Jake Tapper & Conan Convince Sona To Watch “Quincy M.E.” | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

the 70s are filled with oh let's just. try it. and in this crazy kind of way like it's. true the Brady the Brady The Brady Bunch. which has been had been off the air for. like five years and someone said what if. they had a variety show and we dressed. them all kind of like Evel Knievel like. in jumpsuits right and we put them in a. science giant Sound Stage with a. Olympic-sized swimming pool. and uh we got a bunch of uh synchronized. swimmers women as synchronized swimmers.

to do Esther Williams stuff from the. 1940s right and we'll have them all sing. songs and dance. you mean the kids from The Brady Bunch. know how to sing songs and dance no God. no idea that's not important it's. Plum won't do it she says it compromises. her because just get another blonde lady. they did they replaced Eve plum. Hill daughter and they got a different. person to play her and they never. addressed.

no I don't know why she wouldn't do it I. think it's a time she thought she heard. Olympic-sized pool and she said this. probably doesn't sound good if they had. come to her like three years later she'd. have said where do I sign but uh it was. just it was just a crazy time I went out. to dinner last night and no and our. waitress. um was uh raised on a houseboat and I. said oh like Quincy and the the Blank. Stare that she gave me you know Quincy. me yeah that's the problem there's a. generational Gap do you not know who.

Quincy is I don't know who Jack Blackman. played oh Jack Klugman do you know Jack. Klugman no do you know The Odd Couple. yeah we're talking about human lives. yeah I don't know what you're doing. that's Quincy. go about a medical examiner he's played. by Jack Klugman and it was kind of a big. show huge and and he lived on it to give. him some color they had him live on a. houseboat he was a ladies man and he was. a ladies man okay he was a ladies man. but my medical exam my favorite I saw a.

trailer once for a Quincy episode this. in real time in the late 70s and. they said and tune in tonight you know. Quincy goes to the track for some fun. and it shows the horse racing and it. shows the actor who plays Quincy Jack. Clement going go go go when the horse. goes down and you see the horse collapse. and you see like literally Hooves in the. air and then they say. um uh they uh Quincy they just have a. shot of Quincy and he's looking down at. the horse and he looks up dramatically. and he went this horse was murdered.

it was like 1980 and I was jumping up. and down in front of my TV set this. horse was murdered but that's one of the. shows that what was the show you did uh. with uh with uh Adam West it was uh look. well yeah look well Robert smack when I. did a pilot for Adam West called look. well about uh uh like a and then and. Quincy was one like Banacek Quincy uh. all those shows Mannix were like they.

were part of what inspired you yes there. were a guy who doesn't play by the rules. yeah. come on yeah but he's like in part of. the system he does it no no yeah. and also they're always people are. always saying to him Quincy come on it. was a clear heart attack no it wasn't. and I'll prove it and then he goes. rushing off and um it's so much go on. YouTube and look at these Quincy clubs. there's one okay.

[Laughter]. put the kids to sleep early. but you know what you would like to my. kids you know what you would like and. then we'll move on to more prosperous. areas but I swear to God there's a clip. out there there's an episode where uh. Quincy encounters the phenomenon of like. punk music and punk dancing and. something bad happens to somebody and no. I'm not kidding they actually tried to.

recreate it but it's like 1970s TV. writers conception of and it's the band. is like yelling death death murder hate. and Quincy's in the audience going. what's happening. what's wrong this song was murdered his. song was murdered we're doing Cole. Porter right it's like when Elizabeth. Berkeley on said brother Bell got. addicted to uh caffeine oh yeah yeah. like that kind of like see now you're. edging up into territory now I know. trying to bring it bring it up a little. bit thank you it reminds me of the time.

Big Time Rush made that movie. where they went to London and the bad. guys tried to get them did I went now I. went too far into it too I know who Big. Time Rush is but I don't know what movie. you're talking about it's it's good to. know about everything so now my kids. don't know any of the stars that I know. or or think well that's what I'm what's. interesting to me is like in your books. you're touching on all these characters. that I know and then I think I don't. know uh and and I you know I grew up.

I grew up knowing about stuff in the 50s. 60s 70s you know. um and you know once you're once it's. happening in your lifetime you know it. but sometimes I get the suspicion that. now a lot of kids don't know about. anything that happened before them is. that just me being a cranky old guy I. think that might be you being a little. bit of a I mean people know older things. but the things that you know or like. shows that ran for one season that no. one else talks about Quincy was it. Quincy was a huge show Quincy was big. yeah was it guys yeah Quincy was a big.

show it was a huge show but there was. also like three channels that's true. everyone it was a different time and. Quincy was so big it was on all three. channels. simulcast but but the opposite's also. true I don't know what it is what it's. like with um your kids but my kids know. people that I have no idea what they're. talking you know when you go to the the. CVS or whatever in like a magazine cover. and I'm like I have no idea who they're. 30. you know what I don't know who any. of them that's reality television but I. think because a lot of it is you know.

Jen it tells Kristen she better back off. because you know Nico is hers and it's. something from below deck the underwater. series whatever and I don't know what. any of it is that's a really good job. someone doesn't know who I am and she's. still figuring it out. yeah who are you again uh yeah I think. it's funny because I was wondering these. books must be a nice. because your day job I would think it's. very intense yeah and then so you spend.

a day talking about uh is this is the is. the system that was constructed 240. years ago possibly crumbling and then. it's okay you can go home now and maybe. it's fun to go into a room and be these. imaginary people that live in a. different time yep and just uh yes and. during. um yeah during this political era it's. nice to run away from it all although. there's a lot of obviously there's a lot. of resonance for what is going on today. in this book because the two plus so. it's Ike and Lucy tell the story their.

brother and sister Ike is with Evel. Knievel in Montana and that is that. becomes like kind of a plot about. um demagogues and people who follow. demagogues like why would you follow. like Evil Knievel decides he's going to. run for president kind of like a. publicity stunt and he and his and this. gang of people who are living in the. woods of Montana start including like. start following him to watch Washington. DC. to raise hell and so that was a way to. kind of explore that topic and then Lucy.

is working for a brand new tabloid in. Washington DC called the Washington. Sentinel which is being started by a. British media magnate named Max Lyon who. was very obviously Loosely based on. Rupert Murdoch so in the book you. originally called him goobert gerdoc. you saw an early draft and then your. lawyers got involved. gerdock hello Mike. I'd have never heard your Australian.

accent oh is that Australian I thought. that was fantastic that's not a knife. this is annoyed but no but 77 do you get. into any Star Wars in there Star Wars is. mentioned it's mentioned at the. beginning just checking due diligence. yeah no I can uh I can Rachel the girl. he's in love with uh reference uh going. to see Star Wars also the a film that. I'm sure you're familiar with called. tentative tentacles have you heard of. tentacles one of them aliens uh Jaws. knockoffs oh okay horrible movie starred. Henry Fonda like it has all these huge.

actors. um it's about a giant octopus I imagined. and um what you might not know is that. uh octopus octopi don't even have. tentacles they have arms so it wasn't. even named correctly why. why what why everything well it was just. again this is called the late 70s yes. and that summer of 77 I remember really. well because I I was and am a huge Elvis. fan and that's the summer that Elvis.

died which is also a plot point in the. book and the big Caravan of Evel Knievel. they stop at Graceland and mourn Elvis. uh and then he jumps over the casket. and crashes. Graceland by the way at the time was not. a museum it was just where he lived. that's where he lived yeah yeah. um yeah my house is now a museum even. before I go really yeah. everyone it's like when you go to a room. to room and you push a button it's me. there this is where I read the paper.

have you ever been in Graceland oh yeah. it's like the White House surprisingly. small. yeah it is uh very small I mean you can. imagine when Elvis got Graceland and. he's like 20 right and he buys this. house it he couldn't imagine a bigger. home and then all these years later now. that we live in this era of like. mcmansions and have people being in big. spaces Graceland is like oh this is cozy. it's nothing like cone land no which. I've been to I'm gonna build a cone land. yeah I'm gonna build it I mean it is.

quite nice I'm sure it's going to be in. the Smoky Mountains have they all been. to Conan uh you've been to Cone land. many times yeah really yeah yeah you. both have been to my home yeah yeah yeah. yeah of course and there are a few times. you don't even know it. I saw you the camera caught you once. I wanted that though. is beautiful uh uh yeah. large it's a big tourist attraction I'm. the only guy that is trying to get this. the celebrity star bus to go by I'm like.

waving them in you're like you know. hello actually you send out uh Sona to. give Maps I do yeah to the to the map. people and it's just your house right or. sometimes I'm just say I just say I'm. Adam Sandler's house and then from. behind the Hedgehog. by the way he killed it um he killed at. the at the Sandler Mark Twain award you. did a great job it was fun it was a. really fun night Conan did a great job. he definitely put a lot of work into it. in a good way I mean yeah you got it we.

got to prepare you got to prepare it's. the way I prepare for these things but. I'm just saying Mr Tipper. all the demons. are here.