-We have a lot to talk about. A lot of good news for you.
You have just become a first-time grandfather.
-I have. [ Cheers and applause ]
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-That's -- yeah. That's my granddaughter Della.
My son, Ben, and Amanda,
and that's the dog who is having a jealous kind of reaction.
-Yeah.
-She thinks he's a horse.
She's got the reins thing going.
-Yeah, exactly.
That's so cute. Oh, my gosh.
So, how exciting is that?
-It's great. It's wonderful.
It's just wonderful. -Here's a picture of her.
-Oh.
[ Laughter ]
-You're, like, under the table? -Well...[ Chuckles ]
She is Harry Dunn's granddaughter.
-[ Laughs ] I love it. -So I photo bombed her,
and she's realizing that she is Harry Dunn's granddaughter.
Yeah.
-What's she going to call you? Grandpa?
-Well, there was some debate.
The family had a meeting,
which I was allowed to attend but couldn't speak.
[ Light laughter ] -Of course not.
-And they discussed it at length --
"grandpa," "grandpappy."
They settled on "pappy." -Pappy?
-Yeah, yeah, and I said, "Well, all right.
Steve McQueen, "Papillon." You know, I'll go with that.
-That's cool. -It's all I had.
But I just --
You know, I suggested that she just call me "Jeff."
[ Laughter ] You know?
-[ Laughs ]
-You know, I don't know if they're gonna be Catholic,
but maybe they're Catholic, and they're at the communion,
and I'm thinking the congregation,
and from across the congregation, you know,
"Hey, Della. "Hi, Jeff!"
You know? -[ Laughs ]
-I would love that. -That would be cute, yeah.
-But they said, "No. That's not going to happen."
-No?
-So, I, privately,
have decided that, you know,
when she's about 10,
I'll take her aside and go, "Look...
ten bucks every time you call me Jeff."
[ Laughter ]
-That's all you've got to do.
Ah! You're a genius, see?
-I'll take care of it.
-Just take it. Why not? -Take care of it.
-Also, congratulations.
You have a record out with your son.
You have a band. -I do.
The Ben Daniels Band -- It's live. It's acoustic.
We go on tour all the time.
-How fun is that? -It's the joy of my life.
The band knows, you know.
You get music and you get going,
It's just -- You get people going.
And we play opera houses and clubs,
and to play with my son,
and my other son is the tour manager,
it's a joy.
-Have you always played with your son?
-No, I thought I'd have to get a Viagra band.
I thought I'd have to... -I know those bands.
I've seen the commercial. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
One guy's got a jug.
They're all real happy. Yeah, they're real...
-And it's the same two cords!
-Yeah, exactly.
No, he's not even holding his guitar.
Just standing straight up. -It's like stop it. Stop it.
So you get yourself with these young guys around you,
and it's just great.
They all can play, and it's just...
It makes you young again. -That's fun.
-Well, congrats on having the record out.
That's so fun. -Oh, it's...
To have a vinyl... [ Cheers and applause ]
-Thank you very much. -I want to check it out.
-You have had a long, successful career in acting.
Every time you come on, I try to get you to tell me
a quick story about someone you worked with
or something like that. -Yeah.
-Can you tell me a story about Clint Eastwood?
Clint Eastwood? Yes.
Clint -- I did a movie called "Blood Work" with Clint.
-Okay.
Clint has a gun. He kills me at the end.
That's the movie. -Fantastic.
[ Laughter ]
-So we're doing a scene where I'm driving.
Clint's in the passenger seat.
The camera guy is in the back.
We're going down a two-lane.
Clint tells me, "You know,
this is the car I had in 'Dirty Harry,'"
which makes it about 80 years old, this car.
And the steering was a little loose,
I've got to say, and a big front e--
Anyway, we're driving. Camera guy is back there.
He's going, "Jeff, your sideview mirror,
if you can move that, 'cause I can see the camera.
I said, "Yeah, okay.
So I reach out, and I move the mirror,
and then I go across the center line.
Here comes a semi truck.
I'm, like, seeing "Kenworth" in my...
And all of the sudden,
a hand grabs the wheel, like that.
I look over at Clint, and Clint pul--
He says, "That was close."
[ Laughter ]
[ Applause ] -Come on.
-It's true. True story. -How cool. Come on.
Clint Eastwood. -True story.
-"That was close." -"That was close."
-He saved your life. -A lifesaver, yes.
-Let's talk about your new Hulu series.
This is called "The Looming Tower."
And this is based on true events.
The attack on the World Trade Center.
-Yeah, John O'Neill was a guy who worked for the FBI,
who was really focused on Bin Laden in the late '90s,
before anybody really was.
Before bin laden or Al-Qaeda was even on the radar --
anybody's radar.
And John O'Neill kept going down to Washington
and telling anyone who would listen,
including the CIA,
you've got to pay attention to this Bin Laden guy.
And no one would do anything.
They listened, but they didn't act on it.
And they just said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
And John was a big guy,
big personality,
He burned bridges.
He screamed and yelled at people.
And he caused himself a lot of trouble,
but he was right. -Yeah.
-And then what happened --
You know, we all know what happened on 9/11,
but what I learned was, I didn't know about John O'Neill.
I didn't know about this lead-up,
that the CIA and FBI were doing that
and had they not been doing that,
maybe it doesn't happen.
You know, you're looking at this, going,
"I can't believe this."
And it's true. It's true.
So it was a great, great honor to play him, really was.