My name is Colin Hanks and I feel excited about being Conan O'brien's friend.

Well wait a minute.

Was someone got a gun to your head.

What is that?

I'm just I'm asking myself out loud.

Yeah you know what you're doing, you're trying it on to see if it works and it turns out these pants fit, you look fantastic in those.

I like Conan pants, I got a lot of room where I need it good.

You and I and I'm not special because of this.

But you and I have always gotten along very well.

I the first time I met you I said to myself, I like the cut of this man's jib um a phrase you don't hear all the time.

And um and but then I realized oh you probably just get that a lot, You're just a you're a very lovely guy, you're talented fellow.

So so I'm not in some special club for liking.

No, but I will say that you were always very kind to me because when we actually first met I was just a super fan of your show and had gone to tapings.

And I mean I remember seeing you at the old late night show when you came out to L.

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I remember you came to one of us when we traveled when you traveled to L.

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I remember meeting you then and you were incredibly kind and gracious and nice when you really truly did not have to be.

I didn't want to be.

I know it was everything I could do because that's my gig that's not yours.

And then when I was in college I really sort of took it as like I felt like I had made it because I had been on your program before Andy left for the first time.

I know he's left seven times seven times.

Yeah.

He always says I'm out and we always have a giant salute to him and then he comes back.

But it was, it was such like a point of pride.

Like I really did feel like, oh wow, I'm officially like part of this, you know, thing, show business, whatever you wanna call it.

Um and so I think it's always just been a little bit of a mutual admiration society.

We we we get along really fine.

I'll say that real, real fine.

Um, but it's a really weird way to say that.

I don't think so.

I think, I think what I'm talking to Colin I slip into a certain vernacular that he and I understand he's saying a cut of his jib.

It's fine.

Like a nice yeah, really, really fine.

Yeah.

Are you sure you guys aren't just close and he's not just a translator for you?

I think that's probably, it could be.

I remember um and we were bringing this up, I was walking along the beach one day as I do.

It sounds like the beginning of a song I was walking along the beach one day and uh and I saw you and I was so excited because you had just been in the show Fargo.

And I loved it.

I was wary because I thought this is one of my favorite movies.

How is this going to be a tv show?

And so I went on for about 15 minutes about how thrilled I was that you were in fargo, how great you were.

I loved your character and I was looking forward to more and you broke the news to me on the beach.

That know it all changes up after every year and I swear to God I was devastated because I, I really got, I don't know if other people have had this with, I'm sure they have.

I've really liked different seasons but I really liked that season and thought, oh great.

I'm, I'm on this journey and I'm going to see Colin and these other terrific actors go forward and then they reshuffled the deck and I was, I was frankly enraged.

There was, well, that was a brilliant lesson in show business is that I had waited, I think seven years to like try and find like a program that was like, as as good as my hopes were.

And in that time they created shows that only exist for one season.

So, but you know, there was that era of show business which which you and I know Colin I'm I'm sure much older than you, but we both remember that era of show business where you get a on a show and it clicks and everyone likes it, you're all set for seven years.

And then just at some point in the, not too long ago they, they changed it up.

So it's like, did you like that?

I really liked it.

Good.

It's gone because the streaming model and you're like, wait a minute, wait a minute.

What are you talking about?

Can't we have more of those?

And yet the argument can easily be made.

That that's what makes those, you know, those seasons so good because there's a definite beginning, middle and an end.

Uh that's how I like my storytelling.

That's not how I like my jobs.

No, I like my job.

It goes and goes and goes, man, I'm all middle.

I don't like the beginning.

I just like my career pretty much has been, I got started in 1985 went right to the middle and have stayed there and just found different parts of the middle.

And they and people keep suggesting you could probably move on now.

You're over 80 to the, to the later part, like to the part where the bears find Goldilocks.

Uh and I'm like, no, no, no, I like the part where I'm still trying out the beds.

I mean I think that's actually really one of the cool things about like your journey for lack of a better phrase is that you've always seem to be the one that goes towards the area that that tickles you the most, that keeps you as engaged as possible.

Very selfish but well, but to be honest, like that actually makes everything else.

It makes all the other components of show business worthwhile.

You know, if you're not trust me, if you're not digging it, it is a drag, you know, for everybody else.

And that is, I think one of the reasons why I think it's so fantastic that you've like created this space because I thought like, oh man, I'm coming and I'm gonna see Conan and it's going to be Gourlay and like four other people and that's it and it's gonna, I don't know what the space is going to be like, this is a happening, I mean you created a fun house here.

Yeah, the model was Hugh Hefner Chicago home townhouse, which explains your outfit in 1965 it explains your outfit.

I am wearing a beautiful robe right now.

Uh you know, people tell me that it was, it's not the right era anymore and I don't see any evidence of that, not in the style and and your misogyny, it's all still there.

Now we found this space which we talked about from time to time, but we found this space in Larchmont, which is this really nice cool happening area of L.

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And uh and we built our little, I wanted to pee wee's playhouse.

I wanted a bat cave, a place where I think of this more as your little like subterranean silence of the lambs.

Well, you know, you just go through a dark place.

Well, it's a dark room.

There are, you have been outside and, and, and also I haven't seen you in so early.

There are fingernails embedded in the wall.

Wait, I never asked you to put on lotion.

That was your idea.

This is a version of someone to the lambs where Gourlay is at the bottom of the well.

And he asking for more lotion and the serial killers like, wait, wait, what?

I put the lotion in the basket.

You've never looked better in a kimono though.

It's, I think it's very important to say you're in the kimono.