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I wanted to ask you about Lucille Ball because obviously growing up, even though the show had long been gone, it was running constantly in reruns, I Love Lucy, and that was the format for the modern sitcom that has endured for 50, 60 years. And I know that she was very kind to you. She saw you as, hey, this kid has something. I like her. How did she reach out to you?
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Please tell me it's the morning.
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Now, she sent you, I think, flowers every day on your birthday.
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I've always heard it was your idea to put on the prosthetic fake booty. Is that true? That's a fact.
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I love that you brought your friend in.
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Okay. You just mean it's a compliment. What I'm saying to your friend.
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Get your ass over here. Literally. Get your ass over here.
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She walked backwards to get in.
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That's how she got everything in life. She walked backwards. We deny this card. Oh, yeah? Check this out. Your card works.
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Okay, let's talk about this. I have famously, I have no ass. There's just nothing back there. It's a straight drop. And I'm thinking I should get a prosthetic. Is there something they make for men now?
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I don't know. I don't know what the right butt looks like. You want me to call my friend? Yeah, exactly. You should come. And I should say, I want this.
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I can go get it. It's in the back of the car.
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Just keep it with me at all times. You could borrow hers. Well, I don't, don't they make something for men?
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If I knew where that was, I'd grab it. I'd take it on vacation.
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I don't want to talk about what I'm going to do to it. That's my business. You're invading my privacy right now. I buy two airline tickets and the prosthetic ass is in the other one. And we both have a glass of champagne. What?
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You know, it's interesting because you're grabbed by the theater. You're this kid, as I said, who you start reading Chekhov. You start reading the classics, and it grabs you. You start seeing some productions. You get into theater. You have so many go-nowhere jobs just to stay alive. I mean, you're delivering papers. You're building superintendent for a while, but not a good one, I don't think.
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You've played so many great characters, but in The Righteous Gemstones, I feel like the minute I started watching that show, and then you showed up. And I remember not knowing you were going to be in the show for some reason. And the minute you show up, I thought, you can't do The Righteous Gemstones without Walton Goggins. You have to have him.
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Oh, I know this. He's in a hot tub.
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You had to go to Chicago to find a dick? Yeah.
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True story. I did wonder. Because the penis is right there. Penis is right there. In high definition. Yeah, that's right.
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Yeah, you can tell. And you know what? South side. Deep dish. That's a south side penis. Deep dish. Deep dish, south side. That's a White Sox penis. That's not a Cubs penis.
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What's going on here? What are we doing here down south? Penis, shut up. You're ruining it. I just got out of a hot tub. Yeah. Gotta get a sausage.
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I think we should address the elephant in the room. Woody, we started a little bit later than we thought because you had a bit of a tumble. Is it fair to call it a tumble?
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I mean, you know. No, I saw that. There's a really old man who was like, I remember him. He was a terrible super. And I'm like, okay, take his Oscar back. Fine actor, terrible super. Christopher Walken, bad mechanic. Robert De Niro, that's just an awful substitute teacher. You know, it's like, what the fuck? What are you talking about?
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Yes. And you were on a motorcycle. On a motorcycle. Yes. And is that your primary way of getting around a motorcycle?
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We lost some time while people were figuring out, are you alive? Your soul had to reenter your body. Yeah. Did you think for a second when you were going over the hood of the Tesla, this is going to be a huge problem? Or did you, the whole time, were you thinking, I'm all right?
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Your hand is wrapped up like someone in a cartoon. That's because I wrapped it. Is this true?
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So let me get this straight. All of your first aid training is helping people in a way that will look funny. Yeah. It's not going to help him not get infected or anything like that. Yeah. You didn't set the bones in the proper way. You set them in the funny way. Funny way. Okay.
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Sorry. This is fascinating just to be behind the scenes and know that you guys are both icons. You're on the way to do the podcast with your friend Ted Danson. You wipe out on the motorcycle. You hit a Tesla. You get it together. You come here. You need medical attention. So Ted Danson is the one that helps clean the wound and wrap you? Yes. Why haven't we called a real doctor at any point?
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It's for hygienic purposes. It's for hygienic and also tax purposes. Thank you. So do you wear, what kind of protection do you wear when you ride? Whoa, whoa, whoa. No, no, no. We're not doing that protection. The other protection. Are you armored in any way? Are you wearing a helmet? I did.
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It makes me sad. Does it inform what you might do in the future?
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It should. It certainly should. Yeah.
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You just switched. I had my cheering moment. Sorry. Literally 15 seconds ago, you said, I'm so sad. I'm so sad. I'm over it. You're my friend and I'm so sad. And then you're telling him to shut the fuck up. Right.
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My sadness didn't play in the room. That is such a sick thing to say. Such a sick thing to say. Oh, wow, we're here in the ward with the terminally ill children. Hope you guys feel better soon. Tough break. Hey, that didn't play so well. Let me try something else. Hey, Timmy, how long you got? Jesus Christ, Ted. I know what you mean, though, Woody. There's something about Ted.
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So you come along, you're doing theater, and then this thing that people dream about happens, which is you get noticed. Francis Ford Coppola is going to make The Godfather, and he says, I want this guy, Al Pacino. And the studio says, fuck you. We want Robert Redford. We want someone who's been a success. We want someone who looks a certain way.
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Every time I've talked to him, see him out in the world, I'm immediately, I just get this calm. You have a very calming presence. And I don't, yes. Is some of it maybe related to the fact that you are so ubiquitous and well-known? Yes. But do other people say that? You'd be like an amazing therapist.
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Now, do you suffer from this malady, or is the money just too much to turn down?
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And Larchmont. Is this on camera, by the way? I think we're going to see this. It's comical. That's the thing one of the Three Stooges would put on their head. I know. Does anyone have an ice pack? I haven't seen an ice pack like that in 50 years. Not a bad idea, though. Does it look cool? Oh, yeah.
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You know, people ask me all the time, they say to me, Conan, you know everyone in the business. And I say, thank you. And then they say, Larry David, is he exactly like he is on Curb Your Enthusiasm? And I say, yes, he is. You are exactly like that guy. You would claim that you're not quite that guy.
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But the times I've hung out with you at parties, I feel there might as well be a camera recording this for HBO.
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We want someone probably blonde hair, blue eyed, whatever. Sorry. Yeah, exactly. I'm looking at you when I say it. I'm sorry. They wanted me, actually. You know, my grandmother... I was eight at the time.
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He's he's he's my hero. Yeah, he should be. Yeah. It must be nice, though, because you've carved that out for yourself. And then if people encounter you in real life, you don't have to in any way contort yourself to please them. Yes. You can tell them, I don't feel like taking a selfie. It's not really what I want to do right now. And they must love it. And they laugh.
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The person was offended? The person seemed to have been a little offended.
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Why? I don't get it. Yes. I think that's I think you're right. I think you are within your rights to ask who's coming. Thank you. Thank you. Because you want to find out. Also, I'm imagining you have enemies. Yeah. And you know, you want to make sure you're not walking into a party. I just made four more as I walked into the building. But, you know, you want to make sure. You want to know. Yeah.
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Yeah. I want to know. It's like a mobster who's going to a restaurant, wants to know how many ways are there in, you know, if I'm attacked, is there a way out? You've got to know.
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Let me ask you a question. And you, I want you to be honest. Yeah. You came to my house not long ago. You didn't know who was going to be there. Were you pleased? Were you not pleased? And you can tell me. Well. Were there enough celebrities to make you comfortable? Were there two, were there, you know, did you feel that it was a good environment, a good ecosystem for you?
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Well, I wasn't sure, you know, you seemed happy. You seemed pleased.
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But at one point I noticed that you had retreated to a separate area and you were just observing. You were eating your food and you were just observing other people. Well, as if you were, you know, looking at birds, you know, doing little sketches. And I wondered if that's normal behavior for you.
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But what I'm saying is... I had to put it in. They don't want you, but... And I've seen the screen tests where they're saying, okay, well, how about... Jimmy Kahn is Michael Cole. How about, they're trying everybody. They're throwing everybody in there. But Francis Ford Coppola sticks with you. They start shooting and you can tell, you read in the book and it's riveting on the set.
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You're on a podcast right now. How long is this going to go? This is our special five-hour salute. No, but it's not. It's a special five-hour salute to Larry David.
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I have to have this. I have to have this.
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It's brilliant. It's fantastic. Thank you. Thank you. I love that idea. I think we've all been there.
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No, no, no. Everybody's aware. Also, does he flash a badge? Yeah. Does he put up a badge and say, this is over? This is over.
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People are like, I don't know about this guy. I don't know about this guy. I don't know what. And you can feel it. Yeah, well, they were giggling. You heard giggling. Yes. So here's what's amazing to me. These scenes that I've watched and that everyone's watched in this room 100,000 times.
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that are now iconic masterclasses in how you play a character, you're doing it and people are going, oh man, let's hope they get a real actor in here soon. Which is unbelievable to me. Was it that severe, Conan? I was an eight-year-old kid, but I was there. And I had a lot of pull with the studio. I called Paramount, and I was like, I don't think he's got it. Who is this?
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Eight-year-old Coder O'Brien. What are you? It'll be a big deal someday, you'll see. We're not using a real phone. Why are you mining one with your hand? Oh my God. It's funny. But no, and the thing is, which is to me, I look at that performance and as you say in the book, your concept, which was clearly the right one, which is you got to slowly see. Yeah. Michael, come to this position.
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And then there's the iconic scene where they're all trying to figure out, after Vito's been shot, what to do. And you are sitting there with your broken jaw and you say, okay, we arrange a meeting. And the camera's pushing in. I can't watch that and I can't talk about it without tingling because I think it is a beautiful way to tell a story through acting. But it takes patience.
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Yeah, I'm glad to know that in coming up with who Michael Corleone was, you got your steps in.
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They should make a Fitbit that tells you, you have achieved the character. 10,000 steps. Stop. Stop walking. Stop. Stop now. You've nailed Michael Corleone. You've got it.
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You scared the hell out of me. I was on a bike with a friend of mine. We won't get into the exact, but on a, taking a bike ride with a good friend of mine, Brad, and we're going up. Yeah, maybe. And Brad Paisley. And suddenly this car, like a kind of a Jeep SUV thing starts coming. And all of a sudden the window comes down and you lean out the window and start yelling at me.
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I did, I yelled at you. And you start doing some bit, which was really funny, doing a bit. And then my friend is like, That was Tom Hanks. Happens all the time. But you know what? It was like laughing. Like your head just came out of a... Knock, knock. Yeah, or it was like Batman when he was climbing up the side of a building and suddenly a window would open and it's, you know... It's Jerry Lewis.
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It's Jerry Lewis. It's Tom Hanks. I thought I live the most amazing life where a darkened window can come down and a goofy Tom Hanks can pop out and yell at me when I'm on a bike.
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Have you heard that halfway up that ridge, there's this place that apparently in the late 30s, you probably know about.
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In the late 30s, some people who were pro- Hitler and pro what the Nazis were doing. So Nazis.
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They were members of the party. There were people who were...
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sympathetic to that cause in the late 30s before america was in the war and they purchased a piece of land am i correct you are correct sir that they that they thought that they thought would be um a place that the fuhrer would like to hang when and if he comes to america maybe because he conquered it i don't know the whole story do you know the story it was owned by the german bund
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So this is a place that, in our neighborhood, you go up this, there's this big hill, and... Did I say Jerry Lewis also lived in this neighborhood? And why did you choose to live here, sir? Listen, we have these meetings that are none of your business. No, but... This is my story, which is that they, that was something I've always heard.
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And then occasionally you'll, you'll find that it mentioned that this piece of land lives and that maybe, and some people get the story, get, they get it wrong. And they think that Hitler spent time there, like in his board shorts, looking out at the Pacific, you know, come out for pilot season. Yeah.
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Six pilots didn't get one of them. Not a one. It was almost a seventh friend. But anyway. But I'm with... I'm with my friend once, my same friend, Brad, that you saw. I'm riding, grinding up that hill on our bikes to just try and get to this very steep in parts. We're grinding along and then we're these two women, like blonde, 22 year old, I swear to God, wearing like bikini tops.
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Very, and they just looked like they were just come from a sorority party. They flag us down like they were in trouble. And I said, what is it? And they went, do you know where the Hitler camp is? There you go. Where's the Hitler camp? About that. And I went, oh, ladies. Well, all right. Like, God, he's still pulling in the trim, that Addy Hitler.
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When you get to the Mussolini cul-de-sac. Yeah, yeah. Take a left.
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I'm going to switch gears here real quick.
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And I want to talk about the Japanese and Jerry Lewis and 1944.