Spinal Tap Live From The SiriusXM Garage

Speaker 1 Hey, Conan O'Brien here.

Speaker 3 We're trying a little something different on this episode because it's a very special episode.

Speaker 7 We're going to start out with fans, people who are here in the audience, telling you how they feel about being Conan O'Brien's friend.

Speaker 11 But let's see what's on people's minds.

Speaker 3 Hi, my name is Eric D.

Speaker 12 And I feel wistful about being Conan O'Brien's friend.

Speaker 15 My name is Rebecca, and I feel vengeful.

Speaker 17 I feel elated, overeager, so-so.

Speaker 18 Nervous. Wactose intolerant.

Speaker 19 Unprepared.

Speaker 20 Cautiously optimistic.

Speaker 21 I feel fine. Honored.

Speaker 17 Ginger chic. Fantastic.

Speaker 21 Swell. Fabulous.
Stupendous.

Speaker 22 Unoriginal.

Speaker 18 Special.

Speaker 23 Vertically challenged. Shocked.

Speaker 20 Convinced. Short as fuck.

Speaker 24 Crepuscular. Sneaky.
Silly. Choice.
Stoked.

Speaker 17 In awe.

Speaker 18 Anxious. Electric.

Speaker 24 Stunned. Unworthy.

Speaker 20 Shaking. Nostalgic.
Suspicious.

Speaker 17 Terbalake. Committed.

Speaker 25 Felice.

Speaker 19 Rasm tails. Lucky.

Speaker 24 Thankful.

Speaker 17 Flaccid. Mental.
Effusive.

Speaker 26 Kosher. Apprehensive.

Speaker 21 Nuts. Blessed.

Speaker 17 Ecstatic. Aroused.

Speaker 27 Feeling excited. Everything.

Speaker 17 Rad as.

Speaker 15 Hi, my name's Amanda, and I feel frog about being Conan O'Brien's friend.

Speaker 15 Hey!

Speaker 15 Thank you!

Speaker 28 Thank you very much.

Speaker 29 Please, please, please.

Speaker 30 Don't chant the conan. It sounds like a Salem witch trial.

Speaker 33 Very nice to see you.

Speaker 35 A gentleman tried to high-five me, fist bump on the way in.

Speaker 34 I don't do well with those.

Speaker 36 Do you, if you saw me on the street, would you hold up your hand?

Speaker 37 I don't. I never make a good connection.

Speaker 38 I'm usually holding something.

Speaker 30 I apologize to that gentleman, but those frighten me.

Speaker 40 All right.

Speaker 33 Also, that can be confused for a fascist salute,

Speaker 39 which would have been funny five years ago, but now it's getting scary.

Speaker 42 how y'all doing you ready to go all right

Speaker 43 this guy over here grew the beard that I had about eight years ago fantastic very that's my beard man I want it back how are you how long did it take you to grow that

Speaker 49 six hours wow you're just infused with testosterone mine took nine years I mean I sneezed and it fell off.

Speaker 47 This is a very special show that we have today.

Speaker 39 These guys are my heroes.

Speaker 5 I will time travel with you to 1984.

Speaker 53 I'm an incredible comedy nerd.

Speaker 9 I'm in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Speaker 57 And one of my friends says, I believe it was Mark Silber, said, hey, let's go see Spinal Tap.

Speaker 59 It just came out.

Speaker 55 I hear it's funny. I said, what is that?

Speaker 5 He said, you never seem to know anything.

Speaker 50 Your career will flounder.

Speaker 60 And we took the tea over to a theater, and we saw Spinal Tap, and it opened so many doors in my mind to what was possible in comedy.

Speaker 5 And I just saw you wearing the Conan shirt.

Speaker 61 You look lovely.

Speaker 28 How are you?

Speaker 20 Okay, all right.

Speaker 62 How are you? Nice to see you.

Speaker 30 I used to go, wow, and I go, oh,

Speaker 43 like a cat with leukemia.

Speaker 39 Sorry, dark image, but it happens.

Speaker 20 It happens all the time.

Speaker 30 Okay, that was nothing.

Speaker 55 My point is that that movie meant so much to me.

Speaker 66 And if you had told that guy, I'm very, I'm not at all jaded.

Speaker 9 I'm very sentimental, and I have a very good contact with the young Conan of 1984, and I'm able to access that guy, and he's freaking out right now because he's going to hang out with the people who changed his life all those years ago.

Speaker 66 So that's awesome for me, and it's nice that you're all here to take part in that.

Speaker 75 I think we're going to have a very good time.

Speaker 40 Blay, Spinal Tap, guys, they mean anything to you.

Speaker 35 I know you're very young.

Speaker 9 I mean, when I say young, you're like in your late 50s

Speaker 30 iconic i'm so excited okay very good you've been working on that answer all day

Speaker 44 he was riding in his car iconic i'm so excited iconic i'm so excited iconic excited me i am uh we're gonna have a good time we're gonna have a great time i've been looking forward to this show for a while look there are times i'm talking to a guest and i absolutely loathe them and i think you could tell oliphant uh i mean people i despise i think you just saw that when you talked it to talk to me yeah yeah well no we've never done it you've never been on the guest on the podcast

Speaker 20 and for good reason

Speaker 32 You and I are oil and water in the best way.

Speaker 87 We make a good salad dressing.

Speaker 71 I think we should get the show started.

Speaker 9 Thank you all very much for being here.

Speaker 56 You're a big part of this show, and we're going to have a good time.

Speaker 5 But really, there is no Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend without two of my good friends.

Speaker 76 And I say that in quotes

Speaker 9 because I want to create some emotional detachment from them: Sona Movsesian and Matt Gore.

Speaker 88 Let's get them in here.

Speaker 18 Yay, up.

Speaker 89 It's a very long corridor to get from backstage to this.

Speaker 4 It's a strange setup here at Sirius XM and LA.

Speaker 92 And so, what happens is what people are hearing at home is a sustained applause, like our screening of our movie at the Venice Film Festival just aired.

Speaker 83 Oh, like a test.

Speaker 92 And it's getting a nine-minute approach because that's people very graciously applauding and cheering after we've been announced, but then 10 minutes of us walking and avoiding high fibers.

Speaker 5 I see you, you son of a bitch

Speaker 45 in the hallway.

Speaker 96 It's this long walk, and that creates the audio illusion for the people listening at home that you guys got that long sustained applause.

Speaker 16 We were right outside the door when you called us. Yeah, we were.
And we walked in, and they just wouldn't see you.

Speaker 68 I announced you, and I have access to your app.

Speaker 20 You called an Uber.

Speaker 44 You called an Uber as I announced you.

Speaker 16 You have access to my app?

Speaker 87 I have access to all your apps.

Speaker 99 You pervert.

Speaker 16 I have access to your apps, and that's true.

Speaker 19 Do you know that

Speaker 30 I can't post on social media? I'm not allowed to.

Speaker 76 I'm like Ronald Reagan with the nuclear codes.

Speaker 43 They won't let me near

Speaker 39 any way that I could possibly start riffing spontaneously online.

Speaker 94 And so, Sona, I would have to call you.

Speaker 34 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 101 If I want to order a hamburger on Grubhub,

Speaker 30 not a sponsor,

Speaker 97 I would have to call you.

Speaker 96 I do that with my wife, too.

Speaker 37 I'm like, can you order the pizza that's next door?

Speaker 16 I do, my email is attached to your Uber and the food delivery services. So every time you order something or an Uber, it pops up and I know exactly where you're going.

Speaker 104 Right.

Speaker 16 I know exactly what you're eating.

Speaker 22 Yeah, so we have some questions about some places you've been going.

Speaker 39 I didn't know Hooters delivered.

Speaker 19 I was just stunned.

Speaker 106 Wait, Stacey's a wonderful lady.

Speaker 43 Stacy with an eye, and it's a little heart.

Speaker 66 She comes and delivers it, and we just chat about, you know, how the Berlin Wall fell, and it's just

Speaker 70 all kinds of fascinating stuff.

Speaker 108 Yeah.

Speaker 22 We have some interesting facts about this audience. Do you know that some of them come from far and wide, to be honest? I would hope so.

Speaker 84 But of all the shows we've done, this is going to be up there with one of the most important ones.

Speaker 82 I think so when you hear this, not not only Toronto, where are you?

Speaker 105 Awkward.

Speaker 95 Oh, that is so awkward.

Speaker 111 Maybe they didn't make it here.

Speaker 106 Awkward.

Speaker 96 Wait, who gave you this information?

Speaker 112 I think it's just.

Speaker 77 You don't need the mic, wait.

Speaker 24 You know what?

Speaker 113 I love that your mic doesn't speak.

Speaker 114 You don't need it, though. That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 80 Yeah, Mike, you don't need your mic.

Speaker 106 Just speak.

Speaker 24 You don't have to speak.

Speaker 102 You're so close to the microphone.

Speaker 111 Wait, if anything, could you step out of the room and just talk in a whisper?

Speaker 17 We'll still hear you.

Speaker 92 Like, you're the loudest person we know, and you're in a small room.

Speaker 16 Into your mouth.

Speaker 48 Maybe just Canada.

Speaker 70 I thought it was Toronto, but maybe just Canada.

Speaker 64 Canada!

Speaker 19 No, maybe

Speaker 106 I just saw it. I don't know.

Speaker 115 So

Speaker 115 California.

Speaker 116 Okay.

Speaker 117 Wait a minute.

Speaker 105 Well, Blai,

Speaker 33 you came to us all giddy and you said, I've got some info.

Speaker 80 It's going to be rocket fuel for the top of the show. We've got someone from Toronto.

Speaker 33 We don't have anyone from Toronto.

Speaker 86 There's other places.

Speaker 121 There's other places.

Speaker 111 Oh, there is someone outside.

Speaker 97 Oh, it's high five McGee.

Speaker 50 Yeah, okay.

Speaker 122 But that's not all. But that's not all.

Speaker 21 Yes.

Speaker 25 Mexico.

Speaker 106 Oh,

Speaker 123 my God. Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Speaker 116 Wow.

Speaker 89 And then very reluctantly raised his hand.

Speaker 123 I know.

Speaker 123 You are welcome here.

Speaker 47 We're happy to have you.

Speaker 124 Yes.

Speaker 78 Oh, la como está.

Speaker 20 Please let this one be real.

Speaker 22 New Zealand?

Speaker 116 Wow. There we go.

Speaker 105 Just for the show.

Speaker 117 No, no.

Speaker 37 Can I tell you something?

Speaker 4 People say, when they see a guy like Blay, they say, I came all the way just for the show.

Speaker 39 But whenever I question these people for more than two seconds, it's, well, of course, I'm getting a heart replaced while I'm here at Cedar Sinai, and I had an extra hour.

Speaker 118 So, were you here just for the show? Be honest.

Speaker 18 Yes!

Speaker 18 I knew it!

Speaker 113 Whenever someone says, just for the show, it's not true.

Speaker 94 No one, and first of all, I don't blame you, sir, although I'm going to ask you to leave.

Speaker 80 It's just what happened.

Speaker 22 Blair, you like cable news.

Speaker 20 Guys, I'm sorry.

Speaker 46 You get excited. You get very loud.

Speaker 50 And you get very excited.

Speaker 7 And then your information is over.

Speaker 100 I've been here.

Speaker 16 I've been here for two and a half months.

Speaker 22 I've been here for two and a half months.

Speaker 16 I've been here for two. I'm not making fun of you.
I'm trying to.

Speaker 37 How is this not making fun of you?

Speaker 121 I'm not making fun of you.

Speaker 46 By the way, I'm just making fun of her.

Speaker 16 I'm a student in accents. This is what I do.

Speaker 16 Yes,

Speaker 16 this podcast isn't my real job.

Speaker 87 Could you do Australian, then do New Zealand?

Speaker 114 Okay, so Australia means like putting all the shrimp in the Barbie.

Speaker 16 Pack the car in the car park, man.

Speaker 97 Oh, that's someone that's at the dentist's head.

Speaker 123 Pack the car in the car pack.

Speaker 95 That's someone with a terrible facial wound.

Speaker 16 Pack the car in the car pack.

Speaker 44 That's John F.

Speaker 20 Kennedy.

Speaker 100 Yeah.

Speaker 105 Pack the car in the car pack.

Speaker 10 Okay, stop it.

Speaker 19 You know what I love?

Speaker 37 You're my assistant. I hired you as my assistant, and now you're out here doing 10 minutes of impressions.

Speaker 113 I honest to God don't know what's happened.

Speaker 33 Oh, you want French? Oh, give us your French guy.

Speaker 16 Oh, the French is very easy.

Speaker 79 That's pretty good.

Speaker 16 French is very easy.

Speaker 107 It's unbelievable.

Speaker 115 I hired her to help with correspondence.

Speaker 127 Get me into the DMV and out.

Speaker 104 Yeah.

Speaker 37 And no, now you're doing this.

Speaker 78 Balloon animals.

Speaker 44 Do you do balloon animals?

Speaker 34 You would.

Speaker 16 I mean, you got to. Should I do a yes and? Yes, and I do balloon animals.
And I do face paintings.

Speaker 86 That's good improv.

Speaker 79 Should I do yes and

Speaker 74 welcome to the unconfident improv troupe.

Speaker 95 Yes.

Speaker 54 Welcome to my candy shop.

Speaker 16 Should I do yes, and yes, and yes, and I wasn't making fun of you, I promise. I love, I feel like I'm just like becoming an accent expert.

Speaker 24 So that's why I was just doing this.

Speaker 66 And she did nail you because that's, you know, you did.

Speaker 128 I've been here.

Speaker 120 You went, I've been here. I've been here.

Speaker 49 Well, you're welcome, and I hope that the business that you're doing here is productive.

Speaker 71 You've been here a long time, and then you, I guess, found this ticket on the street.

Speaker 90 I love up front, you created this.

Speaker 26 People have come from all over the world.

Speaker 104 Got to, I don't know, I was in Glendale and

Speaker 75 getting my car washed next door here in mid-central Hollywood.

Speaker 118 What do you say? Should we get going?

Speaker 109 I think it's time. It's very exciting.
Let's do this. Let's do this.

Speaker 19 All right, we are very excited.

Speaker 57 This is really happening.

Speaker 9 My guests today are absolute legends of rock and roll and known as one of England's loudest bands.

Speaker 93 Their new documentary, Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues, such a great title, is in theater September 12th.

Speaker 41 I am very honored that they are here today.

Speaker 9 These gentlemen changed my life.

Speaker 59 I think they changed many of the lives of people here.

Speaker 33 Please welcome filmmaker Marty DeBergey and members of Spinal Tap, Nigel Tufnell, Derek Smalls, and David St. Hubbins.

Speaker 29 Thank you.

Speaker 117 Hello.

Speaker 87 We are Spinal Tap.

Speaker 86 Yep. And we feel what do we feel?

Speaker 124 About what?

Speaker 124 About

Speaker 103 being Conan O'Brien's friend.

Speaker 21 Mixed, right?

Speaker 100 Very mixed.

Speaker 99 Very mixed.

Speaker 106 Mixed.

Speaker 87 Marty? Marty.

Speaker 104 Mixed.

Speaker 129 Well, I'm very happy to be Conan's friend. Well, that's my friend.
With anybody to be my friend, and I can be yours.

Speaker 108 It's not a two-way street. Oh.

Speaker 78 Yeah, I hate to break it.

Speaker 122 It's not even a street.

Speaker 130 You look so much smarter with the glasses.

Speaker 93 Oh, thank you. I like the glasses, huh?

Speaker 121 Isn't that nice?

Speaker 109 It's smarter, too.

Speaker 100 Well, you're sitting down.

Speaker 45 I'm going to go with mixed.

Speaker 91 You feel mixed because we don't know what's going to happen to you.

Speaker 109 One of us, you know, no one's up in the air.

Speaker 10 We're all the same, and yet we're all completely different.

Speaker 5 Let me begin by telling you it's an honor to have you here.

Speaker 52 It really is.

Speaker 66 And I made this very clear to my audience before you came out.

Speaker 68 I saw your original film, This is Spinal Tap,

Speaker 133 a documentary made by the great Mari Dibergi in 1984, and it changed my life.

Speaker 19 I was not aware of your band.

Speaker 100 In what way did it change your life?

Speaker 17 life? For the worse.

Speaker 125 It changed it for the worse.

Speaker 78 I went into a long depression.

Speaker 100 You had to have an open wound before this film.

Speaker 19 You make you taller.

Speaker 39 I came out during the second, I think, the second Obama administration.

Speaker 57 I recovered myself.

Speaker 54 But

Speaker 60 deep depression.

Speaker 36 But it really did, in so many ways, it introduced me to your work that I was not aware of.

Speaker 135 I hate to say that, but I really wasn't.

Speaker 110 I just missed.

Speaker 19 No, no, no.

Speaker 94 But you said it.

Speaker 87 What's that?

Speaker 71 But you said it. I know, I did say it, and

Speaker 30 it was wrong to say it, and I apologize.

Speaker 33 I just was unaware.

Speaker 54 I won't use the term niche, but somehow your oeuvre had escaped me.

Speaker 60 And then Marty did this incredible thing.

Speaker 9 He brought you to my attention.

Speaker 92 And Marty, this has been 41 years since the original.

Speaker 134 Yes.

Speaker 129 And I must say that this is the first time that I've ever been allowed to be on a stage with these gentlemen who I've admired for so many years.

Speaker 129 I was always a big fan, and I've never been allowed to be on the stage with them.

Speaker 106 You haven't drawn thin ice right now.

Speaker 10 You can keep that up, and it would be the last time.

Speaker 34 It doesn't feel like it's going well so far, but I think you will acquit yourself well, Marty.

Speaker 108 Marty, I hate to bring this up, but one of the reasons that you got involved in this project is that you have struggled since you made the original This Is Spinal Tap in 1984.

Speaker 41 You have struggled greatly.

Speaker 8 You

Speaker 70 have had difficulty finding.

Speaker 129 Well, I was hoping that when I made this Spinal Tap, which, by the way,

Speaker 129 the members of the band were not too thrilled when they saw it.

Speaker 129 They called it a hatchet job, and they were not happy with how they were portrayed. I thought it was a loving portrayal, but I guess

Speaker 129 they felt differently.

Speaker 78 But I was hoping that it would

Speaker 129 basically boost my career, give me an opportunity to do like a Hollywood feature, which I was able, I finally was able to do.

Speaker 110 They did

Speaker 102 a sequel to a very

Speaker 129 important feature film that won an Academy Award. It was called Kramer vs.
Kramer with Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman. And I did the sequel, which was Kramer vs.
Kramer vs. Godzilla.

Speaker 134 And it didn't do as well as I had hoped.

Speaker 106 Eye concept.

Speaker 129 And it it sent me into a tailspin, and I left the business for a while, and

Speaker 129 I went to a retreat, a retreat, which was the guru there was a gentleman by the name of Baba Ramdas boat.

Speaker 129 And

Speaker 129 I was trying to find myself, and one morning I was drinking my spirulina smoothie, and I noticed in Deadline Hollywood that they were

Speaker 129 thinking of getting back that there was going to be another concert.

Speaker 103 We were forced into it.

Speaker 103 There was a contract that was left dangling.

Speaker 103 The death of Ian Fay.

Speaker 136 This was not born of inspiration.

Speaker 78 I have to say, as many reasons are

Speaker 5 that you were contractually forced to get back together again, as is made clear in the new documentary.

Speaker 17 Induced. Induced.

Speaker 47 You were induced.

Speaker 44 It was an induced pregnancy. It's an induction, yes.
It's an induction.

Speaker 60 And

Speaker 39 I'm glad that you did get back together.

Speaker 8 You brought so much joy to hundreds of people.

Speaker 103 It gave us an opportunity. It did give us an opportunity to get back together again and break up again and then get back together again.
I think we broke up once more since then.

Speaker 65 And now here we are.

Speaker 103 So third time on the 9th century.

Speaker 25 Did we change seats at any point?

Speaker 103 You're actually fine there.

Speaker 92 We've talked about that format.

Speaker 69 It's called it.

Speaker 25 I wouldn't call it a format, exactly. It's more like just seats.

Speaker 138 Freemat.

Speaker 100 Okay.

Speaker 44 Trying to put a nice gloss on what you had said.

Speaker 87 Okay.

Speaker 68 I want to ask you something, Nigel.

Speaker 71 I was very surprised when I saw the dogmar what you've been up to.

Speaker 30 You own a shop?

Speaker 98 I do, yes.

Speaker 109 A cheese shop.

Speaker 92 Well, not just cheese.

Speaker 25 Not just cheese, no, cheese and guitars.

Speaker 39 And it's fascinating.

Speaker 35 You see this in the film.

Speaker 51 Someone comes in, and I thought you could buy cheese or buy guitars, but you can trade cheese for guitars

Speaker 79 or trade guitars for cheese.

Speaker 109 Yes.

Speaker 25 It's a barter system like they had back in the prehistoric times, you know, when there were dinosaurs, people would say, no, no.

Speaker 20 Dinosaurs and

Speaker 11 dinosaurs and people

Speaker 25 kind of things. They would trade things.
So I say someone comes in with a nice brie,

Speaker 25 and I'll say maybe a flying V for the brie.

Speaker 103 Yeah.

Speaker 109 But But we have to see.

Speaker 25 I've got to weigh it literally and then play the guitar and vice versa as well.

Speaker 116 Yeah.

Speaker 63 Yeah,

Speaker 39 I saw that you were doing that business and I thought, sometimes you see a business and you think, why didn't anyone else think of this?

Speaker 88 I didn't have that thought.

Speaker 58 Interesting.

Speaker 25 Yeah. No, it's very perfect for me.

Speaker 103 Have you turned a profit yet?

Speaker 25 In what sense?

Speaker 116 Monetary.

Speaker 87 In a barter sense.

Speaker 103 No, there's no admirer, but he lives in a world of his own.

Speaker 66 Um, David, what have you been up to? Bring us up to date because I don't want to spoil, don't do too many spoilers, but no, it is revealed in the documentary.

Speaker 103 You've been living in Morrow Bay, Morrow Bay, California.

Speaker 40 Anyone here from Morrow Bay?

Speaker 103 No, never, really.

Speaker 85 Toronto, people often do that too.

Speaker 109 Oh, they're all Toronto, yeah, yeah, clearly, except for the one New Zealander. That's right, yeah,

Speaker 103 uh, yeah, well, I've been staying busy, you know, I'm a bit of a bit of a star at in Morrow Bay. There's not a lot of

Speaker 103 famous people there. They're all retired English musicians, all the famous ones.
And I happen to be number six or seven.

Speaker 103 But I'm having a really nice... I love it.
I'm a total Californian now.

Speaker 103 And I play a little bit of music on the side.

Speaker 36 Yeah, tell us about your music career because you've managed to stay in the audio business.

Speaker 57 But in a way that surprised me.

Speaker 103 Well, listen,

Speaker 103 I've got fairly proficient on the keyboards. And of course, all you need is about four or five keys and a computer, you know, and just pluck it out like this.

Speaker 103 And I do a lot of scores for podcasts, crime podcasts.

Speaker 103 And it's very rewarding.

Speaker 100 Yes, I was, you also record hold music, is that correct?

Speaker 10 Yes, oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 103 The music you get when you call up, that's not just pulled out of the sky, you know, someone has to do that. And I'm able to express sort of my inner middle of the road, if you will.

Speaker 103 It's not hard rock. It's not quite Dixieland.
It's somewhere in between.

Speaker 103 What's in between hard rock and Dixieland?

Speaker 129 I don't know, but you did win an award for that.

Speaker 19 I want a holdie.

Speaker 117 I did. Yeah.

Speaker 117 I did.

Speaker 117 Very proud.

Speaker 138 Very proud.

Speaker 129 And also,

Speaker 129 I know maybe you don't want to, you know,

Speaker 129 put a light on it, but you do still play with a band, I noticed.

Speaker 103 There's a bunch of blokes I'll get together with, yeah, yeah. And I've really got heavy into mariachi music.

Speaker 103 And I've been writing tunes,

Speaker 103 actually some of them are traditional tunes, but I've been translating harder, more demonic lyrics into

Speaker 129 Spanish

Speaker 129 with the help of Maria.

Speaker 103 Maria is my live-in chef, and she helps me with the lyrics. And it's really fun.
It's lovely.

Speaker 9 again something I

Speaker 5 when I saw it I thought this is not something I'd have thought of and or if I had thought of I might have dismissed it immediately but incredible and it's incredible it feels good on the from the inside yeah put it that way Derek

Speaker 109 you're pointing at me now yes yeah passed me to you yes yeah he also said your name so yeah I thought that

Speaker 57 woke me right up I thought I thought the name was

Speaker 5 the main indicator not the pointing but that's a bonus okay you get both.

Speaker 9 You get the pointing and the name, Derek.

Speaker 3 You've confounded me instantly.

Speaker 139 You run a shop that sells

Speaker 134 glue.

Speaker 140 No, it's not a shop.

Speaker 141 There's no profit.

Speaker 65 It is the

Speaker 18 same business as the cheese are.

Speaker 66 I kind of zing you there. Sorry, man.

Speaker 25 No, it's okay, but here's a different situation.

Speaker 110 Yeah, mine's deliberate.

Speaker 78 Okay.

Speaker 141 People would say to me over the years, you know, and not just me, but bass players generally, well, you guys are kind of the glue, you know, that hold the band together because these other guys are, you know, up there.

Speaker 100 Unglued. Unglued.

Speaker 141 And one day I just thought, glue.

Speaker 20 You don't think about glue all that often.

Speaker 10 Never.

Speaker 19 I hardly ever think about it.

Speaker 110 Well, I did.

Speaker 110 And I became, I guess you'd say, fixated.

Speaker 141 Well, you wouldn't, but I'd say fixated.

Speaker 28 Yeah.

Speaker 141 And I've opened a museum of clue.

Speaker 76 It's a museum, that's right.

Speaker 57 Oh, some museums are for-profit, so I think I redeemed myself there.

Speaker 54 But we should move on.

Speaker 40 I think I'm getting into a little bit of a conversational cul-de-sac, if you will.

Speaker 112 Yes?

Speaker 19 No.

Speaker 25 I'm just wondering why you're here.

Speaker 134 Yeah.

Speaker 18 Good question, really.

Speaker 76 I'm feeling feeling that way myself.

Speaker 70 Gentlemen,

Speaker 4 it has to sting that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has refused to induct you.

Speaker 41 You have such a body of work.

Speaker 8 There's a lot of it of what you do.

Speaker 69 People can debate the quality, but there's a lot of it.

Speaker 39 There's a tremendous amount of what you did.

Speaker 128 And you have to admit, Marty,

Speaker 80 it's a shock.

Speaker 36 And the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame did not just pass on them.

Speaker 4 They sort of stepped outside their lane a little bit.

Speaker 129 Yeah, I think they said they,

Speaker 129 you know, they made a letter,

Speaker 129 and the letter came back, go fuck yourself.

Speaker 100 So, unusual in so many ways. It was a little harsh.

Speaker 110 That's not Hall of Fame language.

Speaker 65 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 41 No, it's just terrible.

Speaker 57 You know, it was, and they rarely send a letter like that.

Speaker 83 They have Millie Vanilli, I think, got one.

Speaker 99 Millie Vanilli, yeah.

Speaker 34 They got two.

Speaker 47 They got two.

Speaker 20 Yeah, very nice.

Speaker 65 Millie and Vanilli.

Speaker 100 Yes.

Speaker 10 But here's the irony.

Speaker 20 Are you pointing at me?

Speaker 78 I am pointing at you.

Speaker 19 I'm pointing at you.

Speaker 110 But I thank you.

Speaker 126 I didn't say your name. You don't know my name.

Speaker 1 I do.

Speaker 11 It's that Spider-Man meme.

Speaker 103 A bit frightening to be in the middle of it, to be honest.

Speaker 141 The rock and roll Hall of Fame will not admit us, but in the gift shop they sell Hello Cleveland t-shirts.

Speaker 109 It's true, yeah.

Speaker 25 It's not right.

Speaker 25 It's not right.

Speaker 39 And you should, I hope you're getting a taste of that.

Speaker 138 No.

Speaker 40 You're not getting a taste?

Speaker 21 No.

Speaker 25 Well, I'm getting a taste, but that's a different thing.

Speaker 18 I just said.

Speaker 117 She tastes like burnt toast.

Speaker 48 That's a stroke symptom. I just want you to know.

Speaker 25 No, no, no, no. No.

Speaker 98 Oh, you didn't like a doctor, I suppose.

Speaker 19 Well,

Speaker 132 I've watched enough television.

Speaker 76 Yeah.

Speaker 132 I feel I can diagnose anyone.

Speaker 25 Where do they hide the cameras?

Speaker 109 I'm a little bit confused.

Speaker 124 They're all filters.

Speaker 70 That's a camera right there.

Speaker 93 Every person must have one.

Speaker 78 Yeah, so

Speaker 132 there's one right there.

Speaker 103 Especially the New Zealander.

Speaker 135 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 25 Can't trust that. Where in New Zealand are you from?

Speaker 21 I'm from Auckland. Of course.
Auckland, really?

Speaker 20 I was there, yeah.

Speaker 103 Yeah, that's a lovely time.

Speaker 34 Have you guys played Auckland?

Speaker 77 Yeah, we did a thing there.

Speaker 98 I can't remember what it was, though.

Speaker 51 These are terrific stories.

Speaker 25 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 122 I don't want to embarrass you.

Speaker 25 Can you stand up? Not literally, but can you.

Speaker 32 Where are you?

Speaker 27 There we are.

Speaker 19 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 17 This is another stroke simple.

Speaker 86 I didn't meet you there.

Speaker 25 No.

Speaker 100 You look familiar from not meeting you there.

Speaker 70 Gentlemen,

Speaker 41 let's address a very dark subject.

Speaker 48 You've lost countless drummers.

Speaker 92 How many, Marty, has it been?

Speaker 129 Well, according to the band, I think it's 12.

Speaker 98 Yeah.

Speaker 19 I think it's 12. The last dozen.

Speaker 35 Even dozen. Yeah, an even dozen.

Speaker 92 And this latest film, and I'm not going to give anything away, but it begins with you looking for a new drummer.

Speaker 53 Why not just use a drum machine?

Speaker 103 It died.

Speaker 122 Lugged it in.

Speaker 103 Ten bars into the tune, and then it went, nope, I'm out.

Speaker 109 Fizzled.

Speaker 109 Yeah,

Speaker 17 just left this burn mark.

Speaker 100 Yeah, that's incredible.

Speaker 19 All right.

Speaker 104 Well,

Speaker 129 I don't think it's giving anything away from the film, but if you want,

Speaker 129 what happened to the last drummer that you had? Skippy Scuffleton.

Speaker 100 Oh, God, poor Skiff.

Speaker 103 Yeah, Skippy Skippy Scuffleton or Scuffy Skippleton or Skiffy Scuffleton. We never could get it straight.
He had some entirely different name that he got paid through.

Speaker 134 But

Speaker 103 he had a terrible anergy to something. I thought it was the little berries inside the maracas that make the seeds.

Speaker 103 I think he was allergic because he'd never used them before. And he played about half the day and then he said, I'm feeling funny.
He started sneezing and he never stopped until it all stopped.

Speaker 103 So it was pretty sad. He sneezed himself to death.

Speaker 43 Is that the actual coroner's report that he sneezed?

Speaker 25 No, there's a Latin term for that.

Speaker 134 It's a real thing.

Speaker 103 Any Latins in?

Speaker 103 No.

Speaker 129 What was the Latin term for

Speaker 129 sneezing yourself to death?

Speaker 25 I don't know, but there is one because it's a medical death.

Speaker 103 Well, you know there's a German one.

Speaker 19 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 129 Yeah, Gesunteit.

Speaker 50 Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 39 I was, I mean, it's so much to catch up on with you guys because, again, it's been, I know you've had your reunions,

Speaker 57 but 41 years since the last film.

Speaker 25 Can I ask you why you keep putting on and taking off your glasses?

Speaker 39 I like to create different looks throughout the podcast.

Speaker 19 Yes, too.

Speaker 47 I have found it best, especially in an audio

Speaker 5 medium. Yes.

Speaker 87 In an audio medium, it's good to have two looks as opposed to one.

Speaker 25 No, I'm quite interested in that.

Speaker 120 And you know, can I just

Speaker 11 have you ever thought of a hat?

Speaker 97 I have thought of a hat, but that would obscure the hair, which is the trademark.

Speaker 88 You really think about it.

Speaker 109 Well, contact lenses.

Speaker 103 Imagine taking out your contact lenses to make a point.

Speaker 18 Yeah.

Speaker 18 See here, Senator.

Speaker 117 That would be tough.

Speaker 116 Yeah, very difficult.

Speaker 124 How dare you, sir. But

Speaker 37 I am able to do this in an interview is whip the moss.

Speaker 121 Isn't that incredible?

Speaker 20 It wasn't being critical.

Speaker 19 I thought.

Speaker 97 Yeah, it came across as critical.

Speaker 122 Oh, look, you're so sensitive to that.

Speaker 25 That's why people like you, though. Yeah.
No, it's true.

Speaker 17 It's true.

Speaker 70 I have to ask you, because I'm a bit bit of a guitar enthusiast myself.

Speaker 70 I'm pointing to you. Okay.

Speaker 20 Everyone pointing to you.

Speaker 67 I've noticed that, Nigel, you have no peripheral vision.

Speaker 48 None.

Speaker 125 You couldn't see a camera that's right there, and you have no idea where I am right now.

Speaker 50 Well, I do.

Speaker 25 I could pinpoint it if you gave me a compass.

Speaker 36 Has it hurt you in rock and roll to have no peripheral vision?

Speaker 41 No.

Speaker 25 No, I do have. I can see this.
I can see this. So I do.
I was just being cheeky.

Speaker 25 That was your question. I don't remember.

Speaker 43 You have a guitar that I absolutely adore.

Speaker 139 It's a guitar that's beautiful.

Speaker 92 It has the Union Jack on it. But if you turn the guitar over, and this is featured in the film,

Speaker 7 I don't want to give it away.

Speaker 19 Well, you have, but go ahead.

Speaker 112 I haven't said what it is.

Speaker 34 There's a secret compartment in the guitar.

Speaker 92 I adore this guitar.

Speaker 92 You have to see the film to see this guitar.

Speaker 118 It's wonderful.

Speaker 97 Is that available for purchase?

Speaker 48 Could I buy one?

Speaker 5 Or is there only one and is it yours?

Speaker 25 They made one.

Speaker 32 Yeah.

Speaker 25 It's just mine. Okay.
I'm getting the feeling you want me to give it to you, though.

Speaker 124 I'm glad you brought that up.

Speaker 122 No, it's a dungeon. Yes.

Speaker 19 It's a wonderful guitar, yeah.

Speaker 25 I have many, many guitars, and that's one of the really good ones, yeah.

Speaker 103 You did invent that, though.

Speaker 109 You did. I did, yeah,

Speaker 25 I came up with the idea for it, and they built it for me.

Speaker 103 Some of your inventions are great.

Speaker 25 I have other inventions, yes, which have not been as successful. No.

Speaker 10 Finger bowls for dogs.

Speaker 103 That was never going to happen.

Speaker 25 Well, I had this folding wine glass, you see.

Speaker 109 True, yeah.

Speaker 106 Because I thought

Speaker 25 if you're going on a picnic and you don't want to carry things, you know, you want to just throw everything in, the glass folded in on four sides. Yeah.
So it had hinges on all the sides.

Speaker 79 Were they completely waterproof?

Speaker 25 No.

Speaker 98 So, what would happen?

Speaker 25 If you're pouring, let's say, a Beaujolais or whatever, it doesn't really matter.

Speaker 25 It could be a medoc or whatever, you know, 81, it could be a whatever it is, Chatonuft de Pat, it could be any number of just two more, just two more, please.

Speaker 32 Just a few more, yeah.

Speaker 25 And you pour it in, and it just would leak out the bottom. Yeah, so by the time you raise it to your lips,

Speaker 134 your crotch was soaked in wine.

Speaker 32 Yeah,

Speaker 98 that was that one,

Speaker 127 you know.

Speaker 54 know, Marty, I want to bring you back in because there are some moments in the documentary, and I don't care if I'm giving anything away in the new one, but I was stunned.

Speaker 54 At one point, the lads, I'll call you the lads,

Speaker 26 even though

Speaker 133 you all served bravely in the Korean War.

Speaker 35 I want to say, settle down.

Speaker 9 I want to say I was stunned when Sir Paul McCartney enters their rehearsal space and starts jamming with them.

Speaker 68 It was, I mean, even as a viewer, as someone who's met McCartney and myself countless times, probably more than you guys have, and spent a lot of quality time with him,

Speaker 77 I was,

Speaker 68 I mean, he's on my speed dial.

Speaker 85 We talk three times a day.

Speaker 39 But my point is, it was such a stunning moment.

Speaker 72 And

Speaker 103 he is the

Speaker 20 royalty of rock.

Speaker 92 He enters the room.

Speaker 3 And I'm going to say this right now, David.

Speaker 130 I didn't think you were.

Speaker 9 I didn't think you were kind to him initially.

Speaker 7 You seemed a little.

Speaker 103 Well, you know, that's a two-way street. I mean,

Speaker 103 we all have this picture of Paul, and he's the cute beetle, and all that.

Speaker 21 You know,

Speaker 103 let's not go nuts here. I mean, he's just a person, you know.
And he comes in, and he's throwing his weight around. I'm not going to tell you what it is.

Speaker 103 It was difficult for me because I'm a creative person, he's a creative person, but that doesn't mean we're going to be on the same page.

Speaker 141 We were stunned, tell you the truth, when he came into the room.

Speaker 140 And

Speaker 141 as he went through through his whatever he was doing it struck me odd that he never mentioned your name

Speaker 78 i know

Speaker 124 you'd think

Speaker 78 he never brought up coroner o'brien one time

Speaker 20 no that's odd i'll talk about that with paul when i see him

Speaker 54 we usually meet for flan

Speaker 10 in west hollywood around this he didn't mention any o'brien okay i have a fear of flan really okay

Speaker 110 that will be expunged don't trust it you will not trust it that will be edited out the fear Furifon.

Speaker 78 We won't have words to do.

Speaker 18 It's better if people don't know it.

Speaker 97 But, Marty, you were there when this amazing meeting of the rock gods happened, and you knew to keep the cameras rolling.

Speaker 84 Well, of course.

Speaker 36 And then, were you at all stunned that David was

Speaker 94 Paul offered one hint for a bridge on the song, and David was less than gracious to Sir Paul McCartney?

Speaker 101 How did you feel about that moment?

Speaker 129 Well, you know, as

Speaker 129 I see, I put David on the same level as Paul McCartney.

Speaker 134 That's very true. To me,

Speaker 129 and from one musician, I don't take sides on this, and from one musician to another, he was basically denigrating

Speaker 129 what David was putting forth. Now, in all fairness, so was Nigel and so was Derek.

Speaker 28 They both hated what he was doing.

Speaker 129 So it was kind of three against one. But I mean, I...

Speaker 103 that's the great flaw in a democracy, isn't it?

Speaker 122 What?

Speaker 37 I think I've jumped ahead.

Speaker 44 But trust me, you'll catch that.

Speaker 128 And

Speaker 36 Nigel, Sir Elton John,

Speaker 118 joining you guys and revealing that he's a fan and has been a fan?

Speaker 21 Yes.

Speaker 25 Well, you know, it works both ways, as he says. He's a very sensitive chap.
You know, I've known him since we were kids. He's very sensitive.

Speaker 25 So the thing with Sir Paul, I wasn't surprised at that because he reacts like that sometimes. With Sir Elton, two sirs, amazing, you know, it was just he was so open to playing with us.
It was great.

Speaker 25 It was really fantastic, I thought.

Speaker 141 Two sirs, no madam.

Speaker 9 Yeah, nice, very nice.

Speaker 45 Again, I'm going to end all wordplay now.

Speaker 53 There'll be no more wordplay.

Speaker 59 This, I think there's going to be one more before we go.

Speaker 57 I won't say again, I don't want to spoil anything.

Speaker 5 I hope you've mended fences with Elton.

Speaker 103 Oh, yeah, oh, no, no, yeah,

Speaker 5 some things happen, and you're going to have to see this for yourself.

Speaker 129 You know, I meant to ask you that, you know, afterwards.

Speaker 41 Did they ever sue?

Speaker 129 Was there any lawsuits?

Speaker 23 No, I didn't know.

Speaker 138 No. No.

Speaker 103 Wouldn't he have sued you as well?

Speaker 10 Probably. Yeah.

Speaker 100 Well, I've got no news for you.

Speaker 5 This is as of an hour ago, you've all been served.

Speaker 39 You are being sued.

Speaker 134 Oh. Yeah.

Speaker 40 And it's a figure that's.

Speaker 25 Well, it won't matter much, will it?

Speaker 121 What is that? What was that?

Speaker 25 What are they going to take?

Speaker 98 No.

Speaker 39 Sir Elton John is taking possession of your cheese and guitar shop.

Speaker 10 I've been told.

Speaker 109 I don't think so. I don't think so.

Speaker 25 The people in the village where I live with my

Speaker 25 girlfriend,

Speaker 100 how come you put quotes around girlfriend?

Speaker 97 Yeah, why did you put quotes around girlfriend?

Speaker 25 That's for me to know, isn't it?

Speaker 25 She's great.

Speaker 103 She's exactly what you've needed all along. Yes, really, it's true.

Speaker 25 She's a lovely girl. No, but it's a cheese shop.
The people in the village love it. They wouldn't allow that to be taken away, boarded up, or anything.
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 100 It would not happen.

Speaker 75 The town loves Elton John, and they're thrilled that he's taken away.

Speaker 25 Well, you've never been to the town, so you don't know that.

Speaker 133 You're just reading what I know. I read the local.

Speaker 25 Reading what you don't know is what you're doing.

Speaker 75 All right, well, if we're going to, this is getting contentious and I'm uncomfortable, and I feel a little bit like Paul McCartney sitting in the spinal tap.

Speaker 1 Unwelcome.

Speaker 131 Gentlemen,

Speaker 54 there's so many more questions I have for you.

Speaker 108 One is:

Speaker 57 you two fellows grew up together in Squatney, I believe.

Speaker 25 Squatney, yeah, East End of London.

Speaker 19 East End. I've never heard of Squatney.

Speaker 20 Well, it's gone.

Speaker 103 It's gone now.

Speaker 136 How could it be gone?

Speaker 100 Well, most waste.

Speaker 103 Because most of it's been replaced by a Tesco's.

Speaker 134 Oh, okay.

Speaker 19 It's a Huge supermarket.

Speaker 25 Every city has areas that change or renamed. You know this.

Speaker 91 Yes, but when you said it was gone, I just...

Speaker 25 Well, it's gone in the sense. It's not, we can go to the street where we were, but it's not called that anymore.
They incorporate other things and then they have a new name or whatever they think.

Speaker 103 The pub that we used to go to, the Queen's Lips, not there.

Speaker 53 It's gone.

Speaker 103 Now it's an Apple store.

Speaker 109 Yeah. It's just

Speaker 17 a change.

Speaker 25 It was a working-class neighborhood.

Speaker 98 Yeah, lovely.

Speaker 47 Has there any, if you go to Liverpool, you will see literal statues of the Beatles everywhere everywhere you go.

Speaker 39 Is it like that if you go to Squatney?

Speaker 6 I mean,

Speaker 48 you are heroes in Squatney.

Speaker 94 Is there any memorial?

Speaker 91 And Marty, do you think there should be in Squatney?

Speaker 129 Well, of course there should be. But as they say, they've changed this place so much.
I don't know that the young people of today would even know

Speaker 129 what those statues represented.

Speaker 25 I don't think I would know.

Speaker 41 If you saw a statue to yourself, you wouldn't recognize that statue.

Speaker 103 Have you ever seen the statue of Lucille Ball in her hometown? Yes.

Speaker 50 You've seen that, right?

Speaker 103 Yeah. We don't want that.

Speaker 105 No, no.

Speaker 129 Well, they wouldn't put a statue of Lucille Ball there. They'd put a statue of you there.

Speaker 10 They'd put a statue of Lucille Ball before.

Speaker 103 They'd put one of us.

Speaker 122 Yeah.

Speaker 88 I think that's a fair point.

Speaker 60 Derek,

Speaker 46 this,

Speaker 5 what a journey for you to go from being the psychonic rock star to having a glue museum, a non-for-profit glue museum.

Speaker 57 And when you got the call call that this was happening, you were getting back together with the band. Explain your emotional roller coaster.

Speaker 141 Not so much a roller coaster as a merry-ground.

Speaker 41 So still a wheel, but turning and it just turns out.

Speaker 19 Turning in a horizontal direction as opposed to a vertical direction.

Speaker 120 Okay, all right.

Speaker 57 Okay, that's a good differentiation.

Speaker 122 Thank you.

Speaker 141 You know, I didn't just have the glue museum. I was doing some telework and commercials and adverts, things like that.

Speaker 129 But you also played with the symphony orchestra.

Speaker 141 I did some of that, yeah. But I was promoting a crypto

Speaker 98 product called Bruegelcoin.

Speaker 84 Bruegelcoin, yeah.

Speaker 141 But I was happy to join the lads.

Speaker 134 In theory. In theory.

Speaker 100 Yeah.

Speaker 141 It's been bumpy since.

Speaker 25 It's been a long time. It's 15 years since we spoke.

Speaker 98 Yeah.

Speaker 100 In between.

Speaker 141 But I kind of like the bumps.

Speaker 25 What was that noise?

Speaker 59 Please, they're doing other podcasts, very popular ones all around us.

Speaker 57 Huge rock bands.

Speaker 132 Gentlemen,

Speaker 5 the mind boggles at the journeys that you have taken in rock and roll.

Speaker 57 Financially, how are you doing?

Speaker 23 Oh, I get by.

Speaker 103 My friend, Maria, I mentioned her before,

Speaker 103 my live-in chef,

Speaker 103 and a significant other,

Speaker 103 she does marvelously well on the catering circuit in the central coast.

Speaker 103 And so I don't have to worry about a thing, really. I do all these other musical things.
They pay some of the rent and all this. And like I say, I enjoy a certain amount of

Speaker 129 new to you because she wasn't there when I first visited her.

Speaker 103 Oh, dear. On and off, on and off for six or seven years, yeah.

Speaker 103 You know, you might meet her one day.

Speaker 109 First time hearing about it, right? Yeah.

Speaker 25 No, I think financially, you know,

Speaker 25 the shop seriously does get by, the cheese shop. We do make enough.
We have a small house just outside the village.

Speaker 25 And uh I'll get some residuals, as you'd call them here, royalties and things for music that we do. So I still get and I play in the pub.
I'm playing in a pub with a group, which is

Speaker 109 that doesn't pay at all, actually.

Speaker 57 Well, this I guess the point I'm making, and I I don't want to tread on a sensitive area or be in any way um cruel or rude, um but I'm just going to go for this.

Speaker 132 You guys are in an iconic rock band.

Speaker 53 If you look at other rock bands from your era, I mean, Rolling Stones,

Speaker 58 Beatles, I mean, anyone involved in those groups is fantastically rich.

Speaker 71 We're talking about billionaires.

Speaker 103 Billionaires.

Speaker 50 In some cases,

Speaker 25 Paul Revere and the Raiders. Huge.
Rolling in it? Yeah.

Speaker 20 No, no, no.

Speaker 109 No, no, no.

Speaker 25 There are lots of people that didn't make a lot of money. Lots of people.
Most people didn't make a lot of money. The famous ones, the ones you mentioned, obviously did.

Speaker 25 But there are lots and lots of people, hundreds of bands who played that were famous for a minute or two. Nothing.
They have nothing.

Speaker 103 Freddie and the Dreamers, for example.

Speaker 61 Again, I have the facts on my fingertips. Freddy and the Dreamers.

Speaker 97 I just started the Forbes 500 last year.

Speaker 25 No, you don't.

Speaker 100 That's hugely, hugely, hugely successful.

Speaker 21 You don't make fun of Freddie and the Dreamers anymore.

Speaker 100 No,

Speaker 98 or Jerry and the Pacebank.

Speaker 110 I have to be honest with you.

Speaker 141 That's one of the reasons I rejoined the band was financial difficulties.

Speaker 59 Thank you for being honest.

Speaker 78 Thank you for noticing it.

Speaker 141 I had been, as I told you, promoting this cryptocurrency. Yes, yes.

Speaker 141 And they paid me in cryptocurrency.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 141 When they went under, I went under.

Speaker 100 Yes, yeah.

Speaker 136 So you have less than nothing. I have

Speaker 141 working my way back to nothing.

Speaker 129 You also, Derek,

Speaker 129 I remember, we didn't talk about it, but I think you also tried to start an amusement park, a tapland, like

Speaker 129 Dollywood. Didn't you try to get them to make an amusement park-themed park based on TAP?

Speaker 140 I thought about it.

Speaker 25 Well, you did think about it because you asked us the money.

Speaker 122 Well, yeah, and we sent you a message. I thought about that.

Speaker 25 We sent you money. We sent you money.

Speaker 94 You sent him money.

Speaker 109 Yes, you sent him money.

Speaker 39 And where did this money go?

Speaker 78 When you got the money from Nigel, what did you do with the money?

Speaker 110 Built the glue museum.

Speaker 41 They don't grow on trees, you know.

Speaker 10 Well, rubber trees.

Speaker 78 Yeah, rubber tree actually comes from the tree.

Speaker 87 It's a terrible example.

Speaker 103 What's the difference between glue, since I'm sitting with an expert, between glue and mucilage?

Speaker 141 Mucilage is got animal fat.

Speaker 50 Ah, very good.

Speaker 19 Thank you.

Speaker 93 What about epoxy?

Speaker 39 Now, some people think I'm taking us into a very dry area.

Speaker 10 But you've got to wait for it to dry.

Speaker 19 Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 124 That is it.

Speaker 121 That is it.

Speaker 18 We're not having any more work.

Speaker 116 right?

Speaker 18 Don't apply that.

Speaker 132 We're not having it.

Speaker 25 What do you mean, some people think?

Speaker 40 I just think there's probably a discerning person in the audience.

Speaker 25 Epoxy, epoxy, which I use on a daily basis, by the way.

Speaker 71 Epoxy.

Speaker 110 This is not an advert.

Speaker 25 Completely different animal than what he does. Completely different thing.
It's a scientific thing that has no organic

Speaker 109 elements at all.

Speaker 129 What do you mean you use it on a daily basis? What do you do with it on a daily basis?

Speaker 134 Oh, what are you?

Speaker 25 Iron sides or something?

Speaker 106 What is this?

Speaker 115 Iron sides?

Speaker 20 Money, how is that?

Speaker 29 Oh, I'm a detective.

Speaker 25 I'm going to find out what he's going to do.

Speaker 19 What is that all about?

Speaker 75 It's the last time you watch television.

Speaker 48 I'm just curious.

Speaker 19 I don't have televisions. I don't have a television.

Speaker 51 Well, I have to tell you, no one's referenced Iron Sides, the TV show starring Raymond Burr, in over 47 years.

Speaker 25 And that's my fault. Yeah.

Speaker 100 Well, okay. Look.

Speaker 25 I liked it when it was out in the 70s.

Speaker 25 We'd get them after you had to hear.

Speaker 109 Yeah.

Speaker 103 What was the name of the bloke who pushed him around?

Speaker 103 That's all I recall.

Speaker 117 There was someone

Speaker 26 pushing him around.

Speaker 26 I love.

Speaker 71 I'm getting into some areas I didn't think would get into.

Speaker 5 Who pushed Ironsides around on the original series?

Speaker 39 And that's something for.

Speaker 25 If one of you can answer that, well, just keep it to yourself, remind me.

Speaker 142 Basically.

Speaker 90 Well, did you have, you've now come back together again?

Speaker 135 And I know there's some difficulties that are well discussed and well chronicled in the documentary.

Speaker 139 Do you feel enthusiastic about the future of TAP?

Speaker 103 Oh, well, it's two different things, the future and tap.

Speaker 85 The future of TAP is one thing.

Speaker 78 No, no, I see.

Speaker 71 What happens to you guys in the future?

Speaker 87 It's a value wordplay right there.

Speaker 19 Okay, listen.

Speaker 99 It's not one ever point in the world.

Speaker 100 And it's also

Speaker 25 individual opinions on that as well.

Speaker 28 Well, are you enthusiastic about the future of TAP?

Speaker 25 I'm positive generally and think it might be possible to regroup again.

Speaker 98 Yeah, it's possible.

Speaker 138 Wide open.

Speaker 103 Listen, whatever works. Possible.

Speaker 23 Okay.

Speaker 130 Wow, that's a very, this is a nice end of the year.

Speaker 10 Inzioutsi.

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 7 Depending on maybe your financial

Speaker 100 thing.

Speaker 103 Or if we called him Inzi Auti,

Speaker 129 and if you did reunite, do you think there's another film there?

Speaker 102 Go to hell.

Speaker 57 It's as good a place to end as any.

Speaker 132 Gentlemen,

Speaker 68 I'll say it again.

Speaker 61 I saw the first film in 1984.

Speaker 57 It introduced me to you and your work, and it changed my life in many ways. I don't say this often.

Speaker 68 Wait a minute. I say it just about every time.

Speaker 55 Constantly. It's an honor to have you here.

Speaker 71 I mean, I've said it to complete nobody's in the business.

Speaker 59 It's a formality more than anything else.

Speaker 110 But a complete and utter honor

Speaker 137 to have you here.

Speaker 108 This is a dream.

Speaker 59 And I thank you all very much for for that.

Speaker 100 The dream come true, is what you mean.

Speaker 10 Thank all of you.

Speaker 98 It's a dream come true.

Speaker 78 Yes, I'm sorry, because they're bad dreams.

Speaker 141 You're right.

Speaker 122 All right.

Speaker 79 Spinal Tap, Marty DiPerjee,

Speaker 79 thank you guys so much.

Speaker 79 And Spinal Tap 2, The End Continues, is in theater September 12th.

Speaker 92 And their new book, A Fine Line Between Clever and Stupid.

Speaker 129 No, no, no, no. A fine line between stupid and clever.

Speaker 20 Who's that?

Speaker 44 And whoever wrote this is just stupid.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 134 But reading it was kind of good.

Speaker 5 That's available September 9th, and I'm in for all things tap, as I think our audience is and many people listening.

Speaker 79 Spinal tap, ladies and gentlemen, Marty Divergie.

Speaker 89 Thank you.

Speaker 122 That was great.

Speaker 16 Thank you so much for including us in that.

Speaker 16 That was really sweet of you.

Speaker 24 It was a real moment for you.

Speaker 39 I was looking for a moment when one of your obsessions would come up in the conversation.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 131 You know what I mean?

Speaker 28 But it didn't. It didn't happen.

Speaker 102 That's all right.

Speaker 59 Channing Tatum never came up.

Speaker 101 Ebs.

Speaker 37 I told you guys, jump in at any time.

Speaker 66 Did I not say that beforehand?

Speaker 20 You did. Okay, then shut up.

Speaker 46 I'm not even complaining.

Speaker 9 I know. I just wanted to go after you.

Speaker 20 It was fun.

Speaker 42 Yeah, go after him.

Speaker 112 That was really fun.

Speaker 122 That was fun.

Speaker 69 Lovely to talk to those guys.

Speaker 57 And, I mean, saw them years ago and to finally meet them. And together it was just one of those pinch-me moments.

Speaker 19 Yep. Yeah.

Speaker 144 Big time.

Speaker 143 Okay. That's an awkward silence.

Speaker 100 Yep.

Speaker 133 Sorry, a little sincerity and everyone's like, what the fuck was that?

Speaker 111 We don't know what to do.

Speaker 46 How is that funny?

Speaker 139 Because we're just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Speaker 93 You know, there's no other shoe.

Speaker 37 What? There's.

Speaker 85 No, nothing. I just had a really lovely moment.

Speaker 76 You can both shut up now.

Speaker 16 No, that's just sincerity. You don't know what that looks like.
I mean, that's a nice.

Speaker 19 Yeah, it doesn't look very attractive.

Speaker 70 Guys, I do have the glasses on sometimes and I take them off sometimes.

Speaker 92 And I think I'm a fidgety person, but I like the movement.

Speaker 31 I like the action.

Speaker 16 Nobody was asking about it.

Speaker 71 Well, they asked me about it.

Speaker 16 I know, but it's you, you know, you do that. I'll do it again.

Speaker 120 Huh? Yeah. Look at that guy.

Speaker 106 Oh.

Speaker 105 Oh, yeah. I can't see now.

Speaker 18 I'm going to read. What'd you say?

Speaker 78 What are you doing?

Speaker 122 You doing a little bit?

Speaker 121 I can't hear you when his glasses are off. Yeah.

Speaker 100 Take your glasses off. What a trick.

Speaker 105 Oh, what's going on?

Speaker 16 Well, hey, guys, this is nice.

Speaker 115 Hey, hey, hey,

Speaker 123 you're great.

Speaker 46 You like that bit? That was great.

Speaker 44 The guy you can't hear when his glasses are are off?

Speaker 16 Yeah, I was doing the effects in your head and stuff.

Speaker 19 Okay, let's do it again.

Speaker 120 Yeah, okay.

Speaker 145 Ah, this is fun.

Speaker 117 Oh,

Speaker 106 life is nice. I want to cry.

Speaker 64 I love how everything is.

Speaker 19 Oh, God, if I just walk out of here, I love this job.

Speaker 119 So I go, oh, when I put my glasses back on, I hired you as an assistant. You do sound effects.

Speaker 113 You do voices.

Speaker 80 You do tricks.

Speaker 114 I know. You had no idea.

Speaker 2 Hey, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend is brought to you by Airbnb.

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Speaker 95 Hello, and welcome to the very first Conan O'Brien Airbnb original experience.

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Speaker 24 And Blay, what else are they getting?

Speaker 146 Well, everybody got to say how they feel about being Conan O'Brien's friend, which is a first for our podcast.

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Speaker 146 You're going to compete for fame and glory, see a showcase of Air Guitar All-Stars in the first ever Team Coco Air Guitar Championship, which is very exciting.

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Speaker 77 And it's all signed by Blay, though.

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Speaker 97 What happened to our podcast?

Speaker 106 What happened?

Speaker 118 I ascended the very highest heights of show business.

Speaker 79 Stick around for our Air Guitar Championship.

Speaker 80 It's fun.

Speaker 95 People are going to have a good time.

Speaker 5 How do you guys like our original Airbnb experience?

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Speaker 5 I want to just big thanks to everyone who came out to our Team Coco Airbnb experience, and thank you to Airbnb for making this happen.

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Speaker 39 And I believe now is the part of the show.

Speaker 139 We're going to introduce your real assistant.

Speaker 126 Well, I shouldn't say that. My true assistant.

Speaker 19 That's not cool.

Speaker 39 The hammer of Thor sits beside me.

Speaker 41 This is, you are forged in Asgard.

Speaker 39 You are the original immortal weapon, the Sonom Obsession.

Speaker 92 When you say Conan's assistant, it's Sona.

Speaker 39 That is Sona's assistant.

Speaker 55 Conan's assistant is Sona.

Speaker 92 Sona is the assistant to Conan.

Speaker 41 It's just one of those universal truths.

Speaker 92 But Sona, of course, went on to bigger and better things.

Speaker 9 She's now on a giant billboard in Times Square.

Speaker 132 She's got her own book.

Speaker 71 She's gone on to, she drives around in a Bentley.

Speaker 39 Did you know that Sona has a Bentley?

Speaker 104 Not me alone.

Speaker 139 Yeah, and her license plate says, suck it.

Speaker 18 Yes!

Speaker 100 It would, yeah, it would.

Speaker 19 You would get that.

Speaker 42 I would.

Speaker 97 But she's in the stratosphere.

Speaker 9 I need someone who actually can show me how to use my apps.

Speaker 108 And these days, that man is, where is he?

Speaker 44 David Hopping. Are you here?

Speaker 124 David Hopping.

Speaker 79 David, join us. All right.

Speaker 117 Right here.

Speaker 147 Sit or stand.

Speaker 37 David, your current obsession.

Speaker 38 Why don't you have a seat?

Speaker 122 You can say it's coming.

Speaker 24 Just don't get comfortable. It's just as far away as possible.

Speaker 27 I'm going to make you leave.

Speaker 57 Yeah, that's great. It looks like you're being punished.

Speaker 43 Yeah.

Speaker 17 This is like a COVID protocol.

Speaker 19 Okay.

Speaker 86 David.

Speaker 72 Yes.

Speaker 69 You're obsessed lately with The Summer I Turn Pretty, right?

Speaker 40 Sona and I both are.

Speaker 39 What's going on with that?

Speaker 92 Because every time I will call you about something important, like there's a small fire in my kitchen.

Speaker 132 How do I contact the fire department?

Speaker 9 And you'll say, are you watching The Summer I Turn Pretty?

Speaker 147 Oh, yeah, because it comes out every Wednesday.

Speaker 34 Which one are you, Team Brenda or JoJo?

Speaker 44 What is it? Oh,

Speaker 69 I don't know the names of the people.

Speaker 46 I think we're all Team Conrad.

Speaker 19 I do.

Speaker 106 Yay!

Speaker 111 There's our homies in the back.

Speaker 17 In the back.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 147 No, Sona and I text about this show.

Speaker 82 We do.

Speaker 46 It's very important.

Speaker 147 Anytime there's like a Netflix show or like

Speaker 147 a show made for like 16-year-old girls, I know I can rely on Sona to watch it as well.

Speaker 16 Anything with like hot 20-something-year-olds just like doing it, we'll watch it.

Speaker 33 At what point, I mean,

Speaker 24 this question.

Speaker 39 At what point is it creepy that you're watching that stuff and getting excited about it? If I were to admit that I love watching hot 20-year-olds go at it, I'm immediately arrested and rightfully so.

Speaker 89 What about you?

Speaker 40 When has it become creepy?

Speaker 120 I don't know, probably

Speaker 27 now.

Speaker 100 Is that weird?

Speaker 16 Like, as I was saying it, I was like, I mean, they're not

Speaker 104 even great. It's not great.

Speaker 114 It's not a good look.

Speaker 147 You are helping the business.

Speaker 17 You know what I love?

Speaker 9 This is how you help me the most: is that I bring you in to ask you about various things and you tell me, David, what's going on in the youth culture, what's happening in America, because you're from the heartland.

Speaker 5 You're still very innocent.

Speaker 66 You're very naive.

Speaker 20 He is.

Speaker 19 He grew up, I think.

Speaker 49 He grew up not near a cornfield.

Speaker 44 He grew up in and among

Speaker 121 the corn grew up around him.

Speaker 104 And

Speaker 39 you are always telling me this is what people are watching now.

Speaker 9 I'm Team Conrad.

Speaker 66 I don't know what's happening.

Speaker 90 And so I use you to keep me aware of what's happening.

Speaker 147 It's job security.

Speaker 134 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 101 And how to use my apps.

Speaker 86 Yeah. All right.
What are we doing here?

Speaker 147 You're going to take some questions from the audience and then give them answers.

Speaker 27 Yeah.

Speaker 79 So raise your hand. No, we're just taking questions, but no answer.

Speaker 11 Raise your hand if you have a question.

Speaker 130 David, I can hear your shoes.

Speaker 117 It's awkward.

Speaker 142 Sorry.

Speaker 82 Hi, I'm Alan.

Speaker 38 I'm very nervous right now.

Speaker 79 Don't be nervous.

Speaker 5 This is a safe space.

Speaker 57 We're all friends.

Speaker 5 I might attack you at any moment.

Speaker 88 I have also hired people to attack you from behind.

Speaker 41 Don't be nervous.

Speaker 57 Seriously, we're just people, but I'm I'm exceptionally talented.

Speaker 88 Go ahead.

Speaker 57 I'm one of those people that's like, oh my God, you met him.

Speaker 5 What did you say?

Speaker 39 And there's a lot of, what's that?

Speaker 59 If you want to stand?

Speaker 61 This was fine.

Speaker 97 God damn. Blair, I love you.

Speaker 99 I love you.

Speaker 78 We love you. You know you love you.

Speaker 46 We know you.

Speaker 78 Oh, and this doesn't work. That's great.

Speaker 44 Okay.

Speaker 66 I now have this mic, and I can stand.

Speaker 47 What's your name again?

Speaker 19 Alan. Olan.

Speaker 64 Alan.

Speaker 21 Ilan. Olan.

Speaker 78 Olan. Like Alon came Alan.

Speaker 28 You were right to be nervous.

Speaker 19 All right.

Speaker 106 Alan.

Speaker 94 I'm kidding. I'm totally kidding.

Speaker 19 All right.

Speaker 82 Joe, how are you?

Speaker 82 Honaine, I was wondering.

Speaker 62 I started watching you when I was 12, so this was always a dream of mine.

Speaker 20 Oh, that's cool.

Speaker 82 Yeah.

Speaker 62 Are there guests who you still get nervous to talk to?

Speaker 5 I wouldn't say I get nervous.

Speaker 126 That would be the wrong word.

Speaker 5 I get focused. I get very focused.
I think this has been thousands and thousands of hours, and I've talked to so many people.

Speaker 96 There's no nervous anymore, but there is

Speaker 56 a moment before I go out where I look at, I think about what I'm going to talk about, and I get with certain people, and I get very focused.

Speaker 62 So you don't have to fight through anything?

Speaker 118 I don't think I have to fight through anything anymore.

Speaker 9 And this sounds like a joke, but I just think I've been through so much that at this point, it's hard to summon that.

Speaker 68 That was

Speaker 108 probably more in my earlier life, in my 20s and early 30s.

Speaker 2 But at this point, I think all of my dignity has been shredded.

Speaker 4 And I'm just, I don't know.

Speaker 7 I'm being truthful.

Speaker 139 I think there's a, okay, let's see what happens.

Speaker 36 Does anything make you nervous? Anything else?

Speaker 76 What do you mean?

Speaker 94 Like, am I capable of feeling nervous?

Speaker 34 Am I like the guy who's scaling?

Speaker 77 Do you have feelings? Are you?

Speaker 118 like free solo?

Speaker 133 Do I not have the part on my brain? Yeah.

Speaker 60 I fear,

Speaker 34 yeah, I would fear.

Speaker 5 There are plenty of things I would fear, but not

Speaker 66 getting up in front of people.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 73 I think making a terrible financial decision would frighten me because I think I'd be blamed and mocked.

Speaker 16 I thought you were going to say something about your family.

Speaker 102 No, God, no.

Speaker 66 You can always get another family.

Speaker 93 Hey, nice to meet you.

Speaker 47 And good question.

Speaker 87 Yes.

Speaker 75 Hey, Lon.

Speaker 102 Alon.

Speaker 75 Alon.

Speaker 44 I'm not doing this on purpose. I have a new favorite podcast now.

Speaker 28 I deserve that.

Speaker 90 Whose alarm is going off?

Speaker 92 I think it's someone's sincerity alarm.

Speaker 39 Did you hear a beeping sound? No.

Speaker 39 Nope. Someone.

Speaker 35 Did you hear it? Anyone?

Speaker 94 Oh, my God.

Speaker 7 I think I'm very ill.

Speaker 65 Wow.

Speaker 19 Yes, how can I help you, sir?

Speaker 40 So I have less of a question, more of a quick request.

Speaker 25 I have my Instant camera on me.

Speaker 40 Could I take a picture with the gang?

Speaker 91 Yeah, of course.

Speaker 19 Can I come down now?

Speaker 44 Yeah.

Speaker 34 I like your late show with Stephen Colby.

Speaker 100 The champion our shirt.

Speaker 104 No, seriously,

Speaker 74 good friend, Stephen, and I'm glad you're out representing.

Speaker 5 Good man. So let's get down here and let's take this picture.

Speaker 67 Do we have to stand up?

Speaker 122 Why don't you lie down?

Speaker 97 There you go.

Speaker 78 Wow. This is all going to be requests now.

Speaker 3 No one's going to ask a question anymore.

Speaker 85 Conan, I'm type O positive.

Speaker 78 Can I have a pancreas?

Speaker 39 Okay, we're going to go back to questions.

Speaker 5 Gentlemen, yes, you brought your own microphone.

Speaker 95 Very good.

Speaker 19 How can I help you?

Speaker 43 I would love it if people brought their own microphones.

Speaker 27 I know.

Speaker 102 That was our one request.

Speaker 78 Go ahead, sir.

Speaker 13 So I was wondering, outside of This is Spinal Tap, what's your favorite Christopher Guest movie?

Speaker 88 Oh, wow. I'm going to say Waiting for Guffman.

Speaker 50 Hell yeah. Yeah, I love Waiting for Guffman.

Speaker 39 I mean, I can just watch it endlessly.

Speaker 88 He's genius-level funny.

Speaker 143 And so I'm delighted by so much of his work.

Speaker 21 So a follow-up call, Coden.

Speaker 78 You guys are getting out of here.

Speaker 20 Last I had a question, but turned it into a photo op.

Speaker 57 You took one question and turned it into two.

Speaker 87 I don't like the way this is going. Go ahead, sir.

Speaker 13 So, when you saw This is Spinal Tap in 1984, was that like, so for me, watching The Simpsons, late 80s, early 90s, that was my first look at satire and parody ever.

Speaker 34 So, for you, can you think of anything?

Speaker 13 Because Monty Python was a bit more sketch comedy and less satire and parody in a direct sense.

Speaker 13 Do you think This is Spinal Tap was like, helped mold you into wanting to do satire?

Speaker 1 Definitely.

Speaker 7 I mean, there's nobody

Speaker 7 from my era

Speaker 135 who wasn't influenced by that film.

Speaker 73 I believe that there's a period of your life that only happens once when music, comedy, all the things that are important to you can hit you in a very pure, unadulterated way.

Speaker 139 And then a window closes.

Speaker 5 It doesn't close completely, but there's a period in your life, and it's like 15, 16, 17.

Speaker 57 And for me, that was SCTV, definitely Monty Python, you know, Clusot films, select ones with Peter Sellers. There were just things that were moments on Saturday Night Live.

Speaker 5 There were things that just hit me directly mainlined into my brainstem.

Speaker 59 And 1984, I'm working for this college humor magazine.

Speaker 68 I've sworn myself,

Speaker 5 it's like a, I remembered saying, I don't care if I totally never make a penny, if I'm, if it never goes anywhere, I'm going to devote myself to comedy.

Speaker 9 I recently cleaned out my parents' house and I found all these comedy ideas I was writing when I was like 19, 20, and they're not good.

Speaker 61 And at the bottom of one page, I was writing them on a typewriter.

Speaker 73 And no one was even, I mean, computers existed at the time, so I don't know.

Speaker 44 I'm still writing things on a typewriter.

Speaker 5 But in ink, at the bottom, I had reviewed my work and said, please, comedy gods, help me to do better than this crap.

Speaker 68 I mean, I was so hard on myself.

Speaker 108 And that's the age I am when I go to this theater in like Alston, Massachusetts, and see where you're from.

Speaker 31 All right, you are being arrested.

Speaker 5 You look amazing, by the way.

Speaker 31 You look lovely.

Speaker 108 But

Speaker 52 yeah,

Speaker 68 I saw this as Spinal Tap, and

Speaker 5 I think a lot of us had the same feeling, which is this is a way of being funny that was so ahead of its time.

Speaker 68 And if you think about The Office and Parks and Rec and all these shows that

Speaker 98 do

Speaker 108 reportage kind of mockumentary style, to me, it really starts with, I know the Ruttles precedes that, but the real pure dose is Spinal Tap.

Speaker 9 So meant everything to me.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 12 Great question.

Speaker 58 Take some more questions here, and David will get to you.

Speaker 8 He's just taking his time, that's all.

Speaker 148 He got the mic, but he's my husband, so he gave it to me.

Speaker 123 Oh, that's such a nice

Speaker 120 batch.

Speaker 15 I think he might have an actual question, but this is so awkward.

Speaker 123 No, no, no, don't don't worry.

Speaker 145 It's more of a, can I give you a gift or something?

Speaker 145 I'm an illustrator and I drew a picture of you.

Speaker 122 Oh my god, bring it on up. That's so nice.
Come on up.

Speaker 78 Check it out.

Speaker 17 That's so cool.

Speaker 25 That's so nice.

Speaker 120 I can't show everyone the whole thing.

Speaker 15 What is this?

Speaker 37 Because I think I might get in trouble with work if I show you the whole thing.

Speaker 69 Oh, I shouldn't.

Speaker 39 Will I get you in trouble if you want to?

Speaker 24 Will we edit this out? You can show it and edit this.

Speaker 77 You can show that.

Speaker 102 You just yell things.

Speaker 102 Take off your pants.

Speaker 26 Put a stapler in your ass.

Speaker 78 What?

Speaker 46 Oh, I see what this is.

Speaker 44 I can show this.

Speaker 39 That's so great.

Speaker 59 This is me looking at. I mean, we may have to.

Speaker 47 I think it's been made public, actually.

Speaker 121 Okay, good.

Speaker 57 Yes, but this is the character I'm going to play in Toy Story 5, whose name's Smarty Pants.

Speaker 14 That's right.

Speaker 78 I love that.

Speaker 85 And who do you work for?

Speaker 148 Disney Pixar Studios.

Speaker 93 Yay!

Speaker 97 Well, you're not only fired, but they're going to pursue you the rest of your life.

Speaker 123 I hope

Speaker 42 none of them like you.

Speaker 122 Do you work up at the Bay Area?

Speaker 148 No, no, Glendale, but I do visit Emeryville sometimes.

Speaker 69 Okay, so I'm working on the Toy Story 5.

Speaker 68 I have a character in it, which is one of the coolest things I've been a part of.

Speaker 137 And I got to go up to the Pixar Studios in the Bay Area, and they showed me all the offices and all these iconic things.

Speaker 108 And it was like Willy Wonk is saying, Do you want to see my chocolate factory?

Speaker 18 That was crazy. Yeah.

Speaker 27 And it was really fun.

Speaker 148 I've seen the offices before too, just once, and it was kind of mind-blowing.

Speaker 108 Yeah.

Speaker 59 Well, you guys are so talented. It's so cool.

Speaker 76 Did you actually make this yourself?

Speaker 18 So I work on product.

Speaker 148 So I work on things like I drew Smarty Pants for product, but it doesn't look as nice. It's like for kids.

Speaker 18 So they really want it.

Speaker 18 That's all right. That's all right.

Speaker 24 You're doing well.

Speaker 5 I love it when creative, talented people just find a way to make their mark on the world.

Speaker 61 That's really impressive to me.

Speaker 148 It's good to be here because I was in legal for nine years before this, and it's you escaped hell. I escaped hell.

Speaker 18 Yes.

Speaker 76 And I'm not putting down lawyers, but you're terrible.

Speaker 24 Sorry, you offended.

Speaker 4 And what is your, let's give a shout out to your, what is your husband's name?

Speaker 145 Jonathan John John.

Speaker 70 You forgot his name for a second, didn't you?

Speaker 83 This marriage is in terrible trouble.

Speaker 85 He surrendered the microphone out of fear.

Speaker 79 Are you

Speaker 79 a creative person as well?

Speaker 42 He He likes to write poems.

Speaker 18 Oh, that's lovely.

Speaker 93 Recite.

Speaker 115 Wait a minute. Recite.

Speaker 100 Recite it.

Speaker 42 You stand up and say,

Speaker 102 Recite it!

Speaker 148 I can say he did spoken word at our wedding, and I was mortified.

Speaker 18 Oh!

Speaker 19 Wait, but wait a minute.

Speaker 104 Wow.

Speaker 113 I'm going to stick up for him.

Speaker 74 I think, hey, that's lovely that you would do that.

Speaker 113 That guy's got, I mean, that's very cool.

Speaker 44 Yeah, it is.

Speaker 42 You know what?

Speaker 5 I wanted someone to do spoken word at my wedding, and someone did.

Speaker 20 It was just a, it turned out it was just a drunken diatribe about the many ways I've fucked people over in life

Speaker 126 by my new wife.

Speaker 45 Lovely to meet you.

Speaker 92 Thank you so much for this.

Speaker 74 And give my best to the gang at Pixar.

Speaker 84 You're really talented. So cool.

Speaker 20 What's that?

Speaker 127 Why are you yelling now?

Speaker 122 Wait, I'm sorry.

Speaker 79 That was his latest poem.

Speaker 78 Very cool.

Speaker 9 Now I'm just cruising around like a creep.

Speaker 32 Hey, how are you?

Speaker 32 Oh, how are you?

Speaker 4 You scared of me now, right?

Speaker 50 Love the hair.

Speaker 4 Anybody else? I can just go to you and have a question.

Speaker 87 Yes, how are you, sir? What do you have? Just shout it out.

Speaker 122 Okay, thank you.

Speaker 48 So, first, I wanted to say thank you very much.

Speaker 38 I'm going to get behind you in case you prove to be dangerous.

Speaker 45 You're dressed like a Batman villain. I love it.

Speaker 95 Two faces here. No, stand up, sir.
Show everyone your outfit.

Speaker 90 Man, you dressed up for this. Good for you.

Speaker 95 Look at that.

Speaker 78 Very nice. What is your name?

Speaker 95 I'm Christopher. Christopher.

Speaker 112 Okay, Okay, can you use the mic on him real quick?

Speaker 78 What's that? Hold on, watch this.

Speaker 44 I'll do it.

Speaker 39 I've watched game shows.

Speaker 91 What's your name again, sir?

Speaker 147 My name is Christopher.

Speaker 118 Christopher, nice to meet you.

Speaker 29 Nice to meet you.

Speaker 44 I'm moving a microphone between us, so this conversation will be staccato.

Speaker 87 Is that okay with you?

Speaker 122 That is very okay with me.

Speaker 95 Okay, where'd you get the outfit?

Speaker 21 H ⁇ M.

Speaker 138 Okay, terrific.

Speaker 20 Wonderful company.

Speaker 43 But not a sponsor.

Speaker 74 They can go to hell.

Speaker 85 What's your question, sir?

Speaker 82 So my question is, what do you use for your hair, and when can we expect a hair care line from you?

Speaker 112 You know what?

Speaker 79 Okay, this is a great question.

Speaker 126 This is a terrific question because my manager, Gavin Pallone, a true animal, who I've been with since like 1992, he's always wanting me to be involved with some kind of product.

Speaker 55 He says, there's a lot of money in that stuff, man.

Speaker 70 And I'll say, that's not me.

Speaker 30 I don't do that.

Speaker 76 But then we did come up with an idea a while ago, and we just haven't done it, which is a pomade.

Speaker 85 A pomade.

Speaker 52 Where's my illustrator friend?

Speaker 20 There we go.

Speaker 40 A pomade, but like it's got that cool kind of 1930s.

Speaker 66 It comes in that tin, and it's got like a cool logo, and it's the Conan pomade.

Speaker 19 And I'm telling you, it would be the goop of the modern era.

Speaker 39 It's not, I was just referencing the company, but it would be,

Speaker 79 you know, because that's done great for Gwyneth.

Speaker 41 I mean, she drives around in nine Bentleys strapped together that all say suck it.

Speaker 92 Which you can't have more than one license plate that says the same thing, but she got around it because she's Gwyneth.

Speaker 90 I think a pomade.

Speaker 128 I think a pomade and a couple of pomades.

Speaker 94 What do you think?

Speaker 78 I'll buy it right now.

Speaker 4 What's that? Say again?

Speaker 78 If you have it, I'll buy it right now.

Speaker 5 Well, you seem like a sap.

Speaker 19 I'll buy anything.

Speaker 44 I'm going to somehow make this happen.

Speaker 39 A Conan pomade, and I'll donate all the...

Speaker 143 Well, no, I'm not going to say that.

Speaker 71 That's just stupid. I mean, what if it really blows up?

Speaker 33 I'll say this.

Speaker 5 If it doesn't do well, I'll donate the proceeds to a good cause.

Speaker 55 If it does really well, I'm buying an island somewhere, okay?

Speaker 5 And I'm just going to go there and be a total freak.

Speaker 20 All right, so yeah, what's that?

Speaker 16 I said conade, and then I got really embarrassed I did that.

Speaker 19 So I don't know. I've never known you to be embarrassed about anything you've said.

Speaker 16 I know, because I said it so quietly and no one heard it, and I was like, I got away with it. And then you turned around to me and asked me.

Speaker 33 No, I sensed that you were in danger.

Speaker 101 Yeah.

Speaker 47 I'm like a T-Rex that sees movement.

Speaker 79 If someone slightly misspeaks, I can see for 900 miles.

Speaker 100 That's true. That's so true.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm like this pomade idea.

Speaker 39 I'm telling you, it could have like a cool logo that looks like it's like kind of from the 20s.

Speaker 67 And it's, what's that?

Speaker 101 Outline of my hair.

Speaker 39 But you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 It has that needs just the right font.

Speaker 79 I've got to get the right mixture of different spices and oils.

Speaker 118 I want it to be something you can also eat if you're hungry.

Speaker 67 I want to put a little protein in it so there's a little bit of

Speaker 7 cow collagen in there.

Speaker 94 And you can just put it in your hair, but then go like, I'm feeling tired.

Speaker 19 And a little oil.

Speaker 38 I want there to be little tiny pieces of bacon inside.

Speaker 25 This is the cream that goes in your hair.

Speaker 102 Yeah. Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 19 Uh, all right.

Speaker 49 What's with dummy over here?

Speaker 130 I love this. I think this is a fantastic idea.

Speaker 45 What's your name?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just like wandering around, but use the mic.

Speaker 76 It's good.

Speaker 57 Because it's all going to end up on the podcast.

Speaker 88 Hi, how are you? Nice to see you.

Speaker 68 Really?

Speaker 143 Delighted.

Speaker 143 I saw you ladies backstage.

Speaker 132 Don't know how you got back there.

Speaker 76 It frightened me.

Speaker 17 Yes, guys.

Speaker 20 I was just letting you schmooze, which is totally cool.

Speaker 123 Not letting you know.

Speaker 107 Like a wingman's lady.

Speaker 19 Like a wingman. That's very cool.

Speaker 78 You're like, oh, Conan's talking to these ladies up front.

Speaker 33 I better give him his space so that he can cheat on his wife.

Speaker 115 No!

Speaker 17 Absolutely not.

Speaker 37 How dare you turn against Liza like that?

Speaker 122 No, absolutely not.

Speaker 96 Anyway, drinks later.

Speaker 150 I also had another movie question. Yep.

Speaker 149 And it's probably open-ended, but you're obviously like the creator of your universe and going in.

Speaker 19 What are you talking about?

Speaker 121 Do not give him any idea.

Speaker 150 With everyone.

Speaker 39 The creator of my universe, I'm looking at the people out here so that they feel included.

Speaker 113 It's the guy that high five me.

Speaker 90 I don't do well with them. I don't get a good connection.
It's not you.

Speaker 37 Your elbow? Look at the elbow.

Speaker 95 Look at the elbow?

Speaker 21 Yeah?

Speaker 81 Okay, sir.

Speaker 19 No.

Speaker 47 I'm sorry.

Speaker 97 I will take your question in one second.

Speaker 39 You had a question about me creating the universe and then this guy.

Speaker 100 Go ahead, sir.

Speaker 14 So I will teach you how to give a perfect high-five every time.

Speaker 86 But I don't like doing them.

Speaker 14 Then I will not teach you how to give a perfect high five.

Speaker 39 Just teach me so I know how to do it if I need to do it.

Speaker 57 Go ahead. I'm assuming you're right-handed.
Yes, I am, sir.

Speaker 20 What a dick.

Speaker 39 I'm being man-splained, and I'm a man.

Speaker 50 All right.

Speaker 32 You look at my elbow. Yeah.
And I'm going to look at your elbow.

Speaker 50 And then down the three, we got one, two, three.

Speaker 95 Yeah.

Speaker 85 Yours was much stronger than mine, and it pulled my elbow out of my socket.

Speaker 127 My shoulder, I'm bleeding into my shirt.

Speaker 47 I'm going to do that. I'm gonna start, but you know what?

Speaker 37 A lot of people.

Speaker 122 What's that?

Speaker 124 Oh, you have your own podcast going on over here?

Speaker 86 There's a lot of people.

Speaker 36 There's a lot of people on the street, and this is that gets me.

Speaker 49 Sometimes people are maybe 30 yards away, and they'll be like, Turn it!

Speaker 113 And they stand there like the fucking statue of liberty and

Speaker 37 click, you know what I mean?

Speaker 44 And then they've been eating a sloppy joe, they haven't washed their hands, it's a mess, sir.

Speaker 36 What's your name?

Speaker 21 Hypes.

Speaker 70 Okay, hypes.

Speaker 20 Oh, you're the air guitar guy.

Speaker 40 I could tell there was something about you that

Speaker 39 caused me an existential dread.

Speaker 28 Well, best of luck to you.

Speaker 41 Your parents must be thrilled.

Speaker 20 Let's check it out.

Speaker 87 Thank you so much.

Speaker 79 Nice to meet you, sir.

Speaker 51 Well, you're in for a treat with Hypes.

Speaker 44 Hypes, the master of air guitar.

Speaker 41 I'm so sorry. Your name again?

Speaker 36 You know, when Hypes takes over, I mean, he literally smashed through the window.

Speaker 33 Totally fine.

Speaker 87 There's a reason they put him behind that salad guard.

Speaker 150 It's totally fine.

Speaker 149 But it's your movie with Rose Burns.

Speaker 19 Yes, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 43 If I had legs, I'd kick you.

Speaker 144 Yeah, and again, it's very open-ended, but like you obviously are you, you know?

Speaker 47 You said it like there's nothing that can be done.

Speaker 19 Tragically, you are you, and this is a condition from which no one recovers.

Speaker 150 But it's just that shift, right?

Speaker 20 Like, obviously, you've acted all that, but even when I saw the trailer, I was like, oh, wow, this is something totally different.

Speaker 150 Yeah.

Speaker 144 And again, open-ended question.

Speaker 80 Well, Well,

Speaker 44 there is no question there. Yeah,

Speaker 76 I think I know what you're getting at, which is

Speaker 74 talk about that thing that you did.

Speaker 52 I'm thrilled because I got a it's an A24 film, and I love their, I mean,

Speaker 56 I love everything A24 does.

Speaker 41 I get a call.

Speaker 75 It's an A24 film.

Speaker 56 The director wants to show you a script that she's written.

Speaker 57 Her name's Mary Bronstein.

Speaker 73 I meet with her.

Speaker 57 She's got such a cool vision. She writes this script that floors me.

Speaker 131 And then

Speaker 68 Rose Byrne is cast, and all my scenes are opposite Rose.

Speaker 108 And I, like anyone who's sentient, adores Rose Byrne.

Speaker 68 I just adore her.

Speaker 143 I just think she's amazing.

Speaker 68 And so I do this.

Speaker 69 I took it really seriously.

Speaker 8 And Rose gives this insane performance.

Speaker 2 Who here has seen it? Have you seen it, Sona?

Speaker 94 You haven't seen it. No.

Speaker 77 Who has?

Speaker 34 I think, David, you saw it.

Speaker 20 And Rose, right? Oh, my God. It's incredible.
Here, Steph, you should have a microphone.

Speaker 16 David saw it.

Speaker 19 That's cool. Yeah.

Speaker 24 Because I took

Speaker 120 your job.

Speaker 16 Yeah, I'm happy for you.

Speaker 102 You just do cool things.

Speaker 35 That's just insane.

Speaker 39 And David was with me during the shooting of it because that's what a real assistant does.

Speaker 87 He comes with you.

Speaker 52 And it was a really difficult time.

Speaker 44 And you were.

Speaker 16 You never shot movies when I worked for you, so

Speaker 24 that's on you, bro.

Speaker 112 Okay, I guess it is.

Speaker 5 I guess it is.

Speaker 96 It's my fault.

Speaker 16 Yeah, and he went to Pixar with you, too, didn't he?

Speaker 106 Yeah, we had so many.

Speaker 18 I mean.

Speaker 86 You know what's great?

Speaker 39 My career has just blossomed into this wonderful thing.

Speaker 80 And Sona stepped off the boat. Sona was on a boat that went to Pittsburgh, Cleveland.
Now we've hit the Caribbean, and just beforehand, she stepped off.

Speaker 19 So you

Speaker 30 screwed up, Sona.

Speaker 74 Anyway, it's really fun.

Speaker 5 It was a great experience.

Speaker 5 I really think the movie is fantastic, and I credit completely.

Speaker 57 I mean, it's Mary Bronstein, it's Rose Byrne.

Speaker 52 ASAP Rocky.

Speaker 9 I'm in there too, but I give it up totally for them.

Speaker 5 I just was

Speaker 133 so I love being a part of of that, and I'm excited to hear what people think when it comes to that.

Speaker 144 I'm really excited to see you in like, like, in that medium space, you know what I mean?

Speaker 6 Yeah, not so shrill and needy.

Speaker 41 Not necessarily that.

Speaker 41 Words created by other people.

Speaker 144 It just seems so mean and like unapologetic.

Speaker 70 Yeah, it's funny.

Speaker 44 I guess I'm a great actor.

Speaker 33 I pretended and was able to act as if I have a mean part of me.

Speaker 5 And it was just a complete transformation.

Speaker 46 Unbelievable.

Speaker 131 No one can believe.

Speaker 112 But what I did is I read about people being mean and cruel, and I tried to imagine what that was like.

Speaker 130 Don't like you, and I don't like you.

Speaker 77 I think that is our show.

Speaker 91 This was,

Speaker 47 you know,

Speaker 47 I'll say this.

Speaker 95 This was just fun.

Speaker 5 Like so many of the things we get to do in this medium, this was just complete fun.

Speaker 57 This is not work.

Speaker 52 This is play.

Speaker 69 And so grateful that we got to do this.

Speaker 5 Really amazing, and thank you. You guys made this really fun with your energy and your enthusiasm, and you seem like really nice people, and we're blessed to have fans like you.

Speaker 34 Let's do it again.

Speaker 117 All right,

Speaker 22 Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend with Conan O'Brien, Sonom Obsession, and Matt Gorley.

Speaker 20 Produced by me, Matt Gorley.

Speaker 22 Executive produced by Adam Sachs, Jeff Frost, and Nick Liao. Theme song by The White Stripes.
Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino.

Speaker 20 Take it away, Jimmy.

Speaker 22 Our supervising producer is Aaron Blair, and our associate talent producer is Jennifer Samples. Engineering and Mixing by Eduardo Perez and Brendan Burns.

Speaker 22 Additional production support by Mars Melnick. Talent booking by Paula Davis, Gina Batista, and Britt Kahn.

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