to the class.

[761] and so they give you the book you can't choose the book so i came in one day and my daughter's like six and i'm just going to read this very normal unfunny children's book and i'm reading the book and then i realize that there's like a little stuffed animal behind my head and then if i push my head back the little bunny's head will flip forward and so i start working the head and then whipping around like the bunny is and the kids start laughing really hard and then I started doing stuff with more animals and then I stopped reading the book and I'm doing bits for the kids with the animals and the teacher came over to me and whispered in my ear, just read the book.

[762] And I got home and I told my wife, I was killing.

[763] I was destroying and she was like, they're six.

[764] The fuck is your problem.

[765] I think the problem would be, I've always thought that would be a detriment to me at my being a teacher is that I might need to to get some laughs would start to interfere with the fact that I'm supposed to be teaching them about safe sex or something and you know or whatever some important thing they need to know that would get clouded over and and and maybe the children would get in the way I might alter if I was teaching history I might alter history so it was a little funnier maybe Lincoln's chasing booth up the treat, you know.

[766] I would just do these things that I think would probably get me in trouble.

[767] So I think it's probably a good thing that I'm not teaching at your school, but I do applaud that you're doing it.

[768] I think it's good.

[769] And I think it would be a disaster.

[770] If I was a substitute teacher, maybe just for one day.

[771] And then kids would leave and say, what a sad, lonely old woman that was.

[772] Please, never have that thing come back.

[773] Thank you.

[774] Yeah.

[775] You're doing a good job, David.

[776] Hello.

[777] Hello.

[778] I'm Alex.

[779] Hi, Alex.

[780] How are you?

[781] I'm from Venezuela.

[782] You're from Venezuela?

[783] Yeah.

[784] Oh, very good.

[785] Which part of Venezuela?

[786] Maracaque.

[787] It's near to Caracas.

[788] Okay.

[789] So you recently visited Argentina?

[790] Yes, I did.

[791] You did a great work with your Spanish.

[792] I tried.

[793] Yeah.

[794] I'm taping a show for HBO Max.

[795] Some of you might know in the past, I've done some travel shows.

[796] and I've always loved going to other countries where they don't even know who I am and behaving in a way where they laugh at me. I've always thought that was kind of a weird, sort of a kind of diplomacy if they see an American who comes over and the joke is on me, you know, and naturally it always is.

[797] So we shot a few countries and then we just shot in Argentina.

[798] And, yeah, I did try to use my Spanish here and there, and I think it got a little better.

[799] I learned some Spanish a bunch of years ago, and it's fun.

[800] I always try to bring it out.

[801] And I've noticed that most people who are Spanish speaking, whether it's from South America or Central America, they're just, they mostly appreciate that someone's trying.

[802] I think it's nice to try, even if I'm butchering the language.

[803] But I also think it's very beautiful.

[804] I think I sometimes watch telenovelas, and I don't even, they're speaking so quickly, I don't know what they're saying, but I'm listening to it, and I think this language is so beautiful.

[805] It's like music, the way French and Spanish are very, they're musical.

[806] And then I think English just must sound terrible compared to English and, of course, German, you know, is a nightmare, you know.

[807] If you're ordering a sausage and a beer, it sounds like you're declaring war.

[808] So, but yeah, beautiful language.

[809] Yeah, but my question is, you know, the big news in Argentina is the new president.

[810] Yeah, that was it.

[811] That election happened while it was there.

[812] But the dead dog is called Conan, and the news is he talked with the dead dog.

[813] Yes.

[814] Let me explain to the audience just so they know.

[815] Because if anyone's listening right now and doesn't know, that sounds just like babble.

[816] Yeah.

[817] What?

[818] There's a guy who's running far right.

[819] He was running for president.

[820] He's pretty out there.

[821] He's pretty crazy.

[822] He ended up winning.

[823] Good thing that could never happen here.

[824] Anyway, he loved his dog and so he had his dog cloned like seven times.

[825] But his beloved dog's name is Conan.

[826] So everyone in Argentina thought that I was there to do something about the fact that his dog was named Conan.

[827] And I had to break it to them, that no, I didn't fly for 15 hours just to walk around and say, I have the same name as your new president's dead dog.

[828] So, but yeah, it was, it was a big story there.

[829] Well, I'm my wife and our dogs, our dog is called Conan for you.

[830] So that's, you named your dog after me. Yeah.

[831] Well, thank you.

[832] He said, that's fantastic.

[833] Next to this man wearing a mop on his head this is the greatest day of my life he said your king had a great hair like you oh and do you yell at conan ever like conan yeah i mean that would be triggering for me conan why did you shit there you know that's what i used to hear all the time till four years ago um it's great to talk to you welcome to me nice to talk to you sir yeah hi hi conan how are you good how are you i'm good um what's your name melissa hi melissa nice to meet you nice to meet you as well um my question's sort of in relation to the travel travels shows is what is sort of your approach on diffusing some of the more tense situations you get in?

[834] You know, there's been some episodes where people were not as excited you were there initially.

[835] And I feel like you do such a great job of getting everyone on your side and just diffusing that tension and really, you know, everyone ends up loving you.

[836] Well, I don't know if they end up loving me, but they, one of the things that I like is to be real about the situation I'm in so clearly I like there to be a lot of comedy but I don't want to be I want to deal with the reality of the situation one of the things that really comes to mind is we went to Haiti a bunch of years ago after President Trump's had some very negative things about Haiti and we were there and we were shooting and it was really lovely because I went to a school room and these kids didn't know who I was but I was acting very silly and they were laughing and then I was wearing a short sleeve shirt and all these kids gathered around and they were just like like oh my god like this poor man is dying and I went they're freckles you know um but like I say it's nice to have the shoe be on the other foot uh you know I'm the odd person out but there was a moment we were shooting in Porta Prince and there was a group that just saw this tall white guy with a camera crew and they assumed I was there to make fun of them and they were getting really mad so I went over and I was showing them footage of what I do and they were clearly they you could see they turned and realized oh he's he's like a clown you i mean in a in a good way um i was explaining to them that and i was showing them the work and they were they were understanding and you could see in that moment it kind of changed and i thought yeah i really liked that and clearly um without getting too heavy there is uh there's a lot of people were in a time of a lot of division and a lot of anger and I'm much more interested in trying to find out what I have in common with other people and I try not to you know if I hear how somebody voted or if I hear something they about something they tweeted I tried not to go right to I completely disagree with that person instead I try to figure out what we have in common which i think would be we could all stand to do that a little bit more so just take a deep breath and try and think about what do i have in common with this other person because we've just you know we're all on this thing together we're not there's no other place to go yet until elon musk finds another planet um there's no other where to go so we might we might as well try and make that happen yeah thank you hi conan hey how are you i'm good um what's your name Calvin.

[837] Hey, Calvin.

[838] You and my brother loved you growing up, so thank you for kind of shaping our weird comic.

[839] If you could talk to his mother.

[840] I figured, yeah.

[841] Because she just.

[842] My mother enjoyed you just fine.

[843] I don't know.

[844] I've got to talk to this woman.

[845] But my question is you were a writer for The Simpsons, way back, a big fan of the Simpsons as well.

[846] But what is like advice you usually give to up and coming, especially comedy writers?

[847] Write what you would want to see.

[848] Do you know what I mean?

[849] just be aspirational about it.

[850] This is a sketch that would really make me laugh if someone saw it.

[851] This is an episode of a TV show that would really make me howl if I saw it.

[852] Write that, write for yourself, make yourself happy.

[853] And chances are that's going to make someone else happy.

[854] Don't change yourself too much to try and fit another show.

[855] This guy didn't get a chance.

[856] Let's give him a chance right there.

[857] Thank you so much.

[858] I appreciate it.

[859] Because I know he's going to give me money at the end.

[860] Of course, course.

[861] Conan, Bobby, have a question for you.

[862] That's very professional.

[863] Look at the way he did that, everybody.

[864] You call into radio shows a lot, don't you?

[865] Of course.

[866] Hey, Conan, Bobby, question.

[867] My name is Link, by the way.

[868] Nice to meet you.

[869] Nice to meet you, too.

[870] I'm trying to be as crisp and efficient as you.

[871] Bobby, what's you got?

[872] Let's go.

[873] On the podcast, Matt Gurley has stated that he loves the James Bond and Indiana Jones franchise.

[874] Yeah.

[875] If you could ruin one for him, which one would it be and why?

[876] If I could, what?

[877] If you could ruin one of them for him.

[878] Ruined?

[879] Yeah.

[880] Which would it be and how?

[881] Wow, that's really good.

[882] Oh, I know what I would do.

[883] I would ruin James Bond for him because I think he truly loves Bond the most.

[884] And I would ruin it by becoming the next James Bond.

[885] And I would wear that wig over my hair and totally ruin the franchise.

[886] I'd just, you know what I mean?

[887] I'd say my name's Bond.

[888] James Bond.

[889] And I'd turn the Nixon.

[890] everything that would just make him not sexy, not cool.

[891] My fights would be a lot of slapping and shrieking.

[892] Then it would just end the franchise.

[893] They would never make another James Bond after that.

[894] And that would destroy it for Gorley.

[895] And also radioactively destroy all the ones that came before it.

[896] And I would make sure that I was put into scenes in the previous James Bond, where I just lean in and go, how's it going?

[897] Just totally take you out of the movie.

[898] I want to destroy Gorley's life.

[899] Thank you.

[900] Thank you for that idea.

[901] Thank you.

[902] All right, well, you guys have been nice.

[903] Is that it?

[904] That's it.

[905] You guys have been fantastic.

[906] You guys have been, and I'll see you in the clubs later.

[907] Which club are we going to?

[908] What's that?

[909] Someone in the airport was like, Conan, you gotta go to 11.

[910] Well, wait, what's the deal with 11?

[911] I don't go to clubs.

[912] That's not gonna happen, but what happens at 11?

[913] It's a strip club?

[914] I'll see you all there.

[915] what time does it open 24 7 strip club oh my god 8 a .m?

[916] oh my god and 8 a .m. in a strip club the stripper's just like what are you're holding a cup of coffee all right I will see you all in the 11th Conan O 'Brien needs a friend with Conan O 'Brien Sonam of Sessian and Matt Goorley.

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[919] Theme song by The White Stripes.

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