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all right before I tell you about that Jeff Goldman yes what do you got before I tell you about Jeff Goldblum honestly
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I was just on the road doing this tour and uh playing these gigs and the new thing
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that's going on is that because Corona is not gone but slowing down these people that wait in the airport to have
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you sign stuff right and I sound like an ingrate but I do love fans I know you do
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and it's fun when people come me as a fan but when they are just have like these Funko pops and these posters and
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things but they get in the airports when you're on the road so they you get out
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of your gate and there's 10 people walking with you and I do one each because I don't I get a little weird out
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because it's they're very aggressive they're not fans let's I'm gonna start
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with that they're just guys and then I go to one each and they don't accept that they walk you all the way to
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luggage I I lost piece of luggage because I was too distracted because they wouldn't leave me alone and then
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they walk in your car then they drive to the hotel and wait for you anyway so this sounds like I don't like fan
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they're not they just go scientists use my pen this Corona Corona Corona everywhere and then they have like a kid
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with them to go we'll sign one for her she's your biggest fan I go what movie
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do you like and she goes who the [ __ ] are you I mean they don't know you know
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they're just like oh a kid they grab and say make them sign this 40 years now
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people come up to you and go my kids really love you and they're like seven I'm like well what what have I done
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lately he's good they point over there to the you know luggage Handler so they
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didn't know and then these guys were up and I lost a piece of luggage because of
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that and then something else happened that was really bad but other than I know what it's that's the road I know
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what it's like to be David's Bay because we were doing the gig at the wheel turn
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with our friend Adam Sandler I was being driven in a black SUV and I was like David
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you know so what I did I put the window down just a little bit I flipped him the
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bird and then when they see me they got David where's Adam he's coming uh oh
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yeah Adam did the show he's coming up and Jeff Goldblum let's just say cool dude there's very
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few modern actors like in the olden times you'd have a very quirky voices me
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being an impression Jeff Goldblum has a like Nicholas Cage or Christopher Walken
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he's got a very unique uh and he's very he's listening with you you are fascinating to me I'm finding
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out there and he would put his hands near his mouth and kind of move his fingers
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around I was trying to interrupt us like do you want to say something Jeff he goes no you're fascinating I just want
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to listen to you and he would just move his fingers around his face remember that he hosted twice he was doing this
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interview by the way uh from the Jurassic world for drastic Dominion world or something or it's or as we call
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it Jurassic Jurassic Park this time the dinosaurs are big I thought that was a great title this time they'll scare the
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[ __ ] out of you uh I knew a guy used to a bit about uh the T-Rex couldn't masturbate you know
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the dinosaurs give me that wiener that was his closer the dinosaurs talk we're gonna get you
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this to go somewhere with it this time there's no dinosaurs it's just land sharks they have to keep
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upping the Annie and it's like the uh they're smarter than us this time yeah
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they have intelligence well I'm I'm afraid I have something to tell you about the dinosaurs they get on
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the elevator's a shark [Music] yeah the dinosaurs can talk and they're poets uh anyway the movie's better than
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that we saw the movie and Goldblum is a study he always said he didn't sketch
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with me called Carl with a K I worked at the video store and we relive that movie's great I mean that's the kind of
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movie you want to see in the big screen plus he was in Independence Day and he was in Jurassic Park these are huge huge
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mega movies yeah I'm gonna ask him if he's ever met Will Smith did he meet him
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on the set yeah and did he ever have an Impulse to slap Will Smith yeah who punched who I
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think Jeff Goldblum is 6 12. he's a very tall guy and which is all that matters
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in life I mean look at Instagram I'm mad about it he's just a great actor and
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he'll delve into that on our podcast just about his technique and just thought he wishes he could do everything
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over again I thought he was very humble wants to hang out with us yeah I won't
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say no and we will and uh we'll stop talking so we can talk over Jeff gublum here we go yeah and by
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the way just so you all know there he was doing a press junket oh yeah it's not a full hour and so it was a little
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bit we were a little hyperact sorry we're new to this and we're narcissists
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we're not even new anymore we're just still bad we've done it for we've done
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200 episodes we're still learning no but it was uh the sound was a little iffy on
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that and there was a sense that uh well I was so excited just to talk to Jeff Goldblum just got a little hyperbolic
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and uh he'll mention his favorite movies and you'll you'll hear that list it's
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pretty exciting it is a long list it is a long list um because Jeff goldblum's done a lot of
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sort of a quirky actor uh tall man uh Jeff Goblin take it or leave it [Music] foreign
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[Music] yes I've been in the same house for about 37 years can you see the LA Design
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Center from your house uh I yes we can see uh you know the red and blue and green buildings we can see okay
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uh yes we can we can see that new uh little lot that they just knocked down the the bank there at Crescent Heights
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and Sunset and that many those mini operations and now waiting for something to be built there I'm getting it yeah
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we're in the same neighborhood can I yes can I jump in uh with a question about
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the El Pollo Loco there yes um it's gone it's gone I've eaten there maybe 2 000 times and
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the McDonald's maybe five thousand and they're both gone all the time I've been
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there about 37 years I've never eaten at that McDonald's uh and I'd never eaten
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at that uh El Pollo Loco there's now Pinches Tacos down the block but I haven't tried them yet yeah and what's
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that other place Taco you know Pink Taco Taco that used to be do you remember when Pink Taco used to be pink wait a
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minute wasn't that you know um you know the Saturday Night Live wasn't that the um place where uh
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Roxbury yes that was Roxbury and before that it was Imperial Gardens uh which was a location used for one scene in
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modern romance with Albert Brooks God damn great move Catherine Harold well Jeff you look like a model and that's
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because you don't eat where I do I want to meet your dermatologist yeah you look
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great thank you very much uh I I I'm falling apart you guys look fantastic thank you and I
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I really agree listen I uh I no I were I went you guys are in two separate locations now David where where are you
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where are you um just a random undisclosed mansion in um behind like Mel's Diner area really
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yeah he's 0.09 for me in miles yeah oh nine hey do you guys remember because I love our whole neighborhood do
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you remember the source restaurant which is now that uh Cantina which I notice is
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closed all the time I don't know what's going to happen with that uh and did you
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ever see that documentary about the source cult family that was going on all that time while I was eating there I
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remember that I heard about it Dana knows every documentary did you see it I love documentaries about cults and cult
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leaders I'm sure did you see Wild Country loved it I'm fascinated people
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joining Cults me too what's that thing now on I see on HBO Max you see some posters around town it's what's it
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called where it's an organization and they um and it's about losing weight
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where it's a it's a religious thing and they're losing a lot of weight there's a
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person with a big hair who leads it and it turns out during the episode that I saw chunk of they're they're spanking
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kids and they like the idea of spanking kids have you seen that I I haven't but
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I've got it on my watch list I haven't seen it it sounds like most of them like
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the one where they uh the guy went and met with a Dalai Lama remember that guy and he had he he has a
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I remember that one they they have all the girls come out and and then he's like a smooth talker and then at some
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point it turns into guys uh I do have to have sex with everybody it's like it's
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so typical and they should go okay it's bad enough you took all my money but
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it's always goes to sex that's true and you have to go the trick is is to be so
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human like they fart they they eat chocolate they drive rolls royces and so they go he's so real it's almost like a
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double trick like of course he's yeah of this world I don't know hey Jeff have
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you ever had cult people follow go ahead I want I see Jeff pointing what do you want to say about oh no I'm just
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listening to me tell you I'm telling more to everything that you're saying
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and I would say you you guys must love that movie The Master which I like a lot I like PT Anderson very much uh love
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everything he does saw that movie three times obsessed by it yeah brilliant yeah
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I am too yeah I think it's uh brilliant and There Will Be Blood and I like inherent Vice and I like Phantom thread
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and of course Boogie Nights and Punch-Drunk Love uh and I liked licorice pizza very very much can I ask you about
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Phantom thread yes you're you're married I'm married David might get those weird people what do you
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think the overarching theme of phantom thread was because that was Daniel Day-Lewis said do we what have we
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wrought I mean he told PT hey like I can't believe we just made this movie and the theme of it about the male
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female Dynamic I wonder you know I saw it when it came out or to have this uh um in in-depth discussion I'd want to
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see it again and study it because I think it's very uh uh deep what I what I
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noticed about that movie the impression that I got was that in contrast to some movies that sometimes
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I'm suspicious of it it it um talked about a relationship it depicted a relationship that was in some
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ways a tip of the iceberg had tip of the iceberg elements that were alluded to depicted but that had roots and
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backstories and underpinning psychologically that were thoroughly investigated I thought I didn't know
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what they were yeah but it was for us to figure out uh whereas some movies go hey
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we're vague here we'll allude to something but we don't actually know
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what it's what's going on that was my impression that he is very very brilliant and and entirely thorough and
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it it seemed like the in the male female Dynamic there is kind of like you sort of want your spouse to kill you
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in a way and you want to kill them and that's part of the romance of it or something because he wanted to be
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poisoned by his wife he clearly enjoyed and she liked him being helpless it's
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very interesting well did you remember Boxing Helena yeah so so that has nothing to do with this
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but I remember I've heard him talk about because I like fun things about behind
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the scenes and directors talking he said that he admired Rudolph yes uh his wife
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were at home during one cycle where he got the flu or something yeah and he thought she was in his attent in her
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attention to him particularly caring and I think that it triggered this story he
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said as I remember uh whereby hey I like this idea of being uh you know silent week and and yes
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vulnerable it brings out something is going on I love that actress Daniel Day Lewis was great enough but I love that
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actress who was in it yeah yeah we could talk about that forever or a million things I'm so happy to see you guys I
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really am excited to talk to you [Music] let's get back to happy to see us part
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because yeah Jeff first of all Jeff you sound like you have such a cool voice you sound like an impression because
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people do it and you have such a good voice uh I like that and you're 6'4 you
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don't have to do anything I don't even know why you got an actor you already
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won so women love love women are into tall guys and now I hate it because they always secretly were and now it's on
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Instagram like we need tall guys and they're they rule the world and I'm like
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what the [ __ ] going on like I got enough going against me I don't need yeah I can't help anyway that's not
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Jeff's fault Jeff's fault no no not not 100 but uh Jeff I met you on SNL I think
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that's where I met you I didn't I forgot about this sketch meeting a long time
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ago and I looked it up you forgot what what a long time ago you were on a show called SNL and I was a writer performer
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Saturday Night Live I've seen several of those and I remember when you and I did
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you did a spectacular Larry thing where you are a video you were the uh the clerk at a video store and you said yes
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I guess whose number I have I'm not going to do anything with it but uh yeah
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I am a fan yes yes very brilliant I watched that this morning and while we're on the topic of us now we have a
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few questions for you and we're gonna bore the [ __ ] [ __ ] out of you sit with us when you did that you were you
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were I looked at it again today and I don't love watching myself it was kind
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of fun watching you win it because I was so nervous just to be on SNL and then I've got a star in it and I was newer
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and I'm trying to like not be on the cue cards which is very dangerous to try to
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memorize it snls it changes so much but I was the writer so I knew what I changed and you came in and you've got
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such a casual relaxed acting style which is in all your stuff you're great at it
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and I really appreciated it more on that because you played things so real it almost calmed me down and not be such a
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[ __ ] Goofy I was trying not to be too charactery but it is SNL and I don't
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really know that much about acting so I just thought you maybe should have beaten me up during the sketch because I
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was getting a little Broad nother not as I remember it you've always been a spectacular actor I loved
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doing that I was thank you Jeff you know I don't know if you call it nervousness
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but I was on alert uh doing that show and I wish I could do it now I'll bet I
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would see that and think I could do it better now because I keep getting a little more something or other but yeah
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I try to I try to improve can I ask you I want to ask you a question Jeff that I
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noticed from the first Jurassic Park and yes sir you and I I was coming out of doing a acting class one-on-one with Roy
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London and I met you and you invited me to jam with you which was very cool and I was so happy to meet you but I
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remember in Jurassic Park and I looked it up to make sure it's like I didn't know if
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they wrote your part as Elvis but you're on the helicopter and I go oh he's doing Elvis I thought
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that's very Roy London is to do Elvis but pull it back and then at one point
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you just started kind of roaring like a dinosaur but it but I I didn't I don't know if everyone noticed it but
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you're like wow right and I thought is that is that you know Meisner is it London is it Jeff Goldblum or did I
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recognize that you were doing something that made it so charismatic and so specific
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which is maybe part of your Brilliance but do you remember that I'm not brilliant at all you're so sweet
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um I don't remember um that I was doing anything like what I thought of consciously as a roar or
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anything I've seen that scene and I know how you know I laughed in some kind of
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uh yeah but uh but now that you mentioned it I think I I I was I was coaching with
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Roy London back then geez what a wonderful guy he was brilliant and he had some always subversive unexpected
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you know uh Uncle cliche ideas you know to offer and you know but I you know I I
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I loved Steven Spielberg on that I remember feeling uh you know alive and excited and full of Creative Juice of
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one kind or another I went to one Roy London class and then I was with Ivana her uh his Protege you know the Sheikh
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started taking people when and Roy was too full so I knew that world a little bit and uh I do think it helped me I
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think it helped me a lot and when I saw someone like you in something like Jurassic Park it gives hope to someone
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that's just a comedian that wants to go in that world is like you could mean
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this big movie that's not a comedy but having someone come in there and lightly
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weave in some comedic moments is so important and you do it so effortlessly some probably written some aren't and
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and the more they let you do it the more confidence you get probably because I'd
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be scared around Spielberg but to If he if he's letting you do that stuff it
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really uh puts layers in that movie that's so good one more reason it's a
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great movie well thank you so much you know I I I I I I you guys are talking my language when we're not I don't want to
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bore anybody and if we you and I should just uh we should all have dinner at muso and franks or something and I'd
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like to talk to you guys for you know because I'm just a humble student of it
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and I I but I would I'd love to talk about your ideas about what you're just
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talking about you guys are brilliant and um and how you how you navigate all situations like that which I'm still
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trying to do you know we made another one of these and uh and I I love to talk about all Jurassic Park world Dominion
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June 10th yeah yesterday and the day before you're kidding what do you mean wait a minute
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you saw our latest movie on two days he was able to Thursday I tried to download
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it and the second day uh that was three hours and then the second day I watched it and uh I thought it was very
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interesting now it's so good I don't even think the dinosaurs are fake I just
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think they're part of it because it used to be like that looks real that looks
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real now I'm like so he's in the scene of the dinosaur but everyone's so smooth
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at it I it can't be this tennis balls on a stick anymore it's like everyone's
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looking the right way and acting and back and forth and I really want and the dinosaurs act a little better this time
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because they're very good you know and I thought it was a really interesting
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great movie that people are gonna love because it it has all the stuff you want from those movies and it's got to be
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hard to keep doing it and keep it great a lot of great chasings where they just don't end you're like holy [ __ ]
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um what's going on here but it also so real and looks like so hard to do the
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boys are back in town if you know the reference it's uh Sam O'Neill Lord Dern
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yeah again you know Samuel Lord during the yes well it's so great to hear you say
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that uh David and thank you I hope people like it but Colin travaro wrote a script with Emily Carmichael that's uh
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that's um a smart he's a he's a terrific director and he's been thinking about
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this for a long time and and to take all those characters and to make it into something logical and satisfying and uh
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isn't an easy task and I think he did a great job you got to be ahead of everyone because everyone's seen this
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you know you guys have done them before and then you've got it you've got all
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these people that probably it's harder to keep everyone happy and make sure everyone knows the movie's one step
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ahead of everyone when you watch it and just so complicated that whole thing and
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I've done movies of mine are a little not simpler but you know we're worried
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about different things and I just watch your night shoots and your craziness and
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I'm just like there's so much is going on as much fear and what's going on here
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and there but did a great job everything looks real it's great thank you so much
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yeah I'm proud of it they they did nicely and Colin had this idea where the dinosaurs were not going to be CGI
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mostly they were going to be um made animatronically and John Nolan had a creature shop and so they were
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there okay they're doing better than ever the dinosaurs are bigger and more fantastic than ever and yeah he did good
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I saw Alf in there maybe I'm wrong was elf no it wasn't your thing you're
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mixing this up with another movie that's the Will Ferrell when you get the script Jeff do they do you feel like
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they're writing for your character and and also the Jeff Goldblum Rhythm or do
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you kind of bring yourself to it because you do have very off-kilter syncopated and of course and they try to guess that
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why would I became a gigantic fan I I believe a gigantic fan my wife and I from The Big Chill because we saw it so
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many times we actually went to the Cineplex we're trying to see another movie and we heard The Big Chill was
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starting we'd already seen it three times then we went over and watched it again and we watched it four months ago
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so that was the one where that whole cast was amazing and that's where I really noticed your Genius or whatever
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you want to call anyone who can be in a film and be that natural and and so fascinating your vocal rhythms because
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that's kind of what I'm into are so interesting anyway I'll let you speak
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sorry I found out a little bit no gee Gees I adore you guys thanks you're encouraging me and making me feel good
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about all of this all sincere do you know how great you are what about the fly I don't know don't get me started
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with the Fly Don't let me get started I don't even want to start with the fly
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yeah you're not allowed it's too much that that tore me apart that was one of
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the most beautiful sad brilliant science fiction films ever made I'll let you
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talk I get emotional seeing that too David Cronenberg is a heck of a director he's a he's an amazing guy and uh and we
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worked hard on that in Toronto wait a minute who's from you know Toronto well
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Mike Myers my brother from another mother is the ultimate Canadian he was my partner in Wayne's World Mike Myers
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but I'm from a lot of people from Montana and I yeah are from Canada a lot of people think I'm from Canada a lot of
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SNL people are from Canada yeah but not you guys I'm from Missoula Montana which
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is pretty close to Canada right right you know um I I I hope that we spend many much time together I have much I
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have much to ask you guys I have my I have much to learn Mambo King do you remember that movie uh where where who
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says what's the actor who says you have much to learn Mambo king that's a good
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trivia I think it was called the Mambo King but who is that starring Billy King yeah hey Jeff do you
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remember Jordan King I think was in there yeah do you remember when you the first time you hosted SNL do you know
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what it was for it's usually for a movie coming out right I think the first one
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was for Jurassic Park I think wasn't he three four ninety three yeah yeah was it
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93 and and that's when the monologue had I think didn't Laura Dern wasn't she
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there and she said oh did she come do something yes I think she might have come done something and said oh were
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those dinosaurs real and da da da or people keep asking me were the dinosaurs real I should have done my research and
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seen both of those again but uh but I had a great time and and the uh and Aerosmith was the musical guest one time
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yeah and in Vogue right yeah free your mind oh man yeah yeah they were they were the the other ones that she had a
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good time doing those you know know you had a sketch that I saw today I just watched a couple and you had a pretty
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all-star cast it was canteen boy is so ridiculous and you were kind of mean in it which is very not you I
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realized you're never really mean in movies I don't think and uh this is sort
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of a different I mean it's only a sketch but you had hilarious Sandler being
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ridiculous campaign yeah you had Phil Hartman Uh Kevin Neal and Tim Meadows that was a that was a
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great one with everybody what a cast hey I want to see that again yeah that was amazing wasn't it and then how about
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that one I did with Molly Shannon where she's uh you know the the Catholic girl
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we did and we sang and she's a superstar Last Dance Last Chance yeah we sang that wow that is right up
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my alley of my ears because I think Dana just died I had just left I must have just missed you Jeff I left in March or
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April of 70 93 sorry I think and you were there later maybe in the fall yeah yeah I want to go over into 10 male I
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want to remember all my experiences and and uh and question you about every experience you had I'm kind of
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fascinated with SNL really and I see I see a lot of interviews with people and listen to podcasts and people talking
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about it I I can't get enough of that I love it it's a seminal experience for
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the host that's go or the athlete or the movie star or whatever going into live
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television with no prep and for us who are Unknown People David and I getting our break on a show with that much
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pressure it never totally leaves you it's a touchstone for all of us that's
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why this podcast has been so interesting and for you you know what must have been
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experientially how did you I it's like really intense hosting that show it's wild they're picked in Poland's I
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mean what was that like for you the quick changes and just uh yeah it was it was something I took
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it seriously as a you know and it was you know unnerving and and exciting in a lot of ways and I tried to you know just
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to do the assignment as well as I could and and work hard that week uh you know um in however I could do it and trying
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to figure out how to do it uh and as I remember you know I felt like it had gone okay but I'll bet if I saw it now
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like a lot of things from that period And even until recently I think I could do much better now I don't know
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something is broken with me recently broken free and broken uh I I feel like into into some new territory where I'm a
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little more uh confident relaxed connected to something that I can do uh and I'll bet
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I could could make my way through something like that a little better and where do you think that's coming from is
00:27:50
it just being a dad or is it just where you are just over time being being a dad
00:27:56
has been deepening and I keep working so I keep getting a chance to kind of Practice Things
00:28:02
um ah and I you know just from having done it I think I'm a late bloomer in some ways and uh I I I don't
00:28:14
know I think I keep finding things that are my own recently I don't know how to
00:28:20
describe it I'll tell you know it's boring to talk about it I don't know I'd
00:28:23
love to talk to you guys about it we're gonna have a long dinner and talk all about it but I do think that uh for
00:28:30
me too I think the more you do something being desensitized to 100 people watching on our movie set and getting
00:28:36
out of your own way and out of your own head in terms of here's my lines this
00:28:40
and that I think there are people who are savants that maybe it was you know uh Brando or people like that there's
00:28:47
other people who just get better and better and more confident and more movies and more TV shows so I relate to
00:28:53
that to you just getting getting better now yeah I I feel like that's my story
00:28:58
yeah Sandy Meisner was my teacher and he said you know it takes 20 years of continual work to even be able to call
00:29:04
yourself an actor uh so he like this you know 40 000 hours he didn't say that but
00:29:10
he liked that kind of you know continuity of digging he said was the way to get somewhere you know just keep
00:29:16
doing it uh and it'll take you someplace and that I think I had that in mind and
00:29:21
I think that's maybe why it why it happened to me that way I feel like it's
00:29:26
happening to me that way interesting you know I I call myself an actor after two
00:29:30
classes but maybe it was a little brush but uh I think Jeff um what happened with me with comedy a little bit which
00:29:37
might be maybe what we're all talking about is uh the early years are almost constantly
00:29:43
an audition and you just don't know if you're going to stay in the show business like right you do good and only
00:29:48
buys you six months and then where have you been and the next one better work and this better work and I think all of
00:29:54
us get to a certain point where we go okay I think I'm just going to stay in
00:29:57
Show Business I think it's okay like and then you can start being looser going I
00:30:01
do care but I'm more cared about the right things instead of just oh I hope then it's not so fear-based as it maybe
00:30:09
it used to be maybe that that's it isn't me I relate to that I think that's true
00:30:13
of me too I was uh I had plenty of I you know I was I I had Terrors of one kind or another I think I was excited and
00:30:22
somehow confident from a a belly full of uh uh inflammation or or fire of one kind another I really want to do this
00:30:29
and I'm excited about doing that but I was I think from also that Meisner thing
00:30:34
I think I took the other side of the coin of it and thought hey if it takes 20 years I'm not really an actor I'm
00:30:40
just kind of doing this to practice and if I get chances to do this I hope they don't realize I I ain't I I ain't I'm
00:30:47
not an actor yet and I think that gave me a kind of uh oh uh Terror and I think I overworked certain things and yeah you
00:30:57
know but yeah but that that relaxed over a time and you're right something like
00:31:01
hey you know if I can't if I you know if it's not in me that's the way it goes
00:31:09
and if it doesn't work but you know this is what I like doing and and here it is
00:31:13
and somehow I'll find it I will not I don't have to get into some state of
00:31:20
hyper you know you know some incredible State I there's I can do it if I get a
00:31:27
good night's sleep and pay attention to it and put a little effort into it I can
00:31:31
solve a problem in my way one way or another you know that kind of thing [Music]
00:31:40
so you know on SNL I think for all of us and I'm sure as a host it was really
00:31:45
just controlling nerves I mean I I think I was the most confident after I did 140
00:31:51
shows the night I stepped off of SNL was probably my best show from my point of view and it was just the 140 shows beat
00:31:59
the [ __ ] out of my fear and anxiety and so I think for as a host especially did
00:32:05
your second time hosting were you informed by the first time were you a little more confident the second time or
00:32:11
both times were just like such an outer space experience yeah maybe at that point what was that
00:32:17
that's like 30 years ago or 25 years ago hard to say uh yeah you know I was halfway there I tried to get through it
00:32:26
and I enjoyed myself you know I enjoyed myself uh but like I say I think I think
00:32:35
I could do better now yeah I think that's true of everybody you you got a feel for it it's such a like a horse
00:32:42
race it's over before you know it and and if you're a control freak I'm not
00:32:46
saying you are I'm just saying you know everyone's sort of a perfectionist in
00:32:49
this business but if you think for a second you're going to be able to handle
00:32:53
what's going on at all times and oh I got to make sure my costume is perfect
00:32:56
and let me look at that sketch again and pick that like it did it's too fast
00:33:00
there's too much you can't you almost have to put your hands up and go just go
00:33:03
it's like the quick change you do a sketch you walk off and hold your hands up they rip your clothes off put the
00:33:09
next thing on you and go this is one of your playing astronaut go and you just 15 seconds and it's so exhilarating that
00:33:16
uh the next time you go I think I gotta figure it out now and you really don't
00:33:19
yeah but you have to just let go and like yeah yeah like no one used to say you know lay back and giggle
00:33:26
um yeah it's something but you know I think I kind of that's I like that I
00:33:32
think I would like even more of that whenever it's like hey you can't possibly plan for this just give me
00:33:38
something to to kind of figure out right now and I'll do it watch this I kind of
00:33:43
I think I like that kind of thing yeah that was uh can I ask you I don't know I
00:33:48
do this with guests because I I like putting people like you in context of when they were a young person so I just
00:33:56
like to know you could go real quick if you want a toy that you remember from your childhood that stood out your a
00:34:02
bicycle that you might have had and a movie or TV show that Lit you up and I'm
00:34:06
talking your formative years you know 5 to 12 13 years of age you have five seconds that's a very good question I
00:34:14
remember I got an easel that I liked and some Creoles that I really liked I see my kid one of them is particularly just
00:34:23
obsessed with making marks on things he loves them painting I got a sheriff that
00:34:28
would [ __ ] that would automatically shoot you and some guns with plastic bullets and and if you got him before he
00:34:35
got his guns up you would win this showdown I like that oh a helmet my dad took me to every Steelers game in
00:34:44
Pittsburgh uh a home game we had season tickets so when they got me when I opened up those shoulder pads and a
00:34:51
helmet that I could use with Bobby D and again and people on the lawn uh I love that yes so those toys uh I I I love
00:35:01
that and then TV shows oh my gosh there were so many TV shows I used to watch yeah yeah talk shows I used to watch you
00:35:11
know in the daytime during the summer Mike Douglas and dinosaur I used to love ever everybody I love comedians too I
00:35:16
remember London Lee we could talk about old Comedians and London Lee yeah you know I was crazy about you know shecky
00:35:24
green and Jack Carter and all those guys I was crazy about that um Merv Griffin but yeah you know I
00:35:31
liked then when Wild Wild West came oh my God Miss Gordon that first that opening with
00:35:40
those four squares does drawings killed me killed me Chris Martin and uh Robert Conrad that just killed me the monkeys I
00:35:48
was into the monkeys those years Gilligan's Island very into that Andy Griffith very into a Dick Van Dyke keep
00:35:56
going Dick Van Dyke Andy Griffin laughing later I loved it the Stooges I I saw all the Stooges uh episodes all
00:36:02
the old Popeye cartoons [Applause] [Music] oh yeah that's just some of the stuff I
00:36:10
love but uh big they made a big impression hey and when and when Playboy after dark I remember I was just a
00:36:17
burgeoning in my in my um that was cool and I found on that you still had to I had to find it by kind of fiddling with
00:36:24
that dial and you'd get some static and then go oh my God I found it I found it
00:36:29
and then yeah they'd get out of the elevator oh my gosh loved that and did you have movies along that time it be it
00:36:37
Planet of the Apes or uh Jason the Argonauts or you know we're kind of from the same generation talking about Jason
00:36:43
the Argonauts with Tom Hanks just uh today because I was listening to that um that made a big impression on me Ray
00:36:48
harryhausen I love that tremendously but because I've been thinking about movies
00:36:53
about inviting people to back into the theater to see movies yeah you know uh um the way they are client used to do
00:37:01
they'd bring them back and you'd see them in the big screen yeah yeah but in
00:37:04
the movie theaters instead of on TV I was I've been going on for the last couple of weeks at kind of memory
00:37:10
Odyssey and my sister's helped because we saw movies together I wrote these three pages of all the movies that I can
00:37:15
remember seeing when I was a kid can you read them we won't interrupt you can you just read a bunch of them okay
00:37:22
first run movies some of these will be so oblique you won't know them but some
00:37:27
of them you will stop me if you have any interest in any of these ready okay absent-minded Professor Fred McMurray
00:37:34
Flubber you know wow yeah Steve McQueen oh Steve McQueen's a star yep loved it
00:37:41
all the uh uh Jerry Lewis movies during the 60s the Paramount years bell boy cinderfell a disorderly orderly visit to
00:37:48
a small planet Geisha boy delicate delinquent Rock-a-bye Baby Nutty Professor avant-garde genius avant-garde acid
00:37:57
humor Jerry Lewis movies in the 60s and then I got a chance to meet him I was going to play his son in Max Rose so I
00:38:03
hung out in Vegas with him for a couple hours absolutely amazing we'll talk about that that's the sterile cuckoo
00:38:10
with Liza Minnelli Georgie girl Lynn Redgrave yeah Bridge on the River quiet yeah first
00:38:20
first run couldn't believe it loved it oh Dana loves it love that Carol bogey
00:38:27
brilliant brilliant yeah I saw it recently that's a better movie than I even realized then a real kind of war is
00:38:33
madness you know anybody any human being like Bill Holden who involves himself with a war like that changes and becomes
00:38:40
inhuman yes and you're gonna parse out when you show these movies to your kids
00:38:46
because I showed my one of my sons Bridger the River Kwai I think eight nine ten something blue is mine blue is
00:38:53
mine that's a good question I'd love to know what movies you show them when
00:38:57
because I'm going through that a lot I'm very passionate about that Man Who Shot
00:39:00
Liberty Valance when it first came out man Lee Marvin was so brilliant in that so scary coolest weirdest bad guy oh my
00:39:08
God and Brother Martin and Lee Van Cleef in his gang and Woody Strode unbelievable
00:39:16
oh we got a failure to communicate yeah yeah well Cool Hand Luke uh we saw with the full name unbelievable
00:39:25
Paul Newman was what a stud tough toughest guy in Hollywood the only guy who could go in the sweat box he he
00:39:32
drank 24 Budweisers a day no one could last in the sweat box as long as him I know from his his assistant on that
00:39:39
movie really yeah yeah he was a tough guy he could get in the he'd go in the bathtub with ice with
00:39:44
a straw and he would come out and he was just Paul Newman I mean he was just like
00:39:48
they just say he's the toughest toughest guy because who's the toughest guy they
00:39:51
go all the stuntmen would go no it's Newman Newman was the toughest guy he could take the most pain no kidding
00:39:56
that's what I was told yeah he's right for that part then we've got so much to
00:40:00
talk about HUD the family saw together and uh HUD yeah go ahead with your list I love your list Charlotte that's uh
00:40:07
Joan Crawford and Betty Davis together yes it's a it's a it's a uh an animated
00:40:13
movie Robert Goulet sang in it the first I was a I was at the right age when Dr No and From Russia with Love and
00:40:20
Goldfinger and Thunderball um I had changed my life I was crazy about them forget about it Iron Man
00:40:26
Flint I didn't like Flint unbelievable James Coburn yeah James Coburn remember what the telephone
00:40:34
sounded like in the office yeah that's right yeah yeah yeah that was yeah yeah
00:40:47
you haven't seen those those are like you know the beginning of Austin Powers
00:40:51
you know that's like taking Jay was the first time James Bond had been satirized
00:40:56
like that I do believe yeah yeah and they had the Dean Martin ones too that he was yes yeah yeah Matt Helm yeah I
00:41:04
saw the first time Pink Panther was shown with that Henry Mancini opening and Clouseau wow
00:41:10
1964. yeah so memorable 64 psycho my friend Bobby D and I went to see psycho unbelievable terrified brilliant Hard
00:41:20
Day's Night I had this crush on this girl there we go there's a field trip we
00:41:23
saw the Richard Lester Beatles movie unbelievable oh I can't believe you liked it go ahead
00:41:30
yeah no no I'll give you a minute no okay okay Diary of a Madman tomb of liegea this is
00:41:37
Vincent Price I was a teenage Frankenstein I was a teenage werewolf IGA the sadist King Kong versus Godzilla
00:41:42
jigo with Jackie Gleason first movie I cried at um another vertigo first time vertigo was
00:41:51
shown uh Hitchcock amazing the birds yeah time machine time machine oh yeah loved it Yvette mime
00:42:00
hey do you guys remember do you guys remember a movie after the fox yeah it was a World War II movie or no
00:42:09
I recommend that you go back and look at after the fox it's Peter Sellers Vittorio de Sica bicycle thieves
00:42:16
directed it uh Neil Simon's first screenplay Burt Bacharach writes the music Peter Sellers sings the title of
00:42:23
song After the fox that sounds awesome I have a lot of affection for foreign under the Yum Yum Tree how about under
00:42:39
the Yum Yum tree with Jack Lemmon Jack Lemmon yeah he was awesome Night of Living Dead Bye Bye Birdie breakfast to
00:42:46
Tiffany's The Incredible Mr Limpet with Don Knotts I saw it at the Laurel theater when I was nine or ten loved it
00:42:52
I love your list by the way I've never met a movie fan as big as you bring that
00:42:57
list to dinner I want to bring it uh gone with him I've had cool Handler HUD Elvira Madigan
00:43:03
really but I am curious yellow Thomas Crown Affair who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Easy Rider In the Heat of the
00:43:10
Night The Miracle Worker In Cold Blood uh wait until dark Paper Moon The Last Picture Show uh Guess Who's Coming to
00:43:18
Dinner Odd Couple uh it's a mad mad mad mad world The Graduate Mash Splendor in
00:43:24
the grass Rosemary's Baby the apartment Midnight Cowboy oh yeah girl Father Goose patch of blue
00:43:33
a bunch of cassavetes movies Shadows faces uh the list of Adrian messenger The Boston Strangler Myra Breckenridge
00:43:41
x-rated yes yes Rex read yeah a medium cool Morgan They Shoot Horses Don't They
00:43:49
Jane Fonda yep [Music] there's some good movies there's some terrific movies now and uh you know it's
00:44:15
everywhere but what a world I love that you read us that list that brought me back to just so many memories I I could
00:44:22
talk for 20 minutes on at least 50 of those jeez I can too with you guys I really want to arrange a a date we have
00:44:30
a we have a restaurant that will rename we won't name it but it's close by and
00:44:34
that's where we take all all of us close to all it's very quiet and dark and you
00:44:38
can have a good conversation so we would love that Jeff let's do it thank you so so much good
00:44:47
luck with everything there and another great movie in 2022. Jurassic Park world Dominion the gang is back okay goodbye
00:44:56
Jeff take care buddy great thank you guys thanks loved it thank you [Music] hey what's up flies what's up please
00:45:09
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00:45:12
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00:45:28
Taffy her name is Laffy her last name Stephanie Laffy Taffy I like that I would call her that all day okay why
00:45:35
don't we hear more about workplace romance and SNL that's they're always like a 12-parter
00:45:40
is is this an environment that just doesn't produce that tensions or way more than we don't know
00:45:47
what is this an environment that just doesn't produce that tension there is workplace
00:45:54
romance yeah oh yeah I mean aside from the obvious ones like Emma Stone is married a writer from there yes
00:46:06
and uh yeah Pete and Kim so that and but when I was there it was first of all you weren't supposed
00:46:13
to talk though I was like that you weren't supposed to even be in the same room with the host you you don't get to
00:46:16
walk in there the bad boys came in you guys the girls loved you Phil and I and John lovetts Mike Myers believe me there
00:46:24
was not a lot of action on that I I was married Phil was married John and Lovitz and Mike Myers were
00:46:31
married for a brief period of time I think we were all single uh let me see oh yeah I remember I did have a crush on
00:46:36
Marissa Tomei when she was there um after my cousin Vinnie she came into host and she was so adorable uh looked
00:46:44
through me like a borrow use Neutrogena I got hit on whenever I did the church lady that's when people would hit on
00:46:52
that's when the chicks had come out of the woodwork I I remember but like our
00:46:56
hosts are like Glenn Close and we were 25 and you know I saw Farley always hitting on Glenn Close he wasn't hitting
00:47:01
on her but he's flirting he wasn't drinking at the time and he used to chug
00:47:04
beers in front of girls to look cool and so he had like a water or a Diet Coke and we're all by
00:47:11
8h and he goes hey Glenn Close and then she's just I think he's like he drinks the whole thing as a seduction
00:47:20
yeah and then she goes and then she goes I think I gotta rehearsal and then I guess they're holding are you chugging
00:47:25
that's the cool yeah he thought it was cool John did anything happen at the after party I mean I don't
00:47:32
know if we're talking out of turn here no nothing I just think he was just more
00:47:35
trying to be that's just crispy and Chris but yeah so there's your answer
00:47:40
there are workplace romances at SNL and that's a good question even though you
00:47:45
obviously don't know about the three big ones that are out there so uh next time really think but
00:47:52
mostly word Sno cast members are trying to survive most moment you're not thinking you're
00:47:58
not really getting out yeah I'm gonna you know you're just trying not to get
00:48:01
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