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speaking of when you knew you wanted to. do something when I was a very young boy. my dad took me to Downtown LA because. that's where he used to work first. celebrity sighting was a something being. shot a warehouse door opens up outruns. Ben Vine and then outruns Jeff gold. shooting 10 speeden brow okay and I was. going to bring this up that the first. time we met I was TV was my was our life. preserver when we were kids and my my. brothers Neil and Luke and I were really. into what's the new show what's the new. show and we're constantly looking for.

what's the new show going to be it was a. big deal back then now people are. bombarded with TV and streaming all the. time back in the late 70s early 80s uh. you know there was a big deal like ABC. is coming out with its lineup in the. fall and you'd all summer you'd be. excited you'd hear rumors about what it. was going to be and CBS is coming out. with this and NBC is coming out with. that and there was this show that we. heard about called 10 speed and brown. shoe and I my brothers and I watched it. and it starred Ben verine and this guy I.

had never heard of before named Jeff. Goldblum and it was fantastic it. was so good and I was like who is that. guy who's that guy that guy's fantastic. and then the show didn't last 13. episodes is all yeah it was fantastic. and uh Stephen J canell dude who had. done Rockford Files and many other. things and what great great Greatest. American Hero you know well believe it. or not Walking on Air so good y um.

please don't ask me to sing that one. William cat Johnny Cash first sent that. [Music]. in so I you know but it's funny that um. you we all have it's so funny that you. bring that up Matt because that is the. first time that I met Jeff Goldblum uh. I'm using your full name just out of. reverence um you know it would have been. a couple years into the Late Night show. that I met you and you've know you've.

done I mean everything you'd have been. in so many great movies and all I I went. back into your dressing room and I was. like 10 speed and brown shoe and I. remember you were you were like oh yeah. 10p speed and brown shoe and because I. thought you might say oh well who cares. about that you know I've moved on to so. many other things and but it was such uh. it really tickled me when I was a I. don't know was a um how old would I been. 14 15 it like 19880 I think so you were. born in I was 16 17 I was seven when I. saw you guys shooting that and I just.

was baffled by the cameras and that you. did it multiple times and going why are. they doing it again and again why really. you were how did you wind up there what. where my dad worked downtown and he. would take me to downtown quite a bit. downtown LA what did he do your dad he. was a division manager for the gas. company oh I see he also sold drugs he. he major Kingpin yeah so downtown no. kidding and you just happened upon us. shooting no kidding yeah and I was I was. just blown away I remember you know so. funny when you think about these brushes.

with show business as we said earlier I. was so far removed from you know show. business in my childhood and then I'll. never forget my father came home one day. and he said they're shooting a movie at. our at my hospital the uh Peter Brent. Brigham Hospital which is now briam and. Women's Hospital in Boston it's a big. hospital and he said they're shooting. this scene right outside my office and. we were like they're shooting a movie in. Boston near my dad's like right outside. my dad's office that's in that's. impossible.

that can't be and so we rushed over. there and it was a scene where actor. James Coburn oh just has to walk out and. open a car door and get in it and shut. the door and um it and he walked out. they go and action and so James Coburn. walks up and he walks up to the car and. it won't open and it won't open and they. go cut the car has been someone had. locked it with the keys inside so then. we watch James Coburn just stand there.

while three like seven guys crowd around. and start with a with a coat hanger. trying to open the door and I got to. find out the name of this movie cuz I. guess you watch it did this have been. this would have been like. 19712 we could look that up we could. find out um and uh and trying to un un. you know lift up the door and they. couldn't get it and I thought this is. movie making wow yeah what the hell is. this well still one is struck by that.

when you go to you know some movie and. that's you know all the little things. going on hey I'll I love James cobber. you know I saw the first run of arm Man. Flint oh my God In Like Flint oh we're. back yeah remember how the telephone. rang in leej Cobb's. office I have no idea this was this was. kind of almost almost a takeoff on James. Bond but not really I mean it was very. silly derck Flint Dereck flint and then. Austin power had kind of bared some.

things like that kind of the James. Coburn movie I've got to find that out. let me guess after that I think after. that he did a movie called The. President's Analyst you know it could. have been that you know I remember him. talking about it on talk shows I used to. love talk shows when I was in Pittsburgh. I used to tune in to in summer stay home. all day and watch the Mike Douglas show. go from Mike Douglas to you know dinosur. and Merv Griffin and he used to come on. remember he was kind of a. countercultural hippie.

he used to come on with a turtleneck you. know or a medallion or like that and his. he used to come on not just talk he. wanted to play the gong and he used to. he used to bring onto Carson a big big. gong and. go you know that that was his act you. know we had you know what I love in the. tradition of just to just to let people. know that we did our best during my late. night run to keep um the uh the madness. going you you talk about you know how. people would just do strange things uh.

one of the stranger things we did once. was we just put out a salt lick on my. show to see if we could attract a. celebrity and then you did it so nicely. out of nowhere just Jeff Jeff Jeff just. in the corner but he does it sort of. like a like a nervous deer and he slowly. approaches and I'm like oh looks like. looks like Jeff coobo sh everyone be. quiet be quiet and he came out and then. you like sniff sniffed the Salt Lick and. then you took a little lick I remember.

that being one of my favorite such a. stupid I don't care so James cob played. the gong with Carson yeah let's see uh. let's see you have Jeff. Goldblum the Coburn is the carry. treatment carry treatment is a 1972. American Crime Thriller film by Blake. Edwards bass blah blah blah uh takes. place in Boston Boston Dr Peter Kerrey. played by jimes Coburn is a pathologist. who moves to Boston where he starts. working I don't know it but uh Blake. Edwards boy well guess what so this is. another fun story my dad's there um I he.

was this wasn't happen when I was there. they kept shooting this right outside my. dad's window and he kept thinking well I. could look keep looking under this. microscope for a cured or a terrible. disease where I could go outside and. hang out with these movie folk so he. went outside and he's chatting and he. can't believe it but Blake Edwards is. there with his wife Julie Andrew yes and. J and and a friend of my dad's who. doesn't know much cuz he's always. looking in a microscope is talking to. Blake Edwards and then he turned to. Julie Andrews and said said the friend.

of your dad's the friend of my dad's and. said now now tell me Miss what do you do. oh no oh no and she said well I'm you. know an actress as well and he went well. and then later on people told him what. what he did and the guy I think put his. head in a cyclotron at the lab it's like. that scene from na Hill when you know. Julia Roberts comes in and grants I know. reference yes there you go we're getting. closer and closer to her ref you said. Julie Andrew I was like yeah she.

narrated Bridgerton so I know her and. you know what my God Sound of Music. Sound of Music I'm kidding you know when. that when the uh Thanksgiving Day Parade. when I lived in New York uh we lived uh. on the upper west side and my kids were. crazy about seeing um you know the the. parade go by and so I'd always take them. they were little kids to see the parade. and uh once I'm watching on the. television and we haven't gone down yet. and the parade is going by and then they. said and here come com Julie Andrews I.

lost my mind I'm at the time you. know I'm I'm whatever I'm a. 46-year-old man I ran without my kids oh. my God how old were you and I ran all. the way down they were like where you. going I like and I ran cuz I wanted to. get down there fast and I saw her go by. and I was like it's Julie Andrews and. I've been on TV at this point you know. whatever 12 years and I'm like ah Julie. Andrews amazing.