Ed Sheeran Live from the SiriusXM Garage

Yes, I can't even keep up. well, you can never keep up, but I'm very good at keeping up and I can't keep up. With Samsung. Last year, Samsung launched the gaming hub No console required. I don't know if you remember this play, but you and I did. A clueless gamer.

Yeah, with this technology, of course, I remember well, I didn't. You have such an exciting life, travel the world, you're like a bond villain.

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It's pretty cool, right? It is really cool, you know? I gotta say. The crazy thing is, it automatically adjusts to the surface that's being projected on. Yep, and I'm not kidding.

This is wild. You can, like, put it on the floor and it will automatically adjust the angle. So when you're staring at the the wall or the projector, it is still the aspect. No, last night, I watched Citizen Kane projected on my bare chest and guess what?

It's a better movie that way, I don't wait. You projected it and you looked in the mirror. Yeah, I was using X-ray specs, it was so weird.

I saw such a different. It's a totally different movie that way. Okay, happily, yeah, but it adjusts up to a hundred inches. yeah, just up to 100 inches.

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And I feel wank about being kind of.

I can tell that we are gonna be friends.

This is exciting, what a great crowd. thank you for being here. This is very nice of you. Yeah, well, good night everybody.

The easily pleased crowd when a crowds is happy to see you go as they are to see you show up, that's a bad sign. Did you just mention, Blade, that there is going to be drinks for the crowd after the show? That's right, why not drinks?

Why not drinks before and during the show? What's wrong with that? Next time, next time, we're always learning, and once again, they've added another row, that's true.

I first time we did this here at the Sirius XM Garage, it was just this audience here. Then I said, I think we could have more, that's right. So they added one row.

I said, I think it could be more. They added One more row. None of you would be here. were it not for me. None of you would be here. Hi, how are you?

I love your hair and hi, how are you? Hi, I was bullied.

Anyway, oh, look at that, that's a that's a late night with Conan O'Brien shirt. Those are made of asbestos. Be careful.

Those are not, yeah, yeah, we just took old, like E.R. shirts and friends shirts and spray-painted them. Yeah, have you ever worn it? In the rain, they catch fire.

True story, Yeah, don't wear it, that stuff is shit, not that one, that one's cool, yeah.

No, it's very nice to be here, we have a great show, we have such a good show, very excited, very good show.

Very good show tonight. Excited. I like that. You paused for a long time before you brought me out as if it was a big mystery. Yeah, you went in. Now it's time to bring out, and there was this long, weird pause.

Well, I had, I thought you had gas or something, you were just there, was this long. Like, who could it be?

Everyone here knows well. Yeah, we want the anticipation when people frothing at the mouth. I shouldn't have said frothing at the mouth, but, you know, the anticipation. Hi, yeah, what you described is botulism.

Sorry, a lot of Conan fans have, by the way, thank you for coming so far. I'm just gonna assume you all came from a really great distance, that it wouldn't come from very. Where'd you come from? A long beach?

Come on, I was hoping you'd say, like, Guam, we took 11 planes and a submarine and then a hovercraft. No, but you came from Long beach. Well, that's what is that? That's about 35 minutes.

Wow, diehard fans, I have the Guam of California. Yeah, it is the Guam of California. It really is. Well, thank you. What's your name?

Hi Ty, it's nice to meet you. yeah, how are you? and you have your friends with you here? you're just you're by great.

Oh, great, so you all came together from Long Beach, who really came from a great distance, who came from far, far away, yes.

Riverside. So that would be like 39 minutes. We're seeing here the depth and the intensity of Conan fandom. People look, oh, I don't even want to, I see you raising your hand, and I don't even want to know.

Oh, Northwest Hollywood.

Yes, go ahead.

No.

Your apartment building is attached. You literally slid down a pole like a fireman to get here, and you look, you're wearing pajamas. You were, you were asleep 11 minutes ago. And you're like, I don't want to see Conan, but I guess I'll see his guest.

After the show, we should all go back to your apartment.

What's that? Well, I come, No, I will not. I've got to get back to Riverside because that's also where I live. We'll see.

We'll see how it goes, we'll see how good a crowd you are. If you're really good crowd, you know it's not bad. Although when a man my age, who's married with grown children, shows up at a party, it can be misunderstood, it could come across as a little creepy.

What's he doing here? He just invited himself. You know, I've talked for a long time and really, I should invite out the true stars of the show. I'm just kidding, but I do love them and together I think we might we make quite a team.

I'm gonna bring them out right now, so I'm obsessed in and Mr. Matt Corley, let's get him out here.

I'm gonna know this is something that's very difficult to do in my business. Switch from this mic to that mic, it's a very difficult procedure, but when you're dealing with a professional, it can be quite easily done.

I was warming up the crowd and it turns out there might be a party happening after the show inches from where we're sitting. Okay, yeah, and Sona likes to party. I do I, you know what?

Earlier, I was in the bathroom with a bunch of these guys and I leaned up, um, on the sink, and it was wet. And my butt is completely wet right now. And so when I came in, wait a minute, that's the seat where our guest is going to sit, yes.

Our guest is gonna sit in Crappy show we have, it's okay, it's Spongebob squarepants.

Our first guest, Spongebob, immediately take care of the problem. Yeah, with his spongy ass. Um, why are you hanging out in the bathroom with the crowd beforehand? What kind of show business is this? I don't know.

She was in the bathroom of that lady's apartment. Yeah, oh, I see I went to her house. Everyone in this crowd hanging out in that woman's ma'am miss.

What is Ma'am? I call her Ma'am, like, I'm in a 1930s Oklahoma Vaudeville sketch. What is your name, young lady Emily? All right, Emily's having a party in her apartment above the Sirius XM afterwards, and so you'll probably go.

You'll go to anything.

Why don't we? Because you will, if you find out that the the snacks and the drinks are free. Yeah, actually, that is true. I like, I love how you. Immediately, every time I do this with Sona, she'll be like, What, what do you mean? and I'll restate the thing.

I just said and shook up, That's true. Yeah, you're right. If there is free food and free drinks, I'll be there. But also I just like to be included, I like when people invite me to things, that's nice.

Yeah, she didn't invite you yet, invited most the crowd, so I'm gonna do it well. Listen, I found out from the crowd because I always like to find out. And people really came from all over the globe. And when I say globe, if it was a globe that was shrunk down to the size of roughly a 15 mile radius of Los Angeles, yeah, a globe that size. But we have people from Riverside here, it's not close.

Yeah, no, you came all the way from Altadena. Okay, Conan, it's not. They don't even use American currency there.

It's, I swear to God, it's all Armenian currency, Armenian, where people are wooing Altadena. That's good. I wasn't saying anything bad about it, I was just saying, it's amazing.

It's incredible that you live in Altadena. Why is it Armenian currency? I don't know, I don't know, cuz there are a lot of your family there.

Can you name what the Armenian currency is? The job, the job, did you? okay, what is it that did on? But what did it up?

Yeah, you just did up, we went together. Oh right, I don't see you throwing a lot of did up around. What do you mean?

I wouldn't throw it, or you threw it around when we were there. I didn't pay for anything, that's true things I was cool with going with you. Yeah, I pay for everything.

It's very true. Yeah, anyway, people from all over the all over Los Angeles are here. It's very cool and I'm very thrilled that they're all here and Matt, I'm excited about the show.

Yeah, we have a terrific show today, we're gonna have a very good time. And how are you? I didn't get to really chat with you yet, I'm good.

I'm good so, and I got here way too early. So we went over to the 99 Cent store across the street to see if everything actually is 99 cents. We did do that, yeah.

Yeah, you know what, when Matt said it, I didn't think.

You're way too cool to do that. Yeah, I thought, of course, you did that. No one here is like, what the fun went to the 99 cent store? But anyways, so what did you find out that?

Hardly anything is priced at 99. A lot of it has gone up to a dollar 19. Yeah, but there's still a few items that are still 99 cents. No America I want to live in.

If you're calling it a 99 cent store, then I think it should cost 99 cents or below once it's a dollar 19. I think I want to move to a foreign land like Alta Dena, you know, someplace far away.

We're protected, all right, you won't be protected there. I will your family, your family loves me. I mean, yeah, against they do, after everything you've said about my dad's mustache.

He's still, like, really likes. He made a doll that came to life. I loved you, Pedo. So what's the story? What you know you're, you see, went to there, and here's what I did.

They told me, you have to wait back here where the crowd won't see you, and I said, Okay. And I thought they were leading me to a dressing room and they led me to the garage. It's Sirius XM. I'm not talking about Sirius XM garage like this is the garage, it's a real garage.

How long? And my car is there, like 20 minutes. So I just sat on my car and watched other cars come and go. And people would just wave at me. And I go, Yeah, hi, it's the girl from the Wendy's logo, and I go, Hi, how are you?

This is where I am in show business. I'm sitting on the trunk of my car in a garage. You're such a big celebrity, you bet. Yeah, yeah, the very biggest.

All right, we got to get into it. We have a very big show today. I'm excited, I am, I am too.

I'm really huge star is here. I think I think his people made a mistake, but anyway, we're thrilled to be here. He's like, What? No, he's been on the show several times.

I love this guy. My guest today is a Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter who released his sixth album, Subtract, earlier this year. Now he has a new album titled Autumn Variations. He's so incredibly talented, thrilled.

He's here, let's welcome Ed Sheeran.

I will say I was thinking about this. I think you came on my show two times, and the first time you came on the show, am I right that you were barefoot when you performed?

I.

Yeah, my dad's Irish.

So I was very average height, I had bright orange hair. My mother insisted on cutting our hair for us because she didn't want to pay for us to go to a barbershop. So she would cut it straight across, definitely in a bowl cut. My two front teeth were dead.

So I had great teeth up front, I was, I could keep going, but it was a fucking train wreck.

And then the red hair, and then my name is Conan, so you put all those things together. It was a terrible time. What's it like? Is there anti redhead bias in England?

You think at the time that you were growing up?

But yeah, it's, uh, yeah, anything that makes you different.

Did you play a tiny guitar on purpose, or it was more like I'd won a battle of the bands when I was 17? And they gave me a voucher to a music store, and I remember going in the music store and seeing this small guitar. And being like, that would be perfect for, like, traveling, because I took chains and tubes everywhere, so I was like, that would be perfect just to have on my backpack. And I'll have all my CDs and pedals and everything in the back, rather than like lugging around the big guitar. So it actually was more out of ease, and then it became my thing, and now it's that's what I use on stage.

I.

It's in front of a car dealership. They they don't know, they just think, Well, he can't be him.

Ed Sheeran talks to Conan O'Brien about the Simpsons. And I'm in heaven right now, that's what I want to know. Yeah, yeah, okay, I'll tell you all about it. It is funny because it is one of the now that there's an internet there and the clips are.

You know, clips circulate, I can when I travel around the world, or if I've traveled around the UK. They can know me from clips of comedy, clips from my show. But before that, when I would go to the UK, they would not know who I was because a lot of American talk shows weren't shown there. But they would know if the Simpsons came up, they would flip out and they would ask me which episodes I worked on and I would tell them. And they would be able to know all those, they would know everything, because Simpsons fans are everywhere.

I swear BBC only owns a couple of seasons because it was always the same episodes, I see new seasons now. And you know, they never got this. You never saw Bart get older. It was, I think, it, we stopped.

We stopped at, like, season 10.

Yeah.

I mean, it did at the time, I think it's much nicer now, but there was just a bad shag. Carpet sofas that, you know if you're at your first year in college or university and you just get them on the sidewalk. And we would sit there and eat fried food. There was a writer that smoked all the time who sat next to me. So when I die, it'll be because of him and Big Laugh Gang. And we'd eat bad food and think, and so it wasn't sexy or fun or cool at all.

But, and and I remembered, we played it. We all chewed up some caramel and put it together into big blob and mashed it up into the ceiling and then tried to get things to stick to it. Because you'll do anything to pass the time. I love that. Yeah, well, that's all the time we have, yeah.

So are you? are you you're Catholic? or you? were you raised Catholic? Or I did communion and all that stuff.

Afterlife just because I've had friends pass away, and I think it's depressing not to think that they're in a better place. Yeah, you know, but I completely understand that. Yeah, I wouldn't say that I'm like, hugely religious. I mean, I do midnight mass at Christmas and stuff like that, but it's not like.

I'm not like a practicing. Yeah, we, I mean.

You just, and it's like, Well, it's in my bone marrow, I have a.

What? yeah, and then later they'd be like peeling kids off the back of the car.

So one of the things that I was thinking about you today, because let's think about the amazing, absolutely how you made yourself, I was thinking about it today. Which, you know, there are artists out there who are very talented, who who are discovered. But you, as you were talking about earlier, you've got this guitar, you're getting on the tube, you're going all over town. You really were a getting yourself known on YouTube. And when you got your first hit, it wasn't this, you weren't this produced act that had gone through the machine. Which I think is fascinating. Well, I didn't make it on my looks.

I disagree, thank you. I disagree because I feel like I'm looking in a mirror.

I was like, I'm not better than you, but I can do more shows, I can, I can go. And I would book like, three shows in a Thursday night and get on the tube and go and play three songs, three songs, three songs. And I was just like, if I play every night of the week, maybe two times a night, maybe three times a night, and I'm just doing that every day. Eventually, I'll get really good, and that is what happened after a while.

You just have this sense.

So, like my hero when I was a kid was James Blunt. And when I signed to Atlantic Records, he was on Atlantic Records. And I said, in his peak year, get me his diary and we'll do. Double everything that he did, and that's exactly what we did. We just chose all the things and then doubled it, that's ups.

But I one of the things that really blew me away. As you were, you were talking to me about how. Still today, you spend most of your time in studio. I mean, you're with your family, obviously, but then you're in the studio a lot. Yeah, I mean, day in, day out.

Every day. And then that means I can do morning routine with the kids, take him to nursery, go to studio, get him back from nursery, put them to bed. It's like it's a nice routine to be in. I don't do you find that there's?

If I get one this month, I'm happy.

I was saying it to you in the dressing room, it sort of happened by accident.

Sometimes not so great, but he his his idea. He said to me, like, there's this composer called Elgar, and Elgar did this thing called Enigma variations, which is 14 compositions about 14 of his friends, and he never told anyone who is about, and it was an enigma. And he said, There's never been a modern version of it, wouldn't it be cool if you did a variations record?

So I was like, Oh, that's fascinating, actually. And I was talking to Aaron, who I made the record with, and I was like, we should do this record. Base it around the season and it'll be variations of the season. With with with my friend, friends. And then whilst we were making the record, I had my best friend die. My wife got diagnosed with a tumor and then I went into a court case. And I wrote loads of songs about that in the space of that month. And then, because all of those songs were finished quite quickly, that album was done, which has became subtract. But actually, we were in making variations.

So after all of that, we went back and finished it and it was done. But like such songs like on, If you know, my album, subtract. Like the opening. Two songs were meant to be on autumn variations, they were meant to be the first two of autumn variations. And it just came that they the two sonics are very different. One's quite a sad album and one's quite a sort of hopeful.

I would have people like having babies and suddenly their life is completely shifted or getting into a new relationship and it's completely shift. And it's interesting that after summer, there is a switch in people's heads that goes right back to work, back to school, back. It's it's a different feeling.

I just love, I love it when it's rainy and foggy. Yeah, and everyone else is bitching, it's a, I mean, I'm, I love it.

I'm just so happy I would choose.

Yeah.

I was like, cool, and she was like, we could shoot it in Los Angeles, you know, and I was like in England and we shot it in December. And oh God, I definitely like, I lost a couple of inches for a couple of days.

They're still looking for mine.

That's it, that's, that's amazing. Gotta get that image out of my head. Moving on, you don't amaze me. You're obviously you're very young man, especially contrasted with myself, and yet you're so many musical influences.

Are these people that you know? Eric Clapton? It was a huge influence on you, and I think we are very young to be influenced by Eric Clapton. But of course, he's timeless the way the Beatles are timeless, the way I, basically, I just had my dad's record collection.

So I guess I was like 10 or 11 when I started forming my own tastes, but but yeah, there was. I mean, my dad has some great records and they're still like some of my. Like Moon Dance. Van MorRIson I think is like a perfect album for any time. Yeah, anytime you put that on, it could be like the end of the night, could be the start of the night, it could be like dinner. Like, it's just, it's a perfect album.

Was your do you say your dad is? is he from Belfast? No, so my dad's dad is from Belfast, and my dad's because, you know, yeah.

I just made thinking out loud and it had become a hit. And I remember I, my gran, had actually come to the gig and we had a lot of whiskey afterwards. As you do. And I'd gone to bed at like 4 o'clock in the morning and I remember getting this phone call at like 6. Really bleary-eyed, just like, what? And the person at the front desk is just like Van Morrison's here.

He wants to have breakfast with you, and I was like, No, he's not who, someone's taking the piss. So I hung up. And then they rung back and they're like, No, no, no, he's actually downstairs. He wants to have breakfast with you. And I was like, cool, showered, really quickly, went down and yeah, just essentially had breakfast with him. It was really surreal because I was still drunk, I was still.

It's like 7 o'clock.

But he's really sweet, I've got to sort of like, meet him a couple of times since then, but it was like, such a nice thing. He's like, he's like one of my heroes. And I was all people always say, don't meet your heroes. And it was such a like, not that thing. Yeah, saying that he was really interested in Spotify.

And it's more difficult to break through with new songs because there's a hundred thousand new songs released every day. But, like, the quality will inevitably go up. Because, you know, like back when I was a teenager and buying albums. And I think this is why piracy became a thing is, I think record labels took the piss. They had like, one great song that they put on an album with a bunch of filler. And they'd sell it to you for $22 or 22 pounds and you'd buy it. And be like, I feel ripped off here. And you'd be like, I wish I could just download that one song that I liked. And I think that's why it all.

They basically pushed it too far. Yeah, ripped off people too much, right? I'm curious.

You must have checked on. My room was always I'm never gonna.

You want to come down? And I was like, Yeah, I'd love to, and then when I. When I was there, Rick was like, Do you want to meet him? and I was like, No, like, I want, I want to, but I want him to be like, Hey, I like your stuff. Yeah, so I just waited. And four years later was then the time that he was like, Oh, I like your stuff. We should do a song and now we're actually friends and I feel I feel like that's like a I.

Here's a nice little treat for them. Hello, yeah, yeah, they're not that happy to see me that I would die.

I guess you'll see him at some point, and you know, I, I guess. I met him when I was 12. And then when I was, I played in Iceland, in Reykjavik, and it just so happened. He was there and that's the time we hung out and we spent a good 48 hours together. We, like, went on a hike, we got on a hot pool we had and it was like one of those things of like, this is why I waited.

This is like, it's it was a really nice.

Yeah.

I went, I went to see Dylan play. And of course, I'm with my good friend Jimmy Vivino, who's amazing guitar player and my bandleader for a long time. And he, of course. The next thing I knew we were backstage and I've been doing the show for a bunch of years. At that point. And and suddenly I find myself in this room and I wasn't prepared. And there was just this sort of people moved around and then I was kind of pushed forward. And I'm stand at Bob Dylan's right where you are, and I'm right where I am. And he. It's that phase where he has the tiny little drawn-on mustache and like the gun gunslinger flat hat, and he's looking at me and he's got that little mustache. And he went, Hey, I know you from the TV.

And I thought, Okay, well, at least I'm in now and I can start talking to Bob Dylan. And I swear to God, this happened just as I'm about, you know, say, Oh, you know, Bob. I hear Conan Conan, Hey, how's it going? And I look over and it's vice-president, former vice-president Al Gore, and he's like, Come here, come here.

You know, let's talk about the environment, and.

Yeah, Al Gore is cool and everything, that's fine. But Bob Dylan and then Bob I turned around and Bob Dylan was like, gotta go and ran. And Rick ran away. And I was caught blocked by the vice-president of the United States, and I never saw Bob Dylan again. And that just rings in my head, I don't know you from the TV.

I was at the GQ Awards and Tarantino was there. And my manager's wife was like, You're gonna say hi? And I was like, No. Honestly, I don't want to meet him unless it, unless he wants me. She's like, you have to, you have to have to, like, No, no, I really don't. And then the more and more we drunk later on in the night. She just goes up to him and she's just like, Everybody wants to meet you. And I'm like, Oh no, and same thing. Just like, Hey man, yeah, great light films, thanks.

You've hung out with them, you've had, you've broken bread with them. Yes, you've had.

You know what Jools Holland is? It's like, it's, yeah, yeah, I played Jools Holland's Hootenanny, which is like the New Year's Eve show. And you play a cover and they said, What cover do you want to do?

And I said, Well, I do Stevie Wonder's Master Blaster because I love, I love the tune. And two months later, it was the Grammys and the guy that was running the Grammys music. Ken Ehrlich, was like, We're gonna do this Stevie Wonder tribute concert for Stevie. He's gonna be in the audience, it's gonna be with his band, Greg Phillinganes gonna be in it. We've got all these people playing. Do you want to play it?

I was like, Yeah, and he's like, what do you want to play? and I went well, play Master Blaster. I just. I literally just played it and he was like, great. And then, like two days later, he rung up and went.

Beyonce wants to do Master Blaster. And I was, and I was like, That's totally fine, I'll do, I'll do. I was made to love her and then hit. And then he rung back and was like, Would you sing it with Beyonce? and I was like, Uh, yeah.

Don't ask, you don't get. I'd made this song perfect that was starting to pick up steam and become a hit and.

Someone said, Oh, we should put out like a duet version of this, because I'd done like a Italian version with and Andrea Bocelli. They were like, who would you want to do it? and I was like, Well, realistically, I don't really want to do a duet unless it's Beyonce. They were like, Well, why don't you ask her? and she said, Yes, and it was like it was.

I was so surprised, I was kind of run her up on the. I was like, Do you want to do it? She's like, Yeah, I'm in.

The worst thing, the worst thing that someone can say is no, so if you prepare yourself for the No. Like I always say to, you know? If I'm doing something like, I'm on this tour at the moment. And occasionally I'll be in cities where like, so, like. Eminem came on in Detroit. But what I said to him was like, you can cancel on the day, like, I'm not gonna feel weird if you suddenly go, I'm not coming. So it's very much like I'm always prepared for the No. And when it's a yes, it's it's happy days.

Doesn't I? Still doesn't quite add up, but.

Scale, so I can. That old way of people coming out and being under that pressure, it's like, you know, Hey Ed, how you doing? how am I doing well? The other day, I walked down the street and I had a ham sandwich.

You know, and I mean, though, and it's just like, Well, that's first of all, that's not how anybody talks, and it's also annoying, you know, and so it's. But. But this and and also the fact that you flip it around and you can ask me a question, ask anybody.

They don't. Even in my mind, it's just like, Oh, Lincoln, you're the best. Churchill. I mean, it doesn't even matter at that point, I'm just talking to everybody who ever lived Lincoln. I didn't want to meet you till you said you wanted to meet me.

It's about nine inches from here.

So we went. I just remember I remember him meeting my mother-in-law and being like, What's up, Queen?

But I went, I went with them. I've sort of got quite close friends with Russell Crowe over the years and he's really close with Snoop Dogg. They have sort of like smoke.

I was like, this is good, like a good memory, like I have conversation, I'm drinking my wine and blah, blah, blah. And he's like, Do you want some? And I was like, Okay, now's the time I might have. We have it. Had a good amount of conversation. So I have a bit and I'm like, I don't feel too bad. This is good. And then I have a bit more, then I have a bit more, then I have a bit.

Oh my God, I just remember looking at him being like, I can't see right now.

He comes with a big entourage. And they have one of the dressing rooms that adjoin the the studio, and they all go into that dressing room and shut the door. And what I don't know is they're all. I mean, they're smoking so much pot so intensely in this room and it's getting filtered in through. I'm not kidding. Studio 6A. This is a real thing.

So I go out, but it.

Hey everybody. Yeah, well, anyway, you know President Clinton today?

And the crowd was laughing at the setups to the joke. So I'd be saying, like, Well, you know, there was a bad earthquake in Alaska today.

Jesus Christ. And the crowd was getting like high, and then you could smell it. And we were like, this is a this is, this is elite, this is, this is wrong on so many levels. It was bring your infant day.

It's just so screwed up, but it was, I mean, what are you gonna do? And everyone understands all that snoop dogg, so it's, yeah.

And I think I just it never took with me. No, but.

Your sense of humor is perfect for someone who's high, right? It's like it's written by someone who's high all the time. Yeah, that's why people are shocked about he doesn't do it. Because I think of as if I assumed that, like, obviously, like I didn't.

So it just can't. They cancel each other out, you know, I think was it was the last one of, I think the last show we did. Who is it, Seth Rogen?

Smoked with him on the air, and he's another one. I feel like you have to when you do, yeah.

I actually, I gave this up in it and and this is someone from a long time ago. But it was when I was first starting the show and we had, I mean, this amazing singer. Actress Eartha Kitt was on the show and a lot of people know her from the 1960s. Batman. She played Catwoman a little bit, but she was on the show and she was very tough to talk to. And I was brand new and so I put most of it on myself. But I'd say things like, Oh, you dated James Dean, you know, you did back in 1954, and should say, Well, so what would he?

Why you asking me?

As I said, I was brand-new Ed. Now I think this is my least.

And so I commit to just it's this giant white cockatoo. And he, you know, we'd be talking for a little bit and I'd be going, yeah. And the bird would start to move around on his shoulder. Be easy and echo, is there a problem? that? a problem there? And he'd be like, we're not talking about the bird. It was just fantastic.

But I mean, so I loved it when someone would bring something that would turn the whole thing upside down on its head. You know, have I answered enough of your questions? Hey, I have a new album coming out I'm really excited about.

I don't know, I just I was very much looking forward to this today. And I'll have to tell you saying, my, I have a brother, Neil, who's a couple years older than me and doesn't follow new music, doesn't know who. A lot of them music, I mean, I think his musical collection stopped at, like, 1967. And I was talking to him on a cell phone today, just upstairs. And I said, Well, I got to go. Because I'm gonna talk to Ed Sheeran. He's like, Oh my god, Ed Sheeran, that guy's huge.

And then his attitude was kind of, Why is he talking to you?

ED An absolute delight. Thank you came by and I do want to mention that you're going to do, which sounded amazing to me. A contest to have let fans make potential videos. Yeah, is that something that's really gonna happen?

Videos are usually connected in some way to Hollywood, or, like the the British film scene. And I was like, I want, I want to actually spread the net and let anyone be creative. So it's basically, you bet they've been submitting ideas, this is great, and then I choose 14 ideas in 14 countries and then fund them, basically.

So yeah, I'm excited to. I've kind of got to manage my expectations on this record, though. Because you know, there's not a single that goes to radio or like a big major label push. But it's basically just it's an album that I made, that is what it is, and I listen to it today.

I don't think anyone in this room worries about you. I'm so happy that you're on this planet and you're, you're such a delightful, funny and inquisitive, really inquisitive person. Here. The only person is your first person I've talked to in a while. They gave a shit about me.

So hey Ed Sheeran, thank you so much for being here. You're welcome in our world anytime and continued massive success. Thank you very much Ed Sheeran, everybody.

Good God, that is a delightful young man. Bad he really, he really is like, magical. He was so funny and quick, and I mean, I could have talked to him for like six hours.

Talented and really cool. I could have done without the questions about you. That's why you liked him. So yeah, yeah, he just really seemed to dig what I was doing. No, he's, he is.

I need, we need, you know, some more gingers out there to kill it. You know what? I mean? Yeah, yeah, for the ginger. yeah, we got one now, killing it. He was, I mean, really, I'm thinking he's just like, so great and so natural.

Yeah, I do have to say I I know this is like, it's huge generalization. But over the years, whenever I talk to people from the UK, they just have this conversational gift. You know, yeah, they just are natural, like, Hey, let's shoot the shit, let's talk, which I really like. I think it's nice, too. I don't know it must be something about there.

You've done it again.

What an amazing show to a halt.

The bus that pulls on the break.

ORANGE No, I didn't know what to say. What do you say to what you said? I guess Yes, yes, there is something about you. You specifically were heading toward a noun.

Well, I wasn't, I wasn't. The sentence ended at there, that's where it ended. There is something about there that was, so why did you say about there, meaning that play, that play?

Oh, oh, United Kingdom there wasn't. There's nothing about there, yeah.

Period. Okay, yes, yeah, and you thought that sentence, you thought that sentence and said, I'm gonna speak that.

It's nice that I'm sending this from the brain right out the gate. I don't think about a brain. Send it right on out. It's ready to go. No notes.

Think about it, most of what I say, I'm, I'm saying, you know what that is? That is your magic, it is your magic.

Thank you, you are. Yeah, you know that I love you, you're, I love you. You say these things and I just think, What the hell, what the hell's happening?

All right, well, we now we have to pay some bills. And actually, I believe we're gonna bring Blay back out here, right? I'm already out here, I think I'm, oh, yes.

Okay, good, have you been there a lot? This is called a live ad read.

Yeah, yeah, are you ready? It's everyone ready, these guys are ready to go.

I feel I feel very good about what I'm about to say, I really do, and I'm gonna say this now I feel very good about there.

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Ladies and gentlemen, let's bring out David Hoppe.

Hello there, Willoughby. I was standing there and I was like, he's gonna do it okay. Quick backstory. We were driving here. Okay, I was driving.

You were giving directions and then you said, take a left on Willoughby, and I thought Willoughby would be a funny name to start calling you. And and then I started. For the rest of the day, I've been going, Hey Willoughby, and he's like, what? And just because you brought up that street name, but I kind of like it, Oh, Willoughby.

Well, anyway, Willoughby, what's up? You're gonna take some audience questions only if I want to, and I do you want to. Yes, Okay, very much. If anyone has a question for Conan, raise your hand, What is your name?

My name is Haley, Haley. How are you? I'm good. How are you guys good? This is so surreal.

Seeing you guys live, you guys are just as funny as in person as you are on audio tapes. This has been so cool.

Audio You talk like me.

The young ones send it out via post immediately. Oh my god. Well, my question for all of you guys is so norm. Macdonald is easily one of my favorite kids of all time. I, Yeah, he's phenomenal, so do you guys have any favorite?

Like bits, moments or memories that he's ever done like. I know he's known for so many of his viral clips, but just I know something. You knew him on a personal level, so just anything that you remember. One of the things that I remember, that norm did, I don't think many people know about, but you, I think you can find it. If you look, it was so random, norm would just do these random things.

And so Sully Sullenberger, the pilot, famously his planes taking off in New York. One of the engines goes out and they get, there's a bird strike and he or something goes wrong, and he lands it on the Hudson River and everyone gets off safely. And he, you know, he's got this mustache and he, he's cool, and he saved everybody, and everybody got Sully Sullenberger fever. And then not for a long time, but anyway. But then I think Tom Hanks made a movie, yeah, and then Norm came on and he had this idea that he wanted to make, you know, there. It's too bad. I produced a Sully Sullenberger movie before he safely landed the plane. And and I'm like, this was his idea and he made this.

So he came on and he had shot it and.

It's total lie, but he's like, Yeah, it's always. I'm kind of mad about that Sullenberger guy, and I said, What are you mad about? Well, I made a movie with him before he did that. Why'd you that?

I just chose a pilot and I made a movie with him, and then he goes and does this thing. It's really just Sullenberger, it's norm playing silly. And he grabbed our makeup woman, Deb Pullman, and said, You're gonna be in it too, as my wife, literally while he's in the makeup chair.

What's your name, Deb? You're gonna be in it too. And she's like, Okay, didn't even change, she's just wearing the clothes she wore to work. And so he's going like, Everybody's here, Captain Sully Sullenberger, and we're gonna now land the plane, Oh, who's here?

My wife's here and Deb walked in and went, Hi, how are you? I love you too, dear. And then she left and he was, like, All right.

Here we go and we've landed, so, uh, there you go, I think we're all good. And then the credits came down. It was the randomest, weirdest idea, and he made it and you can see it.

Go look for it. And it was one of these things that's not, you know, it never trended or whatever, but it's just out there and you just see norm. But everything he did as a comedian was intentionally waste people's time, and it was so.

He didn't care in this beautiful way because people, he and any, it was just glorious. And I look at it now and I just see him doing this bit and think, Wow, I mean, no one else would do that, no one else would make that up. Grab the makeup woman, make her be his wife, not give a shit, and then leave.

And it was really funny, so that was my favorite.

Hello, hello, hi, what's your name? My name is Brendan, Brendan. How are you? I'm good.

I'm also from Worcester. I know your family's from Worcester. Yeah, they're from Worcester, Mass. Yes, yeah, it's a great place.

That's not my question.

My question is, could you talk a little bit about, like, how you got cast in you for your cameo and Weed the weird Al movie, and what? What shooting that was like?

Well, it was, there was no audition, that's for sure. We're down, made this movie and he just was calling people that he knew that he had kind of a connection to. And I love Weird Al, and he'd been on our show many times and always been very gracious. And I just get this call out of the blue. Conan, will you be in the Weird Al movie? He just he sent me a text and he just said, Will you be in the weird?

Al Movie as Andy Warhol. And the correct answer to any question like this is yes, I just didn't. My my philosophy is, when someone says, Hey, do you want to do super weird thing? are you down for it?

I just say, yes, I mean, just not long ago. This is just my point. Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson We're hanging around our offices in the Larchmont area area, not too far from here, and I'm chatting with Woody Harrelson.

At one point he went, Hey Conan, would you go in 5050 on a houseboat with me in Amsterdam? What? And I said, Yes, I will. Woody Harrelson. And I said it because I thought there's a good chance he'll never remember this. But this, the answer is, you don't go.

No, I got to talk to my wife. When Woody Harrelson asked you if you're going 5050 on a houseboat in Amsterdam, the answer is yes, I will. Oh my God, I've never heard back from him. But I went home and I told my wife we may be going in 5050 on a houseboat in Amsterdam with Woody Harrelson, she said. What?

What do you mean? Where is this houseboat? I went, don't worry, I don't think it's ever happening, but if it does like, we can live off the story forever.

That's my dream. We could just do a whole other podcast called Conan and Woody floating around in Amsterdam.

That went well. Oh, I probably, I probably shouldn't say that. Hi hi Conan, Hi Sona, Hi Matt.

What is your name? Danny? Danny? Yes, that's your brother's name. That's my brother's name.

Um, oh, that is your brother, he has a great name.

But I think, honestly, my favorite film is Casino Royale.

I separated in genres, so, you know, like my favorite comedy is Galaxy Quest, my favorite rom-com is Moonstruck, my favorite kind of dramedy, I guess would be adaptation. I don't know what about famous.

What's your favorite male stripper movie? Oh, that's a tough one. Um, I would say, Magic Mike, No, but I Magic Mike came out, I just you.

You went missing for a couple of.

Yes, show came out, yes, and we did it. That one I like more, cuz Joe Manganiello has that very great scene in the liquor store where he's trying to make the girl smile. So he's just like strip teasing with a bottle of coke.

And I'm like, I get this, this is real cinema. Yeah, I don't know about you guys, but I would watch, I would, so I would never miss an episode. If Sona had a movie critics show, yes, I would watch it.

We've talked about. I would like, I like everything, so I would feel like that was a good movie. There was lighting and they did it and someone wrote it and they shot it, and that's exciting. Well, we said, Yeah, we have.

This happened all the time, where on the late-night show, when we would go and look at movies. Yeah, you would always come with me and I'd see them, and you know, whatever, I'm a human being, somewhat discerning and. But, you know, she'd watch things and you'd be like, Yeah, that one was okay, but and every time we watched anything, Son was like, that was fantastic.

And I would say, really, you liked Glip Glorp and the club, and you would say it didn't cost me anything. And those people made that, they made it, and it was on the screen and it started, and two hours later it ended. And now I'm having wine that you're paying for. That does sound good. What about you, you know? I would say, I think I sometimes I think of it as, and this sounds morbid, but like, what's your like you? You have like a day to live and I think of it, not know.

I think you're trying to think of it in a positive way. Like, it's the end of my life. And I get to have no, but I just get to, like, here's what I think of. What's the food I want? I want, like a really good Pinot noir?

I want a really good pizza from Naples. And I think I want to watch The Godfather. And I know that that's a movie that a lot of people say, but and and if I can get Godfather one and two and make it one movie? Oh, you can. Definitely. My answer, It's your last day. I'm gonna lose some precious time if you do that, please.

This isn't for four years, okay, but.

You up the godfather.

Good, how are you? good? but nervous? Oh, don't be nervous. We're, as you can tell, we're just we're just hanging out.

We're fools hanging out. yeah, we're idiots. Well, yeah, kind of, yeah. My questions for whoever wants to answer. But when you were a kid and somebody would ask you what you wanted to be when you grew up.

What would you say? Oh, podcast sidekick.

You were in the sandbox. You've made yourself a third chair, yeah.

Little pine cone for a microphone spoke once every 14 minutes.

What about you, son? What did you want to be? I know this might be shocking. I didn't have very many ambitions.

You were blazing up at four years old. I honestly like, looking back on it, I don't think I was ever like, Oh, I can't wait to be a doctor, thank God.

Well, Sona, you lost another one.

Margie.

No, I don't. I really didn't have any like, I know it's sad, but I was just kind of like, that's cool, I'll try that.

I know I wanted to work in TV, that that's the only thing I really loved, so I knew that, but I didn't know what, right? So I did it. Yeah, I check.

Wanted to? When I was a kid, I really did want to be an entertainer and I fun, but, and I've said this before. But back then, pre streaming and just three television stations and not great reception. You just watched what was on, and mostly what was on. Channel 38 or Channel 56 were old movies, because that's what they ran, because they didn't have enough content. And so I grew up watching old movies and old musicals, and I thought that's what entertainment was. So in, like the 19, late 1970s, I was thinking, I need to know how to tap-dance.

I need to learn how to talk real fast in an old-time voice. You know, I need to get like one of those straw hats and say, Hey, you, let's get over here. There's a fire at McCready's barn, let's go, you know? And then, like, I better know a few tunes, you know?

Button up your overcoat when the wind blows free. Take good care of yourself. You belong to me. Oh, do you. And then.

I'd go to school and do this shit and the beatings would come in.

Here's this kid with a bowl haircut. Oh, hey everybody, my name's Conan. that's a cool name ladies line up and I'll have kiss you later.

And then all these kids, you know, from Somerville and stuff would just be like, Oh, I'll beat him first, you beat him second.

Jason, you're first, Chrissy, you're second. Yeah, I'll hit him primarily in the throat soft tissue.

Bullies, really organized bullies, they have a flowchart how it's gonna work, they prepared.

Yeah, everybody, look at your hand out.

And I'm in the corner, fellas, hurry it up.

These toes are ready to twinkle.

All right, you've been a great crowd, There's been a lot of fun. Thank you so much.

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