Well, I just have to say it,
everybody here in the studio has what I call Bernthal fever.
Yep.
Ladies, very happy that he stopped by.
But I gotta say this, he's a man's man.
Yep. So, the men,
very pleased to have him here, Eduardo.
Yeah, I was, I was impressed.
Okay. Now tell us what impressed you about Jon Bernthal?
Very charismatic dude.
The veins that stuck out of this guy's neck.
When he was relaxed.
Yes. (all laughing)
Right.
He's so strong.
Taut. Taut.
That he has just veins protruding
out of his neck and it's just, they're there.
I've never heard, I'm sorry,
I didn't know this was a thing. And I'm constantly...
My life has been a series of humiliations, obviously.
I'm constantly hearing about aspects that a dude,
that women like, that a guy has.
And I think, "Wait, we have to have that?"
Like, I knew, "Oh, we're supposed to have broad shoulders,
"and we're supposed to work out and have arms"
and all these things that I neglected to do.
But then when I hear, "Oh yeah, he has veins in his neck."
(Eduardo laughing)
I didn't know!
Okay, I'm sorry I don't have veins in my neck.
We didn't know that's what we wanted
until we saw Jon Bernthal in here and he had 'em.
And then I was like, "Okay."
Not only do I not-
Well, maybe he's got high blood pressure.
Should we be worried about it?
Right. No, he doesn't.
Not only do I not have neck veins that show,
I might not even have veins in my neck.
You know what, you know, I'm with you on this.
Yeah.
I went and had an MRI recently.
They found no veins in my body.
(Eduardo laughing)
They said the blood is just sloshing around loosely.
(all laughing) They did.
They said I was technically more jellyfish than man.
They said, I'm a big bag,
a six foot four bag, and stuff is sloshing around inside.
And then Jon Bernthal comes in here with actual veins.
Yeah. And suddenly I'm the loser?
Well, do you think Jon Bernthal would compare himself
to a jellyfish? No.
The things that you say sometimes.
It's like, "Come on, dude."
Okay. Well, so I understand.
I'm no Bernthal.
I get it.
I was impressed too.
I really like the guy a lot.
Yeah. And you know, that's a guy.
I want him at my side when the apocalypse comes.
Yeah.
Because I've seen him in action.
Yeah. In all these different shows
that he's done and all these different roles that he's done.
This guy knows how to handle himself.
He's the real deal. He's the real deal.
I want him at my side. Right.
My friends now, who I love, I love my friends,
and they've been my friends for like 30 years.
Yeah.
But you know that like Rodman, Greg,
if trouble breaks out,
all three of us are gonna faint at the same time.
You're gonna faint.
And then what are you gonna, how are you gonna, like how,
what are you gonna contribute to society?
Like a sitcom?
Yeah. With no cameras.
Yeah. There'll be no cameras left and no actors.
And the three of us will be in the woods,
making something kind of arch and witty, (laughs)
and we'll say, "This is what we have to..." And then...
(Conan mimicking arrows)
three, like, three arrows go into us simultaneously.
And- Oh my God.
We're eaten. We're eaten.
Our protein is robbed from our bodies.
My thing is that yeah, he's,
I saw Eduardo, Blay, I saw you gazing at him.
You know, get in here Blay. And Blay,
you were the one who, to be fair, said Jon Bernthal is,
before he showed up, and I'm trying to psych myself
for the interview, you said,
"You know what? I love him.
"He's so the opposite of you, Conan."
Why would you say that?
Well, you know, I love his work, obviously.
Oh. So that's why he's the opposite of me.
No, no. (laughs)
But I will say, and I don't,
I'm trying to think of a way to say this
that's not gonna come off-
Just go for it. Just go for it.
He's got such, like, first of all, he's also very funny.
Yeah, yeah.
Very chill, cool energy.
He just smiles at you and your chest just opens up.
Now, I'm not saying, around you, that I'm not always
on my guard and you give off this energy that maybe is,
it's like being near high voltage lines.
Yeah. Yeah.
I felt just like, I was just melted.
Didn't, like, didn't just being around him,
you just- He's intense.
He did, Blay did say if they were gonna do a remake
of Twins, they would do it with you and Jon Bernthal.
(all laughing)
So instead of Schwartzenegger and DeVito...
Yeah.
Jon Bernthal would be the Schwartzenegger,
and I would be the DeVito.
That's correct. Yeah.
Okay. (Blay laughing)
Well, I don't take that as an insult at all.
I admire DeVito a great deal.
I think he's a terrific performer and actor.
And I'd be happy to fill his shoes.
Completely agree. I just think it's-
So I am, what you're saying is that I give off
an electrical charge that makes you tense.
And right now you're clenching.
I'm so nervous! (laughs)
Your whole body is clenching.
I'm nervous you're gonna, like, I know you're,
I'm out of arm's reach, but I'm still nervous
You're gonna come around the table.
Hold on.
I'm trying to see if I could reach you now I can.
I'm nervous. (laughing)
No, I know exactly what you're talking about.
We always look towards what we're not,
and I'm like looking at Jon Bernthal and I'm thinking,
"Yeah he's got some groundedness that I don't have."
I'm sure.
Please God, have this be true.
That there are some qualities I have
that Jon wishes he had. (Blay laughing)
That's not happening right now, is it?
No, there are, don't be so hard on yourself-
Jon's driving home right now.
Jon's driving home thinking like, "There's no quality
Conan has that I want."
Oh no, there is.
But I'm, what I'm saying is,
I do understand why everyone here is smitten
with Jon Bernthal.
It's the same thing with Goldblum.
There's otherworldly X-factor.
Like he's, Bernthal's got old-school Hollywood charisma.
Yes, he does.
Bogey, or even, he reminds me of Fred Ward.
Do you remember that actor?
That recent rest in peace-
Oh, Remo Williams Strikes again.
Actually, no, it's Remo Williams the Adventure Continues,
Okay. but let's just...
Oh my God.
I almost took my own life right there.
(all laughing)
Wow.
I think of him in the right stuff.
Yes. Yeah, exactly.
Tremors. Tremors.
Yeah. Tremors.
Yeah. Great actor.
Oh. Yeah no,
he has that kind of- Tremors.
He has that kind of energy.
But it's-
And you also see it in Remo Williams: Here we go.
Okay, that's not real. (laughs)
Wait, what are you talking about.
Isn't that what it's called?
Don't even joke about that. Then what's it called?
It's called Remo Williams: The Adventure Continues.
I think that's what I said.
No, that's not what you said.
Well, anyway, he's in Tremors.
He's in Right Stuff.
And Remo Williams: One More Time-
(all exclaiming)
Cast a Deadly Spell.
Okay, fine.
But let's just go back a little and correct our errors here.
Remo Williams: Gets It Done Every Time.
And let's have fun.
Fun's fun. We're having fun. Okay.
But let's take this seriously.
Okay.
I think what I thought was cool about him, I mean all the,
a lot of the actors are like,
"Oh, I had a theater background.
"and I went to like school for it and stuff."
But then he comes and he's like,
"Ah yeah, I got beat up by people.
"I got beat up. I fought a lot of people."
Yeah.
And that's just like, that's just cool.
Well, can I say something,
and I wanna just stress to our listeners.
I don't think one should try to get beat up.
I just don't.
I think, and Sona's putting the message out there
to a lot of impressionable young people listening
"It's just cool to get just beat up."
No I didn't mean it like that.
No, but you know what I mean.
You know that I've been in many a scrape in my day.
No, you haven't.
You talk about the one fight you've been in often-
No no, I've been in countless,
because I can't remember them all.
So many times I've woken up on a floor with glass in my ear.
No, that's a different-
It's the one where they
smashed your nose- Glass in my eyes.
They smashed your nose in.
Yeah. That's the one fight
you've been in. That's okay.
It wasn't even a fight.
And it's gonna turn out later on that I fell asleep
in front of an Acer computer.
I remember one time you told us-
And fell on the keyboard.
You got a big gash in your leg 'cause-
I was carrying trash-
And somebody put a tuna fish can in the, in the-
Oh my God.
Yeah. That doesn't count.
You shouldn't even say that story.
I got punched once. For Jon Bernthal.
I got punched once.
One time.
My mother said, you have to take out the trash.
I was wearing shorts, and someone had put a tuna fish can
in the trash bag and it chunked-
As you do.
And it chunked up against my, I still have the scar there.
And I had appendicitis.
Oh my God. Oh my God.
And I had shingles in one eye.
(Blay laughing)
These are, so don't tell me I haven't been
in my share of scrapes in my time.
(all laughing)
How do you not know the authentic title to Remo Williams?
Yeah. I've constantly... (all laughing)
I've constantly been in the shit.
(all laughing)
Constantly, constantly been in the shit. And-
Shingles in one eye. (all laughing)
Yes, I did.
So you had shingle?
I had shingle. In one eye.
And tell me that wasn't the equivalent
of being in a massive prison brawl.
You know? (all chuckling)
I've gotten into it, and I'll get into it again.
God...
I'm a real brawler, a king mixer.
Once I use the,
once you see these ham hocks coming your way,
you best find cover.
That's what I say.
Oh man.
I'm getting the sign to wrap before I-
Nothing's more intimidating than a rhymer.
(all laughing)
"That guy just rhymed!
"We better get the fuck outta here."
Hey, it worked for Ali.
That's all they feared was his rhymes
That's true.
Oh my god.
All right.
Trust me, I'm an amazing brawler.
Let's just leave it at that.