So many people excited you're here.
The ladies here who work at the show
are flipping out that you
coming on the program today.
(Kevin and audience laughs)
It made me feel like,
"What's wrong with me?"
(Kevin and audience laughs)
And then they told me-
But we do have a lot in common.
You know it's funny,
we both have our separate appeals,
they're different,
but one thing that we have in common
that I didn't realize,
and let me preface this by saying,
we have a lot of Hollywood actors come here
and I'm usually stunned at how small they are.
They're tiny people.
You are a tall man.
And like me,
I'm told you had an insane growth spurt?
Yeah, I was kind of a late bloomer.
Really?
Yeah, yeah.
I started growing in college
and actually even out of college,
so it just-
In college, you started growing?
Well, I mean, late in high school
when I was 16.
That's abnormal.
Yeah, when I was 16.
"I was 38 when it happened for me."
Yeah.
I knew it was gonna be like this with you.
I just knew it.
I apologize.
(Kevin laughs)
But when I was 16,
you know, you get your license
and of course the first thing you wanna do
is look at that license,
everybody wants to look at it,
including the girls.
And that's where it said, "5'2",
which it didn't really bother me at that moment.
But when the girls say,
"Wow you are really cute,
cute, 5'2."
And about the fifth time I heard,
"You're really cute."
I put that license away.
I thought I'm never showing this thing again.
You went from 5'2 at 16 to what?
In my senior year,
I probably grew seven, eight inches,
had mononucleosis,
everything was stretched out.
I continued to grow into college.
So yeah. I'm about 6'1.
I'm not that really tall.
Yeah. Yeah.
But it was like the Incredible Hulk.
It happened so fast.
I was just back in Ventura,
my hometown.
I played a concert back there on Saturday
and I met all the guys that I knew again,
I hadn't seen 'em in a long time
and they were all
about five inches shorter than me.
Well, I'm just curious.
Does that give you an empathy
with people that are smaller?
No I started got 'em all on headlocks.
(everyone laughs)
Mock them.
We were talking about this today around the office,
there aren't many great,
truly great baseball movies.
You have made two of them-
Three?
Well, you know, Love of The Game.
I pitched a perfect game.
Let's not forget that one.
A perfect Game-
(Kevin laughs)
(audience applauds)
Three.
But like,
Field of Dreams and Bull Durham
are iconic films about baseball.
And I'm just curious
when you go to watch a baseball game,
what's it like?
I mean people must react to you
differently in that venue.
Yeah. I have been surprised at that.
I mean, the whole thing
with celebrity and even making movies
and the fact that the baseball world takes me in,
you know, they asked me
to introduce the 50 greatest players
up in in Boston,
and I thought,
"There's gotta be a hundred guys
better for this than me."
And finally the guy said,
"No, we want you to do it."
So wherever I go, I'm asked to play
down on the field with the guys.
It's a nice hall pass I get with baseball.
So I'm appreciative of that.
And another thing we were curious about
as we were talking about this today as well,
that Field of Dreams,
it's an unusual film in that men,
universally all guys, when we watch it,
we tear up at one point
and we're ashamed to admit that we do that
but that is one of the few films
that makes all men cry.
What is the secret to making men cry in a movie?
(audience laughs)
I don't know.
That movie is I think our generation's Wonderful Life.
It's a Wonderful Life.
And it happens.
And it doesn't matter
how often you watch that movie,
when you ask your dad,
"Have a catch?"
It seems to get people
and I'm just glad to have films that-
That's what's possible with film.
That's absolutely why we make 'em,
is that there's always possible for something to happen
that you didn't think was possible
when you went into the movie.
And that's why I believe in the movies.
And that's why I make 'em.
(audience applauds)
We're gonna get to the new film in just a second.
But I did want to ask you,
I know that you have a ranch.
Is this in Aspen?
Yeah. Yeah.
It's probably one of
the most beautiful spots in the world
is Aspen, Colorado.
You have a ranch there.
Is this one of those working ranches?
Are there livestock?
I'm not pushing cattle around,
but I work at myself.
I build the roads and do all the stuff
just because it's what you do.
That is not what I would do.
I'd pick up the phone
and get someone to build a road,
while I bathed in heavy cream
and looked out a window.
(audience laughs)
You'd do it if you're with me,
'cause I'd knock on you and say,
"Conan, come on, we're up,
we're going."
"Not now, Kevin. I'm sleeping."
"Come on you."
(Conan laughs)
"I was up late watching videos."
I understand. I understand.