You walked in with a gift and very few people do that.
Yeah.
This is very nice of you.
You brought me a book by the great Werner Herzog,
which I don't have this book.
Is this fairly new?
It's new, it's a new book.
Is it a novel or is it his?
It's a novel.
This is great.
Can I read the inscription or is this private?
Sure. You can read it
Conan, today you are Fitzcarraldo
(all laughing)
and it's up to you to get me up and
over that mountain in the Peruvian jungle and let's face it,
it might not be worth it when we get there.
Your friend, Luke.
(all laughing)
I love this.
Have you encountered Werner Herzog in your life?
No, no I haven't.
But yeah, I've been,
I've read a couple of reviews of the book.
It's about a guy that was on a, it's a Japanese guy
that after the war ended, he stayed on this island.
Yes. Famously.
Yeah.
He didn't know the war was over and he stayed
All right, until the seventies.
And then in the 1970s, some tourists were
on the island and they were getting shot
at and they're like, what's going on?
And he wouldn't come out.
I know the real story.
I don't know, Warner Herzog's version.
I just know the real story, which is they had to go
to Japan and get his now very old commander to come back,
Right
And tell him you're relieved of duty.
Oh my.
Oh
Yeah.
I mean, because he wouldn't accept
that the war was over and you had to hear it
from his commander, who was working at a Right Aid in Tokyo.
So, I mean.
(all laugh)
That's how it'll eventually end for us here in Hollywood.
(all laugh)
Your first agent will show up.
(all laughing loudly)
Conan.
What do you want?
I got, I've got like an old musket.
No, you're just firing jokes out of a cave.
Yeah, firing jokes out of a musket.
Conan, Conan come out.
It's fine.
It's over.
(laughing)
There is no show at Radio City.
(all laugh)
The preparation's for nothing
So nice, but you're a big reader.
I know you're a big reader,
'cause you're always talking to me about books
you've just been reading or read.
I buy a lot of books.
You don't read 'em.
I definitely got that from my dad.
Do you build shelves with them?
Is that what, you use them to prop up things.
Always.
I'm always looking for a good book.
Tend to read a lot of biographies
and read a lot about music and stuff like that.
It's not as if I'm reading kind of deep intellectual texts.
Well, it's funny.
I have a thing.
My wife pretty much only reads fiction
and she reads.
That's good.
She reads the classics
and she's very incredibly smart and literate.
And I, always, my go-to was history.
Ah
I will only read history and my attitude was
I just wanna know what, I've gotta know what happened.
I need to know what happened.
Right.
I don't have time to waste.
On someone's made up story.
(all laugh)
You know?
And she'll say like,
and she'll say I'm reading this classic of literature
You know?
and I'm reading Dostoevsky or something.
I'm like, God, it's all made up blithering and blathering.
(laughing)
I've got to know what really happened.
So that's my go to, I'm trying to get outta that.
I'm trying to read more and more fiction.
Yeah, I try and read little fiction here and there.
It is great when you do find a good fiction book
but I will say,
that I had somehow I'd read an Elmore Leonard book
and all I'd really known was kind of Get Shorty.
You know?
That was kind of the first thing I knew, but gosh,
he really has incredible,
I mean, it kind of got me
into reading crime and guys like Ross McDonald
but Elmore Leonard's books are really just so fun to read.
Yeah.
If you don't, not big into fiction.
I mean, they're really kind of fun, really funny too.
Good stuff with friends and cops
and criminals and really, really good sharp dialogue.
I started reading Kurt Vonnegut again recently.
Yeah
I don't know why.
I just was like, oh, it's so funny.
It's dark
Really, that's cool.
And sad, but it's, it's as sharp today as it was.
I mean, it's unbelievable that he wrote it 40, 50 years ago
and it's just still that funny and kind of applies to today.
And so.
Yeah, I've never read any of his stuff.
Kind of read more about him as a person.
Well, you're gonna go home.
Okay.
You're gonna read, there's Slaughterhouse Five
(laughing)
and Breakfast of Champions and then we'll talk.
Okay?
Summer reading.
That's what this is podcast just turned into.
Just me bullying people
into reading books that I just picked up.
(all laugh)
And maybe won't finish.
Oh, come on,
you gotta feed these, finish these.
These are amazing.
They're incredible.