Timothy Olyphant Returns Again

Summary

Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend: "Timothy Olyphant Returns Again"

Episode Overview In the August 4, 2025 episode of Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Conan, alongside co-hosts Matt Gourley and Sonam Obsession, welcomes actor Timothy Olyphant for his third appearance on the podcast. The episode delves into Timothy’s illustrious acting career, his influence on the podcast’s dynamic, personal anecdotes from both hosts and the guest, and discussions about future projects like the FX series Alien Earth. The conversation is rich with humor, camaraderie, and insightful exchanges about the art of acting.

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1. Welcome and Fresh Perspectives 00:02 – 10:03

Conan kicks off the episode with his characteristic humor, poking fun at Sonic’s over-the-top pickle-themed menu items. This light-hearted start sets the tone for the episode's playful atmosphere.

Notable Quote:

• Conan (00:13): "Sonic, I've got a beef with you. And a very delicious beef."

Transition to Main Content: At [02:15], the hosts introduce Timothy Olyphant, highlighting his return to the podcast and setting the stage for an engaging conversation.

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2. Timothy Olyphant: A Thriving Career 10:03 – 25:03

The discussion shifts to Timothy’s impressive body of work, including his roles in Deadwood, Justified, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Conan expresses his admiration for Timothy's versatility and charisma.

Notable Quotes:

• Conan (10:40): "Tim Oliphant, one of the handsomest fellows you'll ever see. Fantastic actor and a spectacularly funny guy."
• Timothy (10:23): "This is my third time here on the podcast and I see nothing has changed. I love it. I wasn't because I knew it's gotten big."

Insightful Exchange: Conan and Timothy discuss the unique chemistry Timothy brings to the podcast, making his episodes particularly memorable and enjoyable for listeners.

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3. The Influence of Timothy on the Podcast Dynamic 25:03 – 35:09

The conversation delves into how Timothy’s presence affects the show's dynamic. Timothy is portrayed as a "chaos agent" who brings a different energy, challenging Conan and keeping the discussion lively and unpredictable.

Notable Quotes:

• Sonam (04:43): "He's one of my favorite guests that we ever have because of what he does to this show."
• Conan (05:11): "He's so smiley and genial, and yet there's this contempt. I don't know."

Dynamic Interaction: The hosts highlight Timothy's ability to steer conversations in unexpected directions, making each episode with him unique and engaging.

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4. Personal Anecdotes and Behind-the-Scenes Stories 35:09 – 50:58

Conan and Timothy share personal stories, including Timothy’s experiences working on various acting projects and humorous behind-the-scenes moments. These anecdotes provide listeners with a deeper understanding of Timothy's personality and professional journey.

Notable Quotes:

• Conan (35:16): "I was the. I got my face punched in in Boston once down the North End."
• Timothy (36:15): "I was 18."

Humorous Moments: Timothy recounts a memorable incident where he had his nose shattered and redo in the emergency room, while Conan humorously reflects on his own altercation that left him with a similar mark.

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5. Future Projects and Collaborative Ideas 50:58 – 68:18

The hosts discuss Timothy’s upcoming projects, notably the FX series Alien Earth, and brainstorm potential collaborations. Timothy expresses enthusiasm for joint projects that blend their talents, though they humorously navigate the challenges of monetizing their friendship.

Notable Quotes:

• Conan (58:28): "I’m excited for this Alien Earth. And I know you're excited."
• Timothy (61:07): "I'm a fan of both those guys."

Creative Banter: Conan and Timothy joke about creating a new podcast called "Actors on Actors Acting," where they would analyze and critique each other’s performances, blending their professional insights with humor.

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6. Friendship and Personal Connections 68:18 – 77:05

The episode deepens with conversations about personal relationships, including mentions of their spouses and how these relationships influence their lives and work. Conan praises Timothy’s wife, Liza, highlighting her artistic talents and supportive nature.

Notable Quotes:

• Conan (37:34): "He was great as Steve McQueen."
• Timothy (38:31): "We love your wife."

Heartfelt Moments: Conan expresses genuine admiration for Liza, describing her as a "redeeming quality" and attributing much of his own personal happiness to her presence in his life.

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7. The Art of Acting and Performance Insights 77:05 – 90:00

Timothy shares his perspectives on acting, breaking down performances, and the nuances of embodying different characters. Conan, intrigued by the craft, seeks to understand the complexities involved, prompting Timothy to offer professional insights.

Notable Quotes:

• Conan (58:58): "I will just ask him about movies... and you're very good at explaining to me how you... how it translates what you think is happening there."
• Timothy (75:00): "How about you? Have you had a moment where you say so good?"

Educational Exchange: Timothy elaborates on techniques used in acting, providing listeners with a window into the meticulous process behind Timothy’s acclaimed performances.

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8. Concluding Thoughts and Future Endeavors 90:00 – End

As the episode wraps up, the hosts reflect on the enriching conversation and the strengthened bond between them. Conan humorously tussles with co-hosts and Timothy about ending the episode, leaving listeners with a sense of camaraderie and anticipation for future episodes.

Notable Quotes:

• Conan (72:05): "We'll find out. I'll get it to you."
• Timothy (73:35): "Let's stop it."

Final Banter: The trio shares lighthearted moments about their pets, past experiences, and hints at continued collaborations, cementing the episode’s theme of friendship and mutual respect.

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Conclusion This episode of Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend offers a blend of humor, heartfelt conversation, and professional insights, making it a standout installment. Timothy Olyphant’s candid discussions about his career, coupled with Conan and the co-hosts’ engaging banter, provide listeners with both entertainment and a deeper appreciation for the art of acting and the value of genuine friendships.

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Transcript

[Conan O'Brien]

You know, like a Conan bit. Sonic takes the pickle too far with their big dill meal. I wonder what they're saying. What are they saying here? That's an insult to me. I don't take things too far.

[Matt Gourley]

Oh my.

[Conan O'Brien]

Sonic, I've got a beef with you. And a very delicious beef. First you get the Smasher topped with Grillo's pickles. Then there's pickle seasoned tots. And they're pickling further than anyone before with the Picklerita slush. When I have a slush, I want pickles in there. Full of pickle flavored bursting bubbles. Topped with a Grillo's pickle garnish. This must be the edge of the known pickle verse. Oh, whoever came up with that needs a beating. To which Sonic says, no, you don't understand. This is just the beginning. You think a pickle burger, pickle tots and a pickle slush is a lot of pickle hubris? We'll pickle everything. That's their logo. Will the Sonic and Grillos big deal meal? It's the Conan bit. Oh my God. They're going after me. Hard of burger pickle meals.

[Timothy Oliphant]

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[Matt Gourley]

We are gonna be friends.

[Conan O'Brien]

Hey there and welcome to Conan o'. Brien Needs a Friend. Friend. Sitting here with Matt Gorley and Sonam Obsession. Just put some. What'd you put on there?

[Matt Gourley]

Lip chapstick.

[Conan O'Brien]

Chapstick. Okay. Not a gloss. Is there a difference between a gloss and a chapstick?

[Matt Gourley]

Of course.

[Conan O'Brien]

I don't know. I actually don't know.

[Matt Gourley]

One is gloss.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay.

[Matt Gourley]

And the other one lubricates.

[Conan O'Brien]

I would think a gloss would lubricate.

[Matt Gourley]

Gloss also lubricates, but the gloss glosses.

[Conan O'Brien]

I don't understand. You can't just. You're not allowed to use the word in the definition, but that's what it does. What does a door do? It opens the door. What? A door is the thing that opens so that the door is open.

[Matt Gourley]

That doesn't even make sense. The door doesn't open the door. You open the door, the knob opens the door.

[Conan O'Brien]

Stupid called and said it's you.

[Matt Gourley]

Oh. Oh, really?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, Stupid called and it said. Just kidding. I'm. I'm Conan.

[Conan O'Brien]

Damn it. You won.

[Sonam Obsession]

I don't know how to say this.

[Conan O'Brien]

She won. She won.

[Sonam Obsession]

I know.

[Conan O'Brien]

I couldn't believe that she did that.

[Sonam Obsession]

I just don't know how to say this, but.

[Conan O'Brien]

I quit. Well, I think. You don't know how to say it, and I think you just quit. But I think you'll be back. Cause we have the best down here.

[Sonam Obsession]

What does quit mean?

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, you quit.

[Matt Gourley]

No, you can't quit.

[Conan O'Brien]

You're not gonna quit. You're not gonna quit. This is like the Mafia. You can't leave. You know what I mean? You can't leave.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I want to leave.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, you're gonna be in the front seat of the car, and you'll be wondering why Conan's sitting in the back.

[Sonam Obsession]

Every time I'm out, they pull me back in.

[Conan O'Brien]

They pull me back in. Wow, that's a. That's a great stalker chanting. So anyway. Wow. Okay.

[Sonam Obsession]

Nixon impersonator for every.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, I resent that remark.

[Matt Gourley]

Is that Stalker Channing?

[Conan O'Brien]

I mean, I was in Greece, and then I was in Six Degrees of Separation. I was on the West Wing as President Bartlett's wife. I'm Stalker Channing. And I am not a Quit all my. That's how good my impressions are.

[Sonam Obsession]

I definitely quit now.

[Conan O'Brien]

I think everyone's quitting with you. All our listeners are quitting as well. You know, we have to keep this intro short today because the guy is on Today. Talks. He talks and he takes over, but.

[Sonam Obsession]

Every word is gold.

[Matt Gourley]

We want him to.

[Conan O'Brien]

What makes. Oh, I.

[Matt Gourley]

You know, he's handsome.

[Sonam Obsession]

Adam and I talk about this. He brings an element of chaos to this podcast that I think what you normally do to us, he does to you maybe. And there is such a sweet, like, revenge. Right. There's a feeling of just justice happening.

[Conan O'Brien]

That it's like Freddy Krueger gets his in the end.

[Sonam Obsession]

It' I think he's one of my favorite guests that we ever have because of what he does to this show.

[Conan O'Brien]

He turns into this. I think the other thing is, I think he and Kevin Nealon are in the same category. They're chaos agents who have no respect for me.

[Matt Gourley]

Right.

[Conan O'Brien]

And they just go for it. The fans are always delighted when these guys are on either one of them. And, yeah, he's so smiley and genial, and yet there's this contempt. I don't know.

[Sonam Obsession]

He's also, like, masculine, but like a pixie from another world that comes in and just kind of messes with everything.

[Conan O'Brien]

You know, I get no masculinity from him.

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, I get a call about.

[Sonam Obsession]

Are you kidding?

[Conan O'Brien]

None.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that.

[Conan O'Brien]

But no, I think he's so handsome.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's different than being masculine.

[Matt Gourley]

It's not just being handsome. He's, like, cool.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Matt Gourley]

And he's like, you know, he could do. I feel like he could do everything.

[Sonam Obsession]

He's in Deadwood, my favorite show of all time.

[Conan O'Brien]

I love that. He always comes in wearing sandals.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Sonam Obsession]

Sliders, man.

[Conan O'Brien]

Sliders. Okay. Yeah, that's right. He has small hamburgers tied to his feet. No, this is gonna come up. He.

[Matt Gourley]

Small hammers. See? He wouldn't say that.

[Conan O'Brien]

I think it's funny. I think it's very funny. And you know what? Can I just say something? I clean up pretty nice. I think a lot of people wonder if you put a Timmy Oliphant next to me, you'd be like, oh, whatever. They're both handsome.

[Sonam Obsession]

Okay. Why are you making this about him? Because none of us can compete with.

[Matt Gourley]

We can say he's handsome. You can also be handsome. He can also be handsome, but he also has, like. I don't think any of the comments are going to be like, I wish Conan talked more like. I don't. I don't think that's going to be, like, a criticism. It's not like people are going to light up the switch bars and be like, can you not have Timothy Oliphant on again? Because I wanted to hear more. Conan. Shut Timothy Oliphant up and mark Conan. I don't think that's just. I just don't think that's going to happen.

[Sonam Obsession]

I've never heard him so quiet.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I know.

[Matt Gourley]

And you guys are friends, too. That's the part that probably stings the most, is you guys are friends. Right.

[Conan O'Brien]

Remember in Goodfellas when they're playing poker and then. Spider.

[Sonam Obsession]

This is the third time this has come up on this.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Mothing multiple times. But it's important. It's important because it relates to this moment right now, Spider finally talks back to Pesci and everyone's laughing and loving it. And Beshi's just staring at Spider. That's what's happening right now.

[Matt Gourley]

Are you gonna tell me? Shut up called and told me it's me.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'm gonna pull out a gun and pull the trigger and the gun is gonna say shut up called and it's you.

[Sonam Obsession]

Do you know that when that happened, and Spider, the guy who played Imperioli, Michael Imperiali, his squibs went off the blood packs and they. He crushed a glass with his hand during the take. So they had to rush him to the hospital because his hand was bleeding. But they rushed him in the hospital and the doctors freak out cause they thought that he was. Had been like machine gunned because of the squibs.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Sonam Obsession]

And that's just another movie fun fact by your podcast co host, Matt Goley.

[Conan O'Brien]

You know what I love? You're the guy here that's supposed to keep us on time.

[Matt Gourley]

Yes.

[Conan O'Brien]

Keep us on track. And I'm in the Timothy elephant mode.

[Matt Gourley]

All of this led to that one fact.

[Conan O'Brien]

It was our play.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I will say this.

[Sonam Obsession]

Wait till you hear about Frank Sinatra and Die Hard.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'll concede the following points. Tim Oliphant, one of the handsomest fellows you'll ever see. Fantastic actor and a spectacularly funny guy who's also cool at the same time. And I give him all of that. I give him all of that.

[Matt Gourley]

And he's nice to all of us.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, come on. That's overrated.

[Matt Gourley]

He is. He's really nice to all of us.

[Conan O'Brien]

I could be nice to you if I wanted to. What does that mean?

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Sonam Obsession]

Well, he comes in. There are two types of guests. Everyone's nice, everyone's polite. But there are two types. Those that come in and they take in the room and they bring people in. And he brings people in.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, he does. Yeah.

[Sonam Obsession]

Goldblum was like that.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, yeah.

[Sonam Obsession]

Harrison Ford.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes.

[Sonam Obsession]

Kesha.

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, yes.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

All right. Well, I think they pick up on my energy, which is very.

[Sonam Obsession]

This is not about you.

[Conan O'Brien]

I know. No one's talking. Conan. My name's Conan.

[Sonam Obsession]

No, this is the least about you this podcast has ever been.

[Matt Gourley]

Really? This is going to be the least you ever speak.

[Conan O'Brien]

Conan, Conan. Conan. This is going to. This episode is going to win the coveted Conan award. Coveted. All right, let's. Yeah, that's. Okay. You forgot the most important part. Here we go. Let's get into this. My guest today has starred in such shows and movies as Matt Garley's favorite of all time, Deadwood Justified, which I also love. And Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a movie I adore. I'm a Quentin Tarantino freak and I love that movie. Now you can see him in the new FX series, Alien Earth. Very excited to chat with him today. He's one of our all time favorites. Timothy Oliphant, welcome. We hang out, Timothy and I. I call him Timothy because we're close. Timothy Oliphant. We hang out. Not long ago, I hung out with you and we wandered around, we looked at some of your artistic endeavors. You're a very artistic man. I want to get that word out there.

[Timothy Oliphant]

This is my third time here on the podcast and I see nothing has changed. I love it. I wasn't. Because I knew it's gotten big. Yeah, Huge.

[Conan O'Brien]

Huge.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You know, I listen to it. I don't listen to it, but I read the transcripts and it's.

[Conan O'Brien]

He goes to the library and checks out the transcripts.

[Timothy Oliphant]

So good. And it's so good. It's this. This part where you're talking be improved. It just needs a who's. Who edits it.

[Conan O'Brien]

Matt. Right there.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Matt, you're right here. You're seeing what I'm seeing.

[Conan O'Brien]

Uh huh.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Nobody stops him.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah.

[Sonam Obsession]

I should hear what I cut out.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Really? Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Hours, long screeds.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Sonam Obsession]

We're trying to substitute someone in, you know, swap them out, but yeah. The names in the title.

[Conan O'Brien]

I've been honest about my affection for Timothy Oliphant and my. Maybe my man crush. And then I find out today that there are two gentlemen in this room who join me. Yeah. In that. In those feelings, I might even supersede you. Okay. Yeah. Why don't you go. I was told by Matt and by Adam.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I love those guys.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

He probably knows.

[Conan O'Brien]

And what is it about the Timothy Oliphant episodes that seem to resonate?

[Sonam Obsession]

Oh, he just disassembles it and deconstructs it and takes over in such a lovely way.

[Timothy Oliphant]

It's episodes of this show.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes. That you've done.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Wow.

[Conan O'Brien]

That you've been on.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Don't set me up, Matt. No, come on. We are only. This is only. We're like five minutes in.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, yeah. No, we call you Never Miss Oliphant. So I guess the pressure's on.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Go ahead. You're doing. Yeah, fill that. Fill that space.

[Conan O'Brien]

I.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Where are you going with this, o'? Brien?

[Conan O'Brien]

The name's Conan o'. Brien. You'll use my full name as I use yours. Timothy Oliphant. Lot of excitement.

[Timothy Oliphant]

C is for comedy.

[Conan O'Brien]

Exactly.

[Timothy Oliphant]

O is for. O is for A is for ah and N is for no.

[Conan O'Brien]

Who's more chill than this guy? He walks in in flip flops.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah, Those are slides.

[Conan O'Brien]

The slides. Okay, I'm sorry. What's the difference between a flip flop and a slide?

[Timothy Oliphant]

How long you been in California?

[Conan O'Brien]

Boston. I don't know. I don't look down.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Talk to me. Boston.

[Conan O'Brien]

No one wears. How long you been in Boston?

[Timothy Oliphant]

I told you once, I was walking in the streets of Boston and some guy lovingly came up and just said, hey, man, love your work. Say hey to Conan.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's what. That is what I want out there. I want. Anytime Tim goes someplace, I want people to be shouting me out.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Didn't break stride, that guy.

[Conan O'Brien]

No. They got a lot to do in Boston. He had to get as good as it gets. He had to get to a Duncan.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I just kind of trust he's listening and he knows that I'm talking to him right now. I say that's as good as it gets.

[Conan O'Brien]

Right there's from Medford. Yeah, that's pretty good. No, There's a lot of affection for you, Timothy B. Oliphant. I don't know your middle name. I just made that up.

[Timothy Oliphant]

It's close.

[Conan O'Brien]

Is it D? Yeah, close enough. Look at him drink. It's incredible. Jeez.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Play by play. You've added play by play.

[Conan O'Brien]

Then he set it down onto a little rubber coaster. Who picked these coasters out, by the way?

[Timothy Oliphant]

I think it's for sound. I picked the coasters for sound. Adam. Right, These are for sound.

[Conan O'Brien]

Does Adam remind you at all of Michael Cera? Do you get a Michael Cera vibe from him at all? Thank you. Thank you.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Stronger, handsome, strapping Michael Cera.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, exactly.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Right there.

[Conan O'Brien]

You know. Fantastic having you here.

[Timothy Oliphant]

It's good to be here.

[Conan O'Brien]

You and I.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Thank you guys for having me. You and I. I couldn't be the first to return again, but the second or fifth, seventh, eighth.

[Sonam Obsession]

How many first returnee?

[Conan O'Brien]

I mean, that's a good question. I mean, first of all, I might have been.

[Matt Gourley]

I think it was Bill Burr.

[Conan O'Brien]

It might have been Bill Burr. But you. I mean, what do. What do the fans say? Weigh in on this. Weigh in on this.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Readily available. I didn't mean to hold up the show.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. We have all these facts at your fingertips. How much water do I displace when placed in a tank? Tell us, Adam, what are the fans. What's the reaction? Because we Get a very strong reaction. I always assume negative when Timothy's on.

[Sonam Obsession]

But apparently it's not universally positive. And they love, too, that it's a different. It's a whole different kind of episode when he's on because he comes in and he just takes over.

[Conan O'Brien]

He's a rascal. Last time he did the introduction himself, you weren't even a part of it. He made me leave the room. You know what he is? He is a rascal. Rascal implies. And I say it like that, rascal. And I don't mean the device that some older people use to get through the mall. I mean, in the oldest timey sense.

[Timothy Oliphant]

And cut.

[Conan O'Brien]

He is. He's a scamp. You're a scamp.

[Timothy Oliphant]

How you been?

[Conan O'Brien]

You're a lovable owl.

[Timothy Oliphant]

We haven't seen each other in a while.

[Conan O'Brien]

I've been good, you know, staying out of trouble. How about you, man? How's it going?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Really? That's how quick?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. How about this weather? I need to get the ball out of my head.

[Timothy Oliphant]

How about this weather over to get.

[Conan O'Brien]

The ball out of my court so fast? How have I been? I've been fine. I've been okay. I've been good, you know, and I don't think there's much going on in my life. You know, just here, podcasting. What?

[Matt Gourley]

There's a lot always going on in your life. You're constantly doing things. Very easy person.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I haven't seen you in a while, and then if you say nothing's been going on, then all I can do is take offense to that.

[Conan O'Brien]

Aren't you. Aren't you flying on Thursday to go do Toy Story? Flying today. Oh, see, there's a lot going on. Toy story five.

[Timothy Oliphant]

What number? Number five? Yeah, guys, that's always the best one.

[Sonam Obsession]

Friday the 13th, part five.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. Death wish number five. Best one.

[Timothy Oliphant]

It's always like, the first one's amazing. The second one's like, it didn't really need a sequel. The third one's like, what are they just trying to grab the money? But the fourth and then the fifth is when it's like, oh, that's what I'm. That's what they were trying to do all along.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, that's.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Were reaching for all along. And you're a part of that.

[Conan O'Brien]

I was excited because when they approached me, the impression I got was that I was going to be the face of the franchise. Now. That's the impression I got.

[Timothy Oliphant]

And then I find out using your face because they're all little funny toys.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay, that's not nice.

[Timothy Oliphant]

That's not nice. Got cruel.

[Conan O'Brien]

I didn't realize Don Rickles just stopped by.

[Sonam Obsession]

A taste of your own medicine man, though.

[Conan O'Brien]

Come on. I don't think so. Really. I think I'm a kind of.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Okay. I appreciate that. Because it felt like it hurt a little.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, it didn't.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Okay. It was good.

[Sonam Obsession]

That's what we deal with from him all the time. He's calling him Michael Sarah. Nothing against Michael Sarah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Michael Sarah. Why don't you apologize to Michael Sarah? I meant it as a compliment. I mean, Michael Sarah is a very good looking guy.

[Sonam Obsession]

So did I, so.

[Conan O'Brien]

What the fuck are you talking about?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Michael? I just want to know if you're listening. Nobody took it that way.

[Conan O'Brien]

I. O', Brien, he's a regular.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Be honest. Be honest.

[Conan O'Brien]

It was a slam. Total slam. Whenever I see someone who's really sick, I say, what happened to you? Michael Sarah. I visit like wards where people are very ill. A whole room full of Michael Sarah's.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Here, let me circle back.

[Conan O'Brien]

Always kills. They laugh really hard and they all die immediately.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Let me circle back because it occurs to me I'm in show business and he might be listening. I'm a huge fan.

[Sonam Obsession]

Yeah, me too.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Huge fan.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah, me too. And I think he's handsome.

[Conan O'Brien]

Hey. Scott Pilgrim. That's one of my favorite movies. Great movie.

[Matt Gourley]

Well, it's longer than 10 years.

[Conan O'Brien]

I think it's 11.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. And then he wrote a little one, went to the. Went to the Oscars. Got that guy an Oscar. That guy Culkin.

[Conan O'Brien]

What?

[Timothy Oliphant]

One of the Culkins.

[Conan O'Brien]

I know.

[Timothy Oliphant]

He knows which one. I'm a fan of his as well. God damn it, Kieran.

[Conan O'Brien]

You're talking about Jesse Eisenberg. You just. That's not Michael Cera.

[Timothy Oliphant]

God damn it. Is that Eisenberg?

[Conan O'Brien]

Do you ever get outside?

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, wow.

[Conan O'Brien]

You spend so much time laying out in the sun deciding which slides you're going to wear today and how you're going to. Should I saunter or swagger? I'll go with saunter.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You know what? I want to take this opportunity now to say I'm a fan of both those guys.

[Conan O'Brien]

You're going to go far in this business. You're going to go so far.

[Timothy Oliphant]

God damn it.

[Conan O'Brien]

I want to come back as this guy. I'm all in my head, freaked out all the time. And then. Right, I will say, I mean, from where Eduardo and I are sitting, no offense, it is kind of like a before and after picture.

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, Jesus.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You know.

[Conan O'Brien]

What are you doing? Well, I Don't want to pull Eduardo into this.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I'm not co signing.

[Conan O'Brien]

All right, well, I'm just saying. I was just thinking. Yeah. I'm before the accident. He's after the accident. Well, I'm just saying, like, it's the only assumption. It's not like Captain America. It's like Steve, you know, before. And then he goes in a thing. Well, look at his hair. Look at his great hair.

[Timothy Oliphant]

That's the greatest hair in show business right there.

[Conan O'Brien]

What are you talking about? Okay, I guess you guys both have. I'm just going to stop talking.

[Matt Gourley]

You know what?

[Timothy Oliphant]

You. You're you.

[Conan O'Brien]

There's a reason you're pale. I'm just saying, it kind of. He's really. Look at these. You know what, Blay? Just. Just check yourself out for a while. I'm gonna think about what you did. So sorry.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You actually have a little color. I feel like you've been in the sun.

[Conan O'Brien]

I have been a little bit in the sun, but you would be shocked at how little I've been in the sun.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Right?

[Conan O'Brien]

I can do this in five minutes.

[Timothy Oliphant]

This was just from the car into the studio.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, probably. What? This is reflected light.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Your umbrella.

[Conan O'Brien]

This is reflect. This is the light from my night. From my clock radio at night.

[Sonam Obsession]

Your iPhone.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. You're a lovely man. Thank you. You're a man. I'll tell you something. I know you don't like to.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Is you keeping this on track? It's going.

[Matt Gourley]

There's nothing.

[Timothy Oliphant]

There's no clutch.

[Conan O'Brien]

Look at the notes I have. Oh, my gosh. These are my notes. It has date at the top.

[Matt Gourley]

There is nothing on it.

[Conan O'Brien]

There's nothing on these notes. Because you know what's so funny?

[Timothy Oliphant]

That's it, o'.

[Conan O'Brien]

Brien. I'm not helping you anymore. My assistant. Sorry, Sona, but the assistant who really does stuff, he's handed me the notes for Tim Oliphant, and I was like, what are you talking about? And it is just a page of nothing.

[Sonam Obsession]

I think there's written in invisible ink. Just Conan plus Timothy all over and over again.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Come on, hit me with some questions.

[Conan O'Brien]

You swam competitively.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Wow.

[Conan O'Brien]

@ USC. And my question for you is, do you still. I know you don't just get a body like that. You jump. Well, I'm sorry, why'd you say. Say it like that's true? For once, I agree with you. Exactly. So what's the regimen? Are you up every morning? Are you in the pool every day? Are you in the pool every day, Timothy, all that you want to Question. All of a sudden you just want to question.

[Timothy Oliphant]

He can't stop himself. Literally. The all he had to say there was, do you still swim?

[Conan O'Brien]

I like the way I did it.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I mean, we were worried about filling the time. How long is this thing?

[Conan O'Brien]

That's about two minutes left. We're experimenting with real short ones.

[Timothy Oliphant]

That's almost enough time for your next question.

[Conan O'Brien]

I want to know. You can answer a question.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I swam this morning.

[Conan O'Brien]

I know you did. I could smell the chlorine when you came up the stairs.

[Timothy Oliphant]

That's possible.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. So I'm. This morning?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You got a follow up?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, I do. When you swim, do you strap weights to your legs? And why not? I think you would build your legs and also the possibility that you would drown would go up like 40%.

[Timothy Oliphant]

How about you? What's your exercise? What'd you do today?

[Conan O'Brien]

That's good of you to ask. I did weights this morning. I did weights. I know, I know it doesn't show, but I did some chest. I did some bicep. I did a lot of crunches. I do a lot of crunches.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Two guys over their 50s talking about exercise. Nobody is sexier than that. Two guys talking about exercise and what hurts.

[Conan O'Brien]

I want to be able to get onto a toilet and off a toilet. That's a lot of my exercise. I have a fake toilet in my exercise room and I get onto it and I get off of it, and I get onto it and off of it.

[Sonam Obsession]

Do you ever occasionally accidentally use it?

[Conan O'Brien]

No. There's been some confusion after a few drinks.

[Timothy Oliphant]

So you did weights today?

[Conan O'Brien]

I did weights, yep. Yeah, I did weights, weights. People probably want to know, how do I get Conan's body? Well, it's called don't be ill as a child. I. I admire you, Tim Oliphant. And there's been some excitement. I know usually we don't talk about what you're up to on this podcast and you're going to try and derail this as best you can. No, no, I'm all here right now. You're involved in a project that I've known about for a while.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Is this the toothpaste?

[Conan O'Brien]

Nope.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Nope. Okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

This is not the toothpaste.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

Think again.

[Timothy Oliphant]

There's a lot going on. It's in a recyclable.

[Conan O'Brien]

The Oliphant urinal cake.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Recycle.

[Conan O'Brien]

You want to pee on Timothy Oliphant? Well, now you can.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Celebrity compost. Yeah, exactly. Compost. Oh, look at these roses. All of it.

[Conan O'Brien]

They should do something where you have to figure out which celebrities.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Can you imagine this?

[Conan O'Brien]

But it's really close to the. To the deteriorated state. But people can still look at it like an expert can still guess.

[Timothy Oliphant]

How do you get your hydrangeas that full? Yeah, that's Clooney's. You know, that's what he throws out. That's what he throws out. Celebrity compost.

[Conan O'Brien]

This guy's excited about your project. He's very excited. Gorly, tell him. This is the first question you asked today because you're. You're coming out of your skin over this.

[Sonam Obsession]

I do. I love the Alien franchise. I'm excited. I don't know what you play. Are you a synthetic? Do you bleed milk?

[Conan O'Brien]

What do you.

[Sonam Obsession]

What are you doing on there?

[Timothy Oliphant]

First of all, thank you. I'm glad you're excited.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Number two, I do play a synthetic.

[Conan O'Brien]

Wow, that's a real stretch.

[Sonam Obsession]

Now, wait a minute. Hey, we're talking.

[Timothy Oliphant]

What do you want to know?

[Sonam Obsession]

We're talking. Are you a good synthetic? A bad synthetic? Are you saying you're one thing and then your other. Because there's. That's the real rich history of.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, ruin the movie for us.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'm sorry, the tv.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. What is this? When is this little puppy. When are we. What is this thing here?

[Conan O'Brien]

It's coming out right around the time that your new FX series, Alien Earth, comes out.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You really are running the show.

[Conan O'Brien]

I do what I have to do.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I appreciate that.

[Conan O'Brien]

And your publicist will thank me. They'll say, thank you for cutting through the bullshit, the cruel jibes and jests to get to Timothy's project, because this is an exciting one.

[Sonam Obsession]

And also Deadwood's my favorite TV show of all time.

[Timothy Oliphant]

That's very kind. Thank you.

[Sonam Obsession]

Amazing.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Thank you.

[Conan O'Brien]

I had TV show as well.

[Sonam Obsession]

Oh, did you?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. Late Night with Conan o' Brien, followed by.

[Sonam Obsession]

Does it ring a bell? What's this podcast called?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Him and Jesse Eisenberg. I'll never forget it.

[Conan O'Brien]

A couple of years, not that long ago, you and I met up as we do when we like to prowl the bars. And you had very different hair and you had. You were headed off to Thailand or had just come back from Thailand.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Thailand?

[Conan O'Brien]

What's that?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yep. I was in Thailand.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. Isn't that what I said?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. No, sorry. I thought I'd stop. You okay?

[Sonam Obsession]

Oh, it's never better.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. Okay, so he's in your favorite show and he's beating up on the guy you hate the most.

[Sonam Obsession]

Well, he's my favorite guest because. Yeah. Because he gives Us. The freedom to do like, there for us. Go him. Or what's that phrase? You know what I mean? There for you. Go me. You know, he's you.

[Conan O'Brien]

Did you go to college?

[Sonam Obsession]

I have a master's degree.

[Conan O'Brien]

There but for the grace of God, go I. No, no, that's not it, Blake. No one steps in. You know, Harrison Ford was here and told him to shut the up. And Tom Hanks did it too. And you know what? You're amazing. You always step in and go, excuse me, I think you meant tnt. No, we didn't mean. Anyway, you know what I mean?

[Sonam Obsession]

He comes in and he makes it okay for us to just. He takes over and we can just relax, you know what I mean?

[Timothy Oliphant]

A little bit.

[Sonam Obsession]

Like he. He does what we normally have to kind of do.

[Conan O'Brien]

You guys have to be like the stop gap against the madness just occurred to me.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Hanks. That's how he got into Toy Story.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

He pulled some strings. Yeah, he pulled some strings.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, I wish I had.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Nice.

[Conan O'Brien]

I was disappointed to find out that Hanks is in it. I didn't think he would be. I thought they would have moved on from the Woody thing. And I thought I was the main focus. And then I find out that all those guys are in it.

[Matt Gourley]

I'm sorry.

[Conan O'Brien]

And I was thinking, well, what am I doing here? You know, what's the point of getting. Bringing in the big gun if you've already got those guys?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah, let's keep talking about your stuff.

[Conan O'Brien]

Toy Story 5, what comes out?

[Timothy Oliphant]

I believe that's always the best one, guys. That's always the best.

[Conan O'Brien]

2026. They went as far as they could without me.

[Timothy Oliphant]

What are you playing? What are you.

[Conan O'Brien]

I don't want to talk about it. You like a. I'm a synthetic bleed milk slick.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You're a little action figure.

[Conan O'Brien]

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[Matt Gourley]

That's cool.

[Conan O'Brien]

I love saying it. I know.

[Matt Gourley]

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[Conan O'Brien]

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[Matt Gourley]

Hey, Conan, what's your status?

[Conan O'Brien]

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[Matt Gourley]

That's cool, man.

[Conan O'Brien]

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[Matt Gourley]

Yeah, I know you. And when I think of you, I think of bros. Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

A bunch of us get on our hogs, our choppers.

[Matt Gourley]

Yep.

[Conan O'Brien]

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[Matt Gourley]

And it goes on the train track.

[Conan O'Brien]

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[Matt Gourley]

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[Conan O'Brien]

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[Matt Gourley]

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[Conan O'Brien]

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[Timothy Oliphant]

Not monetized this relationship? Because we, every time we hang out, you say, let's figure out a way to monetize this friendship.

[Matt Gourley]

Yes.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, I do.

[Timothy Oliphant]

And then.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, I'm always on a. And I'm Wait, I'm always on a zoom.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

With faux Michael Cera over here. And we're figuring out a way to try and. Let's get some coin out of this. You know.

[Sonam Obsession]

I think it's like a midnight run situation where you're a cool, loose cannon cop and you're an accountant that he has to take across country or something like that. You know, you're handcuffed together.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, no. I think I am. Okay.

[Sonam Obsession]

I'm out of ideas.

[Conan O'Brien]

A porn star, you know, a guy who's just known for having a big johnson. And then this guy comes along and he's like, teach me. What do you think, guys?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yes. And.

[Conan O'Brien]

I know. I think it'd be, we got something. And clearly I would be very happy to play some kind of subordinate role. I mean, I get it. You're the movie guy. I'm not that guy. But I think there's a project out there. There's a short film. There's something we do together.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I love that. I see. I always assumed you wanted, you wanted first billing. No, no. You're okay with being.

[Conan O'Brien]

I would totally. Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I'm sorry. I would have spoke up. I have ideas.

[Conan O'Brien]

The only thing stopping you is you thought I would get top billing.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah, I was like, no, no, I'm, I'm, he's gonna count pages.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'm deluded, but I'm not that deluded. I'm deluded in in many ways, but no, I think this would be something that you drive. I mean, you've got it all.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Can we do like.

[Conan O'Brien]

You're a leading man, you're a character actor. You've got it all. You.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Can we do like a. Just little short, little five minute things?

[Conan O'Brien]

No, don't do that.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You want to like full on.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, yeah. I want it to be like at least 25 minutes long maybe. I'm, I'm, I'm. My ideas are all about the length. It's like, I've got it. It's 28 minutes. And then I don't know what it is, but I do think us together, that's a magical. There's something here. It's not peanut butter and jelly, but it's like peanut butter and then almond butter together on a sandwich.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. And I feel it. There's something here. And by the way, it's here right now.

[Conan O'Brien]

It's here now.

[Timothy Oliphant]

People feel it.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes, they do. They do. There's an affection, but there's also an animosity. And when those two come together, it's like when they cross the streams in Ghostbusters. We got you gorly back in the conversation. Tell us about it.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Ghostbusters. That's what brought you back?

[Sonam Obsession]

I mean, what do you want me to say?

[Conan O'Brien]

I don't know. Isn't this where you go, well, I don't curse the streams. It's a tripartite stream. You're right.

[Sonam Obsession]

You son of a bitch.

[Conan O'Brien]

Not a fan of his.

[Sonam Obsession]

Wait, did you just say that about me?

[Conan O'Brien]

Not at all. I meant the microphone.

[Sonam Obsession]

Do I get to speak my truth at some point?

[Conan O'Brien]

No. Okay, all right, all right. You admire me and this is all an act. He said desperately. I'm imagining you coming over here and getting in your head about this because it's you. You're like, I'm gonna be talking to Conan. This is. Okay, okay.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Oh, me? Yeah, I do get a little nervous.

[Conan O'Brien]

Why do you get nervous?

[Timothy Oliphant]

I'm not even. I don't know, but the show business, I get a little nervous. Like, yeah, I got a thing. What am I gonna talk about? Should I. Should I plan some bits? I like bits.

[Conan O'Brien]

You do like bits. You always.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I saw Smiley down there. I was like, ah. Why didn't I do a pre interview?

[Conan O'Brien]

Frank Smiley's. Frank Smiley's in the building. We don't do pre. Be great if we did pre interviews and we had planned all of this. Whatever the fuck it is we do. We planned this out.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I don't like the the people feeling like we're wasting their time, which.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's what this was.

[Sonam Obsession]

I remember the first time you came on, you had written an ad and you just interrupted the interview to do your.

[Conan O'Brien]

I did my.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Brought my own ads. I had some bits.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I did my own ads. Appreciate your memory.

[Conan O'Brien]

You bet.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. And I thought, oh, I could bring ads again. People love ads. People love the ads.

[Conan O'Brien]

They do. Feel free to make one up. Bringing all the bits, you know? I mean, you can always make up whatever you want to promote. You can promote a product that you want to be involved with.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Oh, that's a great idea.

[Conan O'Brien]

You know what I mean? Like, I don't know if you want a Rolex watch or you want a Maserati. You start talking about it and maybe you manifest it.

[Timothy Oliphant]

That's smart.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

What's your next question?

[Conan O'Brien]

Blank notebook.

[Timothy Oliphant]

What are some of your questions? What have you always thought, I want to ask Tim this next time I see him.

[Conan O'Brien]

You ever been in a fight? A real fight?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Not since I was quite young.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay, like, how young fights?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Maybe high school, junior high school. Right. Somewhere around there, junior high school, maybe. Yeah. Somewhere around there.

[Conan O'Brien]

But even then, were you shouting, not the face. Not the face. Time to be an actor. You see, he is good looking. We shouldn't hit him.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

I would shout, why not the face. And they would say, why you would shout the face.

[Timothy Oliphant]

The face. The face. Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

You might rearrange things in a more pleasing manner.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. How about you?

[Conan O'Brien]

I was the. I got my face punched in in Boston once down the North End. Yeah. Near what was then the. I guess it might still be the aquarium. The aquarium, yeah. Welcome to. A friend of mine. Bunch of kids came over. They said, Give us 50 cents. I said, I don't feel like it. And then the time when I finished saying, I don't feel like it. Da ta. I got hit so hard in the face. Think once, maybe twice. But anyway, shattered my nose and went to the emergency room. Yeah. And they had to remold. They had to make a nose out of scratch. And that's been my nose. And my mom. I think it looks the same. I think it looks fine. No one's ever said anything about my nose, but my mom, for years afterwards.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Would go, well, they don't want to be rude.

[Conan O'Brien]

I know. My mom would go, you used to have a beautiful. Yeah. And I was like, mom, it's. I think it looks the same. I've seen photographs, but she would do that. Oh, you used to have. Oh, you could have been something. With that and Michael, I think I've done okay. Oh. But anyway, yeah, that's.

[Matt Gourley]

Your nose is nice.

[Sonam Obsession]

I think so, too.

[Timothy Oliphant]

How old were you?

[Conan O'Brien]

I was 18.

[Timothy Oliphant]

18.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

So the 50 cents part, that was made up?

[Conan O'Brien]

No, that was real. Back then, 50 cents was the equivalent of. Of $50 today. No, it was 50 cents. I'll never forget that.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Really?

[Conan O'Brien]

I think he didn't want the 50 cents. I think he wanted to cave my face.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Hey, give me 50 cents.

[Conan O'Brien]

I was told later that I was. I think I was wearing a.

[Timothy Oliphant]

It's kind of a cool line now that I think about it.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Hey, hey, give me 50 cents.

[Conan O'Brien]

Give me 50 cents.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah, that's funny.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah, that's funny.

[Conan O'Brien]

Anyway, that's my story. I tricked you into me talking about me. You asked me.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You roll the tape back. It's about the third, fourth time.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, but you said. How about you? That was your deadly error. That was your mistake.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You're right.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

My mistake for pretending to care.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. Let me ask you. Do you like it when just you and I go out and we involve the wives sometimes beautiful Alexis, the beautiful Liza, we involve them. But do you like it when it's the four of us, or do you really like. Oh, it's just me and Conan. Man, this is gonna get off the hook. You get more excited when it's just the two of us. Cause I know I.

[Matt Gourley]

I think we all know that.

[Conan O'Brien]

You do? Yeah.

[Matt Gourley]

You didn't have to say it. We all knew that.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I think they get more excited when it's just the two of us.

[Conan O'Brien]

We get to stay home and watch Below Deck. You have to listen to these idiots.

[Timothy Oliphant]

My fair question told me to give you a message and ask about Liza and her family. And don't let me forget that, okay? Because I realized we jumped right on the air.

[Conan O'Brien]

All right, I will do that. We will discuss that. Everything's good. Everyone's fine.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Okay, good.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's nice of you to ask. She's fantastic. I love. I. I love your wife. She's an amazing person. She's also. I, I. I just. I love her art as well. I've seen her crafting her. Did you guys.

[Timothy Oliphant]

That's right. You came. It sounds like you want to be her. No.

[Conan O'Brien]

Wake up every day. I love her. He's right there.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I love her as well.

[Conan O'Brien]

I don't know.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I love her.

[Conan O'Brien]

Am I wrong?

[Timothy Oliphant]

And, And, And. And we love your wife. And so she makes. I feel like Liza. Both our wives have in common. They make us look Better.

[Conan O'Brien]

I think that's fair. I think Sona put it best in my regard. She said once about Liza, she's the only part of you I like.

[Matt Gourley]

It's my favorite thing about you, for sure.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. He can't be that bad, Liza, right?

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah, exactly, exactly, exactly. Yeah. She's a redeeming quality.

[Sonam Obsession]

It's like you chose a running mate to make you electable.

[Conan O'Brien]

Hey, she got me Texas. Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

She's your lbj.

[Conan O'Brien]

She got me Louisiana.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Exactly. Yeah, that's. That's. That's about right.

[Conan O'Brien]

She picked up some swing states and I won. Yeah. You think? I. I don't sit here with a list of questions. I usually just let it happen. And I think that's the charm of this podcast.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Oh, yeah. This is happening.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, I think it is. You know, you keep. You know. And you do this every time. You question the process, you question my methods, and we always end up with a good pod.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I love it.

[Sonam Obsession]

You're a chaos agent in the best way. That's what I like about Shakes this podcast up.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. I appreciate it.

[Conan O'Brien]

There's.

[Timothy Oliphant]

It's good to be here. Let's get started.

[Conan O'Brien]

We're out of time. I just want you to be happy. That's all I've ever wanted for you.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Oh, my gosh.

[Conan O'Brien]

It's all I've ever wanted for you to be happy. You know, who are your bud? Who are your pals? And let's exclude me for a second, but this is a guy, this Tim Oliphant. This Tim Oliphant's a guy who's loyal to his old pals. He's loyal to his old friends. You have friends from back in the day, back in the late 50s, when no one lived out in LA. You. When you had your switchblade in your back pocket.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yep.

[Conan O'Brien]

You'd drive around in a 50s.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I've seen him all this morning. We were getting texts this morning from.

[Conan O'Brien]

My buddy, this guy also, he loves a jazz festival. Oh, man, does he love to go to New Orleans and see a bunch of jazz and live music. And he wears a scarf around his head and he dances around. He's always saying, you should come with us. And I think, no, I don't want to.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Oh, yeah, I did mention you would. You would enjoy the.

[Conan O'Brien]

I don't know. Would I? Yeah, a lot of gumbo and. Yeah, I don't know about. That's my thing.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Good food, good times, good music.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I didn't go this year.

[Conan O'Brien]

Why did.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Pearl Jam was there this year, I think they headline.

[Conan O'Brien]

They do jazz now.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Jazz Fest says. Don't make me explain Jazz Fest.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay. Just going to say. I just pictured Eddie, veteran stage going, wow. Crowd walking out.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I love the way you play to them on. When you go off on these things.

[Conan O'Brien]

I try to crack them up.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Just want you to know you can't. I love it.

[Conan O'Brien]

I can't. I can't look at you when I'm doing this shit. The only reason we're. All I see is judgment.

[Timothy Oliphant]

This is my impression of you doing the show. So you like to. You go to. You go to Jazz Fest. I could see the.

[Conan O'Brien]

I've thrown my neck up.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Who are your bugs? He's got bugs. He's got. He's got bugs. They get kegs and they hang out at the canal.

[Matt Gourley]

Well, come on.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes. Come on. Get me, get me. That's what the people like.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Come on, man.

[Conan O'Brien]

This is gonna make quite a Reddit substack.

[Timothy Oliphant]

He's doing it again.

[Conan O'Brien]

Is that a thing? I don't know.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Reddit substack.

[Conan O'Brien]

I don't know. I don't know this world you guys are in.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I don't know what a substack. I just know there is a thing.

[Conan O'Brien]

There is a thing.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. I don't know what that is, though.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, you're too cool to know about it. You got your slides, you've got whatever you've been working on lately. Paper, mache, volcano, whatever you've been crafting. Huh.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You're asking about buds.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Just. Who are my buds?

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, you're friends with people from way back in the day.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I'm friends with.

[Conan O'Brien]

You're a loyal guy.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I'm gonna start shouting them out. So, yeah, since I was like, yeah, my buddy. Since I was like, six, I'm gonna.

[Conan O'Brien]

Write these names down.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Stole. You've met it.

[Conan O'Brien]

I've met some of them.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. My buddy stole. Steve stole. Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Steve stole. Hey, Steve stole.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Exactly. Smithers.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yep. Smithers.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Smithers.

[Conan O'Brien]

You're just going to text me this morning. Yep.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Jb.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yep.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Got a nice text from him.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I did an episode of the show Stick.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes. Stick.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah, it's really. And Owen Wilson. I know my episode aired last night because I got texts from a bunch of buddies that just said, nice ass. Oh, you showed your ass, by the way. Not my ass.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh.

[Timothy Oliphant]

And. Oh, I'm so excited this came up because there's nothing better to me than, like, when you see the Hollywood Reporter and the story is like, not Oliphant's ass in Stick, you realize they have nothing to talk about in the Hollywood Reporter.

[Conan O'Brien]

Right, right. And it was a cover.

[Sonam Obsession]

Do they take, like, reference photos of your ass and jeans and try to match it with someone's bare ass?

[Timothy Oliphant]

No, this is how it works. So I got the gig, which is a great gig. I enjoyed the hell of it. I'm gonna preface the story with that Owen Wilson. Can't. Can't get enough of Owen Wilson. So it's always something, right? Before you start a job, there's always a little drama somewhere. And this was a small one, but right before, I think I was about to get on the plane, they're like, hey, you have this scene and getting spray tanned, and they think it'd be funny if you were naked. Are you okay with that? Or, you know, is that a problem? I asked Alexis. They said, hey, they want me to be naked. See my ass in this thing? And then. And she's like, yeah, what's in it for you? You know what I mean? Like, she's like, nowadays, if you're naked on tv, you're basically naked on the Internet. They've kind of ruined it. Right, Right. And it makes me so mad when. Now when. When actors are naked on, like, mediocre shows.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I'm so mad.

[Conan O'Brien]

I was naked on alf. That was alf.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You were body d. You were out.

[Conan O'Brien]

Body my dick.

[Timothy Oliphant]

That's what I was getting at.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. Yeah. For two seasons, my dick was out because the puppet got lost.

[Timothy Oliphant]

That contract was. Yeah. Anyway, I'm so happy I brought that. This whole story led to that.

[Conan O'Brien]

But listen, so that's a win. But your wife said, best not to show your ass.

[Timothy Oliphant]

She was just like, what's in it for you? Everything gets on the Internet, and then it's just your ass on the Internet. And. And also. And this is where she sold me. She's like, also, you know, you could leave. You don't have to. You know, they can shoot that, and you've left the set and you're just. We'll go out. And I was like, oh, there you go. Yeah. So I was like, so, yeah, get a body double.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Cause I was like, yeah, that buys me an evening. Right? I leave while I shoot that part. And then you show up and the body double's there. And I was like, well, he's not in that great a shape. Like, they should have got me, like, a nicer ass. I felt like, yeah. But it turns out he had a great ass, actually. It just. You couldn't tell, right? So it's really great, I think. And now in Fact, I'm changing my story. That was my ass, now that I think about it.

[Conan O'Brien]

Is his headshot. Just his ass, I wonder. His naked ass. But it's also the naked ass as a chef. The naked ass. It's that one. It's four. You know, four photos. Nerd, jock, chef, policeman, ass.

[Timothy Oliphant]

See, if I'd done the pre interview, I really would have punched that off up with smiley. That story. It would have been really.

[Matt Gourley]

I thought it was good.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, we would have missed.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, I thought it was great. We would have missed the.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You're the best. Yeah, right. I saw you brought it back to alf. I heard that you. Everyone knows that was really funny. You got a huge laugh. You played it to the people, and they totally. It totally sold very big.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'm counting. Very good.

[Matt Gourley]

Matt set him up for that. We got to give credit. What credit's due.

[Sonam Obsession]

That's fine. I. I'm used to just being forgo.

[Conan O'Brien]

What's going on with him today?

[Sonam Obsession]

Oh, no, this is nothing to do here. It's just at home.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah, I got you. Matt, we're gonna do another podcast now.

[Conan O'Brien]

You did a.

[Sonam Obsession]

Wait, can we just shut up?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Okay. Come on.

[Sonam Obsession]

All right, what are we gonna do?

[Timothy Oliphant]

I want to do a podcast called Actors on Actors Acting.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay.

[Timothy Oliphant]

And we just give notes. You know what I mean? We don't really talk about the good stuff. We talk about the. We're like, what happened there? You know? I mean, we pick up those roles. You know what I mean? Yeah. We bring out really great people. Lots of. We introduced them with lots of, like. You were in this. That was great. You were in that one. Loved it. But this one, like, when Gary was.

[Sonam Obsession]

In that movie called Tiptoes where he played a little person, but he did the Dors thing. Gary Oldman.

[Conan O'Brien]

Gary Oldman, yeah. Had a what happened there? Moment.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah.

[Sonam Obsession]

This is real.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. What happened there? Yeah, Was that a. Like, where were you chasing. So at one point when you were shooting it, did you go, oh, like, this isn't gonna work?

[Sonam Obsession]

And how come you didn't go, oh, sooner?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Exactly. And then. And then we talk about that.

[Conan O'Brien]

Is there an actor who's never had a what happened there? Moment? Like a Ralph Fiennes who's just. Like always.

[Sonam Obsession]

It might be Ralph Fiennes.

[Timothy Oliphant]

What is it?

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, no.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Avengers.

[Sonam Obsession]

Not the Marvel Avengers, though. He did that.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Oh, that's right.

[Sonam Obsession]

With the umbrellas.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah, that's right.

[Sonam Obsession]

With Connery and Uma Thurman and Jesse Eisenberg.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, Michael Cera as Jesse Eisenberg.

[Timothy Oliphant]

That's right. That one didn't work, right.

[Sonam Obsession]

He was good.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Good.

[Sonam Obsession]

He's always good.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. What about when he did. He was for a while there, he was like romantic leading man just like. For a blip. He was like. Was he made in Manhattan with Jennifer?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah.

[Sonam Obsession]

Ray finds was.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes.

[Sonam Obsession]

Wow.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay, so I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying.

[Timothy Oliphant]

What happened?

[Conan O'Brien]

You acted like it was a question, like, huh. Did he? But it was really you saying, oh, he totally missed with made Manhattan. Yeah, I saw what you did.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Oh. Oh. Because apologies, Rafe, by the way. He's so good.

[Conan O'Brien]

He's very good.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Let's be honest.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. What about you?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Have you had a moment where you say so good? I've seen him not in also, I just saw him. I've seen him on stage twice. Oh my God. Like, oh, my God.

[Sonam Obsession]

Jaw dropping like Shakespeare.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I saw him in Shakespeare way back when on Broadway with a young Damian Lewis. Really good.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, he's fantastic.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I love that guy. That guy's a good dude. I haven't talked to that guy in a long time, but he's a good dude.

[Conan O'Brien]

I don't know if I've met him.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I realize when I'm on the show, it occurs to me people might listen. People probably listen to it. Some people. If Damian Lewis is listening to this, I want him to know.

[Conan O'Brien]

Adam, I can't speak to numbers, but this is a big project. Damien Lewis probably listens.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Probably listens. He's a wonderful. We're doing Damien Lewis number.

[Conan O'Brien]

Adam knows everyone who listens.

[Timothy Oliphant]

He's got a beautiful guy. He's a good guy.

[Conan O'Brien]

I loved him. I loved him as Henry VIII, 8th. He was fantastic.

[Timothy Oliphant]

He's a crazy good actor. Good dude. We were in a movie that was really bad.

[Sonam Obsession]

Which one?

[Timothy Oliphant]

But it was fun. That could be a. That could be like. Oh, what happened there?

[Sonam Obsession]

Dream catchers.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah, dream catchers. Wow. I love Larry Kazan too.

[Conan O'Brien]

But wait, what's Dreamcast?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Trust me.

[Conan O'Brien]

How did you pull Dream Cat?

[Timothy Oliphant]

I've got. Well, Damon Lewis is in it.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

He had a cast member. Yeah, he had a cast member.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay.

[Sonam Obsession]

I just. I just love movies. What can I say? I don't know. I just. I have a database in here that I'm not proud of.

[Timothy Oliphant]

It was a great. God, that was a fun set. A great experience. Yeah. The movie was. Didn't work, but Damien. Yeah, that's where I met Damien.

[Conan O'Brien]

You have the memories of. Memories of making.

[Timothy Oliphant]

So many memories.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Oh, so many good ones.

[Sonam Obsession]

Oh, and you guys were in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood together, too.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Oh, there you go.

[Sonam Obsession]

He was Steve McQueen, right?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yes, he was.

[Conan O'Brien]

He was.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yes, he was.

[Conan O'Brien]

He was great as Steve McQueen. Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. Really good. He had a. They had a. One day there. I'm sure there's going to be a long version of that film. And if I'm not mistaken, he has a really cool scene with Leo. And it.

[Conan O'Brien]

There was talk of maybe there being other projects coming out of this movie.

[Sonam Obsession]

There is a sequel that. That Tarantino wrote in Fincher's directing, about Brad Pitt's.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Sonam Obsession]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Wow. Okay. All right. Yeah. All right.

[Sonam Obsession]

What's happening then?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yep.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. My question. What's that?

[Timothy Oliphant]

You're can't. Are they filming this? My question is that camera just.

[Matt Gourley]

Whatever you did.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I don't know, but we can cut it. I don't know.

[Sonam Obsession]

Do you want us to cut it?

[Timothy Oliphant]

I don't know. There'll be. I don't. Let's see.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'll cut.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I'm hoping I'm in it.

[Sonam Obsession]

Oh, gotcha.

[Conan O'Brien]

That'd be exciting.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Be good.

[Sonam Obsession]

That'd be amazing.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You never know. It only is what it is.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

But my understanding.

[Conan O'Brien]

You must have. So that's probably the kind of thing that you've. Tim. That's a big.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I was. I was gonna be Tim.

[Conan O'Brien]

That'd be a big deal that you would probably tell your friends about, right?

[Timothy Oliphant]

I haven't seen you. Are you talking about seen me?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes, you've seen me. You saw me like a month ago when we went to the. Was that two months ago? When did we go to your art installation?

[Timothy Oliphant]

You know, you came to the studio.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

And we had.

[Conan O'Brien]

We got a bite to eat. It was nice.

[Timothy Oliphant]

That's where the future is, guys. Kids are listening. Don't go into show business. Go into ceramics.

[Conan O'Brien]

I bought six pots from you. You're telling your friends. Are you telling your friends? He's telling stacks. Are you telling Smithers? Are you telling.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I wrote them down.

[Matt Gourley]

Those are the. That's the only thing you've written down?

[Timothy Oliphant]

This.

[Conan O'Brien]

Did you sell Bennett?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Did you sell Bennett with a kid? Hey, J.B. what's that? Bennett.

[Conan O'Brien]

What's a stupid name?

[Timothy Oliphant]

J.B. i like.

[Conan O'Brien]

It should be Bennett. Bennett. Tell him to change it to Bennett. Anyway, I think you would have told me that you knew what a huge fan I am of the first film. You think you would mention that to me?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. Oh, no, no. I think I just got. It was just a few weeks ago that I wasn't sure when they were.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, okay.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Well, I mean, I'm still not sure.

[Conan O'Brien]

We won't dwell on this, find out.

[Timothy Oliphant]

About this and say, you know, what's he doing talking about he's out.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay.

[Timothy Oliphant]

It's all good. We got a lot of things going on. So we go, yeah, when does this thing come out? Oh, no, I'm not going to start talking about other projects. What am I here to. I'm here to sell the alien thing.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, you're not here to sell it. You and I have a great conversation, which we're having, by the way. Whatever you think. And then. And then they say, I gotta have more of that. Tim Oliphant. What was he talking about at the end? And then we say, alien Earth. Oh, the aliens come to Earth. That's fantastic. I've got to see that. I've heard that's really great. Yeah, they shot it in Thailand and Tim Oliphant's in it. He was so great on the podcast. I gotta see this.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Thailand. Two for two. Works every time. Swatika. Swati. Crop. You know, what's the thing about. Because you're. You. You got. You're a travel guy. You got the travel show. That's the one.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'm a travel guy. Yeah. I got the travel show. What a. So well versed in work. You do the thing where there's different places. You're the places guy. I'm going to go play to them. You're the places guy. You go to the places.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Okay, so here's the thing about the. The travel. It's such a fine line between trying to respect the language and this, the accent. And then you're like, now you just sound racist.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yep, exactly.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You know what I mean?

[Conan O'Brien]

Y.

[Timothy Oliphant]

It's like if you just say like, swatika, or they're like, like, no, that's not how it goes. But if you go like, so what? The crop. You know, they're like, okay, now you're making fun of us.

[Conan O'Brien]

Right, Right.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You know, I mean, you got to find this little sweet spot. Yes, right.

[Conan O'Brien]

Exactly.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You've. That's been your experience.

[Conan O'Brien]

Nope, not at all. I always get it just right. Very culturally sensitive. But keep doing your version of the wrong one. Just do it a couple more times.

[Timothy Oliphant]

All these different. When you go into a different land with the culture. Did I tell you? We were. We had been in. We had been in Thailand for a few weeks and, you know, we're using the, like, tran. The go. The translate thing, the little. The app. So, you know, you Say the English pops back out in Thai and then you say that. So we're getting, we got our couple things down, right. And at least, you know, I feel pretty confident. And we're branching out now. And we're now at restaurants and I've been, I've been asking the waiters at any of the restaurant, I've been pointing the menu and saying, you know, what do you like? Like what's your favorite? Right. But saying that in Thai and I'm getting nothing they're not giving me. It just seems to be lost.

[Conan O'Brien]

It's not working. Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

So it occurs to me that if you go on the app, if you can say it in English and it says to you in Thai, that I can flip that. So I'm like, oh, I say it in Thai and it'll tell me back in English and I'll know now if I'm saying it correctly. So I start off with the basics just to make sure I'm saying it right. So I'm, you know, and then it's like it's saying whatever that was, hello or. Right. And you're singing, you're saying thank you, goodbye and hello. And then I say, and what is your favorite? And I say that and it comes back and says, gaze into my eyes. And it all starts to make sense.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

So for at least two dinners you were telling people clearly, this is me going pretty good. Right?

[Conan O'Brien]

Gaze into my eyes. Huh? Gaze into my eyes. That's fantastic. I'm surprised no one just started to got down and looked right into your face.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I tried it so seriously too. Like I would really be like, like just gaze into my eyes. But they're nice people, you know, they're very good people. They were very nice and the food's extraordinary.

[Conan O'Brien]

And you're a foodie as well.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Did I tell you? Here's another cultural thing.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yep.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I'm not letting you in on. Brian. I got stuff to tell you because you think, you think you're right. There's certain things you think universal. We're all right. And I'm with my, my buddy Jonathan. Hello to Jonathan out there. He, he's American who's been living in Thailand for like 15 years. Every now and then he gets a hankering for just something very American. So we went into a subway. He's like, I'm gonna get a meatball sandwich. And he orders the foot long meatball sandwich. And this, God bless him. What a sweet young Thai kid on the other side of the counter. He gets out the bread and then he Gets the little scooper they use, and it's one meatball, two meatball. They're in there going up, not the.

[Conan O'Brien]

Length of the bread. He's building a tow.

[Timothy Oliphant]

So he's got a loaf of bread and a tower, 12 tower of meatballs. This is when it gets good. He then gets the other piece of bread and he puts it on there.

[Sonam Obsession]

What?

[Timothy Oliphant]

And that's when he realizes he's done something wrong.

[Conan O'Brien]

Bread touching bread touching bread touching bread.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Cause he looked up at us like he knew something was off, but he wasn't sure what. And I was like, I give him a little nod to the tip.

[Conan O'Brien]

Those meatballs, buddy.

[Timothy Oliphant]

So not everything translates. That's my point.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'm gonna get you on this project one last time. Is this Noah Hawley who worked on this project?

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yes.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay. I'm asking you this because Fargo is one of my fanatic for the Coen brothers. And when Fargo came out, it remains one of my favorite movies of all time. I can quote from that movie. I know it frame by frame. When I heard that they were going to do a TV show called Fargo, I said, this is going to suck. There's no way this can be good. Because it's someone saying, no, we're doing a TV show about the Godfather 1 and 2. I just think that's gonna be terrible. That can't work. Don't touch my movie. I've been stunned by his work. I think it's absolutely fantastic. And so I'm excited for this Alien Earth. And I know you're excited.

[Sonam Obsession]

Well, yeah. Taking another movie and turning it to tv. It's in good hands.

[Timothy Oliphant]

It is in good. I do think it's in good hands. I've seen a couple of them, and it's really special. It was special reading them. It was really. It was one of those jobs where it was more fun. The more we shot, you know, I felt more. When I say fun, like the work, the material, you could just feel it was, oh, this is gonna be special. You know, that was kind of a nice. I just had a ball. I had a ball.

[Conan O'Brien]

Can't wait.

[Timothy Oliphant]

And, you know, Noah's a really special writer, so. So he's a fun one to work with.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, we screw around a lot here. But I will say to you sincerely, which I know you hate, you're an amazing actor. I love watching you do your thing. I'm very fascinated by acting because I am not an actor. I don't fundamentally understand it. And I'm always asking you. Cause Tim is really good at Analyzing performances and telling me what he thinks. And I will just ask him about movies. I'll ask him about. I'll ask them what is it they're doing. That's. And you're very good at explaining to me how you. You know, how it translates what you think is happening there, how it works. So delighted to see this. Very happy for you. And I just want us to go out, just the two of us, no wives. Maybe to Thailand, maybe to.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You know. He's ruined it.

[Conan O'Brien]

Thank God he ruined it.

[Timothy Oliphant]

I haven't had a chance to circle back to say a sincere thank you before he wrote ruined it. Yeah. And now we kill you.

[Conan O'Brien]

The two of us in Bangkok, just driving around one motorcycle, you know, my arms wrapped around you, behind you.

[Sonam Obsession]

Gaze into his eyes.

[Conan O'Brien]

How can I gaze into your eyes if I'm on the motorcycle behind you? Tim Oliphant, go with God, because I won't do this anymore. Okay, that's it. I'm not. I'm ending this. I'm just gonna throw down. It's gotta stop.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Let's stop it.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, no. Let's stop it now. Let's stop it on my terms.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Is that the thing? It's a control thing?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. I gotta end it. No.

[Timothy Oliphant]

No, please.

[Conan O'Brien]

Please come back. I mean, come on.

[Sonam Obsession]

This is a valuable favorite.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Thanks for having me.

[Conan O'Brien]

Conor. Brian Needs a Friend is brought to you by Airbnb. One of the best things about traveling is getting to immerse yourself in a new culture and see the real side of whatever place you're visiting. That's why I'm obsessed with Airbnb's new. You can find authentic experience that allows you to explore a city like a local, not a tourist, and meet new people along the way. Blay, you went on an Airbnb experience recently, right? That's right. I had a great time in New York. Tanisha and I did an Airbnb experience at Paulie G's, an awesome pizza joint. We got to learn how to make our own pizzas. They let you put on as many toppings as you want. What did you put on? I bet you put on some meats. I did some. Dude, I went all meats. Don't call me dude. Don't ever call me dude again, okay? Sorry, sir. I put on all the meats. The teacher was really great and very patient, and the pizzas were delicious. I think I ate about five pizzas. Okay, well, listen, it really enlivens the travel activity that you're embarked on. You name it, you can do it with air B and B experiences. So. And this is exciting and I think I would do this. I really would. You can live life to the max with Airbnb experiences. Yeah, okay, sure. So if you want to feel a little more like a local and connect with other like minded people when you travel, head to Airbnb to book your next experience.

[Eduardo Perez]

Really?

[Conan O'Brien]

Travel, travel, be immersed. That's the whole point here. You never know where Airbnb experience might take you. This back to school season. Spend less on your kids with Amazon. Okay, I remember back in the day when my kids were going off to school. You're going through it now, Sona.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah, but they're really young. Needs stuff.

[Conan O'Brien]

You gotta get the backpacks and you gotta get the crayons and the.

[Matt Gourley]

The lunchbox.

[Conan O'Brien]

Eh, we didn't let him have lunch. Raise them up to be hungry. No, we all love our kids. We really do. But they have a magical talent for making our wallets weep. Especially when school season hits. Thankfully, Amazon's got everything you need for back to school. Big selection, all at low prices. Lunch boxes, school snacks, backpacks, water bottles, uniforms, apparel, noise canceling headphones. I never got to take those to school.

[Matt Gourley]

Me neither.

[Conan O'Brien]

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[David Hopping]

Yeah, two weeks ago.

[Conan O'Brien]

Two weeks ago. And this fellow is in studio because you have been bringing him in. I told you you could. And then you took advantage.

[David Hopping]

Well, he has some separation anxiety and it's nice that he's with us.

[Matt Gourley]

Took advantage.

[Conan O'Brien]

I have separation anxiety from professionalism. Why don't we. Oh my God, man. I'm shooting from the hip and I don't know if I'm hitting anything, but I love it when I draw that fast. It's either gonna be very good or like, what the fuck? Either way I get the giggles. Atlas, where are you? Right here. This is Atlas. This is Atlas. Can you have Atlas sit us? That's it. I mean, we want to. If people are tuning in on video, Atlas is very good looking.

[Matt Gourley]

He's a beautiful pup.

[Conan O'Brien]

And I have to say, you sent me a picture from the shelter and I thought you might have made a mistake because it looked like you had.

[Matt Gourley]

What?

[Conan O'Brien]

No, because. Let me explain. Because. Because he looked like a massive German shepherd.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Oh, yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

And. And I thought he was three times bigger than this because he photographed like a monster.

[David Hopping]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

And then I. I meet him. He's a very gentle fellow. And not part German shepherd. Not that big.

[David Hopping]

A Belgian Malinois, but we don't know what else he's mixed with.

[Conan O'Brien]

What is a Belgian Malinois?

[David Hopping]

It's like a police dog.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, are you smart? So watch out. Why?

[Sonam Obsession]

Why did you say that so sensually?

[Matt Gourley]

Because I've never heard of that word.

[Conan O'Brien]

What is that, Belgian? I don't know.

[Matt Gourley]

Cause that's the only way you can say Malinois.

[Conan O'Brien]

Can you tell me this breed? What are their specialties? What is a Belgian Malinois?

[David Hopping]

Malinois.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay.

[David Hopping]

They're supposed to be really smart, which he is. They have a lot of energy. He loves to run around. He ran around at your house last week.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's right. You brought him over. And my dogs were not home at the time. They were vacationing in Saint Barts. But that's the ultimate in the bubble thing. My dogs are at Saint Barts. But he's very good looking and he's really sweet.

[David Hopping]

He's the best.

[Conan O'Brien]

Aren't you? Yes, you are.

[Matt Gourley]

Do you think he's bummed he can't be a dog? Like a cop dog?

[Conan O'Brien]

Sorry.

[Matt Gourley]

I think a cop dog do dog shit with the cops.

[David Hopping]

He doesn't really like going on walks. He likes to sit in the air conditioning. So I think he's fine.

[Sonam Obsession]

I'm. I think the dog's fine. I'm a little worried about Sona.

[Conan O'Brien]

What is your problem?

[Matt Gourley]

I don't know. Because his friends are all like cop dogs. I'm just wondering if he missed his calling.

[Conan O'Brien]

No. Dogs aren't only friends with other people.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Come on.

[Sonam Obsession]

All cops are just friends with cops.

[Conan O'Brien]

So it.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah, true.

[Matt Gourley]

It's what happens.

[Sonam Obsession]

They go to the same dog cop bar.

[Conan O'Brien]

How is your life changing? Let's talk about that. Well, I mean, because you're in a relationship. How's it. How's Dustin doing with all this?

[David Hopping]

Oh, Dustin. He was like so excited to get a dog.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay.

[Sonam Obsession]

Are you guys both out of the house? Each day, or are you. Are you in the. Do you cohabitate?

[David Hopping]

Yes.

[Sonam Obsession]

Okay, so does. Is the dog home alone a lot, or.

[David Hopping]

Not yet. We're working on it. We're building up.

[Sonam Obsession]

That's why he's here today.

[David Hopping]

That's why he's here right now.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

Have you tried some of the tricks? There are things you can do to make a dog feel like it's not alone.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah. Yeah.

[David Hopping]

Well, you suggested we get, like, a heartbeat thing.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[David Hopping]

So we're trying that out.

[Conan O'Brien]

There's something that simulates a heartbeat. I've used it in my marriage. My wife was like, you're human. I knew it. And then the little thing fell out of my T shirt.

[David Hopping]

It's like a full stuffed animal, too.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, it's a little device that goes in the stuffed animal.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Oh, got it.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. It fits in a little sleeve in the stuffed animal, and it gives it a little heartbeat. And they're for, like, kittens and puppies. Atlas might be a little old for.

[David Hopping]

Yeah, he does like watching tv. Like, he knows when I say it's Love island time, he jumps up on the couch.

[Sonam Obsession]

He's definitely your son.

[Conan O'Brien]

Aw.

[David Hopping]

He loves this YouTube channel.

[Conan O'Brien]

Does he, like. Does he actually watch the TV? Because I have one of my dogs watches the TV and gets engaged.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah. Okie loves Isle of Dogs, that Wes Anderson movie. Yeah. That's a good one for pups.

[Conan O'Brien]

My dog likes Kurosawa. Okay. Yeah.

[Matt Gourley]

Fancy.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, Loves the Criterion Channel.

[Matt Gourley]

Okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, that's cool. Doesn't quite get the seventh Seal. What? What's. Oh, yeah. You're calling your dog.

[David Hopping]

I thought you were.

[Matt Gourley]

He's coming to me. I mean, I think he just likes me and stuff. Oh, okay.

[David Hopping]

Those are for Sona to eat.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. I was gonna say, Ike used to.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Give Sona treats when she'd get a task done right.

[Conan O'Brien]

When she do it. Right. Remember? Yeah, but it was alcohol.

[Matt Gourley]

Good job. You called that person.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Here you go.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. So how is he changing your life? Life? I mean, you got to get up and walk him in the morning. It's good.

[David Hopping]

There's a lot of walking, which is good.

[Conan O'Brien]

Dogs make you move more than you normally would.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah.

[David Hopping]

We can't go to Disneyland as much, but it's worth it.

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[Sonam Obsession]

As much you said, but you still go.

[David Hopping]

Well, we haven't since we got him.

[Conan O'Brien]

But can't you dress him as goofy or something and go.

[David Hopping]

Oh, that's a good idea.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. You could dress him as a character.

[Sonam Obsession]

Can't you fake him as a service Dog or something.

[David Hopping]

I mean, that just feels wrong about it.

[Conan O'Brien]

Also, you just revealed the scam. Yeah, yeah.

[David Hopping]

Now everyone at Disney's gonna know.

[Conan O'Brien]

Does he like when Andy brings his.

[David Hopping]

Dog in and he hasn't met Andy's dog?

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, I thought they were both here together, too.

[David Hopping]

Gina's dog.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, Gina's dog.

[David Hopping]

Yeah, dogs come by very dog friendly.

[Matt Gourley]

I should bring Oki.

[Timothy Oliphant]

You should. You used to.

[Conan O'Brien]

I know I brought my rat in, but EB killed it. She thought it was a random rat.

[Matt Gourley]

It had a little bow tie.

[Conan O'Brien]

She also killed my cockroach I brought in. Jesus. I. I can't catch a break around here. He's really. He's a good looking fella.

[Timothy Oliphant]

He's the best.

[Sonam Obsession]

How old is he?

[Conan O'Brien]

This is the best use of.

[David Hopping]

This is about a year.

[Conan O'Brien]

The best use of the podcast is to bring in a really cute animal and then talk about how good it looks. And people are listening in their cars, like, what is this? Well, but he's. I think there's a calming energy. It humanizes me to have a dog in the room. No, just touch my leg. Get it away from me.

[Matt Gourley]

No, it doesn't. It doesn't humanize you.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, something will.

[Sonam Obsession]

Let's get you that heartbeat thing.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, it keeps falling out of my T shirt. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you should try one of these tricks, David.

[David Hopping]

I will.

[Conan O'Brien]

You know, I.

[Matt Gourley]

Sorry. I was gonna say I love an animal friendly work environment. Yeah, thanks for doing that.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, it was against my will.

[Sonam Obsession]

Would we ever get a studio cat?

[Timothy Oliphant]

You know?

[Conan O'Brien]

You know, it's interesting hotel. When we started the late night show way back in 1993, somehow I forget what happened, but someone maybe found a cat, brought a cat in, and there was a cat that lived in 30 Rock in our studios for, I wanna say, two months while we were putting. And then I think it's NBC. It's 30 Rock. You can't have a cat there. Someone, I think, blew the whistle on us and so the cat was deported. Oh, God.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Jeez.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah, whoever blew the whistle sucks.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, it was me.

[Sonam Obsession]

Yeah, it sure was.

[Timothy Oliphant]

It sure was.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, it was not. It was not. I wish I could remember the cat's name, but that's one of those trivia things that, you know, someone will call in and tell me, you know, Robert Smigel or Dino Stamatopoulos, one of those. Those guys was in the trenches in the early days.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Will remember.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, I bet people are just waiting for the answer. People have pulled their cars over and they're just sitting there waiting. Well, you're just gonna have to wait. What was the name of that cat?

[Sonam Obsession]

Well, now I do want to know.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

We'll find out.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

We'll find out. I'll get it to you. Eduardo. How are you? I haven't seen you. Great. I mean, you've been sitting there. I've been here the whole time. I know. I look right through you. I just saw a Seattle Mariner's cap floating in the air and no person attached to it. Now you've faded into view.

[Matt Gourley]

Do you have a dog or cat?

[Conan O'Brien]

I had a dog. I don't. I don't anymore.

[Matt Gourley]

Sorry, brought it down.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, my dog. No, my dog passed away, like, 10 years ago. So you're. I'm trying to warm my wife up to us having a dog, but she. She didn't grow up with a dog, so she doesn't know what that. Oh, yeah.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Entails.

[David Hopping]

Would you get a little dog or a big dog?

[Conan O'Brien]

Whatever. She. She'd be cool with. Yeah. This guy knows the idea.

[Sonam Obsession]

It's us whole all dog people, huh? Just nobody.

[Conan O'Brien]

Nobody else has a cat here.

[Matt Gourley]

No one has a cat here.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, no, we have cats, too. We have cats and dog. I want to get a parrot on my shoulder. That's another story. And wear an eye patch. Walk around and have the parrot say, you're lame. You're lame. You're lame.

[Matt Gourley]

Old.

[Conan O'Brien]

Bit old. Bit old.

[Matt Gourley]

Bit old.

[Conan O'Brien]

Bit old. Bit.

[Matt Gourley]

God.

[Conan O'Brien]

All right, well, we had a good time. I thought. I thought we really had a good time. Listen, welcome to Atlas.

[David Hopping]

Thank you for letting me bring him in.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, you know, for now, it's okay. Hanging by a thread, that dog. Hanging by a thread. He's so happy. He's a very chill presence.

[Sonam Obsession]

That's a good guy.

[Conan O'Brien]

Very chill presence.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Really nice guy. Our dog. Our puppy now, who's about a year, is insane.

[David Hopping]

He's so cute, though.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Sonam Obsession]

What's your puppy?

[Conan O'Brien]

His name? Odin.

[Sonam Obsession]

Oh, you could do all, like, Norse. Go.

[Conan O'Brien]

That was the kids. The kids mandated these Norse names. They were in a Norse phase. So, yeah, we had a cat named Thor. I mean, we went through all. Everybody.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Loki, Thor, Odin.

[Timothy Oliphant]

What else is there?

[Conan O'Brien]

Skarsgard.

[Sonam Obsession]

Abba.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Skarsgard. Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Stellan. Skarsgard. Come here. Different Skarsgards. Skarsgard. You haven't heard of Alexander Skarsgard. Come here. Alexander comes running. Stellan, Come here.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Skelen.

[Conan O'Brien]

There's a skeleton. Skarsgrd, I think.

[Matt Gourley]

Stellan.

[Conan O'Brien]

Stellan. Stellan.

[Timothy Oliphant]

Okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

And then ones you haven't heard of, that decided you know to go into anesthesiology. La Taika Skarsgard, Grachton Crocton Skarsgard Umlauts flying everywhere, rolling around on the floor like marbles. Well, Atlas, here's to you.

[Sonam Obsession]

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[Eduardo Perez]

Hey there, it's Kelly Ripa, and if you've been listening to my podcast, we are knee deep in season three. And if you haven't heard it, it's time to get on board. After years of interviewing celebs on camera, I finally get to bring you the real conversations that take place when the cameras aren't rolling. Where else are you going to hear Michelle Obama talk about keeping her girls out of Page 6? Hilaria Baldwin's hilarious reaction to Alec running for office, or Jeremy Renner's lucid hallucinations about Jamie Foxx. Nowhere else. It's raw, it's honest, and best of all, it's off camera. And believe me, that's where you get the good stuff. So download. Let's talk Off Camera with Kelly Rabba now. Wherever you get your podcast.

[David Hopping]

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[Conan O'Brien]

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[David Hopping]

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[Conan O'Brien]

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[David Hopping]

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[Conan O'Brien]

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