Conan Pitched Himself For “The White Lotus” (Feat. Walton Goggins) | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

hello my name is Walton Goggins and I. feel cozy nice about being Conan. O'Brian's friend you know I appreciate. that and I think I just hugged you on. the way in and I lingered on the hug you. did linger and I lingered too I was I. was I didn't know who was going to pull. away first and I think we did. simultaneously just because we were. making everyone else. uncomfortable we were separated by your. publicist you started talking about his. musculature and then we were in great.

shape in great shape well I that's that. has a lot to do with the White Lotus it. has a lot to do with uh whenever anyone. is not working at the White Lotus it's. walking into the gym and saying oh hi. hello hello could you please get off the. treadmill right. now we've been down there for for three. months and uh I wanted to talk about. this because I was in uh Bangkok I don't. remember how long ago now shooting for. our travel show it was over a year ago. it was the the day after your birthday.

last year left so we were there it was a. really hot day and so I had my. experience there which has been well. documented then before you guys started. shooting White Lotus I run into none. other than Mike White in a restaurant. really and we start chatting because. we've met each other once or twice. before and he's a very funny cool guy. and I said hey so you're going the next. season of White Lotus you're going down. to uh you know to Thailand right and I. said I was there uh I had a great time I.

made a lot of friends and then I said if. there's a part for me um you know I'm. available and he looked at me and he. said you know there's there's a lot of. sex work there uh and I said I could I. could do that I could what this I could. play a part where I'm a sex you know a. male jiggo or something depraved this is. the last podcast you will ever do Conan. yeah I just hey yes yes you could do. that.

yeah I believe that you could do that do. you think I could play that part or do. you think I actually could be a a jigo. well I think you're I think you could do. both I think you could play that part. and and you could be that person in real. life I appreciate that absolutely I I. believe it's all about hydration no it. huh that's 1% what take it from. me no but I got to say I absolutely. loved it I loved it there I loved the. country and uh and the people were. fantastic and it must be an amazing.

place to be shooting question for you. did you go outside of Bangkok did you. get up to changai or or down we we did. not get to because we have to get. everything in about I would say 10 days. wow and we have so much to do that we. found that if we travel within the show. right we've we can do it in some places. we did it in Norway but if we try to. travel to in Ireland where things are a. little more concentrated but we really. wanted to get down to bouquet we wanted. to uh get up north but you lose too much. time when I first got to Bangkok the.

very first time it's this is a cool. story okay uh so I'm there I'm meeting. my mom for like this first like three or. four days it's at a particular time in. my life and I'm looking for something so. my mom accompanies me for a few days I I. we we meet there we get there we do the. last leg from LA or wherever it is in. Hong Kong uh into um into Bangkok we get. in at night you know you want to kind of. stay up I'm with my mom and and we go. have we find a we're staying in a super. cool little small hotel in the middle of.

nowhere uh this area called watpo that I. found like online because it was before. smartphones and all the rest of it and. we go out and have a drink and you know. here we go this is going to be our. Southeast Asian Adventure yeah go to. sleep wake up to a phone ringing right. and for some reason I just thought. because I'm a narcissist that's probably. for me that phone ringing is probably. somebody's probably calling me it's like. my w you know my girlfriend at the time.

I go downstairs I'm jetlagged I I pick. up the phone and the woman is screaming. at me and TI so obviously it's not for. me you hope obviously and I said whoa. whoa whoa no no no no I'm so sorry uh. this is I I'm just a guest here I I. thought I just picked up the phone. because I thought uh and she stopped me. mid-sentence and she said there's been a. coup and I said I'm sorry what did you. say.

she said there's been a there's been a. coup so you stay in the hotel the. military took power there while you were. just hanging out my first morning there. and and I'm thinking okay God I wish I. looked as cool as James. Woods but and I thought I didn't know. that it was she was it was really. happening but she said yes there's been. a coup everything is cool it's a. peaceful coup you're fine just hang out. in the hotel until we get there you know. don't go outside and uh and L mle they.

did they did come you know 45 minutes. later or whatever we got dressed and uh. we walked outside and it was a a. peaceful coup and people were out in the. streets and their tanks were out and the. guns were out and peaceful tanks and. peaceful guns yeah yes nobody guns made. of guns made of like. rubber I didn't know there could be. peaceful coup yeah I know it very yeah I. don't think there was much resistance to. this coup but it was that was my f that. was my entree into southeast Asia my God.

and I had the most incredible time of my. life and I agree with you I I I think. that they I think Tai people in general. are some of the kindest uh most generous. peaceful people I've ever met in my life. they very warm and and I happen to know. this about you one of the things that. you love when you travel is drinking. with people in different strange. situations that is true and so you like. part of your ethos when you travel is I. like to share whatever the local drink. is with with people you like to embibe.

and that's a way of getting to know the. culture that is yes that is one way of. getting to know the culture and it it. happens to be my my favorite. way of of getting to know the. culture for. sure yeah but I do I travel you know I. do I travel with an open heart you know. I have no itinerary uh it's uh about. improvisation for me and you know I've. made my way into some places that you. can't buy a ticket to you know and.

experiences that are once in a lifetime. only because I I I I genuinely am. curious about the world and I'm curious. about people and their worldview and uh. and I I want to get to know them and and. and I've been invited into a lot of. circumstances that uh just because I I I. I I come heart forward I guess in that. way I'm curious because it it sounds. funny but it also does seem to be like a. natural way to get to know a culture is.

to have their drink do you know whatever. because yes it relaxes you yeah. everything and and but it's also I mean. son and I traveled to Armenia together. and we were having the Armenian food we. were also we were having whatever they. were drinking oie yeah and they they. take a lot of pride in it and it's good. yeah and I remember and the same thing. uh you what you got uh trash uh I did. but I was in Finland they kept saying. Conan she's she still hung over and it.

was it was like eight years ago uh but. we went to Finland together you didn't. come to Finland but when I went to. Finland they have a drink called Corin. kova and when you first take a shot of. it I think you just took this from a jet. engine this but then you start to see. the wisdom of cor kinova so uh you know. and and so when I encounter people now. from the different travels that I've. done if I mention their drink if they. run into me in New York City and I'm. talking to someone from Finland I say.

hey too bad we can't go grab some corkin. cover they're like yes you see me you. see me yeah and I say yes and you see me. I'm I think an. alcoholic but I like to be seen I like. that you know me.