Liam Neeson

Like, I want to sing, I feel a bit nervous about singing here with my old pal Conan O'Brien.

I can tell that we are gonna be friends.

Now for how many years? 14? and like, a half, okay, 14 and a half years, and for how many of those years do you think you really tried?

Be honest, I'm gonna you want me, to be honest, yeah, two.

Okay.

And, of course, Matt Gorley, you always give 100 of what you're capable of. Oh right, yeah, about 10 of most people, yes.

Yeah, you give 100 of the 10 that you're able to give. What's your name? again? My name's Cronin.

Okay.

It's nice to be here all together, isn't it? It is, Yeah, do you like it? Do you like coming in to see me?

And.

I'm not gonna lie, it's nice to just kind of get away, drive here. Well, you live in a madhouse. I think it's fair to say, why would you? ...?

No, no, I'm not putting you down, I'm just saying, you're right. No, it is a madhouse.

I think any mom who has twin two-year-old boys who have figured out how to make weapons.

Would probably say that it's nice to come into a podcast studio. It absolutely is. No. I know I've heard. Does it hurt to come into two other assholes, though?

It does feel like I'm going.

Well, are you saying my children are assholes? Yeah, I came out wrong.

You're right, I apologize. I am going from two toddlers to two other kind of toddlers. That's what I meant, yeah.

Two toddlers to two asshole toddlers is what I meant. Yeah, and so how's your little shithead? I'm sorry. I thought we were into putting people down people's shoulders.

She is, well, she's really into something called pissy water, which is just seltzer water, which she tries to call spicy water. But comes out. Pissy wawa, so she all day is going, baby pissy wawa, baby pissy wawa, right?

Yeah, Child Service is going to hear that, and they're going to think she has to drink her urine. That there's some weird stuff going on at your house, they'll say it's good for you, yeah.

I don't think it is pissy water.

I thought that I was saying pissy water, like Glenn says it, but you meant piss is good for you. I'm not going to drink my piss. you're not. let's all drink our piss right now. Uh, sure.

Okay, just did, and you know, it's fine.

It's a good thing it's a podcast, there's no video. ah, there's video on YouTube or wherever you enjoy your videos. See what I did there.

What do you mean leaving room for? Just in case they invent another, in case they invent another format, I just make sure.

I'm very smart. That way, they invent another. There are other formats. I was saying stuff like this on the TV show back in the nineties.

I was saying, Well, you know, I hope you enjoy this, either tonight or when you see it in a rerun, or someday. When they invent the internet, I remember saying, You said this, I said that in 94..

No, okay, there's actual tape of it that was then destroyed. Sometimes I'm I feel like you don't even know that the internet exists now.

I'm told it's amazing, it's not. I'm sure it's got its pluses and minuses. It's okay. No, I'm very happy.

I'm very happy coming in here because no one wants to see me around my house. They're quite happy for me to leave. Oh yeah, what do they do when you're gone deep? I hear a lot of it's funny.

I hear a Mexican band playing the minute I leave, I mean brass section, and it's weird because there's no band there. But the minute I leave. And then I see catering trucks pulling up and I see lots of guests showing up and everyone looks excited. It's that song where the Ewoks play when they beat the Death Star, just that whole. Hey, I have a question for you that you can answer.

Is the Star Wars related? Yes, open for business. It's about what you just brought up, which is. I remembered showing my son those movies and he was enthralled, and I showed them to him. When he was a little boy. He was like, I don't know, maybe he was six or seven, and I showed him those movies and it was a big deal.

Then we got to the one where I remembered the Ewoks doing a dance and singing a song called like, Jub, Jub or something, or Glub, Glub. And I said, Oh, wait, do you see this? this part, man? I said this part? I remembered seeing this in a theater and this is a little rough, but take a look, we got to that part and it didn't happen. What happened?

Did they edit it out? In 1997, Lucas released special editions of all three original films, and they added CG. And then in Jedi. They took out the song that they sing, written by John Williams Son, which was like a disco song called Lopty Neck. And they replaced it with like, a blues song. And then they took out that Ewok celebration song and just put in this somber, almost like funeral Dirge music, right? So I looked like a fool because I told my son, check this out. It's really hilarious because it doesn't quite work. Wait till you see this. And then it didn't happen. What was the song? how did it go?

And then, of course, they've got the curtain call with old Darth Vader there dead, but then they switched it with young Hayden Christensen. Yeah, yeah, do you want me to keep going or are you about to say something? No, no. I was just remembering I have to go have a heart surgery, so I have to leave now and we're going to have to cut this. Did I tell you that I'm having a quadruple bypass today?

No, you didn't. But I haven't even gotten to the Jabba's Palace. No, no, no. I'm also having both eyes removed and that's a whole other thing that's happening. Can you watch OG Star Wars somewhere? Yeah, my house, that's not your house.

Does Lucas? Also does he have a hit squad out? Trying to find people like you who can sing the song and kill you? Because he probably wants it all erased from people's minds, too. I don't think he cares anymore because he sold the whole thing, I think he's just been too wounded by it.

Oh, he still cares. No, he still cares. Well, good question. I don't know, but I've got those de-specialized editions they're called, and High Def. If the two of you want to come over, we could have a slumber party, we could giggle, we could tickle each other, or we can borrow them.

We can borrow them, yeah, or I could say, I'm going to come by and borrow them, and just if you don't hear me, I'm coming soon. No, no, no, these are not physical media, these are digital.

They're on a drive, so we have to watch them at my house. I'll borrow the whole thing, maybe next year's chill chum, yeah.

Yeah, we do a nine-hour day where we watch all three movies. I can't be there. I'm having my entire pelvis removed next year, so there won't be a chill chums next year. Yeah, it's being replaced with just an old wicker basket.

Yeah, and I've got to drive him, you've got to drive me, I've got to drive you to the desk. That's cool, I'll come along.

And no speed bumps. Because I'll have no ass on the way home. No, I'll come along, I'll be your massive ass now, all right, take it easy.

Yeah, it's been said, I don't have much of an ass. Pretty much a. It's a two-minute surgery. Okay, all right.

I know, but usually my ass was covered, or if the monologue, the ass was facing the other way. And then the you weren't on television, you weren't on television. One episode of the show, so, you know, but I stuff, I put stuff back there.

I put two irons that you iron clothes with back there, I had these two bulbous triangles. Would you shut the fuck up? what?

You're out of control, you're out of control. I let you sing the whole jub jub, glub, glub song. You got the words wrong. I think I got them right.

I'm gonna, this has to stop, this has to stop now. What we took away from this episode is that, by episode, you mean, mental episode, episode I just had where you sang the glub, glub, jub, jub song.

Then Sona went on This just crazy. Take that I have a flat ass, which is just not true. super hot take. yeah, and super hot ass, thank you.

Big daddy, come on, man, what? I like an ass that you can hose down and that no water stays on it, it's just immediately.

Incredible, you know, all right. Well, you know what? Like a board, yeah.

Oh, it's incredible, it splashes back.

I really wanted to hear it, did you? Yeah, you know what? I have to move on because we have an amazing guest today.

I think they can hang on, wait a minute. Our guest has a Star Wars connection, that's right, yes.

Qui-gon Jinn Green Lightsaber. I was gonna say that, yeah, we were all gonna just about to say that, and then I remembered that I was educated. All right. Here we go.

My guest today has star.

Has starred in such movies as Look at this, Schindler's List, Star Wars Episode I, The Phantom Menace. I'd switch those. And now you can see him in the new action thriller Retribution. Thrilled he's here today.

Liam Neeson, welcome.

What skills do you have in real life, by the way? Oh, it's one of the most famous lines in action movies. What skills do you have in real life?

But you, I will not release.

And-.

And I stood up and you came over and said, Oh, hello Conan, let's go get a pint. Because it was in between bouts. And I thought, Oh, this is fantastic. Liam Neeson is inviting me for a pint and-.

Someone invited me, right, and I thought, these guys seem angry.

No, no, they're supposed to be doing this, they're supposed to be hitting each other. I don't remember what it was, but we went and we got a pint together and I thought, this is living. Having a pint with Liam Neeson. This is about as cool as it gets.

And it was a great time. You were very nice to me. And then we've run into each other every now and then. I know my people are all from the south, yes.

By the coast, and I know that you're a northern fella.

Spitting it out, spitting out soil, they said. It's, you know, 30 miles that way, you ass, but it's it's funny because there is something, there's something in the blood. Where? When I meet other people who are Irish, even though I've not grown up in that country. And you could say, I'm not really Irish. Because I've, you know, third generation or fourth generation.

I do right away, like every cell in my body says, this is the air I'm supposed to be breathing. I like that. It's raining out.

People aren't taking care of themselves. This is the way I'm meant to live, not in Southern California, which is a terrible, terrible mistake.

A Catholic? Because everybody always asks. But when I came out to the States 80 1988, I'm an American citizen, very proud one too, and Irish citizen. But everybody I'd meet wanted to tell me they had a connection with either Ireland or Scotland. I was dying for someone to say, I'm an American, do you know what I mean?

They always wanted to make a connection. It made me think, Yeah, okay, there was a million and a half during the potato famine in Ireland. 1845 1852 came out here in coffin boats, they were known as coffin ships, you know? And I was like, Oh, of course, 1845..

That was a nanosecond ago, two seconds ago.

Patrick's Day, they people go to Mass.

And I want that smoky thing, I want to toss that smoky thing around.

So communion, the whole thing. I found communion, I mean, not communion, confession. I found confession terrifying.

When I would go into the confessional because I wouldn't know, I just I didn't want to admit to anything real. And I would freeze up so I'd make things up that no kid would do. That's how I embezzled a check you embezzled from a I put funds in an offshore account and didn't declare it.

How old are you? I'm seven.

I coveted my neighbor's wife, What did you not really?

Did you find that frightening?

And as an altar boy, I'd be serving Mass to hear your confession from a. It was like a big deal. So I remember going 15 years of age and it was before Mass. And there were lots of old women just outside the confessional, kneeling down, saying their prayers. And I went into this guy, and he's used to being in Africa, Congo or whatever, shouting his lungs out. So we started. And I had learned how to pleasure myself at home unto the sheets, right, and I looked up the appropriate word. I remember this well, masturbate, masturbation.

Okay, that seems harmless enough. I'll say that passed me by. Yeah, and argued with my mom. Yeah, my sister and I got into a fight and I masturbated. You what?

And I'm immediately thinking, I have to leave this and there's all these old women praying outside.

The priest went to put the communion in my mouth and it hit the side of my mouth and it fell and it fell on the ground. Which is, it's supposed to. Through transubstantiation, it's become the body and blood of Christ. this is the actual body of Christ that has now fallen on the rug. And I panic and I just pretend that I got the wafer.

And I close my mouth and I turn, and I walk about halfway down and the priest says, Get back here in front of everybody. And I turned around and he, I had to walk back up and pick up this wafer off the floor.

I mean, again, some of the scariest moments of my life happened in the Catholic church growing up.

Me oh.

I used to write for the Simpsons in another lifetime, and I know that your Simpsons episode was a very funny idea. Which is, I think that you are, I believe you convert.

Obviously, before you had made it, you worked at the Guinness plant.

Why are there ads everywhere? Hey, have you tried Guinness? Would you like some? You should try it, we know.

We know.

It's the touchstone of this whole country. Is Guinness?

And you could feel the whitehead. That was the ad, it was brilliant.

Yeah.

I had cycled back home once the baby was born and all that and I was okay, and suddenly there was this emergency. These five, six nurses apparently come in, my wife's saying, call my husband.

Please call my husband and they're going, Ah, it's all right, don't worry, it's all right, and it was all right.

But they started giving her a bottle of Guinness every day.

They bring them in motorcycle accident, they put a thing of Guinness up. Run an IV into your arm.

And Oscar Schindler, You don't remember God, you've had too much Guinness. It was a big. This is a big moment in your career.

You know, someone thought I will put Neeson next to Ryan, put the Irish together.

And at the table we were at because I was the MC for the event, you were speaking at the event, I think Springsteen was, so at our table was Bruce Springsteen. Patty myself because I'm the MC, that's how I got in. You're there, of course.

And Steven Spielberg? President Barack Obama comes and sits at the table. And you and I, I'll never forget. We're sitting next to each other, wondering, how the fuck did we get to this table? And I don't know.

I know.

But any time I run into Tony Hopkins and I saw him in Rome three weeks ago, I was finishing a film. And Tony was in the same hotel and went up to his room, knocked on the door, met him and give each other a big hug. And that's been close to 40 years since I'd seen him. How's it going, Tony, you know what he says to me? He leans on me, He says, Good, big, good lad. I haven't been found out yet.

You know, it's almost. They're not too comfortable, they think.

You've done 100 fucking movies. Excuse me, do you mind if I just say something? I think if she comes in the door first, that'll solve your camera problem. Let's try it, okay?

And I said, I can't do that. 33, and she said, Yeah, you can, and I said, she'll hate me.

And she rarely did this, but it happened a few times. Say no, no, no, I'm sorry. I wanted a little bit more. I'm going Tash, please, please, please, they're going to spit on it and bring it back out, please.

Because I really believed that would happen, no matter what the restaurant was. Someone's going to spit in it because you returned it, you've upset the flow in the kitchen, sure, yeah.

It was just, you know, no, I don't want to be your height, he said. I'd like to be like, you know, maybe six one, six, two. I don't want to be six, four. It's weird. And he sort of implied like, I should be in the circus. I was like, you know, that's no way to talk to your father, that's the way he, you know, that's our relationship.

That's what got me. They turn 12 or 13, chase me, dad, and you go after them, yeah.

There's no way you can catch them. No, I remember that day very well. Yeah, and I keep reasonably fit, you know.

You're in a Star Wars film you've got, you're part of that whole lore. Do you have Star Wars fans coming up to you all the time?

Oh, it's not the kid, it's the grandfather there he is, or the dad, you know, horn-rimmed glasses and a beard. Yeah, yeah.

And they're like, they become 11 year old.

Used lightsabers? Did you have fun with those?

And Ewan's was red or something. So the first time we got to pull them to start a little fight, you know, we both automatically went. And action.

You were doing that with your mouth.

I don't, George, George, let's cut there, boys. We can add that in later.

Yeah, of course, we knew that.

Twat.

A kush, kush, kush, you two just spitting at each other.

God, that would be so, so funny looking, that would be fantastic.

And she says, Oh, Liam, makeup lady says, I did see, you know, a mock-up of the wee monster. You could be a monkey smoking a pipe. No one's going to be looking at you.

You idiots, you don't need to make the sound with your mouth, you know? It's incredible to me that you've had a very distinguished career, you've done a lot of great work, you're a terrific actor. And then this is the way it goes.

Eventually, in this business, you are acting to a green tennis ball, because that's more and more, that's what the work is. It's just, I don't know about you. But there are so many times, particularly in my profession, my career, my weird corner of it, where I find myself doing these things. Over the years, over the many years. And I think I step outside my body and go, What the hell are you doing?

This is you're a complete fool, you're an ass. what is it? You're a total ass? But I think we're in show business ultimately. So even something, as you know, important and popular as a Star Wars film. You're there and there's a tennis ball.

And there must be some part of you that steps outside of you and went, I did theater.

You've done this stuff. It's like, Fuck, how did they do that?

And I really enjoy it, but I get very intense before I go out and do it. And I was telling you, just before I went on, just last night, I did something with Paul McCartney. About 800 people, I think, in the crowd and had the time of my life out there on stage. But beforehand, waiting backstage, standing next to that guy and I had to go out first and get the crowd going and then bring him out. Things get very focused in my brain.

And I still, after all these years, I get kind of intense. Because I think you have to get that way before you go out. If you just breeze on out there, it's not gonna be any good.

We played it in Dublin for two weeks, then we had a week off while the company moved up to Belfast. On the opening night of the play, Aristocrats, which I'd already played for two weeks, Brian Friel's in the audience, the director's in the audience, various Northern Ireland dignitaries. And I have a kind of drunken spiel to say in the second act, and I dried for your audience.

I forgot my words and you could have heard a pin drop. And I remember seeing at the end of the passageway the exit sign. And I thought, if I jump off the stage now, I'm going to have this horrible feeling in maybe six seconds and all this is over. I didn't, but it felt like an hour had passed and I was still there, looking at this exit sign and the audience looking at me.

I eventually, I was supposed to be drunk. The character was, so I kind of staggered off stage and the script girl, she wasn't following it at all anyway. When I got off stage, I remembered the line and I staggered back on again, resumed the performance.

But I'll never forget that moment of absolute terrifying fear.

Because I find sometimes I don't like to know if someone important's in the crowd, I don't want to know. I'd rather not know because then that gets in my head. And I used to find it difficult. Even when family would come and they would say, like, Oh, my dad's here and he's gonna sit in the crowd. That would make it more difficult for me, which shouldn't make a difference at all.

But it would make it more difficult. Even though it's a TV show, it's going out to millions of homes, that's who's really seeing it, this audience. But I couldn't get past that.

Not that fear, but if I'm shooting a film and you know where, there's a break and they're doing a lighting setup or something.

What's the problem? Something like that, you know, something as simple as that will kind of get me back again.

And I thought that was show business. Jimmy Cagney and Yankee doodle Dandy angels with dirty faces, you know, public enemy. I just thought, that's what. Those were the movies I watched.

And yeah, and I thought, that's what it is. And of course, I wasn't watching mean streets, I wasn't watching, I didn't have access to those. They weren't showing those early Scorsese films. That's what I should have been watching, but you know, that's what I my education was. The 1930s and 40s Warner Brothers.

In Ireland. And it surprised me the first time I encountered it. They love country music, American country music, and the more sentimental, the more they love it. And it's a funny because sometimes the Irish, and I'm talking North South Catholic, Protestant. They can come across as so hard-edged and unsentimental, but then they love the most sentimental thing in the world. And I was really surprised that, you know, you look at what's on the Jukebox or what's available to play in these different pubs. The most. You know, you went and left me and all I've got's my donkey, you know, kind of country.

That's not a real one, but sometimes the sappiest country songs, and it's, I don't know what that is. But then I realized, Well, who wrote that music? A lot of it's Irish and Scottish, you know, immigrants getting into Appalachia, and they're writing this music.

Some journalists seem to think, Oh, why did you turn down Bond? It's like, No, I wasn't offered James Bond. I think I was on their radar for five minutes.

Yeah, there must be days when Daniel Craig would come home, god damn it.

Can you tell pretty quickly when you read a script?

I'm a financial advisor banker, no skills.

But I love that. You can tell by just what you call the tea test if you want to make yourself a cup of tea. A couple of pages in that means it's a problem.

That's the classic one.

Well, I'm looking forward to it because.

And I've always just wished I could get it down here. Because I think, if I I think it's blocked my career in so many ways, yes, it has. LEE No, it's absolutely true. Imagine me on the phone, you know, saying I've got some skills, a special set.

No one's threatened, no one, there's no. Or I'm Michael Collins.

I disagree, I disagree. Okay, okay, but you have, you have, you have, you have extraordinary energy.

And I've seen you a few times. Oh, I've, I've done your show several times. I, uh, I love it.

It's impressive.

She'll say, Look, Liam, you take him for the day, I don't want him. This is a I just, you know, woke up happy today, cause I knew I'd be seeing you and.

No, seriously, you're a you're the real deal, and I'm a you seem like a you seem like you're happy, which?

Yeah, content is is the state. yes, I aim for is contentment. That's the best feeling in the world.

The problem is the the person who made it had to.

Shoved all the letters together and she gave me this thing. And it says low bash them, and people think it's like a county in cork that I come from, so I wear this thing, It says, low bash them.

But no, I know what you're meaning. I think that there's a obsession in our culture with, Are you happy all the time? It's not the natural state, but contentment, contentment is good, contentment is great.

Yeah.

I'm going to get the tattoo on the throat, I love the throat tattoo, Shibumi and people are. And then I'm going to finally meet someone. A Japanese person is going to say, No, you. They wrote it wrong.

Hey Liam, God bless you. thank you for being here.

We'll take you, take me to a boxing match. Yeah, and I can say, Why are those men fighting?

It was Floyd Mayweather, it was a very because it was a very quick fight.

Do you remember the year? Do I remember the year? No, we had Guinness, I don't remember a goddamn thing.

And what I remember is Liam Neeson and the Guinness made more of an impression on me than the fight. The fight was very quick, we watched an undercard that was quick and then the main fight was quick. And all I really appreciated and enjoyed was my time with Liam.

I don't even know if a fight was happening, I might've been my family arguing, I don't know, but I know that definitely. We hung out there and we hung out there with Frank Smiley and his wife, and it was who worked for me and we had a wonderful time.

She's also, I believe, from the north, and I think I know that because you two got into an argument within seconds.

I wanna find out. Because, listen, this summer it's been all about Taylor Swift, or as I call her, T-swift or T-S, or sometimes T-s-elliot. Because that's odd. She's been so successful, she's left a wasteland behind her kids. You gotta learn something. My point is that I brought in the biggest Taylor Swift fan I know, and he's David Hopping. He's my real assistant now that Sona's just become a professional. Goofball 24-7..

Oh, okay, well, come on. I mean, you still are. You're not a professional goofball 24-7, wouldn't you say that?

Okay, sure, I guess. yeah, I guess you are, so you are. why do you do that?

Why do I do what? When you're like, I guess, when you say something to me? That was a really good Nicolas Cage, that was fantastic. Anyway, let's stick to the point it's not you.

Let me tell you something, David hopping's here, and David hopping, you actually went. You're the only one in this room that went to the Taylor Swift concert. I did, and everyone's talking about it. So this is, you know, I don't think anyone else who's seen the Taylor Swift shows this summer has actually been recorded giving their thoughts on it.

So this is a real scoop. Yeah, and he's been multiple times. How many times have you gone? twice? okay, three times? What, like $30,000??

Yeah, how much was it? Don't let the system work you, David. What does that mean, David? What?

It means he came in through the air conditioning duct.

A lot of people were saying, I love the part of the concert where that white Midwestern guy falls through the ceiling, they know you're Midwestern. Covered in lint and hits the floor really hard. So tell me, was it amazing? It's a seven-hour concert, is that right?

She does, like, three and a half hours, just herself, and her opening act is they show Dr. Zhivago, which is a three-hour movie. I was out until you said that.

Yeah, and then now you're in, yeah, right. They show Dr. Zhivago, then they build an Aztec temple in real time, and then she comes out.

So the whole thing you're in for 15, you're 18 hours in, okay, so how was it best night of my life? Yeah, wait, you've had dinner at my house.

I have still the best night of your life. Is that just a statement?

Yeah, okay, I had burritos, you love burritos?

Anyway, so it was incredible. Yes, everyone says. She gives a fantastic show. I don't know how she does it. I was exhausted, I felt like I was hungover the next day.

I'd had no alcohol. Okay, is it possible that there's more than one that she has? Other people come out well. First of all, she's performing in a huge space. And there are a bunch of times where she says, before my next song, I'll be right back. And she ducks behind, right?

Something like a curtain, yeah. And it's possible that they pull the old Thank you, Texas switch, and it's an easy look to replicate. Is that possible that there are nine people backstage?

I don't think so. Okay, oh, those cameras, there are cameras that get in and, like, her face is just on the big screen.

They show prerecorded stuff on the big screens, people don't know it's playing to a track. I heard. TMZ has footage of her backstage eating a giant bowl of mushed corn.

And just corn mash, smoking a giant cigar, yeah, smoking a giant cigar. And she's on the tape saying suckers, and she's eating it off of a giant table that's made of million dollar bills.

Yeah, that's a tape that I heard TMZ has, but they're just slow to get it out. They've got some editing problems. Because you know how slow they can be with getting, they're so slow with how they get their news out. Can I confess something?

I can't name a single Taylor Swift song, What are you talking about? Not a single one. Today's the day.

Here we go.

They're rolling off my tongue. Keep going, who are you going to be? He was my current, but now he's my ex, He's in my rear view window.

Don't need him no more. Some of these actually sound like they could be.

You don't like this segment? No, I love it. Okay, you're getting all nervous and stuff, I'm always nervous.

What made it so stand out, like, what do you see at a Taylor Swift concert that you don't see elsewhere?

1989 Taylor's version, and she's re-recording that because someone else owns that album, it's weird. I know stuff about her, but I couldn't tell you a song.

We sell them on television late at night on a 1-800 or 555 number. It's called Conan, the Real Conan 1963, when I was born. And we sell them and we get to keep all that cash. And then we disparage these other ones because they're not real, they're owned by the man.

What do you guys think of that? Do you guys want to do that? because I don't? I'm busy? Yeah, I don't want to do it.

I want to do it. No, I'm really, really busy, I don't have time. You're free, okay?

Why don't you do? Hey David? why don't you do all parts? You'd be me? Sona Gourley, including whatever interview we're in. I have a wig here, so anyway, keep going.

So Taylor Swift, Oh, no. So she announced 1989, so the whole night she kept wearing like new blue dresses, because that's the color that represents 1989, why? why does blue represent 1989??

It just does, culturally, or by her, she decided. So when the Democrats, it just kind of became. All of her albums have a color associated to it. So, David, when the Democrats are winning in a landslide, that means that that's Taylor Swift.

Yeah, that's covering the map, beating the red well, only 1989. I don't understand why blue means Taylor Swift, 1989..

It's just I don't know where it came from. I think the fans just made it into a thing. It's such a major color, you can't claim a whole major color for one album. She's not saying no one else can use blue.

It's just what represents it. She's just saying, Hey, 1989 was my blue phase, and then red, I'm guessing, was her red phase, red, you know, speak now purple. Okay, what about midnight?

Black Yeah, no reputations, Black. Oh, right, right. What's your favorite Taylor Swift song? Long Lives?

That was good, and what's your other one? All too well, all too well, is good the 10 minute version.

Yeah, 10 minute version I like, there's a 11 minute version I like. Because you just hear her coughing and saying, Did we get it? you think we got it? Where's my bowl of corn, my mushed corn?

Can I have my corn mush now? What else do you like? I mean, the whole Midnight's album? Yeah, well, that's Don't even get started folklore evermore.

Yeah, folklore is evermore. She's not the first artist to have to rerecord a full album because she didn't own it. Def Leppard Right? No, no, they rerecorded it because didn't they lose the master recordings?

That's why they rerecorded it. no, someone wouldn't allow them to go digital with it, and so they rerecorded it note for note. Exactly the same, okay?

Well, so you're why rain on Swiftie's parade? I'm not raining. I'm just saying, Yeah, you are, you're. Like, she wasn't the first. I think it's amazing what she did. Are you a leopard head?

Yeah, you are. Yeah, yeah, because I'm cool.

What am I thinking of? I don't know, what are you thinking of? You're so wrong. Here I go again on my own.

While we're talking, that's a nice project. Oh, she should also record famous news broadcasts. Yes, oh. The Hindenburg is coming into Lakehurst, New Jersey.

David, I'm glad you had a good time and I am happy for all the Swifties out there. My daughter's a huge Taylor Swift fan and she went to the show and lost her mind. And it made her so happy that I was indebted. I was indebted to Taylor Swift. Seriously, it's nice to see someone putting out so much positivity.

Oh yeah, yeah, all joking, that seems true. Joking aside, I'm hugely happy for her and just I think it's, I don't know.

We've had just so much bad news for such a long time. That when people are all excited about the Barbie movie or Taylor Swift and Beyonce or Beyonce, the ladies are doing it this summer, the ladies are doing it.

Go, go, ladies, go, because you seem to know what you're doing. We do not. Yeah, yes, fellas.

All right, I'm a lady. Well, okay, well, okay.

I'm just like, I'm more of a bride. I guess I'm more of a bride. You're a bride, you're a bride, you're a bride.

What a bride. you're a bride. Yes, you're a tough bride. Sona was a bouncer for four years. at a club. I'd be a great bouncer.

Hey, you get the fuck out of here. You would be a good bouncer, you would be a great bouncer, you'd be a great bouncer, and also I'd be nice.

People, I'd have a lot of regulars, that's true, because I'm cool too. Yeah, okay, well, I'm a cool metal guy.

Oh, boy, don't say I'm a cool metal guy. Can I end it now? I haven't seen you at the meetings because metal guys don't say, hey, I'm a cool metal guy.

Guys, I'm gonna be responsible. We had a better ending and then we kept going. And then when he said, I'm a cool metal guy, there was just diarrhea on the wall. So I'm ending it. Peace out, Tupac.

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