2024-06-17 01:04:06
After 25 years at the Late Night desk, Conan realized that the only people at his holiday party are the men and women who work for him. Over the years and despite thousands of interviews, Conan has never made a real and lasting friendship with any of his celebrity guests. So, he started a podcast to do just that. Deeper, unboundedly playful, and free from FCC regulations, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend is a weekly opportunity for Conan to hang out with the people he enjoys most and perhaps find some real friendship along the way.
My name is Woody Harrelson. I feel supercalifragilisticexpialidocious about being here on Conan. Thank you so much.
Hi, my name is Ted Danson. I feel scared about being Conan O'Brien's friend.
Fall is here, hear the yell, back to school, ring the bell, brand new shoes, walking blues, climb the fence, books and pens. I can tell that we are going to be friends.
Yes, I can tell that we are going to be friends.
Hey there, welcome to Conan. O'Brien needs a friend joined, as always, by my good pals. Sona Movsesian Hey Sona, hey.
And Mr. Matt Gorley Hi boss, please don't call me boss, Hi Lackey.
You went completely the other way. Hi friend, it is a little strange because other podcasts tape here as part of our company, our growing empire.
You said our, but it's yours.
Yeah, it's implied. Well, no, now it's official, it's ours. Yeah, that's legally binding. But Mr. Ted Danson is here all the time working. Who's one of the most delightful, cool people ever.
And he'll walk in and he'll go, Hey, boss, to me, I'm like, No, no, no, no, no, no. He does it as kind of a joke. But there's no realm, you know? There's a hierarchy and a ranking in show business, and Ted Danson is way above me in every way.
And I think it's very funny. When he walks by and says, Hey boss, good to see you. I feel like telling him, Yeah, go clean that toilet, danson.
Yeah, you weren't waiting for us to be like, No, no, you guys are on the same, you weren't waiting for that.
Are you fishing for that? I wasn't fishing for it, and also I kind of did for a bit and no one said a word.
OK, I thought so because neither one of us was going to say anything.
No, you went out of your way to fill a tall glass of water, yeah, and then drink all of it. And then you took a 10 minute nap. And in that period of time, I was still waiting.
No, it's just funny. He's got a just reminded me that it's fun seeing him around. Which one of you is taller? It's a good question. I haven't lined myself up.
I don't know. He carries himself a little taller.
He was here the other day sleeping, remember when he was sleeping on a couch?
I wasn't here but.
Yeah, he was here and he was sleeping on a couch, I would have looked at him and the door was open. We all walked by and we were staring at a sleeping Ted Danson. When you see a celebrity sleeping, it's fascinating.
You didn't have like an impulse to go up and just kind of nuzzle and cuddle him. No, no, that's a crime.
I was going to ask if you were going to put a blanket on him, you said, nuzzle and cuddle him.
No, he was perfectly fine and happy. Did anyone here witness it? You saw it?
But I think putting a blanket on him would have been nice.
Speak up, please.
I saw it.
We're not talking to people in Dealey Plaza. It wasn't. I mean, for Christ's sake, you seem traumatized. I wouldn't say it's funny. haha, funny.
It's just kind of arresting to see someone who literally think about all the shows he's been in, how dominant he's been. He's beloved. And then he's completely inert and his computer shut down, and he's stretched out on a couch. It was fascinating to see.
He's vulnerable. Yeah, you do it all the time. I didn't think of that. What's that?
You nap all the time, but you like to lay down to recharge yourself. Maybe he was just recharging.
But have you ever seen me sleeping? Oh, I've seen you sleeping well, I know, and I found the hole in the wall. By the way, you creep. There's more than one, there's more than one.
There's a whole network. That's where I'm asleep at night. No, have you, Sona? Over the years, you've probably seen me sleeping, right? I have seen you sleep.
Have you stared at me? I mean, when we were on tour, I think there was a time when you were like, I'm just going to nap for a bit. And I had nowhere else to go, so I just stayed in the room and was on my computer, right?
So you saw me completely out. Yeah, did you get the impulse to nuzzle him? No, not at all.
No.
And I didn't want to put a blanket on him either.
MATT Just to be clear, what you're talking about is creepy. it's creepy. it's not creepy for the aggressor, okay?
Oh God, I'm trying to get more women to weigh in on this.
What was the question? Is it creepy to nuzzle and cuddle someone when they're napping and not knowing it it is?
It is you have to give her a chance to answer.
Yes.
I'm loving giving so little.
I know Joe just likes to just keep it closer.
I love that, I love it. You give so little that it's very funny to me. Yes, no.
Yes, is the world ending tomorrow? yes.
No.
Good, that's a good answer. Yeah, you can't be nuzzling people, but I just found it kind of fascinating.
I know, I think that's pretty cool.
And I'm such a dynamic personality, it must be kind of strange to see me completely shut down. You pointed at me, like, back me up, yeah, what I'm saying is, imagine one of those mechanical bucking Broncos, but you see it shut down on its side.
It must be kind of strange, or a whirligig, or a ferris wheel, something that's very dynamic and entertaining to all, but it's shut down.
It's the point, like, back me up, come on, that's your cue. Because if I just say it myself, I sound like a dick, but point of view, back me up and it's okay.
A warehouse full of the most fantastical fireworks anyone's ever seen, but unlit, lying inert on their side in a dank warehouse, right Sona?
And go just a quick yes, that's all we need.
Anyway, so Ted Danson was here, napping, huh?
Yeah, he was napping. That's pretty cool, all right. Well, we've got to get to it, we've got a lot to talk about.
Who's our guest? Well, let's hope he's napping. I want to go take a picture of him. I was going to say, if ever there's someone you could nuzzle.
Yeah.
You are king, Crete.
Love a good cuddle.
Actually, we are blessed with two guests today. This is unusual. Yeah. They starred in the legendary sitcom Cheers. Now they have a new podcast called Where Everybody Knows Your Name.
New episodes release every Wednesday wherever you get your podcasts. This is a joy.
Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson, welcome.
You and I have never seen eye to eye.
No, and you're my boss, which makes this really awkward.
You know, it's so funny, you always reference me as your boss, which is very sweet. I don't think I am.
Really.
I don't think it's possible that I could ever be the boss of either one of you. You guys are higher than me in the showbiz totem pole. It's not possible, right? It's just not possible.
It's absolutely not possible. He's definitely my boss and we don't even like care.
Yeah, it doesn't imply respect.
Yeah, there's no respect needed.
This begs the question, what are we doing here exactly?
This was a huge booking mistake on somebody's.
Listen, I'm so thrilled to talk to you. I know you guys have a podcast you do together and I am delighted that you are here and I get to speak to you. You're both drinking what looks like blood out of glasses.
Woody may be, but mine's apple, okay, watermelon.
I think we should address the elephant in the room. Woody, We started a little bit later than we thought. Because you had a bit of a tumble. is it fair to call it a tumble?
I think a tumble's a fair term.
Yeah.
I did go over my handlebars.
You went over the handlebars.
Yeah, I was honestly, and embarrassingly, I was passing this Tesla on the left that I felt was moving a little slow, but I didn't realize he was moving slow because he's taking a left.
Yes, and you were on a motorcycle.
On a motorcycle?
Yes, and is that your primary way of getting around a motorcycle?
Well, I always feel like the shortest distance between two points in L.
A is a motorcycle, so I do tend to take it, but today it proved not to be so very fast in terms of transporting me.
You lost some time while people were figuring out, Are you alive? Your soul had to reenter your body. Yeah, did you think for a second, when you were going over the hood of the Tesla, did you think this was going to be a huge problem? Or the whole time were you thinking, I'm all right?
No, I always thought I'd be okay. I just felt like there was some pain involved. I felt the pain, but I never thought I'd be killed or anything or maimed.
Your hand is wrapped up like someone in a cartoon.
That's because I wrapped it.
Is this true?
I wrapped it and I thought it looked funny that way.
So let me get this straight, all of your first aid training is helping people in a way that will look funny. Yeah, it's not going to help him not get infected or anything like that. You didn't set the bones in the proper way.
You set them in the funny way.
And we're in the bathroom and I'm like, you played a doctor, right? And he says, Yeah, I also played a lawyer so we can sue the guy. I said, Well, I think it's going to have to be a lawyer for the defense.
I'm not as good with that, sorry.
This is fascinating just to be behind the scenes and know that. Woody, you're headed here to do the podcast with your friend Ted Danson. You wipe out on the motorcycle, you hit a Tesla, you get it together.
You come here, you need medical attention, so Ted Danson is the one that helps clean the wound and wrap you. Yes, why haven't we called a real doctor at any point?
I take Ted Danson over a real doctor.
Thank you very much.
By the way, his confidence, his demeanor, everything about the way he does it is you feel like, yes, I'm in the best hands.
Never doubt it.
I did kind of have that, I was choking back tears, but I was efficient.
First of all, I'm very happy that you're okay, me too.
It was weird when he asked me to disrobe, but I'm going to do it. It's for hygienic purposes.
It's for hygienic and also tax purposes. Thank you.
What kind of protection do you wear when you ride?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no, no.
We're not doing that protection, the other protection are you armored in any way? Are you wearing a helmet?
I was wearing a helmet, actually, it did help me because I did hit my head, but the helmet so no problem.
Okay, good.
This makes me sad, buddy, really, yeah.
Don't be sad.
I am, I'm sad.
Why sad?
He could have been hurt badly, badly. It makes me sad.
Does it inform what you might do in the future?
No, that's out of the question, I'm sure.
It should, it certainly should.
Yeah, but this is how you are, right, you're living life on the edge.
Yeah, maybe maybe. yeah, right. In other words, maybe I should just slow down in life, yeah.
Just take it a little easy.
Hey, you're doing great, you skinned your hand, man up.
Sorry.
I'm switched, I'm switched, you just switched.
I had my cheering moment.
I'm sorry, literally 15 seconds ago you said, I'm so sad, I'm so sad, I'm over it. You're my friend and I'm so sad. And then you're telling him to shut the fuck up, right?
My sadness didn't play in the room.
You need to talk about me going slower.
My sadness didn't play in the room. That is such a sick thing to say, such a sick thing to say, oh wow. We're here in the ward with the terminally ill children. Hope you guys feel better soon.
Tough break, hey, that didn't play so well. Let me try something else.
Hey Timmy, how long you got Jesus Christ? Ted? I know what you mean, though, Woody. There's something about Ted. Every time I've talked to him, see him out in the world, I'm immediately I just get this calm.
You have a very calming presence. And I don't. Yes, is some of it maybe related to the fact that you are so ubiquitous and well-known? Yes, but do other people say that?
You'd be like an amazing therapist.
You know, I'm doing these moderate to severe plaque psoriasis commercials, which I think tells you all you need to know that under this I am, by the way.
You can calm other people, but there's no calmness in the interior.
Now, do you suffer from this malady, or is the money just too much to turn down?
I live on the edge of fear, basically, really. Yes, I remember you sitting me down once during cheers and I think I was about to get divorced or something. You said, Teddy, why are you so fearful?
Stuck in my head all the time and that's what I find amazing. You may have fear and all of that, but you take such big chunks out of life and I love that.
And yourself, apparently.
I lost a chunk today.
A large amount.
Is this on camera, by the way?
I think we're going to see this. It's comical. That's the thing one of the three stooges would put on their head if they had a headache.
Does anyone have an ice pack?
I haven't seen an ice pack like that in 50 years. Not a bad idea, though.
Does it look cool?
Oh yeah, it looks really cool.
Okay, this is a dichotomy, you two have, you guys meet on. cheers, you come in second season, third.
Third season, no fourth.
Yeah, fourth.
Fourth.
We remembered well.
But you guys worked together and when you came in, the show was hitting on all cylinders.
Close to. We were working our way up from dead last, and I think we were in the 20s, maybe when you arrived.
Right?
It was Bill Cosby and his show that pulled us up by the bootstraps.
Right, and then you become the show, which is for a long time and not just popular, but also beautifully written, really well acted, just perfectly done show.
And sort of an iconic sitcom, but you come into this thing and this is curious. Were you scared when you came onto the show? Because I don't think of you as a guy.
That would be too worried or self-conscious.
Well, you know, I got to say, I'll never forget the time where you're standing. I'm standing off stage, ready to enter the bar. And there's a red light that goes on, as Teddy knows, and so I'm just waiting for this red light. And I know that there's whatever, 500 people in the audience.
As well as, you know, it's going to be seen nationally, which is stuff I've never experienced. So, I mean, I had experienced a lot of theater in college, which is what really helped me, not just fall completely apart.
I don't know how someone who hadn't had a little bit of that going on prior could just go into that situation and not just melt. But I do remember the fear and then that red light came on and then Boom just walked in.
And started talking to Teddy behind the bar.
And hit a home run. I mean, your first joke was through the roof and the audience immediately.
I think it was where I was saying. I used to exchange, What is it? I was pen pals with coach, and he goes, Oh, you exchanged letters and I go, no pens.
That's a good joke.
Which was so brilliant, I mean, you nailed it, the writing is so brilliant. Because here's the person who's going to take the slot, in essence, that kind of pure, innocent slot that Nick Colasanto, the coach, played.
Right, who had passed away?
And you immediately say, Oh, they're kindred spirits, because they're both exchanging pens and thinking it's wonderful.
Kind of brilliant.
Now I've heard that you guys kind of wanted to haze Woody when he first showed up. Because the whole crew is, the whole cast is very tight, famously tight, and you guys wanted to haze him by playing basketball.
Well, we were 37 when he showed up and he was 25, I believe, 24, 25, 24.
Fuck stick, sorry, we can cut that out, I'm sure.
No, no, you said your honor, he said. Fuck stick.
Sustained.
Thank you, thank you.
37 is when you realize you're no longer 25 or 24.
So it was more not like hazing it, we just wanted to kick his ass.
And anything we could find.
Sure, we started with basketball, and, as you later found out in life, he's a really good basketball player. So he kicked our asses there. Next, I have a vision of Johnny Ratzenberger, who played Cliff out on the lawn by the stage.
Doing, you know, the leg wrestling, where you're both on your back and you try to flip the other guy with just your leg. Johnny's strong, Johnny's got some, John's strong and got some thighs on him. Woody kicked his ass.
I literally have a bad elbow to this day because I wouldn't give up arm wrestling, you know? And he, I did finally give up because he was kicking my butt. So then we moved to chess. Fuck this, you know, sorry to heck with this physical stuff.
Yeah, we're going to beat him mentally killed us at chess.
This is all in the first week, really. So from then on, it was like, if you had some awful mean prank to pull, you would not waste it on anyone else except Woody. So you, you know, and he's to this day, that's Woody Harrelson.
It was the greatest reception I could imagine, everybody was so lovely, so kind. So I just remember, you know, one moment that did kind of freak me out a little was, I remember, just Shelley. Like, was standing there and I was behind the bar. Instead of coach, and she's just like, Oh, I miss coach.
You know, something like that, which was a perfectly understandable.
You should have said he's dead.
Snap out of it, he ain't coming back.
I'm sorry, that's how I talk to people.
Maybe I should have tried that.
Yeah, you knew, you just do it. It's my job now, see?
But you know, just all these guys dealing with the loss of their dear friend and teammate. And but boy, they couldn't have been nicer, just it was. It was the most wonderful job, and you know, Teddy at the at the head of it.
Teddy and Jimmy, really, and just the way they, you know, they're just amazing people. Teddy to to this day is just always, you know, you saw how he took care of me.
He literally took you into the bathroom and wrapped you up. What did you do to me about a week ago? And I still don't know what that was all about? He said. No, I wish to wrap you.
Come on in.
All right, I said, I have various salves and wrappings. Ted, You've said that you are really not at all like Sam Malone, that you are quite different in that, you know, of course, Sam Malone's a ladies man. And I would just.
I just would have assumed that, you know, good looking guy.
And I literally, literally would have to have a woman stark naked in front of me and I'd still be going. Me, me, I know I didn't go to behind you.
Is there someone behind me?
Here's my motive. Seduction when I was younger was it's just me, Ted, one of the girls. Let's take our clothes off.
How did this penis get here?
Maybe it's time to talk to you for a minute. Clean this up.
Does that trick? Does that work ever? I'm just one of the girls.
I mean, it would work if it's Ted dancing. Honestly, yeah, I think it would.
OK, yeah, you're suggesting I not try it.
I would not try it if I were you.
Good, yeah, good advice. Do you feel like you're closer to Woody then?
I mean, aside from your name being Woody, Woody, Boyd, then, and Ted is to Sam Malone.
I mean, it's hard to say because there's so much of ourselves in any character we play, but, you know, I don't really feel.
You're way the fuck smarter than Woody was. Bless his heart. But but sorry is that that hurts a little?
Yeah.
Thanks for saying no, but I just felt he was more naive than.
Yes, very good.
I mean, that was my standard. You are not naive, he's naive.
Not stupid.
Sorry.
Trusting? yeah, trusting all good qualities.
But I don't know, that's hard to gauge, I don't think I could gauge that.
It's so funny because since Cheers, you've both gone on and played all these different parts. I think it'd be difficult for some people to move on from an iconic sitcom like that. And both of you, it's been, it's, from my perspective, been a cakewalk. Like. You've both just taken on all these very different roles and handled it beautifully and found all kinds of other playgrounds to play in. And I know that there's some luck involved, but clearly that's also a gift and craft.
Can you guys handle that compliment?
Yeah.
Very, very much.
Yeah, that was good.
I think that went down a little too easy, I saw no struggle.
We're expecting something a little.
I felt like a vacuum with that compliment, you just sucked it right up.
Can I ask Woody what his first movie was after playing Woody Boyd?
First movie after.
After natural born killers.
Oh, that's right.
Talking about changing the subject.
Talking about a 180.
Yeah, yeah, that was astounding.
I talked to you about this, Woody, but I love, love, love. I'm a big Coen Brothers fan, but I love no country for old men. The scene you have where your character knows it's over and you're sitting in your chair talking to an assassin who, you know is going to kill you. And it's this fidgety mixture of. I accept this and I'm going to try and talk my way out of it at the same time. And I just, I love that performance.
And I thought, for both of you. You've had a chance to have these moments where you get to really play these different shadings and do these different things that you never would have gotten to do. On cheers, which is really cool.
That's totally true, you know? As to that scene, I was shooting another somewhat forgettable movie in Vegas at the same time, so I was going back and forth and that was in New Mexico, the one no country. So I came back and I got this stuff out of the book because it was a book, no country. And I got these things out of the book that I thought were kind of cool in the scene.
But I'd heard they don't like to change much in terms of the script. The Coen Brothers. But anyway, these things are so good, so I added these little elements, rewrote the scene.
Rewrote it.
Well, you know, I just typed it anyway. I come in, I get a hold of Javier, who's the other character in the scene.
Javier Bardem Yep.
Javier Bardem. And then we meet over at his hotel room and we rehearse, rehearse, come in the next morning, rehearse it again. And then they come into my trailer. And then me and Javier perform the newly written scene for the brothers. And at the end of it, they're like.
Oh, we like it the way it was, it's good.
Didn't change a word.
Did you both laugh? Did you laugh? Do you remember?
I think we laughed right at that moment. We'd done a lot of work to try to, but anyway, later, of course, they turned out to be right, probably right, then they were right.
Yeah, if we got them on the line, they would say, No, no, at that moment we were right, there was no getting to be right.
Those guys, man, they're incredible.
But I was thinking about Ted. If you look at, you have obviously becker damages, but then the good place, I thought, was such a.
Talk about a show where you were allowed to inhabit all these different realities that were fantastic.
It almost felt like a children's morality play. It had that quality to it. It's one of the things I'm most proud that I was part of. It wasn't easy.
No, I wouldn't think so.
To shoot, the language was so elevated, you just had to work your ass off to get it.
Mike Schur, brilliant showrunner, creator. There's a moment at the end of the first season of The Good Place, where, for anyone who hasn't watched the show, you need to binge watch it. But there's a huge O Henry twist at the end of the first season, which I did not see coming. And it all hinges on your face, because you're busted on something and your face has to. We have to find out who you really are and you transform in that moment.
And that was one of the best things I've seen on TV in memory, it was great.
That's cool. That whole ending went viral at the same time that Netflix picked it up to run it on Netflix, and it just catapulted us in this great way. All of a sudden people are going back and watching the whole season. By the way, we are all but sworn to secrecy about the ending.
Naturally, even before we started shooting, I blew it.
I was.
No, don't give me a secret, if it's really important, I'll keep it.
On which? on the ending of the whole series, or....
The ending of the first episode, You blew that. I didn't blow it, but I did have loose lips. Yes, I was talking to my friend John Krasinski, and he said, What are you doing next? I said, Oh, I'm working with your friend Mike Shore.
It takes place in the afterlife. And I start telling him what it's about and I can see him go the office, but in heaven, in his head. No, no, wait a minute, you don't get it. See what happens at the end is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and I gave away the whole secret.
Into a megaphone?
And then had to pretend in front of everybody in all these kind of cast meetings of Let's keep this private, please don't blow this. I go, Yeah, no, no, yeah, you're absolutely right.
Actually, you want to take the lead in that, you want to stand up and go. This is really important, guys.
Listen up, listen up.
Because someone's been squawking to Krasinski, who I'm not a fan of and don't talk to.
He's literally like one degree of separation from everyone.
He knows every soul.
Yeah, and of course, Larry David, you work with Larry David, you've been such a big part of Curb your intentions.
We both worked with Larry, you were on this year, weren't you? Yeah, you were.
I got to be on one.
What was your bit on the show?
Well, thanks for watching it, but you weren't in it, so I don't expect you would, but no.
Did you watch mine Woody? Did you watch my episode?
Yours was great, that's all I wanted to say.
What was your favorite moment?
Did you like me as a magician?
That was some top.
That was so funny.
You know the thing with the scarves, man, all the scarves.
I wasn't a magician. More scarves, I tricked you.
Wow.
Yeah, what was your episode?
I do a thing where it was funny because I'm supposed to, I play myself, but I'm going on. Then I do this whole thing where I talk about mistreatment of cows.
He wants to do a show with me, so I go over and I meet with him. Then he's pitching the thing or something, then I'm like, it's milk, is that milk? he remembers, because he saw the. He says, Oh, no, no.
That's from my cow on my farm. Well, anyway, I'm like, we should go out there and see.
Of course, yes.
Anyway, so things go bad out on the farm. In the end of it, I'm throwing cherries at him or something. I'm saying, Ted Danson was right about you.
I'm always the asshole on his show.
It's funny, but I improvised that that wasn't his idea.
Once again.
The Coen Brothers were wrong. You wanted to throw cherries at Javier Bardem? It's a mostly packed scene.
Can I tell you how wounded I have been over the years? Horribly wounded. I once pantsed him in front of a full audience. He was his day of going commando or something. It was very effective and it pissed him off.
But later, a year later, because he's like a killer, he waits, and he waits, and he waits.
He invited me to his premiere of his movie, It was Doc Hollywood. He's kind of a hick in the movie. Then at the end, all the pardon, the slang hicks come to Hollywood and they're sitting around watching. But he comes to me and he says, Ted, I really want you to come to my movie, the premiere.
I so respect what you think and it would mean a lot to me. He just laid it on and I was just so chuffed. I felt so happy my new friend loved me this much. I show up and he says, Ted, Ted over here.
Sit right behind me, I got a great seat, I started sitting right behind him. God bless Woody Harrelson. I love him so much.
The end of the movie comes and all the hicks are sitting around this coffee shop in Hollywood. And you hear the last two lines are, Oh, there's a movie star. Was it? You said, No, no, that's Ted Danson.
The whole audience roared with laughter and I had to ha ha ha. It was deep.
Beautifully done, Beautifully done.
Revenge is a dish, best served cold.
All right, well, on the theme of revenge is a dish best served cold? I've got a bone to pick with you, Woody.
Thank you, good.
Here we go.
What did I do?
Well, let's say you guys are. It was, I don't know how many, it was, maybe six months ago. You guys are recording a podcast here. And afterwards, you're out in the hallway and you come up to me and we're chatting and you say, Hey, Conan, how about going in 50-50 with me on a houseboat in Amsterdam? And I never in my life said, yes, faster. Not because I want a houseboat, not because I want to be hanging out in Amsterdam, which is a fine place. But I wanted to be able to say, Yeah, I co-own a houseboat with Woody Harrelson, I think that's the in Amsterdam. I think that would be the coolest thing in the world to say so. I said to you, yes, and you went well, you need to talk to your wife, and I went, Nope, we're in, whatever it costs, I don't care, I'm in. You went well, that's great, that's great because we're really thinking about doing this.
And I said, Well, I'm in, I'm in, I'm your guy, and you went well, great, great man, this will be great. Come in, don't see you for a while, come in. Like, two weeks later. And you're in this room interviewing Flea in red hot chili peppers. And you say, Hey, man, you want to go in 50-50 on a houseboat in Amsterdam? And I'm out there and I'm like, asshole.
Asshole.
Conan Just because Flea came along.
Who's cooler than Conan?
He came to me, No, but he changed the fucking city to Copenhagen. What a houseboat in Copenhagen.
What's going on?
I'm serious, this is not a bit.
Hey America, this is not a bit.
What are you doing? Is there a houseboat? is there a houseboat?
And where is it? And now you've got Flea on the line, I'm on the line, Ted's on the line.
We went, No. We were in Copenhagen after this, and Mary and I went to see the boat that he's in. Well, the one they were looking at exists. We took photos and selfies.
You're still in this, I'm not still in it.
No, no question.
I'm not still in it.
We'll nail him down on the city for you.
You and me and Teddy. So Flea is just a passing fancy. It's Copenhagen. I was so excited it was going to be like the third thing in my bio after I worked on the Simpsons.
It's going to be co-owns a houseboat with Woody Harrelson. And I didn't care if I took a total bath, I didn't care. I'd take everything I have and put it into that. Just to be able to say, and maybe have one experience where you and I are hanging out in the houseboat with our wives. And it's not going well. And I just write it all down. I was dying to do that and then flea.
Flea.
Passing fancy this is happening.
Now you, as a friend of Woody's, should tell me, Would that be a terrible mistake? okay?
Bad idea.
Oh my god.
Oh my God, that's a true story. Oh my God, I was all excited. This man broke my heart.
By the way, I didn't know he'd come to you or Flea, for that matter, I just thought he'd come to Mary and myself.
Here's the thing once this goes out, once this podcast goes out, people are going to be left and right all over Hollywood. Yeah, and probably in parts of the world where people aren't even in show business are going to say no, no, he came to me, that man come to me.
It's a houseboat. He was on the chairs of the Woody. Why? why are you doing this? What perverse, sick pleasure do you get out of this?
I know.
I know it sounds a little twisted when you put it like that. I don't remember that whole Flea thing. That was, as I said, passing. Fancy, but you me, Teddy, we're going to have a houseboat.
Copenhagen.
I am in.
Adjust your sights to Copenhagen.
I would check with your wife.
Guess what?
Guess what, nothing? Check with your wife.
No, no, you're right.
How many times I'd be like, in that situation? Oh, believe me, I wear the pants in this relationship.
Do you guys enjoy doing the podcast together?
Yes, I'll speak for us. I haven't seen them for a while.
You're not in all of them, I'm going to be clear about that. You're there on some and then in some. Your hot air balloon crashes and you can't get to the studio.
So you're there for some, but you guys have a great chemistry.
It's really fun, yeah, and Woody's friends with the world and the people that have come in because of Woody. Has been this really a treat for me? I got to meet so many new folks and we get to reminisce and we laugh. I love you, I love you.
I'm getting teary again.
I love you brother.
Bastard.
There's always the I Love You, followed by Bastard. It's such a fine line between love and hate.
It can be both, they can coexist.
Well, anyway, I love doing it, I love our podcast.
It's not one of those show watch podcasts where you watch episodes and talk about it. I'm sure people would like that, but I actually think this is more fascinating to hear. You guys, you're just great at shooting the shit and talking to people.
And there's some reminiscing, but it's very, very here and there. I think the conceit was, Hey, let's hang out together, we miss each other, let's catch up with each other. And I'll share my friends, and he'll share, you know, we'll share friends with each other.
And that was kind of the conceit of getting together, because the truth is, it's to hang out with each other.
Right?
Yeah.
You can turn a friendship into moneymaker. I wasn't going to go that way.
Sorry, we'll cut.
No, no, no.
We're going to keep that in, because that's essentially what it is. How can I monetize this friendship? I do think, though, the big, I mean, there's not a day that goes by where I don't realize that. Most of the things I've done in my career. Whether it was a late night show or any of the shows I've written on, or the podcast, or the travel shows, I'd be doing that anyway.
You'd be doing what?
I'd be doing that job anyway, I'm monetizing, I would not be monetizing it. In fact, I want to make it clear, I always refuse to take any payment for any of my work in comedy.
Any no.
It's amazing how you can get by then.
But that works out, though, right?
Whoa?
Whoa, whoa, oh, Jarette's hit.
Oh my God, the S.s conan sinking beneath the waves, steam and hot oil pouring from the portholes.
You patron saint?
I wouldn't have lasted three seconds on cheers, no?
I'm glad, oh, it was a tough group though, boy.
We used to towards the end, when guest stars would come at first, we were all over them. We'd give them mugs and we'd take them to lunch and we'd do all this stuff. Towards the end, it was like, I hope you can swim.
Basically is what we would say to them.
We'd have our straws spit in the room.
Oh my god.
Yeah, you guys would shoot spit balls at each other all the time.
Not at each other, at a specific target. You'd open your mouth as wide as you could to give them a target, and then every once in a while, you'd get one in the back of your gullet. Did you ever do this on a line?
Hey, who groaned, who groaned?
I did.
Really.
Spit balls.
Spit balls in the mouth.
In the mouth.
No.
That's the best way to transmit the disease.
We would sit across from each other like this, and you have yours, I have mine, you start you open.
Oh.
I missed it. Goes here, then you go and you keep going back and forth.
Did this ever show up?
Does this ever show up on camera if you're looking at old episodes?
I swear that I thought it was George Wendt. Yeah, George has spit balls in his hairline.
I thought that was a skin condition. No, no.
Spit balls one of the things during rehearsal. If somebody was having trouble with a hefty amount of dialogue, we'd all go, we'd all look at each other. We'll be there for you on the night, pal. And then just pepper them with spit balls.
Relentless. And then I remember that thing. Georgie was the best at it. Where you just close one eye as he's talking to you and you're like, the camera's over him so you can't see it. But it's the simplest thing. But God damn, it starts to get funny if the guy keeps, you know?
Do you guys have a ritual after the taping?
Foosball, booze, or maybe not so much booze, but definitely pot, foosball and pot.
Okay.
That sounds like a fun ritual. I was in the one show a day business.
Yeah, you can.
We had a party the first night. We did one in 1993. We were all hungover the next day and realized if this goes well, we have 30 more years of these to do. Every day. We can't have any parties.
But you could Friday night.
No, everyone was just too tired, yeah, and they would go, everyone just wanted to get away from each other, so we never had that. You know, you'd have a Christmas party or something, but never had that. Which I would think, in that kind of television where you're making what? 22 a year and it's these these weeks, 26,.
24, 26, 24 22 bounced around, Oh, but you, you were not just performing, you were writing, you don't. You got to have all your brain cells firing to do that? We could show up the next day.
Yeah, not exactly. yeah, oh, all brain cells firing from the masturbating bear.
We've got a good shot of what's going on with Woody here.
Yeah, you should see.
No, just a little, by the way.
Mr. Danson.
Wrapped by dancing.
RBD Yeah.
I mean, W. w.
We do that fanatically, it makes us anyway.
Any more of your blood? You got your weed socks on, and then you have your own dispensary. Is that the idea?
Right down the road, I haven't seen you there yet.
No, no interest.
Woody.
Well, you know, he can just come and hang out in the gun jiggle guard, yeah.
I would love to be in Dumois once for being in the gun jiggle. Yeah, instead of always here, he's having sushi.
There he is chatting up some people and taking selfies when they don't want selfies. A little bit sick that way. The guns, a giggle garden you have at your.
McCaws and I get beautiful. It's like you're in the tropics or something, it's right right down. Santa Monica. Just ease of sweeter. Okay, I'll check it out.
The guy who won't do commercials and on the podcast, but except for, except for promoting the Woods, yeah, and also Holy Water. Now there's a bar to under the same roof. But separated by all the nonsense, the government insists it works, it works. No, it works great. Yeah, it's actually beautiful.
You should go. Okay, I'm gonna go.
It's the most beautiful dispensary ever. Sure, I don't go to a lot of dispensaries and I have nothing against it. It's just that, in your you've, in your experience, Sony, you've noticed that it doesn't. When I've tried, it doesn't hit you, doesn't hit me.
It somehow doesn't fit my personality. You're. I metabolize it very quickly, yeah, and turned it just into more.
Inhaling.
Blow it at other people.
Yeah, I gotta get into it, cuz you're a gummy person, sona I, but I do it all.
You move to gummies, you're gonna have to come. I do, I absolutely do, and I want to. I live in Altadena, so I it's hard for me to.
Seven minutes, Okay, that's great. We're trying to get her to work. Oh, she'll be in the Giggle Garden, the Ganja giggle Garden. So Ted you find the gummy, the gummy relaxes you.
Yeah, it's also.
I'm not trying to put smoke in my lungs anymore. Mm-hmm. So the gummies were smart? Yeah, the gummies, the gummies were. I take gummies to go to, not to go to sleep, but to stay asleep. You can get the CBD with THC combo, mm-hmm, and it really helps, really works, and you've done that for years.
So you've always said to me, you're gummy and you got a great night's sleep. Oh, I love, I love my gummies now when you were breastfeeding, no gummies, right? No, no, not, yeah.
No, and when I was pregnant, no gummies, but as soon as I was done, what a purist, I. Well, you know.
I don't know, I don't want to get my babies. Hi, do. I don't know they could have been twins.
And then what if they they were born and they high-five each other on the way out?
On the way out, I don't know. They're just immediately they're born. cool, you know? They're just like they're relaxed. They saunter out. There's little leather jackets waiting for them.
Yeah, no, they come out in the leather jackets and they high-five and they saunter. We've had a really good nine months sleep.
That's true. Yeah, start as you mean to continue, you know, get them. Yeah, that's a really good idea.
Wasn't sure you'd have the best advice.
Help them sleep, Yeah, why not?
One milligram.
To.
Says the guy with two ice packs on his body, Yeah, the guy who slowly see, basically a Tesla about an hour ago.
Covered in bandages is saying, Do as I do.
Ironically, not high.
No, see how we're on camera with this tell the truth. Is it starting to ache a little bit elsewhere, you know?
It's it's starting to ache less. It was really quite aching this this hand was just feeling, man, I got.
I cut it open in several places. Do you think you should go to the hospital?
I mean, I know talking to me as a priority. But would you do you think that maybe it would be a good idea to get it checked out? I feel like.
Dr. Danson took care of everything. Thank you bud. Yeah, yeah, I will need some form of painkiller.
No question, I understand. I did decide to quit, I was. I just came back from San Francisco the night, I don't know, yesterday, those two days I had.
I'm like, I'm done, I'm done smoking, I'm done drinking, I'm not doing any of it anymore. Hmm. And then after this accident, I'm like, I'm getting back on the.
You might have been, if you hadn't quit for two days, you might not have hit the Tesla.
Maybe you tensed up and everything because you weren't in an altered state. Mm-hmm. Well, we have terrible ideas on this. We're telling people all kinds of shit. You wouldn't have been in that motorcycle accident if you had been sober, but the guy was great.
Son's car, so he was feeling bad about that part of it, wasn't even his car, but he was the coolest guy. His name's Ben, and he's like, trying to get me. So he says, What, what is your number? So I can? And I said, Well, I don't, I don't have a phone, and he's like, You don't have a phone.
It sounds really amazing my life, because you do not have a cell phone. No, never had, no.
I know I had, I had it until four and a half years ago and I got rid of it. So I was already seeming evasive to him. And then he's like, Well, okay, what is your insurance? And I say, I don't.
Are you serious? Like, I would know what my so, and then he says, and then he wants my, you know, he wants to see.
Okay, show me your license, show my license, which I'm a Texan. it's a Texas license. He's like, What don't you have an L.A. license? a California?
No, I don't have. Well, luckily anyway. We used his phone, called my wife, she came and then she cleared everything she had the.
He recognized you immediately. Yes, he did once I took the helmet off.
Yes, okay, so this guy's in his Tesla, he's taking a left turn, thank you.
Funka, funk, yeah, oh my God. He gets out and there's a guy lying there, He takes off his helmet. I didn't take it off immediately.
I.
For a little bit, I had to get, shall we say, the mandatory lecture, Why are you passing me on the left? Yeah, would you do that? Yeah, I shouldn't have.
But what did you? But why did right? And anyway, then you take it off. Am I the the bike? Oh, by the way, you find out how nice people are.
There's so many people stopped. Are you okay? Yes, yes, please, people are like.
It's a long line of cars going both directions, you know, like slowing down. And I don't know if they're lucky. Lose. But it seemed like many were trying to be helpful. And then we try to push the bike, but the bike somehow the brake brakes are just locked up on that bike front and back wheel. So we're trying to move it and it's pushing against the so, it was just to get it the few feet out of the road.
It's still sticking a little bit in the road, honestly, at a certain point. Couldn't push it anymore. And the guys. And then I take off my helmet and goes, Oh, I know you, he says. I can't remember your name, of course, what? And and then we started talking, and he was actually a very nice guy.
Really, the best joke of the day, which was, you know, after Laura came. And she showed him the the insurance card and everything. And I says, and yeah, you make sure you have the the number, and he goes, Yeah, but you're married.
He's cool, I'm gonna hang out with him.
I think I know you, I think you, I know what your opening lines gonna be. Have I got a houseboat for you?
I'm gonna show up at that houseboat and there's a guy that Ben's gonna be there.
Coyote holes in the bottom of the boat. Woody For God's sake. Take care of yourself all right because you are, but you are beloved, people love you and just take care of yourself. Thank you, sure.
All right and go slow, don't pass on the left, just just be careful. Okay, okay, sir, and I want to tell you both honor to sit here with you and talk to you both. Hilarious and just a great hang.
I mean, really, it's a it's a treat and I'm looking forward to your show. I know the first one just dropped. They're coming fast and furious now and I wish you nothing but success, as my people say. Mazel Tov.
MAZEL TOV To both of you, thank you, thank you and your people. I don't know what.
But seriously, uh, it's. It's just cool to sit in a room with you guys. It's very thanks, very much. Thank you, very much for doing this. And I think we should get you some real medical attention. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, slap in the face. Yeah, George went in here. Who apparently just graduated from.
People know that on our show, we also interview Conan. That's right, that's right, and I think a wonderful and beautiful.
Yeah, very respectful.
It's not how I remember it, remember going home, crying, weeping. But yes, and I'll do it anytime, anytime. You guys, you know, on our show back in the day, when I guess fell through at the last minute. My first guest was always Al Roker. I'll be your Al Roker anytime you need. anytime someone falls through, I'll come in.
Yeah, can we not get out?
You?
We're gonna do something a little different right now. Matt Gorley could not be with us today. He's out buying spats, I think, which is a popular covering of a shoe from the 1930s. It takes all day.
Yeah, he's, uh, he's, he's going all over Pasadena to get really authentic spats. But because Mac Early is not here, you know, when life gives you lemons, they say you should try and make a lemon juice, so isn't that the same? It's lemonade, wasn't it?
Some sort of juice, juice of the lemon, I think, is what you say. Anyway, when life gives you lemons, you should crush the lemons, no, and the secretion then should be put into a glass.
Secretion word is what ruined that for you. Okay, let's move on. Yeah, no, let's keep, let's keep mining this.
When life gives you a sour fruit, harvest that fruit, crush it, yeah, to make bitter tasting juice. That's, uh, listen, because Matt Gurley isn't here. David hopping is filling in, Hello, David.
Hey now, David, fair to say you are pretty much my full-time assistant. Now that Sona has twins. Are you saying no?
I mean, he is, well, yeah, it just feels like a dig is coming at me. There's no dig. Okay, yeah, all right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty much does everything for me and.
You?
Text me sometimes when the cars in front of my house. We never did switch that over, we never switch that over. My phone number is still associated. Yes, so I won't hear from you for a long time. And then suddenly I get a text.
Your car is waiting for you to take you to the airport.
Yeah, and the phone number so you can get in touch with whoever is driving you. Yeah, that's called assisting. Yes, and that is what I'm doing. Okay, well, listen, thank you for that.
The I don't know 200 things I need in my life that is one. Yes, thank you, you're welcome now. But when it comes to getting my creams, my bombs, my ointments, actually, Sona's number is still on.
A lot of things, yeah, I don't know, follows along anytime I do something. Various potions and powders, yeah, me looking pretty, yeah.
Yeah, help my body stay healthy.
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