Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Jeff Goldblum Returns" (Re-Release) – Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Release Date: January 13, 2025

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Introduction

In this special re-release episode of Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend, host Conan O’Brien welcomes the charismatic and beloved actor Jeff Goldblum. The episode delves into their unique dynamic, exploring themes of friendship, shared experiences in the entertainment industry, and playful banter that highlights both Conan's and Jeff's distinctive personalities.

Key Discussions and Themes

The Quest for Friendship

Conan opens the conversation by addressing the core purpose of his podcast: forging genuine friendships with celebrity guests. This episode with Jeff Goldblum exemplifies Conan's journey to move beyond professional relationships and establish meaningful personal connections.

Shared Love for Cinema

A significant portion of the discussion revolves around classic and influential films. Both Conan and Jeff reminisce about movies that had a profound impact on their lives, including:

• "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World Dominion": Jeff reprises his iconic role as Dr. Ian Malcolm, discussing the anticipation surrounding the latest installment and the reunion with original cast members like Laura Dern and Sam Neill.

  Jeff Goldblum (12:48): "Conan O’Brien really nailed the character of Dr. Ian Malcolm, bringing depth and charisma that fans adore."

• Classic Hollywood and Personal Encounters: They share anecdotes about meeting legendary figures such as Shelley Winters and James Coburn, reflecting on how these interactions shaped their appreciation for the craft.

  Conan O'Brien (62:44): "Meeting Shelley Winters at Musso & Frank's was an unforgettable experience. Her presence was both commanding and warm."

Dreams and Subconscious Insights

The conversation takes a surreal turn when Conan recounts a vivid dream, prompting a discussion on the significance of dreams and their interpretations.

Conan O'Brien (13:23): "I had a dream where Robert Altman appeared alive and wanted to stay at my house. It was a curious blend of reality and imagination."

Jeff humorously dismisses Freud's theories on dream interpretation but appreciates the whimsical nature of dreams.

Jeff Goldblum (17:08): "Freud was wrong. Dreams are just random mush, much like my speech patterns."

Humorous Banter and Playful Interactions

The episode is peppered with lighthearted exchanges between Conan, Jeff, and co-hosts Sona Movsesian and Matt Gourley. Topics range from favorite movie quotes to playful jibes about personalities and podcast dynamics.

Conan O'Brien (06:10): "Sometimes editing Jeff's feline slurps into the podcast feels like tampering with Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel."

Jeff Goldblum (37:05): "Being centered like Conan is incredible. He’s like a tuning fork perfectly vibrating with the universe."

Friendship Dynamics and Mutual Admiration

Throughout the episode, Conan and Jeff express mutual respect and admiration, reinforcing the podcast's goal of building genuine friendships. They discuss the challenges of maintaining friendships in the entertainment industry and the joy of connecting on a personal level.

Conan O'Brien (82:12): "Whenever we're together, whether it's on the show or this podcast, it's unlike any other experience I have, and it means a lot to me."

Jeff Goldblum (91:11): "You know, we have a similar frame of reference, and that's fascinating."

Notable Quotes

• On Friendship:

  Jeff Goldblum (44:27): "We need to graft into each other."

• On Dreams:

  Conan O'Brien (14:31): "There's nothing funny about these dreams, but they may open a portal into our subconscious."

• On Friendship Development:

  Matt Gourley (73:21): "He is a chill person who seems very comfortable in his skin and very confident."

Insights and Conclusions

This episode underscores the essence of Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend: fostering genuine connections beyond the superficial confines of celebrity interviews. Through shared stories, laughter, and heartfelt conversations, Conan and Jeff exemplify the podcast's mission to build authentic friendships. Their interaction highlights the depth and warmth that can be achieved when two creative minds come together, bridging the gap between professional admiration and personal camaraderie.

The playful nature of the dialogue, combined with sincere moments of reflection, offers listeners a window into the authentic personalities of both Conan O’Brien and Jeff Goldblum. The episode serves as a testament to the podcast's unique approach, blending humor with heartfelt conversations to create meaningful and lasting friendships.

Conclusion

"Jeff Goldblum Returns" is a memorable episode that captures the heartfelt and humorous essence of Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend. Through engaging discussions on movies, dreams, and the nuances of friendship, Conan and Jeff create a relatable and entertaining experience for listeners. This episode not only celebrates Jeff Goldblum's illustrious career but also reinforces the podcast's goal of building genuine connections in the world of entertainment.

Transcript

[Conan O'Brien]

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[Jeff Goldblum]

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[Jeff Goldblum]

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[Conan O'Brien]

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[Jeff Goldblum]

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[Conan O'Brien]

Bank USA Salt Lake City Branch Member FDIC terms and [e-mail] Watch this. Hello, my name is Jeff Goldblum. G, O L, D, B, L, U, N. And I'm. I'm reading from some of the. First name. Oh, yes. First name. I did it. First name, last name. The empty something. Yeah. And then pause. Here comes. That's enough of that. And I feel. And then it says here, parenthesis. However, I feel. Well.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Madness.

[Conan O'Brien]

Madness. Madness. Hey, that's the last line of what movie? This is the. Here. Last line of the movie. Madness. Madness. Tell me the movie.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, my God. I know that movie. I know that movie.

[Sona Movsesian]

Is it the older movie?

[Conan O'Brien]

Ah, yes.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Wait a minute. Madness.

[Conan O'Brien]

I can give you a clue.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Madness. Wait a minute. Is it madness? Hold it.

[Conan O'Brien]

Madness.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Is it Apocalypse Now?

[Conan O'Brien]

No, no, that's the horror. You're close, though.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

And it has a similar.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, wait, it's the Last Family Ties. Oh, well, no, it does. It ends with madness.

[Conan O'Brien]

Madness.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I love that. This is the introduction to the show.

[Sona Movsesian]

We have to wrap up what this movie is and then do the name thing. All is one giant piece. We're still rolling.

[Jeff Goldblum]

We're still rolling.

[Conan O'Brien]

But really, I mean, this has been real. You can't use this as.

[Jeff Goldblum]

No, we can't.

[Sona Movsesian]

But give us a hint on that movie.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay, I'll give you a hint. A lesser cast member, Jack Hawkins. Probably don't even know who that is.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, my. What kind of clue is that?

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay. Sex.

[Jeff Goldblum]

A ceramic mug features in a breakfast scene. There's a clue for it.

[Conan O'Brien]

No. Jack Hawkins. There are those who know very well Jack Hawkins and already know this movie. I'll give you the giveaway clue. Bill Holden. William holden.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, Stalag 17.

[Conan O'Brien]

No good. No. Pretty good guess. It's a kind of a war picture. He does not deliver the last line, by the way. Oh, the bridge over the River Kwai.

[Jeff Goldblum]

The bridge over the River Kwai.

[Conan O'Brien]

That was my last.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Just as he blows up the bridge.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes, exactly. Now, all together, let's whistle the song. That is right. Ready?

[Jeff Goldblum]

No, oh, wait, that's the wrong one.

[Matt Gourley]

Okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

That'S it.

[Matt Gourley]

I can't whistle, and I don't know.

[Conan O'Brien]

That you cannot whistle.

[Matt Gourley]

I can't whistle. And I.

[Conan O'Brien]

Is that true?

[Matt Gourley]

I. I don't. I've never seen.

[Jeff Goldblum]

When I was a kid in camp, we used to. They taught us these old songs from the 50s as we trudged up the Appalachian Mountains and we had to sing Comet, it makes your teeth turn green. Comet, it tastes like Vaseline. Comet, make you vomit so drink your comet and vomit today. And then it'd be like again. And we would do it again. And I climbed the presidential mountain ranges singing that song, not knowing what it was, how it. Why? Why? Just because.

[Conan O'Brien]

And then you learn later that it was from that movie. That's funny. That's funny. Hey, do you know this song? You reminded me of the song we're on the upward trail. We're on the upward trail Singing, singing. Ye. Everybody singing as we go. That would have been a more legit version of the marching song.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yes, I suppose. Now, where does that song come from? Because you've confused us once again.

[Sona Movsesian]

And also, how do you feel about being Conan O'Brien?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Hi, my God sake.

[Conan O'Brien]

My name is Jeff Goldberman, and I feel being here with you now as if I'm revealing myself to myself and. And I feel utterly drenched and purged.

[Jeff Goldblum]

It's ok.

[Conan O'Brien]

Now, that's from a kind of an homage to a movie line. Also, that's not my originality and my unconventional.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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

[Sona Movsesian]

I love it.

[Jeff Goldblum]

That's what you've done.

[Conan O'Brien]

I love it.

[Sona Movsesian]

Fall is here.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Here they are.

[Sona Movsesian]

Back to school.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Ring the bell Brand new shoes Walking blues Climb the fence Books and pens.

[Conan O'Brien]

I can tell that we are gonna be friends.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Can tell that we are gonna be friends all right. Testing, testing. One, two, three. Testing, testing. Bumblebee. Testing, testing. All day long we sing the testing, testing song. 3, 2.

[Matt Gourley]

Why can't you do anything normally?

[Jeff Goldblum]

I don't know.

[Matt Gourley]

Why can't anything just be normal?

[Jeff Goldblum]

I don't know. Ask Michelangelo. Here we go.

[Sona Movsesian]

The Ninja Turtle.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah, that's who I meant. Okay. The Best of the Ninja Turtles. Three.

[Matt Gourley]

No Donatello.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Big wine.

[Sona Movsesian]

I'm A Leonardo guy, are you? And action.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Hey, there. Welcome to Conan O'Brien needs a friend, the podcast that gives and gives until it can't give no more.

[Matt Gourley]

What's it giving?

[Jeff Goldblum]

I don't know.

[Matt Gourley]

Are we giving?

[Jeff Goldblum]

I think it's spreading disease.

[Matt Gourley]

Stop.

[Jeff Goldblum]

It's spreading disease. This is a. This is a fantastic episode. I never say that up front, but we know for a fact, because we bring to you today the amazing Jeff Goldblum. A force of nature, a star. And I don't mean a star in the sense of a Hollywood star. He certainly is that, but he is a celestial event, in my opinion. He really is. Yeah, he really is. So this interview that we have, I'm told, Matt, that you barely touch this one. Sometimes you do little edits and tweaks.

[Sona Movsesian]

I do.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Occasionally a guest will be on and they start to go into very inappropriate rant, and we have to take it out.

[Sona Movsesian]

Occasionally there's repeated stories or something through just natural conversation that I'll pull out. You're not missing anything as a listener from the things I'm pulling out. But this one, it couldn't have any editing because it's music. It's a symphony. And I also always take out little mouth noises and clicks, but Jeff Goldblum has this repeating feline slurp, and he does. It's just. I couldn't touch it. It would be like going, like you said, going to Michelangelo and editing his Sistine Chapel.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, again, so not Michelangelo, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

[Sona Movsesian]

No, I still mean him.

[Jeff Goldblum]

He was a wonderful painter because he also worked on the Sistine Chape. So it must be tough, technically, to edit a man who's constantly making low, purring sounds. You can't do it because how do you. You can't do an edit. I speak and then I stop, and there's nothing but Jeff Goldblum, even when he's not speaking.

[Sona Movsesian]

Well, you can do a crossfade and you can blend one sexual grumble into the next, but I would never do that. Like, who am I to censor his sexual rumblings? His subsonic sexual rumblings.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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, I don't even know how that sounds. Like, oh, yeah, I'd like to do it with somebody right now.

[Sona Movsesian]

Kids today, I have so much to.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Do, and I have to do the yard first, but I'd sure like to.

[Conan O'Brien]

Do it with someone.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I don't Know what that means? But, yeah, there's not much to say when you have Jeff Goldblum and you've managed to capture Jeff Goldblum in the wild, and you get it to. To talk. It's an event. It's a real event.

[Sona Movsesian]

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.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Jeff Goldblum]

And you know what? When I say all Goldblum, I don't hear one complaint.

[Conan O'Brien]

No.

[Jeff Goldblum]

No one's gonna stop me on the street and say, that was too much Goldblum.

[Conan O'Brien]

No.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Um, and set your filters, your Goldblum filters to high, because you want to get all the Goldblum as it comes to it.

[Matt Gourley]

Was it 70 minutes? Just the part where he goes, my name is Jeff Goldblum, and I'm. And I, I, I. I feel like that alone was incredible.

[Sona Movsesian]

So the listeners will have already heard that moment.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Sona Movsesian]

And that was, I think, 3 minutes and 46 seconds for him to say, hi, my name is Jeff Goldblum, and ultimately, I feel. I think he said drenched. Something.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Who knows?

[Sona Movsesian]

Drained and drenched.

[Jeff Goldblum]

All I know is that once it was over, I had no memory of what had happened. I knew that I had had an orgasmic high, but I didn't know what happened. And I think I put it out to the listeners. Listen to this Jeff Goldblum interview. And afterwards, I doubt anyone's gonna know what was said.

[Matt Gourley]

I don't. 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. Like, it was just, like, Constant splooging over, like, 70s.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Okay, let's clean it up.

[Matt Gourley]

Your shows. Okay. Come on.

[Conan O'Brien]

You.

[Matt Gourley]

You were just doing a whole sex thing about grumblings.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Such a grumpy, sexual guy, and you're.

[Matt Gourley]

Telling me to clean it up?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Because I didn't say. I didn't say splooge. I didn't talk about you.

[Matt Gourley]

Guess what? You guys did all the whole interview.

[Sona Movsesian]

It's true. I mean, she's just saying the facts there. That's true. We did.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. Can you change that to squeegee and edit?

[Sona Movsesian]

No.

[Jeff Goldblum]

So it just becomes squeegee. You guys were just squeegeeing each other. That, to me, feels erotic.

[Matt Gourley]

I didn't say each other. I said you were just. Every time someone would say oh, yeah. Do you remember this one actor who was in one show for three episodes? You were like, oh, my God. That guy was the best guy I've.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Ever heard of my life.

[Matt Gourley]

That's when I.

[Jeff Goldblum]

That's splooging around you. That talks that way. I've never. That's not what it's. That doesn't at all sound like a guy who was about to ejaculate in. No way. Your guy who's about to ejaculate, like. Yeah. So anyway, I'm going to go get a sandwich and. Oh, my God, I just came.

[Conan O'Brien]

Who the fuck is that guy you've.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Been hanging out with?

[Sona Movsesian]

Bruno the Splooger.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. He just has orgasms when he least expects it. Anyway, so I think what we're going to do is get a guy in here to rivet the beam. You need a good riveter. Cause the rivets have to be hot, too, because they gotta go into the I beam. Oh, God. Oh, fuck.

[Sona Movsesian]

Some people have narcolepsy. I got sploogilepsy.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I got sploogilepsy. I don't know. This year, I think the Mets are gonna go all the way. I'll tell you what it is. It's infielding. If you can keep the ball in the infield. Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck.

[Sona Movsesian]

I had to take my earphones off.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, fuck. I was talking about infielding. I thought I was.

[Matt Gourley]

Jesus.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I love this guy. Yeah, this guy.

[Sona Movsesian]

Bruno the Splooge. You're listening to Bruno the splooge on KXW9.

[Jeff Goldblum]

All right, all right. Well, anyway, let's do this. Let's do this thing. Strap yourselves in. My guest today is an actor who has starred in such movies as Jurassic Park, Independence Day, and Thor Ragnarok. Now he's reprising his role as Dr. Ian Malcolm in the highly anticipated movie Jurassic World. Dominion. To say I'm excited is insane, because it's beyond that. Delighted. Excited. Orgasmic. To chat with him today. Jeff Goldblum, welcome. Lord, I have to tell you, this is the inaugural podcast in our new studio with a genuine celebrity. We did a little messing around and testing beforehand, but you.

[Conan O'Brien]

Genuine, genuine pronunciation. That's why I say you did Music man at one point.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, I wish I had. I know you.

[Conan O'Brien]

Genuine.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I know you.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes, I know. Well, you know very well you were in that movie.

[Jeff Goldblum]

So, listen, I must tell you that I can't think of a better person to start this off with than you. You know that you and I have something, a certain Frison. Admit it. Admit it. We have something.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes. Yes, we do.

[Jeff Goldblum]

No. And. And I will.

[Conan O'Brien]

A free zone. You know what that means?

[Matt Gourley]

I don't.

[Conan O'Brien]

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

[Jeff Goldblum]

The way you're moving, you're moving like a lascivious snake.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes. Bring it out in me.

[Jeff Goldblum]

No, you are. I've interviewed you many times. You're one of my favorite people to talk to because you have an animalistic quality. Yes. And I mean that in the nicest way.

[Conan O'Brien]

Which animal?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, I don't know. It would be a reptile, I believe.

[Sona Movsesian]

I think a panther.

[Jeff Goldblum]

No, no, no, no, no. Because it has a long dart. I know that he can hit a fly at great lengths. You're a combination of animals. You are a panther, but you are also a lizard. Of course, the fly. We must add the fly in there. Yes, yes.

[Conan O'Brien]

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 know.

[Jeff Goldblum]

The tongue detached from the mouth. Detached?

[Conan O'Brien]

It was a detachable, long tongue. Yes. You know, apropos of nothing. Well, first of all, interest to nobody. But. But you just. But that's true. And I have forgot that. What the hell am I doing with that? The. Yes, Yes. I wrote these down madly as I. Before I forgotten this morning.

[Jeff Goldblum]

This is a dream.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Let me pause for a minute. Ladies and gentlemen, Jeff Goldblum, esteemed actor, is about to. He's relayed a dream that he had last night. And I can see that he's written it down, it looks like in Hebrew. I don't understand. Your handwriting is very bizarre.

[Conan O'Brien]

Do you speak Hebrew? Hebrew?

[Jeff Goldblum]

It's very strange.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. Yeah, it is. You can't read that. My dad was a doctor. Like your dad was.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah, it's like Sanskrit. It's crazy.

[Conan O'Brien]

I inherited his thing. No, but that's what I wrote down. That's right.

[Sona Movsesian]

Should we hear it?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. Should we hear the dream?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, you can. But I did just remember that. No kidding. That tongue, Part of it. That was also last night. There's nothing funny about these, but it may open a portal into our subconscious. All of us.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Let's hope so.

[Conan O'Brien]

Robert Altman. You remember him?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. The great, great director, Robert Altman.

[Conan O'Brien]

I worked with him a few times.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Name dropper.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, I know I know. In any case, he was. He appeared in my dream. We were kind of in a hospital situation or something. And he appeared all of a sudden, to my astonishment and delight, alive. He's now dead. Lo these several years, but he was alive, young and radiant with his. I think they were his sons. And they were kind of sneaking him in and out of this thing. And I said, look at you. Because he'd. I guess I intuited, right. I inferred right away he had faked his death for some reason. He seemed sly and delighted. And it was just now our secret. And he said, yes, be prepared for me to stay at your house. Something like that. And then they left.

[Jeff Goldblum]

That was the dream.

[Conan O'Brien]

That was one sequence. That's that sequence. The second sequence was. Listen to this. I was in some kind of strange but heavy equipment pod that was delivering us up a mountain. The outside of. To view a mountain. And it was the Alps. I think it was the Alps of some kind.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You're in some kind of craft, viewing the Alps.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes, and each of us in a separate pod. My wife Emily, was in a pod a little bit away from me. And we were all experiencing this separately. But we could see a wonderful view of these mountains as they got higher and higher. And it was like the highest peak on Earth. As we got further, we saw these old castles, kind of, you know, places. And that was amazing and wonderful. Then we got higher and higher until finally it kind of leveled up and we knew we were at the top of the world. And then. And it was amazing. And everybody was kind of. Oh, you know, in awe. And then before it started down the other side, like a roller coaster. We were like that. And then it started, and it was harrowing, you know, ride that seemed like that. I kind of retreated inside an inner compartment in this pod in kind of a bathroom. And I said, I'm missing it. I thought to myself, I'm missing it. So I went back up and kind of got some of it. That was it. And then it was over. We all. I missed my wife. I missed the group. And I seemed to be by myself. Left behind somehow. Couldn't find them. So I was like, left behind. That's the second part of the dream.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

Kind of.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yes. Let me say quickly. Freud had this theory that dreams have meaning. And we now know that Freud was wrong.

[Conan O'Brien]

That has no meaning.

[Jeff Goldblum]

This is insanity. There's nothing. Oh, no, Porthole. There's nothing there. Robert Altman returns from the dead and wants to stay at your home. And he's being sneaky and you're in a hospital. Then you're in a pod. You're observing the Alps. You go up one side and down the other after spending a brief interval in the bathroom. What's the last one?

[Conan O'Brien]

The last one. This may make sense of the whole thing. I was doing kind of a talk show or a podcast of some kind. It's not curious to think some kind.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I guess there are so many thinking. None would come to the mind of a Jeff Goldblum.

[Conan O'Brien]

None like this. This is uniquely tippity toppity. That's how it relates to the second one. This is the crest. This is the summit. Very nice podcastery.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Thank you, podcastery. We are the summit of podcasteries.

[Conan O'Brien]

But I was gonna perform in some way, or being asked to perform. I wasn't kind of prepared or happy about it. And then the woman producer type, you know, laid on me some things that I wasn't prepared for. She said, oh, yeah, you're gonna, you're gonna be talking to, to Diane Keaton and Ron Howard and we're gonna try to get you to get him to dance. And I said, nothing's right. The microphone isn't right. I have a pen. I have nothing right now. How long am I gonna do this? I said, didn't know. She said, oh, another, you know, a couple hours. Well, that's all together. That's five hours. That's two. So it's. This is like a steady job. This is like a full time job, right? Yeah, yeah, I think so. Well, okay. I was not happy about it.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, I'll tell you what. So you had a dream the night before coming here about doing a long podcast with a red haired celebrity. Ron Howard and Diane Keaton, AKA Sonam of. Oh, yes, yes.

[Conan O'Brien]

And then finally I said, there was a guy with great big bushy eyebrows. Let's see if I'm prescient at all.

[Sona Movsesian]

No, must be me. I mean, I trim them, but they could comb into my hairline if I needed them.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, no kidding. Well, he was back and I said, what's your last. I said, what's your name? Yes. Well, I want to learn everybody's name first and last. He said last. He was kind of, you know, taken aback by that. And then I said, yes. And there was a big crew around and I said, yes, I think I should learn everybody's name. In fact, I think if it were up to me, we'd all be wearing name tags. They seem to be happy about that. Da, da, da, da. That's about all of that. That's that drink.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Now listen, don't lose that sheet of paper, okay? Okay. We can't have that lost to time.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay.

[Jeff Goldblum]

We need to frame that. Yeah, that is, you know, here's what I'll say about you, Jeff. I never know what you're going to say. I never know what you're going to do. You are feral. You are a man that runs on instinct. You don't. And you're very much, I think, attuned. You should see the faces he's making right now. You're very much attuned to the univers feel like you are constantly in the now. Is this correct?

[Conan O'Brien]

I aspire to presence and yes, I'd like to be. I'd like to be here and now. That would be great. Yeah. Yes, you. That you've devoted your life to the technology of the here and now, I believe. Isn't that also correct?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, I don't think I have at all. I don't know what you're talking about.

[Conan O'Brien]

You do, so you can't deny it. By the way, here, let me mention something. You know, there is such a thing as you go to. I don't know whether you're. You go to therapists and you've talked about dreams or interested in dreams, but there's a thing called dream work. This may be of no interest to you, but there's a thing that occurs to me. 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 Ccat that Laura Dern turned me onto whom Laura Dern turned me onto that. You go to bed before the night of a. Before you need an answer to something, you say, dear inner self, you write a letter, please give me an answer to something about this character that I'm playing or my life aspect of this relationship. And you have a dream and then you go to this dream coach and they go. And you go, well, here's what it is. I wrote it down. Doesn't seem to have anything to do with the play or ba ga gah. And they go, well, not at first, but how about this? And they open you up to consider the possibilities of how your subconscious may be informing your activities and your questions.

[Jeff Goldblum]

What do you think? My mother in law, a lovely woman and very smart woman, is a therapist. Yeah, Eliza's mom. And she believes that all dreams have meaning. If you have a dream and you tell her, she starts to pick it Apart. I'm often having dreams that I defy anyone to make sense of because it just seems like random mush. It really does. And then I realize that most of my life I'm speaking in random mush.

[Matt Gourley]

Yes, exactly.

[Conan O'Brien]

So maybe they're related.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Maybe they are related.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. And you get fertile material in your dream life or not. You know, I don't know about this. I'm not advocating for one. I don't know how I feel about it. If you tell me dreams are just a kind of a weird, you know, discharge of your nocturnal, you know.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, no, there are nocturnal discharges. That's a separate category.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes, yes.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, there are. They're just, frankly, are. I know there are.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Jeff Goldblum]

What's that?

[Sona Movsesian]

I just don't need to bring them up.

[Jeff Goldblum]

No, no, I wasn't going to bring them up. I was just going to say it's a common term, nocturnal discharge. And I wanted to make sure that people didn't misunderstand what Jeff was saying, that you are a separate. Separating the two.

[Matt Gourley]

Right.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes, yes, exactly. And if we were not on air, and I were more given to the ribald or ribald or ribald.

[Matt Gourley]

I don't know.

[Conan O'Brien]

What do you think?

[Sona Movsesian]

Well, he said genuine.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I'm allowed to. I, as the host of the show, am allowed to make up your own. Make up the final laws on all pronunciations, really. But please continue way.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, I don't know. So. Well, my point is that I'm not going to continue into something about a whole thing that I just thought of.

[Sona Movsesian]

I love it.

[Conan O'Brien]

If you would.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah, yeah. Don't be afraid of being ribald. We are all adults here, and this is just. And I will say this is a safe space.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. All right. No, I shouldn't. Well, you know. Yes, yes. When I was young, you know, 12, 13, I think it happened.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yes.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah, yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Anyway, that's all. That's all I'll say. And.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, that seems young, is all I'm gonna say.

[Conan O'Brien]

Really.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yes. I was 37. Oh, God, yes.

[Conan O'Brien]

Congratulations.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. No, no, I was really watching them wrap up Seinfeld, and I just. It happened. I'm sorry. Late bloomer. I am.

[Conan O'Brien]

You know, you have speak like Yoda.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah, I know.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Discharge. Late. 3,000 years old. I was Seattle, by the way.

[Conan O'Brien]

By the way, I'm such big fans of yours. I've been watching a lot of. Not just for my conscientious research purposes, but just for my own entertainment. Often I go to YouTube and see. I've seen hours and hours and hours of Your content foolishness, I like to call it everything.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, that's nice. I love to think of you out there watching.

[Conan O'Brien]

I really so. I know, I know.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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

[Sona Movsesian]

No, that's for sure.

[Jeff Goldblum]

So you can see something from 25 years ago and it doesn't relate to any specific topical thing in the news. And other than the fact that my head hasn't rotted yet in those clips, people can laugh at them all over again, which makes me happy. Uh oh, you put on your specs.

[Matt Gourley]

I was examining your.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Examining my rotten.

[Conan O'Brien]

Now that you brought it up, you all look great, you know, just great.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, please. You can tell that this. I have one of those Irish heads that bloats as it gets older.

[Conan O'Brien]

You've said. I know.

[Jeff Goldblum]

No, this is true. You know, you leave a gourd. You leave a gourd in the sun long enough and then winter comes and you have yourself a Conan. That's what happens over time. But you, I will say this. I love talking to you because you're staring at me and you're examining everybody.

[Conan O'Brien]

I like your glasses. I like your glasses.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You know why? You know why?

[Conan O'Brien]

We had a conversation. I think I introduced you to these.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You did. I will admit freely that my style guru and my lifestyle guru is Mr. Jeff Goldberg.

[Sona Movsesian]

How can I not be?

[Jeff Goldblum]

And I'll tell you why. He is a tall, good looking drink of water. And whenever he's wearing something, I think, well, wait a minute. We have somewhat similar. Well, hold on. Sona's about to really correct me. Let's say Jeff had been in an accident at some point, then Jeff and I would be very similar. That's all I'm saying.

[Matt Gourley]

You guys have very different vibes.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, no, I'm not talking about the vibes. I'm talking just about when he is a tall man and he knows how to dress right. And I love. So during commercial breaks, often, often when he was on the show, people always wonder, what do you talk about with people? I can always tell you what I'm talking about with Jeff. The commercial break. I go right to, oh, my God, those shoes. And you know, I have large feet and you have large feet. And he's like, oh, my boy. Oh, oh, yes, use. And then, so I remembered once you came out and you were wearing these wonderful glasses that you really carried off well. And I said, I must wear those glasses. And I asked you, and you acted as if you were telling me where the secret ring was that would unlock the universe. You went, oh, oh, oh. Oh. Oh, my. Oh, yes, yes. Jacques. Jacques, Marie. What is it? Limoge.

[Conan O'Brien]

Jacques.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. Jacques Marie, Maje. Oh. And he said, oh, my boy. I'll call ahead. I'll call ahead. And then you described going downtown, and there's a secret knock and a corridor and a passageway, and sure enough, they're the greatest glasses.

[Conan O'Brien]

Did you go. How'd you get them? Did you go to see Jerome?

[Jeff Goldblum]

I went with Sona. Sona came here.

[Conan O'Brien]

You went to Jerome, that studio? Oh, yeah. I'm sure he greeted you and met you and showed you.

[Matt Gourley]

He was everything. He was wonderful. Everybody was wonderful.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I mean, I have done this several times. You. Once we were doing something together that was not my project and. Not your project. We were recording something together.

[Conan O'Brien]

I remember the day.

[Jeff Goldblum]

And I. And you walked in, and I always couldn't. I could never find jeans. I have a very unusual build. I'll say. And anyway, what's your inseam?

[Conan O'Brien]

What's your leg? We have long leg. You have a fine leg, I think. What's your inseam?

[Jeff Goldblum]

I have a very long leg.

[Conan O'Brien]

We'll say it together. Ready? Here's our inseam. One, two, three. 36.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I'm a 36.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'm a 36.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah, you were a 30.

[Jeff Goldblum]

30. Well, I was afraid. I was afraid to go. I have a very. I have a long inseam. And so I. So anyway, I see this gentleman come in, and he's wearing these amazing jeans. And I said, oh, my God, Jeff, where'd you get those jeans? She went, oh. Oh, well. Oh, my boy.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, boy.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, good. Oh. And you went, oh, oh, my boy. You simply must. Oh. And then. And then you said. And then you said. And then you said. I'll never forget, you said, the Shaffer Garment Hotel.

[Conan O'Brien]

What?

[Jeff Goldblum]

And it's this place. Yeah. You said, oh, the Shaffer Garment Hotel. And I go there. And you said, just go. Just go. So I go. And of course, it's the coolest people in the world, and they have, like, an old denim machine.

[Sona Movsesian]

And it's like the John Wick Hotel, but for clothes.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yes. Yes, it is. It's the John Wick Hotel, except just for jeans.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, my goodness. And how about the hat maker in the battle?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, there's a guy there wearing, like, Slash's hat, and he's like, I'll make you one of these. And I went, well, I don't know if I can carry that off. There's a dog that's in the store?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, that's right. You know who I ran into there once? I was with Emily. We went there to pick up a pair of jeans or a hat or something, and it was just us and Bob Dylan. Oh, my God, yes. Cause he got his hats from that guy. I saw him out of the corner of my eye. I kept. I had important business. I was talking about hat. And he came in, and before I could say anything to him, he left. But I think Emily. I don't know if she said anything to him.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Wait, you didn't go up to him?

[Conan O'Brien]

No, no, no. I wish I had.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I think I've told this before, but I met him once. I got pushed to the front of the. I was. I went to see some concert of his, and I was backstage, and someone pushed me to the front of a line, and there he was, the great Bob Dylan. And it's my one chance to meet him. And he. And he. All this conversation stopped. And Bob Dylan looked at me and he went, I know you from the tv. Oh, that'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 is, I know you from the tv. And then I hear Conan. Conan, it's me, Al Gore.

[Matt Gourley]

And I'm like, what is this event?

[Jeff Goldblum]

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. 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. That's a true story.

[Conan O'Brien]

If you had told me that that wasn't a true story, but that was a dream you had last night. It would be just as credible.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. And then, trust me, I wanted to detach Gore's tongue from his body to get him to stop yapping at me. No, I'm sorry. All due respect to former vice president and of course, a leading figure in.

[Sona Movsesian]

Climate prevention change, just another nocturnal emission happening.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. You know what? He does this to me. Jeff Goldblum does this to me. He unmans me.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah, you're just bewitching and this is joyous.

[Matt Gourley]

Yes.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Some trips are better in an Airbnb. It's just true. Like the trip you want to take with extended family, where you want to stay close, but not all be sharing one bathroom. That's key for me. Okay. That's why Airbnb is the choice. I Often want to make. Or for example, the couples getaway where you'd rather have your own pool than share one with a bunch of strangers. Oh, when I'm in a pool with strangers, I start shrieking.

[Matt Gourley]

Okay, that's weird.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Or that last minute local getaway when you just really need to get out of the city for the weekend but don't want to deal with the airport. You know, I have to say, I've used Airbnb a couple times and it always makes me feel like I'm at home, even when I'm away. Do you have that?

[Matt Gourley]

I do too. I mean, I have, you know, I have two small kids who are loud. And so when I'm in a hotel, I feel a little uncomfortable.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, you're loud too.

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, yes. Okay. Yeah, we're all loud. And then in an Airbnb, I just feel much more comfortable.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You're not as self conscious.

[Matt Gourley]

No.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Jeff Goldblum]

And also you're staying in someone's home. It's got that vibe of comfort, relaxation, normalcy instead of some stuffy hotel. I don't want a mint on my pillow. Hey, Blay, you use Airbnb, don't you? I do. I love it. And I will say there's staying in someone's place really does add a lot. I'm a huge Stephen King fan and the last Airbnb I stayed in had this book from a Buick 8, which is one of the few Stephen King books I haven't read. So I actually started reading it in the Airbnb. It was pretty awesome. And you know what I do sometimes when I'm at an Airbnb? I often travel with a picture of myself in a frame.

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, boy.

[Jeff Goldblum]

And I take it out and I put it up and it feels like home. I travel with my own framed headshot. Do you leave it there for as a gift? No, that's mine. Those things are precious. So if you're booking a trip soon, my number one tip is to check out Airbnb first to find the perfect place to stay, because your accommodation really does make all the difference. We had a birthday party here at the office the other day and they brought out this cake and there was this really cool, like, flower made of frosting right in the middle of the cake. Someone scooped it out just to eat that flower. I hate that. That person, to me, is a villain. A true villain.

[Matt Gourley]

You should fire them.

[Jeff Goldblum]

A monster. If I could. There's no camera. I can. I've looked for the tape. Whoever did it must pay. And I want to say to that person. If I found them and I saw them eating that flower that they cut out of the middle cake, I'd say, how do you sleep at night? Yeah, how do you sleep at night? And you know what? I think I know what they'd say. Did say Mattress Firm. Yeah, that's the problem. They turn it into an ad.

[Matt Gourley]

It's interesting that you would know what they would say, but you have no.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Idea what they have frosting all over their mouth. And it's a Mattress Firm Rest Easy with mattress firms 120 Night Sleep Trial Love it or your money back. Hey, I love to hear that.

[Matt Gourley]

I love being able to give stuff back if I don't like it.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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[Matt Gourley]

I mean obviously washing my face every morning and night and then you know, taking some time to myself relaxing because.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You'Ve got, you've got a stressful life. You've got twins.

[Matt Gourley]

Yes.

[Jeff Goldblum]

And you know, when your schedule's packed with kids, activities, big work, projects, more, it's easy to let your priorities slip. You forget you're taking care of other people you're not. And taking care of yourself. And even when we know what makes us happy, sometimes it's hard to make time for it. We don't prioritize ourselves in general, but when you feel like you have no time for yourself, non negotiables like therapy are more important than ever. That's actually when you need it the most. So if you're thinking of starting therapy, give better help a try. Okay. It's entirely online. It's designed to be convenient, flexible and suited to your schedule. Just fill out a brief questionnaire to get matched with a licensed therapist and switch therapists anytime for no additional charge. My advice to you Never skip therapy day with BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.comconant today to get 10% off your first month. That's BetterHelpH. E l-p.comconan When I'm around, you look and take a sip. Everything he does is perfection.

[Matt Gourley]

Yes.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You just want to take a sip, and it's like there's a golden liquid in there, but I know it's just something. Okay. Looks like ginger ale or rum. I don't know.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, it's green tea that they made for me here. But I know how you despise iced drinks. Of course. I heard that whole I've seen every I've heard everybody episode.

[Matt Gourley]

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

[Jeff Goldblum]

I know everything I have to say.

[Matt Gourley]

We're terrible people.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You know, we really are an awful lot.

[Sona Movsesian]

You can do better than us, Jeff.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You know what? You can sip any day because everything you.

[Conan O'Brien]

Listen, listen, listen.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, my God. That is Jeff Goldblum sipping. Oh, my God, you're the best. 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. 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. I really am. I am. I'm just saying that. And Matt is as well. We're just up for it.

[Sona Movsesian]

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

[Matt Gourley]

Wait, you mean like if Jeff invited you to, like, a weird sex party, you'd be like, oh, you know how.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You know how uptight I am?

[Matt Gourley]

Yes, that's my point.

[Jeff Goldblum]

If Jeff Goldblum said, oh, this. Come with me into this special sanctum, and I want you to introduce me, to introduce you to my secret friends. And it's gonna be. But first, you must apply this wax and oil. I would do it. I would do it because he's that.

[Sona Movsesian]

And it's to be Diane Keaton, Ron Howard and Robert Altman, Bob Dylan and Al.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Bob Dylan's going to see me and go, I know you from the TV.

[Sona Movsesian]

About you in a whole different way.

[Jeff Goldblum]

And then I'm just about to get it on with Bob Dylan when I get to hear Conan. Conan Smith, Vice President Al Gore.

[Conan O'Brien]

Very erotic.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah, well, this.

[Conan O'Brien]

This little PAT jacket that we're in. Don't you love this? Is this the first. This is the first time?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, I love this blue. Blue velvet purse that we're in.

[Sona Movsesian]

You know, it's like a sex Panic room.

[Matt Gourley]

I don't know. Sex with microphone.

[Conan O'Brien]

Have you ever been in a sex panic?

[Jeff Goldblum]

It's a sex. Yeah, I have been in a sex panic myself. See, that's the problem. That's why I envy you is, is I don't think Jeff would ever be in a sex panic. Jeff Goldblum would never be a sex panic. I am in a constant. Even when there's nothing sexual happening, I'm in a sex panic. I'm constantly in my own head.

[Sona Movsesian]

He's the antidote because he could be a sex bomb to your sex panic. This is not going to happen.

[Jeff Goldblum]

A sex whistle.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yes.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Sex whisper.

[Conan O'Brien]

Sex bomb. Sex bomb. Who, who, who did that song Sex Bomb? It wasn't bomb, but it was bomb.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, yeah, sex bomb.

[Jeff Goldblum]

V52s.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, it was a big hit in Europe, particularly during these couple of years that I remember. Sex bomb. Sex bomb.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You only remember a couple of years?

[Conan O'Brien]

No, during these couple. This is when it was. He's looking it up. When it was a hit, I was in Europe making a movie and it was on all the time. But I don't think it made its way across the pond. And there was a video. I'll give you a clue. That same singer is not unusual.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, Tom Jones.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, Tom Jones. Exactly.

[Jeff Goldblum]

What?

[Conan O'Brien]

James Bond.

[Sona Movsesian]

Thunderball.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, yeah. And they stray strikes like Thunderball.

[Sona Movsesian]

Do you know that that Johnny Cash did a rejected Thunderball theme song?

[Conan O'Brien]

Did not know that.

[Sona Movsesian]

He did. Unsolicited. Sent it to them and they went, we never asked for this.

[Conan O'Brien]

It was not that song. It was his own song.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You know, can I say something? And this is to be. Because I know a lot about Johnny Cash. I revere him. Yeah, he sent in a lot of unsolicited songs. He was constantly, constantly sending in, like Prel. Shampoo, Alpo, Dog food. He was constantly. Yeah, he was constantly sending in. I've got a different way you could go with that song. Purina Cat, Chow, chow, chow, chow.

[Matt Gourley]

I believed you for a second. Now I feel really dumb. Yeah, I was like, oh, you know.

[Jeff Goldblum]

The best part of waking up is lifting in your cup. You know that Johnny Cash first sent it in. He did it in that Johnny Cash way.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, he first sang that song. You look sharp, feel sharp, be sharp. Burning fire down, down, down. Bur stuck on band Aids Cuz bandaid stuck on me.

[Jeff Goldblum]

He did the Oscar Meyer song. Baloney has a first name. It's a second name. Oh, and you know what mean?

[Conan O'Brien]

No, no, no.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Wasn't that why, you know what the sad last Thing he did before he passed away was the Car for Kids jingle.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, I don't know that jingle.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Sing it.

[Sona Movsesian]

1-800-Cars for kids. Something like that.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, that. Okay. No, but I think the Oscar Meyer thing was. I'd like to be an Oscar Meyer wiener. Oh, I'd like to be an Oscar Meyer wiener.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Be an Oscar Mayer wiener. That is what I'd really like to be.

[Conan O'Brien]

The kids would be in love with me. I fell into a burning ring of.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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

[Conan O'Brien]

That's true.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Unsolicited, he would just send them in.

[Conan O'Brien]

But he did do the Thunderball. This is how we got started. Dropping mental breadcrumbs. He did send in the Thunderbolt.

[Sona Movsesian]

And it sounds like a typical Johnny Cash song, except it has kind of like John Barry horns in it. It's really something.

[Conan O'Brien]

I love that. I love that Thunderball. I was right at the right age for that because I'd consumed Dr. No from Russia. I was so ready for Thunderball.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Boy, that was great. Is he your favorite Bond of all time? I'm gonna say for me it's Sean Connery, but Daniel Craig is right there with him. And I thought no one could do that. I thought no one could. Sean Connery was so incredible.

[Conan O'Brien]

Fantastic. When he peaked when he went to the summit of the Alps after Thunderball. I think. Nothing against Sean Connery. Those movies. It started to.

[Sona Movsesian]

He was phoning it in a bit with her.

[Conan O'Brien]

Ye. And by the time he got to Jill St. John and diamonds Are Forever. Diamonds Are Forever, you know, not my favorite. And ended up.

[Sona Movsesian]

Never been happier in my life.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Right.

[Matt Gourley]

Now I know you're. This is right up your alley.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I'll tell you. Matt Gorley is a Bond fanatic and a huge Jeff Goldblum fan. Now he's in a room, they've both come together and he's having a nocturnal emission. Oh, my God.

[Matt Gourley]

There's so many emissions happening.

[Sona Movsesian]

A diurnal emission all day long here. This is real.

[Matt Gourley]

What?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. The what? The what?

[Sona Movsesian]

Diurnal.

[Conan O'Brien]

Diurnal. Oh, is that the daytime? The diurnal?

[Sona Movsesian]

I believe so.

[Conan O'Brien]

Die. Diurnal. Di. Diurnal. Diurnal. Di. Diurnal. I believe I know that song. Johnny Cash first sent that in.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Listen, you have.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes, he submitted all my bar mitzvah song.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You know what? You know what makes perfect? You know what makes perfect?

[Conan O'Brien]

I fell into a burning ring of.

[Jeff Goldblum]

It's becoming more Elvis. It's becoming more Elvis. Johnny Cash.

[Conan O'Brien]

I never said I was the perfect.

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, my God.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You know, you are a terrific jazz musician. And I'm bringing this up for a reason. I think to understand Jeff Goldblum, which is impossible, but to really understand what makes this man tick, I think, is your love of jazz. You are constantly improvising in the moment and tuned into that crazy galaxy that real jazz musicians are tuned into. And a good friend of mine just went and saw you perform the other night and said that you were fantastic.

[Matt Gourley]

Really?

[Conan O'Brien]

That's very nice. That's very encouraging. Thank you. Yeah, we played the Disney cartoon concert hall.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yes.

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, my God, two.

[Conan O'Brien]

A couple nights ago.

[Jeff Goldblum]

But what I'm saying is, am I correct that there's something about music? I just feel like you're in tune with some jazz musical score all the time. Do you think that's. And this is a compliment, by the way.

[Conan O'Brien]

Thank you so much. I like. Well, I aspire to it. I'm a humble student of jazz and of the technology of presence in all its various ramifications in the podcast world, in the jazz world, in the musical world and everything. 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, by the way, how many friends do you need? You've been looking for. How long have you been looking for friends now? How many have you found by this time, Jeff?

[Jeff Goldblum]

They don't often take. That's the problem. I am. I don't wear well over time. That's one of the problems.

[Conan O'Brien]

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.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yes, I'm right there with you.

[Conan O'Brien]

I think we have.

[Jeff Goldblum]

We need to graft into each other.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes, we need to. Very, very much. Yeah, but think of. Do you know any songs about friendship?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, the song that, you know, we are gonna be friends, that White Stripes did. Jack White. He's a good friend of mine. And that's the song I wanted.

[Conan O'Brien]

Rapper.

[Jeff Goldblum]

He wrote with Jeff Altman.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, Jeff Altman.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Robert Altman. Sorry. Oh, anyway, fall is here.

[Conan O'Brien]

Hear the L. You sing like a nightingale. I love your voice. When, you know, when you're not doing. When you're not doing that. You have a beautiful, authentic, conversational, delightful voice.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Can I say something? You must. I'm always so self conscious that I put trills and foolishness in there. But you just never just sing.

[Conan O'Brien]

You just sang. And I loved It. Yeah.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Silent night oh, is that.

[Matt Gourley]

You're gonna do a thing.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Holy night all is calm yeah. No, it's doing it again, right?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. Try to take all the vibrato out of it. No, but you were just singing, so sing that.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Whatever you.

[Conan O'Brien]

You want to sing. Like the other voice. That. That's it.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Let's see.

[Conan O'Brien]

You've got a friend.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, no, I can't sing that song.

[Sona Movsesian]

How about the Jason Isabel song you sang to us that time, that year?

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. How's that go? It goes. Never could be happy in the city at night that's beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. Can't see the stars for the neon lights Beautiful Sidewalks dirty and the river's worse Underground trains all run in reverse Nobody here can dance like me Everybody claps on the one and the three Am I the last of my kind? Am I the last of my kind?

[Conan O'Brien]

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.

[Matt Gourley]

He can't do it.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I can't do it.

[Sona Movsesian]

You know, you two are just locked in eye contact.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I know, but can I tell you something? Can I say something, Jeff? I could not, and I'm supposed to, and I want to write a song with Amy Mann.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. I love Amy Mann.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Talking about it. I adore Amy Mann, and I'm intimidated by Amy Mann's talent, but we promised to write a song together. And then the last thing she said to me, I said, yeah, I'll do it. And she said, you know, it's just gotta be something, like, sincere and something that you really wanna say. And I was like, oh, oh, that's not gonna happen.

[Sona Movsesian]

You could do it.

[Jeff Goldblum]

No, I can't. I can. Will you tell them, please?

[Matt Gourley]

I was on the edge of my seat the entire time you were singing. Cause I thought he was gonna go into some bit and, like, do something with your voice.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Things eventually become a bit.

[Matt Gourley]

It's a bit. You like joking around.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, who knows where it will be consumed or how it should be presented. But just for your own. Just for. You know, just. Just do it. I'd love to hear Just for me and for son and for us. I'd love to hear you do it. And you don't have to jettison your comedic force of nature. You could be surprising and do one like that and one like that and one like that. But that's a very useful part of your toolbox, in my opinion, and a very enjoyable one.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, that's very nice. I'm curious about something because we have so much in common. Not just our incredible heightened physiques, not just our incredibly successful careers, both of us as actors. My point is that we both. And you mentioned this earlier, both of us, both of our fathers. Doctors.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes. Right.

[Jeff Goldblum]

And I don't know, there's this couple of similarities there. I'm fascinated by this idea that sometimes a salmon just knows it has to swim upstream. I don't know why, but somehow you knew when you were a kid.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. A kid.

[Jeff Goldblum]

That you needed to be an actor, you needed to be a performer.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yep, I did. I did. Yeah. Around 10, you know, we started to go to children's theater and I was like, what are they doing? Who is that? What are they doing backstage? And I'd be very excited, you know, just to go. And then around 9th and 10th grades, I went to this summer session of Carnegie Mellon University and took real lessons and. Oh, no, but before that. Yes. I went to Chatham Music Day Camp around fifth grade and was in this show. 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. And that night they said, so how'd you like that? And I was like, yeah, I liked it. But I kept it secret because there was no, you know, I kept it secret. I wanted to be an actor. And certainly in school I was a well behaved, good boy. And nobody would have thought that I would do anything like that, except that I played piano here and there. And so that was it. Yeah. And he was a doctor, but I must say, I don't know what kind.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Of doctor, by the way.

[Conan O'Brien]

Internal medicine, kind of a family doctor, you know.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Got it, got it.

[Conan O'Brien]

But, you know, people, his patients loved him, and he would always kind of keep up on his studies and this and that, and, you know, he liked medicine. But early on, supposedly, the story goes, he. When he wanted to decide what he was gonna do, he was either gonna be a doctor or an actor. He had the idea to be an actor, and then he stuck his head in the back of a class and thought to himself, this is out of my league. Whatever that meant. So he was a doctor, but. So he was a little bit tickled when I.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Of course, yeah. Did he? And he got to see you become Jeff Goldblum, the big.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, not such a big deal. Not even a big deal now. But he got to see me start to. Because things 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. And I remember I did a play called City Sugar where I was the lead. I was a radio guy in England with an English accent, Steven Poliakov play called City Sugar. And I did it at this off Broadway show 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.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Wow. Well, I can't relate.

[Sona Movsesian]

Anyway, I don't mean to interrupt. I just realized something that's. Speaking of when you knew you wanted to do something. When I was a very young boy, my dad took me to downtown la. Cause that's where he used to work. First celebrity sighting was something being shot. A warehouse door opened, outruns Ben Vereen and then outruns Jeff Goldblum shooting 10 speed and brightness.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Okay, And I was gonna bring this up, that the first time we met, TV was our life preserver. When we were kids. And my brothers Neil and Luke and I were really into what's the new show? What's the new show? And we're constantly looking for what's the new show going to be. It was a big deal back then. Now people are bombarded with TV and streaming all the time. Back in the late 70s, early 80s, it was a big deal. Like ABC's coming out with its lineup in the fall. And all summer you'd be excited. You'd hear rumors about what it was gonna be. And CBS is coming out with this and NBC's coming out with that. And there was this show that we heard about called Ten Speed and Brown Shoe and my brothers and I watched it and it starred Ben Vereen and this guy I had never heard of before named Jeff Koble. And it was fucking fantastic. It was so good. And I was like, who is that guy? Who's that guy? That guy's fantastic. And then the show didn't last 13 episodes is all. It was fantastic.

[Sona Movsesian]

Bring it back.

[Conan O'Brien]

And Stephen J. Cannell did it, who had done Rockford Files and many other things and what Greatest American Hero. Yeah, well, believe it or not, I'm walking on air. But.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Please don't ask me to sing that one.

[Conan O'Brien]

William Cat. Johnny Cash first sent that in.

[Jeff Goldblum]

So I. You know. But it's funny that you. We all have. It's so funny that you bring that up, Matt, because that is the first time that I met Jeff Goldblum. I'm using your full name just out of reverence, you know. It would have been a couple of years into the late night show that I met you. And you've, you know, you've done, I mean, everything. You'd have been in so many great movies. And I went back into your dressing room and I was like, 10 speed and brown shoe. And I remember you were like, oh, yeah, 10 speed and brown shoe. Cause I thought you might say, oh, well, who cares about that? You know, I've moved on to so many other things, but it was such. It really tickled me. When I was a. I don't know, how old would I have been? 14, 15?

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, it was like 1980, I think. So you were born in.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I was 16. 17. 16.

[Sona Movsesian]

I was seven when I saw you guys shooting that. 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.

[Conan O'Brien]

Really? You were. How did you wind up there? What?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Where?

[Sona Movsesian]

My dad worked downtown. And he would take me to downtown quite a bit. Downtown la.

[Conan O'Brien]

What did he do, your dad?

[Sona Movsesian]

He was a division manager for the gas company.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, I see.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, he also sold drugs.

[Sona Movsesian]

Major kingpin.

[Conan O'Brien]

So downtown. No kidding. And you just happened upon us shooting. No kidding.

[Sona Movsesian]

And I was just blown away.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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 show business in my childhood. And then I'll never forget, my father came home one day and he said, they're shooting a movie at my hospital, the Peter Brent Brigham Hospital, which is now Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. It's a big hospital. And he said, they're shooting this scene right outside my office. And we were like, they're shooting a movie in Boston near my dad's. Like, right outside my dad's office. That's 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 watch James Coburn just stand there while three, like, seven guys crowd around and start with a coat hanger trying to open the door. And I gotta find out the name of this movie. Cause I guess you go watch it.

[Sona Movsesian]

Well, where would this have been?

[Jeff Goldblum]

This would have been like 1971.

[Conan O'Brien]

We could look that up.

[Jeff Goldblum]

We could find it. And. And he trying to un. Un. You know, lift up the door and they couldn't get it. And I thought, this is movie making.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, yeah?

[Jeff Goldblum]

The hell is this?

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, still one is struck by that when you go to, you know, some movie and there's, you know, all the little things going on. Hey, I love James Coburn. You know, I saw the first run of Iron Man, Flynn.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, my God.

[Conan O'Brien]

In Like Flint.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, we're back.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. Remember how the telephone rang in Lee J. Cole. Bob's office.

[Matt Gourley]

I have no idea what.

[Jeff Goldblum]

This was kind of almost a takeoff on James Bond, but not really. I mean, it was very silly.

[Conan O'Brien]

Derek Flint. Derek Flint.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

And then Austin Power had kind of borrowed some things like that, kind of.

[Jeff Goldblum]

What's the James Coburn movie? I've got to find that.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'll bet. Let me guess, let me guess. After that, I think after that he did a movie called the President Analyst. You know, I remember him talking about it on talk shows. I used to love talk shows when I was in Pittsburgh. I used to tune into in summer, stay home all day and watch the Mike Douglas show. Go from Mike Douglas to, you know, Dinah Shore and Merv Griffin. And he used to come on, remember he was kind of a countercultural hippie actor then and used to come on with a turtleneck, you know, or in a medallion or something like that. And he. His act. He used to come on, not just talk. He wanted to play the gong. And he used to bring onto Carson a big, big gong and go, you know, that. That was his act. You know, we had.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You know what I love in the tradition of just to let people know that we did our best during my late night run to keep the madness going. You talk about how people would just do strange things. One of the stranger things we did once was we just put out a salt lick on my show to see if we could attract a celebr. You did it so nicely out of nowhere, just Jeff just in the corner, but he does it sort of like a. Like a nervous deer. And he slowly approaches and I'm like, oh, looks like. Looks like Jeff Koba, everyone. And he came out and then you, like, sniff, sniffed the salt lick and then you took a little lick. I remember that being one of my favorite. Such a stupid. I don't care. So James Coburn played the gong with Carson. Yeah. Let's see, let's see. You have Jeff Goldblum.

[Sona Movsesian]

What do we got for Coburn?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Coburn is the Carrie Treatment. Carrie treatment is a 1972American crime thriller film by Blake Edwards.

[Conan O'Brien]

Baseball.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yes. In Boston. Dr. Peter Carey, played by James Coburn. Yes. Pathologist who moves to Boston where he starts working.

[Conan O'Brien]

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

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, guess what? So this is another fun story. My dad's there. This didn't happen when I was there. They kept shooting this right outside my dad's window. And he kept thinking, well, I could keep looking under this microscope for a cure to a terrible disease, or I could go outside and hang out with these movie folk. So he went outside and he's chatting and he can't believe it. But Blake Edwards is there with his wife, Julie Andrews. And a friend of my dad's who doesn't know much because he's always looking in a microscope is talking to Blake Edwards. And then he turned to Julie Andrews.

[Conan O'Brien]

And said, the friend of your dad's?

[Jeff Goldblum]

The friend of my dad's. And said, now tell me, miss, what do you do?

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, no. Oh, no.

[Jeff Goldblum]

And she said, well, I'm, you know, an actress as well. And he went, well. And then later on people told him what he did. And the guy, I think, put his head in a cyclotron.

[Conan O'Brien]

It's like that. Same from Notting Hill when Julia Roberts comes in. Yeah, your grandson.

[Matt Gourley]

I know that reference.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yes, there you go. We're getting closer and closer.

[Matt Gourley]

Was when you said Julie Andrews, I was like, yeah, she narrated Bridgerton, so I know her.

[Jeff Goldblum]

And you know what?

[Conan O'Brien]

Sound of Music. Sound of Music.

[Matt Gourley]

I'm kidding.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You know when that, 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. And so I'd always take them, they were little kids to see the parade. And once I'm watching on the television and we haven't gone down yet and the parade is going by, then they said, and here comes Julie Andrews. I lost my fucking mind at the time. You know, I'm whatever. I'm a 46 year old man. I ran without my kids. Oh my God, how old were you? And I ran all the way down. They were like, where you going? I was like. And I ran. Cause I wanted to get down there fast. And I saw her go by and I was like, it's Julie Andrews. And I've been on TV at this point, you know, whatever, 12 years. And I'm like, ah, Julie Andrews. I mean, she didn't see me, but.

[Conan O'Brien]

Amazing. Yeah, amazing. How about the movie 10. She's in the movie 10, of course, too. But Sound of Music, I saw when it first came out, you know, it was a big deal around that year. And I showed it to our kids now. I showed this. We showed Sound of Music. We. We haven't shown them many movies. I'm gonna show. They've never been to a movie theater, but I think I'm gonna take them to see Jurassic World. Your kids are seven, almost seven, and just turned five.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, my God. Okay. So they're at such a great age, and because of COVID they've missed out on some of these great experiences. Like going to a movie theater is. So that was the biggest thing in the world that could happen to me was to get to go to a movie theater and see a movie.

[Conan O'Brien]

Really?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. And so when I say to anyone in my family now, hey, do you want to go see a movie? And they're like, I don't know. I'm like, I don't know. What are you talking about? It's because they can see anything they want at any time, right?

[Conan O'Brien]

Right. Oh, yeah. Going to a movie theater. I'm about to do. I'm involved in this cycle of publicity for Jurassic Park, Dominion. And one of the things we're encouraging people to do genuinely on my part is to go out and see it in the movies, you know, of course. And I made a list because of that. I thought, oh, what are the best times I've ever had in movie theaters in my life? Cause it's a, you know, that's a way to talk about it. And so I started to remember, and with the help of my sister, too, all the movies I saw importantly when I was a kid. And she said, oh, remember this one? And it's been a nostalgia blast.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Those are the movies that really blew you away.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes, these are the ones we remember. She and I used to go to. They used to drop us off to the Leona Theater, this big, beautiful jewel box of a three tiered movie palace in Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh, West Homestead, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Not downtown, it's all suburb, but they had this movie theater and we'd go for, you know, $0.25, $0.50 or something, whatever tickets were. Get pilot popcorn with butter and salt and a hot dog.

[Sona Movsesian]

So Jeff Goldblum is about to read a list of his favorite movies. This is heaven.

[Conan O'Brien]

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

[Jeff Goldblum]

Let's hear it.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay, we saw. See if any of these mean anything to you. The absent minded professor.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yes.

[Conan O'Brien]

You know Fred McMurray, flubber. All that made a big impression on me. The Blob. Oh, the original, which I've seen recently. Steve McQueen. Very good. His first movie, you know. Now, who was. Of course you'll know who was in all of these movies which we saw, you know. We saw what. Whatever that came to there. But during this period, the 60s, you know, early 60s. The bellboy. Cinderfella. Disorderly, Orderly. Visit.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Jerry Lewis.

[Conan O'Brien]

Planet Gay Shit course.

[Jeff Goldblum]

The Nutty Professor.

[Conan O'Brien]

Delinquent. Rockaby Baby. Nutty professor, yeah. Loved it. Then I got the chance to meet him. Did you ever meet Jerry?

[Jeff Goldblum]

I did. I got to meet him. I got to interview him.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's so interesting. Well, we could talk all about that.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, did you meet Jerry Lewis?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes, I did. I was going to play his son in that last movie that he did. Augie Rose. Augie Rose. Auggie. Oh, no, no. Max Rose. Max Rose. And so I went to Vegas in order. I was almost gonna do it before I got something else and couldn't. Da, da, da, da. And so I hung out with him in his office in Las Vegas and bonded. Amazing. We could talk for, you know. Amazing. He'd made a big. He was big in my childhood and during this period. So I.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Massive star. Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Thrilled to meet him. And he was, you know, as you know him at that stage, great, you know, great. And complicated.

[Jeff Goldblum]

And very complicated.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Right. But those movies, when we were seeing those movies, big deal. Do you know what this movie is? The Sterile Cuckoo.

[Jeff Goldblum]

No.

[Conan O'Brien]

Liza Minnelli's first. Liza Minnelli's first movie. She plays a kind of a nerdy girl. Sterile Cuckoo. Who's coming in.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Terrible name for a movie.

[Conan O'Brien]

It is. Nobody wants to. Sterility is never something that draws the. The masses. Yeah, yeah.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Come one, come all. Bring the family. The Sterile cuckoo. Yeah, that cuckoo's not having children.

[Conan O'Brien]

How about this movie? Who knows this? I don't think you will. Georgie girl.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Georgie girl walking down the street so fancy free was played by Redgrave. Lynn Redgrave, whom I worked with later, believe it or not. Oh, well. Bridge on the River Kwai. We saw the first viewing of. First the man who Shot Liberty Valance.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yes, I love that.

[Conan O'Brien]

Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte. How about, you know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford together. Gay Puree P U R E E. About an animated movie about, in an impressionistic style, French impressions about Cats. And I think Robert Goulet did a voice, you know, great. Dr. No. From Russia With Love. Goldfinger. Fantastic. Iron Man, Flint I have Pink Panther. The first Pink Panther. Now the.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Now you put a movie theater, and.

[Conan O'Brien]

There was Peter Sellers, never seen before as Clouseau. Blake Edwards. Unbelievable. I remember the day we saw that.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Those movies changed my life.

[Conan O'Brien]

Bobby D. And I went. My best friend went to that theater to see Psycho. First time run of Psycho. Unbelievable. I just spent some time with Jamie Lee Curtis in Cinemacon. You know, how about that?

[Jeff Goldblum]

You know, what's so great about. There were all these great. They don't do it anymore. But there were these great promotional tricks that they did back in the day to get people to come see movies. And Alfred Hitchcock was a genius at this. So when Psycho came out, he had, like, ambulances outside the theaters and he very much publicized. We're gonna have medical personnel available for people who faint or have seizures during this terrifying movie. And people went mad for that.

[Sona Movsesian]

And there was like a. Do not be late for this one.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Remember, he said, we won't let you in.

[Conan O'Brien]

After the first.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah, yeah. We won't let you in. Do not tell you friends. Yes, exactly. And. And. And he did all that stuff. He did it with the birds. He did. He had all these great. I mean, what a great showman he was, in addition to being, you know, this incredible.

[Conan O'Brien]

Another movie we saw First Run. Love that day that we saw that. But then we went, oh, I had a crush on this girl. And we went. I went on a field trip, hoping to kind of be near her. I had not made any headway when we saw Hard Day's Night. The.

[Jeff Goldblum]

What girl did you have a crush on, Stephanie?

[Conan O'Brien]

Ignatz?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, I thought you said. Oh, oh, okay. I thought you meant a girl in the movie.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, not in the movie.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Those were fellas. They just had long hair.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, in ninth grade. In ninth grade. No. Stephanie. And she was going. So I was going to tag along, too.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Have you ever kept up with Stephanie, Ignatz?

[Conan O'Brien]

You know, I.

[Sona Movsesian]

We have her here today.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Here she is a little. Oh, my God, look out. She's deranged.

[Conan O'Brien]

Some 10 or 15 years after this period, we got in touch and we saw each other. She went out to California and, you know, I saw her.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Okay, okay. You saw her, but she didn't see you. You followed her from a distance.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, no, no, not like that.

[Matt Gourley]

They saw each other.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, okay. He closes.

[Conan O'Brien]

Wasn't like that.

[Jeff Goldblum]

No, no, no. I'm making it clear. What I do is I. I look them up and then I just. I peer at them through shrubbery from 50 yards away.

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, my God.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah, that's My. When I say, oh, I saw her, that's what I mean.

[Conan O'Brien]

Norman Bates. Speaking of Norman Bates through a hole in your office wall.

[Sona Movsesian]

He's got them all over this building.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I have to ask you, speaking of movies, we have to talk about because in Jurassic park and this character that you played, Dr. Ian, what's the last name? Malcolm. Malcolm, that's right, Malcolm. Yes, you. I mean, God, you nailed that character so much and now you're coming back and you're assembling with the same people to bring these people back to life.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes, sir.

[Jeff Goldblum]

So who else is with you in this? Laura Dern.

[Conan O'Brien]

Laura Dern. Of course. The great Laura Dern. The great Sam Neill. So the three of us from the first movie are back together for the first time since then and we're reunited and have something to do with. In this story with Bryce Dallas Howard's character and Chris Pratt's character. But also BD Wong is back from the first one. And Omar.

[Jeff Goldblum]

That's great.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, Isn't that great? And Omar C from most recently and Daniella Pineda and Justice Smith and Wait a minute, wait a minute. And new characters, dejuan dewise, Mamadou Ache and Campbell Scott are in this. Yeah, Isabel Sermon comes back. So it's great.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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. 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.

[Conan O'Brien]

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 have got it chance to be in some movies and some movies with people like I've said that I saw early on. It is amazing.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Jeff Goldblum]

And you know, there are all these, 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 Jerry Lewis or Seeing a Julie Andrews on a parade float go by, and Even though she's 50 yards away, I can't believe that. That. Oh, wait, I saw you there as a child and now you're still here. Life is magic.

[Conan O'Brien]

Amazing. Vincent Price. We saw some Vincent Price movies then. I did. He was in the Fly, the first Fly, which I saw back then. I think I saw him in a Ralph's later, you know.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You saw Vincent Price at a rouse?

[Conan O'Brien]

I do believe so. I think I went up to him and he says, yes, he was, you know, picking out melons or something. Yeah, he was good chef, you know.

[Jeff Goldblum]

My God, it's too bad Bill Hader isn't here, because he does.

[Conan O'Brien]

Bill Hader does.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Bill Hader does the best Vincent Price of all. And he'd be going, you know, he. I don't do it. But he'd be here doing Vincent Price at a Ralph's.

[Sona Movsesian]

We should remind him of that.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah, no, we should do. We will be seeing him soon. We should remind him of that, because Vincent Price at a Ralph's. And I used to. You know, when I first moved out here to LA, a long time ago in 1988, my brother Neil came out and visited me. And there was a Ralph's across the street. And he kept seeing all these huge stars. He saw Cesar Romero, the Joker. And he'd be. And he'd come back and he'd go, I saw him and I'm like, what is he. He was buying. He was buying dog food at. At Ralph's. He was always going to Ralph's and he would hang out there and he would go right up to them and go, I loved you as the Joker. Or I saw Harry Morgan from MASH and I read, you know, and then he would always tell me what they were buying. You know, he was buying a giant thing of beans. You know, it always never matched. Like I saw Cher. What was she getting? Industrial strength toilet cleaner. Oh, I didn't want to know that.

[Conan O'Brien]

She would never.

[Matt Gourley]

She would never.

[Conan O'Brien]

I was so crazy about the fry. I hadn't met anybody famous or who was in movies when I was a kid. And the first couple of brushes I had. Who did I first. We went on a vacation and who was staying at this hotel was Darren McGavin.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. The Night Stalker.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes. I was like, do you think we'll see him at breakfast? I never went up to him, but I was just, when are we gonna see him again? You know, he's the dad in Christmas Story.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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 Guy, but he did. I think maybe my favorite show as a kid was he played Carl Kolchak in the Night Stalker, which was the scariest show on television. It only ran. I mean, maybe it ran two seasons, if that. It was not a success, but it was such a scary show.

[Sona Movsesian]

I have that on dvd.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Do you? No, it's fantastic. It's fantastic.

[Conan O'Brien]

I've never seen them.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I don't know about them. And Darren McGavin was. Was fantastic. And I got to. I don't think he ever did my show, but I got to meet him once and. Yeah. My soul left my body. I was so excited. I couldn't believe I was meeting him.

[Conan O'Brien]

Unbelievable. Unbelievable. So, yeah, I'm back in this movie now and. Yeah. Coming out June 10th.

[Jeff Goldblum]

That's your problem. I love that you went. So anyway, back in this movie and. Well, June. June 10th. You brought it up. I love that.

[Conan O'Brien]

I was just trying to remember where we got off that. But next on my list was Diary of a Madman, Vincent Price and Tomb of Ligeia. He was. He was a big deal to us. You know, some of those Roger Cormans. I was a teenage Frankenstein. I was a teenage werewolf. Two horrible movies, but interesting ego.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Did anyone ever do. I Was a Teenage Teenager. I'm just curious. So it's been kind of meta, but I do it.

[Conan O'Brien]

It's a good idea.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's a building.

[Jeff Goldblum]

As a teenager who then like turns into a teenager who's just slightly older.

[Matt Gourley]

He's like 15 and he turned 17.

[Jeff Goldblum]

He turns into a 16 year old.

[Matt Gourley]

Okay.

[Jeff Goldblum]

He's a 15 year old and he goes in the corner. It's like. And then he comes out and he's a. He's a 16 year old.

[Sona Movsesian]

Legally drive, but doesn't know how to.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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

[Matt Gourley]

Terrible movie.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I think it's a great movie and I've got the rights.

[Matt Gourley]

Okay. No one's gonna fight you.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah, well, you can have him.

[Conan O'Brien]

I remember when TV shows would come out, what you were talking about when you know, the new lineup. Boy, I loved Friday nights when. When Wild Wild west would come on.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Huge.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, boy. Robert Conrad and Ross Martin, who played.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yep. Ross Martin.

[Conan O'Brien]

Artemis Gordon. King Kong versus.

[Sona Movsesian]

We left that open for you, so take it.

[Conan O'Brien]

What? Really? What?

[Matt Gourley]

No, I. I don't know.

[Conan O'Brien]

How about Jigo? Nobody Knows the movie.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I don't know.

[Conan O'Brien]

Jackie Gleason. Jackie Gleason. He plays a mute. Dead. Kind of a village idiot. Oh, it's great. The first movie I ever cried at. It's heartbreaking.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. I'm crying hearing about it. That's. You're mentioning a bunch of movies that had a huge impact that I don't know.

[Conan O'Brien]

You'll know this one. Jason and the Argonauts.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yes.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, that Ray Harryhausen stop motion stuff. Yeah. Magical Day. Magical Day. Vertigo. Did see the first run of Vertigo, maybe my favorite Hitchcock movie. Speaking of Hitchcock, you know Vertigo?

[Jeff Goldblum]

I don't. It's not my favorite.

[Conan O'Brien]

Really?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. I'm sorry.

[Conan O'Brien]

Bernard Herrmann does the score. Wonderful music from that. But why don't you like Vertigo?

[Jeff Goldblum]

I didn't say I didn't like it. I just. Of the Hitchcock film, what's your favorite Hitchcock? Wow. It's gotta be Psycho. I also like Strangers on a Train.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's yesteryear. Yeah. That's interesting. Farley Granger. Farley Granger was in that. I met Farley Granger.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You can't just say name twice and have it. Have more impact. Yes, Farley Granger. Farley Granger.

[Sona Movsesian]

I think he's proven that he can.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You know, be great. If you. I think you'd be a great prosecuting attorney because you'd say, you know, the killer is, of course, Steve Miller. Steve Miller. And people would be like, well, he's got to be guilty. He said his name twice.

[Conan O'Brien]

Steve Miller from the band.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. Well, I just threw a name out there.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Jeff Goldblum]

That's a common name.

[Conan O'Brien]

He's not suspicious in any way.

[Sona Movsesian]

He's the gangster of love. He's got to be guilty.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, God.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's true.

[Jeff Goldblum]

That's.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's true.

[Sona Movsesian]

Stand by that.

[Conan O'Brien]

What were we talking?

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

What were we talking about? Whose name?

[Jeff Goldblum]

You were listening.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, Farley Granger.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

You know who introduced me to Farley Granger? Shelley Winters, whom I met on this movie called Next Stop Grinch Village that Paul Mazurski directed in 1975. Bri. I came out here and we were kind of palsy. Shelly Winters, Lovely woman.

[Jeff Goldblum]

She was lovely.

[Conan O'Brien]

Wow.

[Jeff Goldblum]

She was on our show in the early years, and I loved her because I knew her mostly from Poseidon Adventure.

[Matt Gourley]

I know that one.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's fantastic. You know, she was in the Poseidon show, but she was also in Lolita.

[Jeff Goldblum]

She's great. Yes. Oh, she's great in Lolita.

[Conan O'Brien]

She's great in Place in the sun with Montgomery Clifton and Liz Taylor, Spectacular. Hey, did you ever meet Liz Taylor?

[Jeff Goldblum]

I did not meet Liz Taylor, no.

[Conan O'Brien]

I knew Liz Taylor. Oh, really?

[Jeff Goldblum]

What was she like?

[Conan O'Brien]

Spectacular. Spectacular.

[Jeff Goldblum]

She. Yeah, she was one of those people. There's a. There's a. It all depends on when you get into show business. And I. You know, you need to get in at the. I missed. You know, I shouldn't say that I got to meet all these amazing people who then passed away. It makes me sound like a killer. I met them and then they were gone. Suspicious, eh? But before that. But I will say that, you know, there are all these great stars that passed away, you know, before I came along in 93. And you think of all the great. So many great stars from the. She had not passed away, but refused to take my calls. Elizabeth Taylor. Wisely. Very wisely.

[Matt Gourley]

I don't blame her.

[Jeff Goldblum]

No, Right.

[Conan O'Brien]

Who are we talking? Oh, so Shelley Winters, who was in Place in the Sun. And also, what did she win the Oscar for? As supporting actress, as they were called in those days. What did she win for? She won for.

[Jeff Goldblum]

How did you become an evil German scientist?

[Conan O'Brien]

What did she win for?

[Jeff Goldblum]

She Vin. For. You'll tell us, but she won. All right, Just let me. You will not leave until you tell us what. Shirley. Vintage von. For supporting actress, Heighty Schausshlach Lottenstein, Schlitten Block. What was it?

[Conan O'Brien]

Very good. Patch of Blue.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

Patch of Blue with Elizabeth Hartman and Sidney Poitier.

[Jeff Goldblum]

The prisoner says, patch of blue, and he goes.

[Sona Movsesian]

Okay, here's the first.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'm putting that down because I.

[Jeff Goldblum]

There you go. Here is. Did you. Did you park in our lot? Because we validate. Yeah, I did.

[Matt Gourley]

Okay.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well.

[Conan O'Brien]

Done.

[Jeff Goldblum]

The guy completely loses his fervor. Patch of Blue. Oh, okay. So you go out the way. Okay.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, God.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Just take the elevator.

[Sona Movsesian]

I'm crying.

[Conan O'Brien]

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 Sidney Poitier category in any case. So Shelley Winters took me to Musso and Frank's for the first time.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, my God. That is the ultimate.

[Conan O'Brien]

And farewell, Harley Granger.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, my God.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yep. She said, get the sand dabs. Sand dabs? They're known for their sand dabs. Nobody else serves sand. You know, what is it? Sand dabs. At Musso Franks, you can get the sand dabs. What is it? Fish. Kind of a fish.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Fish that you get. It's Been fried. Often fried.

[Conan O'Brien]

The fried Sandebs. Kind of a variation of Soul. I do believe.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I just. Those. I mean, I live for those experiences. I live for the idea that you would see an iconic star in a restaurant and you would end up hanging out with them, you know, someone you grew up watching on tv. And 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.

[Conan O'Brien]

I saw it first run with my father.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. And then I'm sitting there with him and I just can't believe it. I'm supposed to play it cool, but then you can't because it's too big a moment. Just too big.

[Conan O'Brien]

Totally amazing. Splendor in the grass. Even before Bonnie and Clyde, my parents and I went to. We were in New York City, and I think we went to Radio City Music hall, saw the Rockettes and saw Splendor in the grass with him. And I think maybe Natalie Wood.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I saw the Rockettes, but I was 50 yards away. I was in shrubbery just peering at them. I'm the only guy that watches the Rockettes from a distance. No, no. I have my own way. I like to do it.

[Sona Movsesian]

It doesn't do anything for me.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah, I gotta wait till all of them come out together into that field, and I'll be behind those shrubs over there. What? How are you gonna get them all out here? We only have a salt lick. We'll get them out there. Solic you it up. Look, we. I have to wrap this up.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, you mustn't. I beg you.

[Sona Movsesian]

He expects a five hour podcast. We can do this. It's okay.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Okay, we'll do it. We all need to be rehydrated. No, I just want to. It's. Oh, my God. I want to get the word out. And because this podcast. I'm not going to brag. You can brag. A lot of people hear this podcast.

[Conan O'Brien]

43 million, I believe is the viewership is in Hawaii alone.

[Jeff Goldblum]

And so what I'm saying, that's just on Maui, everybody. 43 million.

[Sona Movsesian]

Five times.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, I read 43 million very successful podcasts.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Not for me to say.

[Sona Movsesian]

Let's not fact check that it's 43 million.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Let's just say. Yeah, no reason to look into it. But the point is, a lot of people hear it. And so when I say Jurassic World Dominion. Jurassic World dominion is coming out and that you are reprising your role as Dr. Ian Mellow. Malcolm. That is going to pack the theaters alone.

[Matt Gourley]

That. Wonderful.

[Jeff Goldblum]

That's big.

[Matt Gourley]

No one else would watch it otherwise.

[Conan O'Brien]

I appreciate you saying that very. Because that's what they've sent me. That's what I'm representing. You know, I represent a lovely company of investors and people.

[Jeff Goldblum]

All right, let's not turn this into a money thing. No one.

[Conan O'Brien]

No. Emotionally. Emotionally, they invested Colin Trevorrow, the director. Steven Spielberg is still at the. At the top of the pyramid. Yes. Godfathering this all the way through.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Let's be honest.

[Sona Movsesian]

You are the butts and seats of this movie.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. I'm sorry. I was gonna say it.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. That's what I. That's how I felt. And as much as everyone else was spectacular. But you and one of the dinosaurs really can't remember which one. It's one of the velociraptors.

[Matt Gourley]

Velociraptors.

[Jeff Goldblum]

It'd be great if you got everybody back except one Velociraptor held out like it.

[Sona Movsesian]

The Robert Duvall.

[Conan O'Brien]

I was gonna say Godfather.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah. You meet my price or I'm not showing up.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's right.

[Sona Movsesian]

Can I just take a second to share my notes for this. This episode of the podcast?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Perfection. Erotic. Ideal.

[Matt Gourley]

Yep.

[Conan O'Brien]

Wow.

[Jeff Goldblum]

That's just what wow.

[Matt Gourley]

Really was.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. I got to. We should do. I have. We have many more hours of.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You know, you have to come back. Because my time with you is serious. I'm gonna be sincere, and it's hard for me to do that, but you're one of my favorite people. You really are.

[Conan O'Brien]

You too.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Me. And I just absolutely love talking to you. And it is. Whenever we're together, whether it's been on the show or this podcast, it is unlike any other experience I have, and it means a lot to me. And so when I heard that you were gonna come in and inaugurate our new studio, my head blew. It exploded.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, me too. I've been looking forward to this terrifically. And these are my favorite. These are peak experiences for me. And people come up to me on the street anecdotally and say, you un. Conan. You and Conan. You and Conan.

[Jeff Goldblum]

See, we gotta do something.

[Conan O'Brien]

They do. Well, I think so too.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I've been screen tested and apparently it's not good. It won't be a film, but maybe an animated project. Something where my face is mostly hidden.

[Conan O'Brien]

And you're singing authentically a lot. I like that. The. And I just saw a documentary about. Or some kind of thing about Talk show, the history of talk shows and the current. Did you see this one? There are many of them.

[Jeff Goldblum]

No, I don't watch those.

[Conan O'Brien]

I love them all. And this one particularly said, here's why, amongst the current crop in the last few decades, Conan O'Brien reigns supreme. He's cracked the code and why he's at the pinnacle of what this needs to be right now. Et cetera, et cetera.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, I saw it. I'm not uncomfortable. I just don't believe that that exists.

[Sona Movsesian]

They're talking about this Conan O'Brien.

[Jeff Goldblum]

He makes a good case. It's an Irish Conan O'Brien.

[Conan O'Brien]

This guy makes a very good case for exactly why. It's a very erudite.

[Jeff Goldblum]

And there is a guy named Conrad Orion in Dublin who's huge. And he's really cracked the code.

[Matt Gourley]

That's very cool.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, it's true.

[Sona Movsesian]

It's true.

[Conan O'Brien]

It's true. Well, Jeff and you all together. I mean, I'm really starstruck with all of you. Oh, come on.

[Matt Gourley]

Stop it. You pronounce my name right.

[Conan O'Brien]

There should be a. A. A perfume. Not Obsession, but I'm wearing the new.

[Jeff Goldblum]

What do you look like?

[Matt Gourley]

It's gonna smell like garlic.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah, I was gonna say.

[Conan O'Brien]

And goly. And gorely. Is it. What's. How do you say. What's that vowel exactly? Is it gore? Gore. Like gore. Like gore.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Gorely.

[Conan O'Brien]

Gore.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah. Although when I went to Ireland, they said, it's girly.

[Conan O'Brien]

Ah, girly.

[Matt Gourley]

Is it really?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, they were just saying you seem kind of girly. You seem girly to me.

[Sona Movsesian]

I said, it's gorly because. No, it's girly.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Walking down the street. And it was girly.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, you two. You three have made me very, very happy for many hours.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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

[Conan O'Brien]

I want to. I. I want to. Along with. You know, I've seen every single Schlansky.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, my God.

[Conan O'Brien]

Every single Schlansky.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Really? Really?

[Conan O'Brien]

I laugh out loud over and over again. I see them multiple times.

[Jeff Goldblum]

No, and it's all true. That's the one thing. I've been in the darkest regions, darkest, most remote corners of the world, and people will literally come out from behind a rock and say, schlansky, is he being real? And I'll go, yeah. Yes, he's being real. And then they go back under the rock.

[Conan O'Brien]

You're. You're never funnier when. When. When he's driving you mad. It's just great.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, my God.

[Conan O'Brien]

Great.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, anyway, you know what?

[Conan O'Brien]

I could go on.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Mr. Goldblum. Mr. Jeff Goldblum. You're the finest man that ever lived.

[Conan O'Brien]

Conan Christopher O'Brien. Yes, you are the finest man that's ever lived.

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, you're better. Yeah, sorry.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You're better. I'm taking you to a Sizzler. We're going.

[Conan O'Brien]

Let's go. Langoustino. Language, Angostinos.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Goodbye.

[Conan O'Brien]

Goodbye. Oh, my God.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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[Matt Gourley]

You went to little ones?

[Jeff Goldblum]

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[Matt Gourley]

Yeah?

[Jeff Goldblum]

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[Matt Gourley]

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[Jeff Goldblum]

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[Matt Gourley]

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[Jeff Goldblum]

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[Matt Gourley]

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[Jeff Goldblum]

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[Conan O'Brien]

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[Conan O'Brien]

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[Jeff Goldblum]

We have to just take a second here and wallow in the joyousness of Jeff Goldblum. And we never do this. We talk to the guests, then we move on with matters. But Jeff Goldblum came in here. He is just an energy field. He is calming, but also enervating at the same time. He electrifies, solidifies. There's no compromise. I have real nice thighs. No, no. He's incredible. He does it. He's one of my. I gotta say. And I was really looking forward to seeing him today and then to see how happy he was to see you. Matt Gourley and you. Sonom of session. He knew you as people, as human beings. Yeah. And you know, a lot of celebrities. Celebrities, they come in and they're like, oh, my God, it's Conan. It's Conan. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[Matt Gourley]

And then I've never heard anybody say, oh, my God, it's Conan.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I know. I keep trying to get them to say it. I have a cue card. I hold up and they'll.

[Sona Movsesian]

Kaelin was the only one.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Kato Kaelin said it. Yeah, but he was testifying. No, but, no, but, but. Anyway. No, please. Murder. When time passes, murders are okay to laugh about. Anyway, my point is that he saw me as a human being, not as some godlike creature. And he was so thrilled to see you guys as well. Oh, man.

[Sona Movsesian]

He's a human electrolyte. He just gives you energy like you were saying. And we know that he listens to all these segments and stuff. So this is as much for him.

[Jeff Goldblum]

How Much. We loved him, Jeff, we absolutely love you. We know that he is. He listens to the podcast. 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. Oh. Oh, no, no, no. Unless he paid someone to listen and take notes.

[Sona Movsesian]

Put a test in there, Jeff, if you're listening this to prove it, come over to my house and watch some James Bond movies with me.

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, Nat, that got sad quick.

[Sona Movsesian]

Just please come over.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah, I know you had.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Do you have friends?

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, God, no.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You don't.

[Sona Movsesian]

No, not a one.

[Jeff Goldblum]

That just occurred to me. I don't know if you have friends and you have people that you podcast with and you shuttle from place to place podcasting with people you may not really know. Well, on a human level, but do you have friends that come over and do the things that you like to do?

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah, I'm a human being.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Well, I don't know. I've never heard you reference a friend.

[Matt Gourley]

Do you really think he didn't have any friends?

[Jeff Goldblum]

I don't know. You know that I have friends.

[Sona Movsesian]

Well, now Jeff Goldblum's my friend, so I do have a friend.

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, well, now I'm. Now I'm not sure either.

[Sona Movsesian]

You don't sure?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah.

[Sona Movsesian]

Jeff, come on. Let's prove these. These knuckles are all strong.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Your friends are all people you saw on TV and movie when you were kids. In your mind, I'm ET Last night, I had dinner with Gumby. Gumby.

[Sona Movsesian]

This is supposed to be a Jeff Goldblum praise session.

[Matt Gourley]

Okay. Well, I love him so much.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah.

[Matt Gourley]

He doesn't have to know who we are. You don't. And he does.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Says a lot about question. Ladies. Love that man.

[Matt Gourley]

Love him.

[Jeff Goldblum]

And I understand because, you know, again, we have a similar frame.

[Matt Gourley]

Okay, don't do that. Don't do that. I don't understand when you go down that.

[Jeff Goldblum]

No, but when I don't understand, like, no, I can handle it. I can handle it. Why is it that the. There's a fork in the ride.

[Matt Gourley]

Confidence swagger.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Ease.

[Sona Movsesian]

You know how, like, at a time, Porsche and Volkswagen had the same engine? That same. The difference.

[Matt Gourley]

It's he. It's also. It's like, no, I can handle it.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I really want to know.

[Matt Gourley]

He is a chill person who seems very comfortable in his skin and very confident. Not that you're not, but it seems like he's been that way much longer than you have. I feel very, like, phase where you were like, I don't like myself. No, Was that that. Was that. Was that.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, me too.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You know, and I'm being completely honest. He does have an ease. And he's always in the center. He's always centered. I think that's incredible to be centered like that all the time. And he's like a tuning fork that's perfectly vibrating with the universe. And I feel like I'm like.

[Sona Movsesian]

You're just a fork.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah, like a fork that was eating clams, but someone didn't wash it afterwards. And then it fell in some sand, and it's got some clam juice and sand on it.

[Sona Movsesian]

That's pretty good.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah.

[Matt Gourley]

Do you think we like him because he's nice to us? Oh, maybe if you tried being nice to me and Matt, then we would like Mom. Maybe. Still not good.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You get a paycheck, right?

[Matt Gourley]

That's not being nice to someone.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You got a paycheck.

[Matt Gourley]

I'm your employee. That doesn't mean you're nice to me.

[Sona Movsesian]

It's kind of worse because it's like you're paying her to be belligerent.

[Matt Gourley]

The fact that you even thought, do you make a.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Do you do okay with me?

[Conan O'Brien]

I do.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah, I do.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Would you say that? I mean, are there a lot of other people just sending you money besides me?

[Matt Gourley]

Nobody else is my job.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Then I'm a good guy, and I'm your friend.

[Matt Gourley]

No, that doesn't sound how nice this looks. What are you talking about?

[Sona Movsesian]

Jeff Goldblum asks nothing and gives everything you are.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You get a paycheck from you. You. You.

[Conan O'Brien]

Why are you pointing at me?

[Jeff Goldblum]

You profit from me as well.

[Sona Movsesian]

In a roundabout way. I do.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yes, in a roundabout way. Full disclosure, Okay. I didn't realize that you were just here on a voluntary basis. No. I've seen you driving since the podcast blew up, and suddenly you're driving a Bentley.

[Conan O'Brien]

No.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yes. You're driving a Bentley on. Just. On Hollywood Boulevard.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You know, classic girls. Yeah. And, oh, your license plate suddenly. Pod King. And you're driving around. You guys have both.

[Sona Movsesian]

Pod King is seven letters.

[Jeff Goldblum]

And your kids wear these, like, crazy satin outfits that you have handmade for them now that the podcast blew up. And so both of you have. Your lives have been changed by knowing me, which means you have to like me. You have to.

[Matt Gourley]

You know that's not how it works.

[Jeff Goldblum]

It should work that way.

[Sona Movsesian]

You can't buy A friendship.

[Matt Gourley]

That's not how it works.

[Conan O'Brien]

Just.

[Jeff Goldblum]

You can.

[Sona Movsesian]

No, you can't.

[Jeff Goldblum]

That's why I moved to Los Angeles. You can. No, you can.

[Sona Movsesian]

Sona and I are friends.

[Matt Gourley]

All of my friends genuinely like me.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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.

[Matt Gourley]

And you wonder why we like Jeff Goldblum more than you.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I still don't understand it.

[Matt Gourley]

He's my 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. And that says a lot.

[Jeff Goldblum]

This is interesting. I have to look more into this.

[Matt Gourley]

Into friendship, into the concept of being nice.

[Sona Movsesian]

He leads with love. You lead with fear.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yes. No, Stalin did that.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah, I know.

[Matt Gourley]

He controlled Stalin.

[Sona Movsesian]

Stalin. Joseph Stalin.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Oh, dictator. So now we're gonna rip on Joseph Stalin. You don't. I love how there's no. There's no sacred cows anymore. Everybody gets torn down. Everybody gets torn down, and now it's jokes.

[Matt Gourley]

Stalin, Jeff Goldblum.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Jesus. No one's safe in this hypersensitive era.

[Matt Gourley]

He's an angel. He's an absolute angel. He's a sweet person.

[Sona Movsesian]

He might be an alien.

[Jeff Goldblum]

He is. You know, he is. You know, we should stick the landing on this. He is such an unusually. He's an unusual person. There's no one else quite like him. And I do have to tell you that when I. In my travels, people always bring up to me, oh, my God, I love it when Jeff Goldblum is on the podcast or he's on the show. He brings an energy that immediately transforms the experience. I think we all are changed by him when we're in his. He creates, like, a biosphere, A Jeff Goldblum biosphere. That's very enjoyable. Yeah, yeah.

[Matt Gourley]

And he remembers everybody. He's just. He, like, when he looks at you, he looks at you and he knows your name and he remembers you, and that goes a long way.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah, but I don't. Again, I have a list of all the employees. I can consult them. I can go to Jeff Ross. I can go to Jeff Ross now. I don't need to. All I have to do is go to Jeff Ross or Adam Sachs and say, the guy with the. You know, he's kind of a hipster and he lives in Pasadena. And they'll be like, yeah, Matt Gorey. And I'll be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, tell him I wished him a Happy Christmas. I got to get out of here. My helicop. My helicopter's waiting.

[Matt Gourley]

It's May. Wait, what?

[Jeff Goldblum]

Yeah, my helicopter's waiting.

[Matt Gourley]

That's your helicopter?

[Sona Movsesian]

God, your helicopter is ill. Yeah.

[Matt Gourley]

Wait, what? How does the helicopter.

[Jeff Goldblum]

No, but mine is different. Mine runs on pure malice. It's very eco friendly.

[Sona Movsesian]

Super pervy somehow.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Wow, Mr. O'Brien, you must really hate people today. We've got 600,000 miles. I just get in it and put an electrode on my head.

[Sona Movsesian]

Flies.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Who are you mad at? And it leaves a noxious cloud of just pure bad intent behind me.

[Sona Movsesian]

Historically, that's what's going on here.

[Jeff Goldblum]

All right, well, anyway, Jeff Goldblum, if you're listening right now, naked in the lotus position as you meditate, as he does every night, we love you.

[Sona Movsesian]

We do.

[Matt Gourley]

We love you.

[Sona Movsesian]

See you next week at my house. For James.

[Jeff Goldblum]

Okay, let's cut it there.

[Sona Movsesian]

Conan O'Brien needs a friend. With Conan O'Brien, Sonam of Session and Matt Gourley produced by me, Matt Gourley executive produced by Adam Sachs, Joanna Solotarov and Jeff Ross at Team Coco and Colin Anderson and Cody Fisher at Earwolf. Theme song by the White Stripes. Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino. Take it away, Jimmy. Our supervising producer is Aaron Blair, and our associate talent producer is Jennifer Samples. Engineering by Will Becton. Additional production support by Mars Melnick. Talent booking by Paula Davis, Gina Bautista and Brit Kahn. You can rate and review this show on Apple Podcasts and you might find your review read on a future episode. Got a question for Conan? Call the Team Coco hotline at 323-451-2821 and leave a message. It too, could be featured on a future episode. And if you haven't already, please subscribe to Conan O'Brien needs a friend on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever fine podcasts are downloaded. This has been a Team Coco production in association with Earwolf.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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[Conan O'Brien]

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[Jeff Goldblum]

Wait, T Mobile?

[Conan O'Brien]

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[Jeff Goldblum]

I'm gonna leave you to it.

[Conan O'Brien]

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[Jeff Goldblum]

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[Conan O'Brien]

That's cool.

[Jeff Goldblum]

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