Sona Wants George Clooney On The Podcast (Feat. Norah Jones) | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I'm thinking about all the different. people you've collaborated with because. you mentioned Ray Charles but what what. what's amazing to me is that uh you have. I think a very enviable career you. you've had massive commercial success. and you're respected and you're a nice. grounded person and you can so like that. you know of. let me find out word gets. word gets out yeah yeah yeah I guess I. talk to Uber drivers and they tell me um. but like you've collaborated with Keith.

Richards yeah what's that like. again just like a nice human you know a. musician yeah yeah sometimes you do. these collaborations and the song's. already been recorded and the person's. not even there and you go in and you add. your vocals and I've done a couple of. those with Keith but I've actually been. in a room playing music with him a few. times and it's incredible I would yeah. that would be sort of Otherworldly yeah. um. you know I just uh in the few times that.

I've had little contacts with him oh. yeah very you know like he didn't know. who I was or anything. um but I'm sure that's not true no no. this was years ago before I you weren't. wearing a new little t-shirt I had it on. even when I was before I had a TV show I. had it on. um but uh it feels to me like it would. be a great exercise to one. one might not immediately link Nora. Jones and Keith Richards but you can get. together and musically you guys can yeah. find find the groove or find what it is.

I mean we both love Hank Williams right. so I it's not a problem it's it's it's a. language and it's like that that's. what's so fun about this podcast is it's. like a never-ending list of people to. just play with and play music with but. it's like really just like playing in a. playground you know it's like that it's. so fun and do you have like your bucket. list of these are the people I've got to. have on your on your podcast that you. want to mess around with it's just never. ending it's yeah it's a bazillion people.

it's like of course you know my Idols or. or a Young musician who I admire or. someone that nobody knows about that I. just like or you know whoever I mean. that's so fantastic yeah and I think. that's what this medium this podcast. thing. what I'm I I mean every time we come. into the studio I I'm delighted that. this form exists me too it's it's like. intimate yeah and fun and it's it's I'm. never you know gonna get invited to.

dinner with you probably so it's fun to. just have this time together to talk and. I know you've asked a lot I'm still not. ready. find that very hard to believe yeah yeah. I just need to hear a little more of. your stuff but you know what I mean like. there's a lot of people you might not. cross paths with in an intimate way well. that's so that's a way to really connect. yeah that's what I was I was uh on my. way to work today and I called. the the guy who's a good friend and he. booked music on our show all through the. 90s 2000's Jim Pitt oh yeah I remember.

him yeah and you know great person who. uh helped put the really put the musical. stamp on on my show which was so. important to us and um I called him up. and I just was as excited and I said hey. I'm going to be I just want you to know. I'm going to be talking to uh Nora in. like half an hour and he was like oh my. God and we were chatting about how nice. it is and I said to him. all these years Nora's been coming on.

my show and Performing and of course we. chat but I never got to sit down with. you and talk to you yeah because people. don't realize show business is you know. you do your your set your sound check. your rehearsal I come down I say hi then. I've got to go and do my stuff then you. perform I thank you and then you move on. I move on yeah it's brief yeah and this. is this is what I love yeah you know. it's so much it's so like warm it gives. me the warm fuzzies you know because I.

didn't know that uh country music was so. important to you yeah and I didn't grow. up in Texas yeah it was in the water. yeah you know and my mom's from Oklahoma. so this is it's a familial thing on that. side of my family do you have a favorite. Hank Williams song. um I mean so lonesome Micah cries just. about one of the best songs ever ever. sung yeah yeah yeah and sad I love that. Ken Burns documentary on uh country. music oh yeah yeah and you know he's.

taking you through everybody and then he. gets to the there's the chapter episode. about Hank Williams and it's entitled. Shakespeare of the South oh. like yeah that's right that's right yeah. I mean I love that music. um but also you get to like work with. outcasts Foo Fighters yeah so it's run. the gamut I've been super lucky yeah has. anyone ever asked you like can I do a. duet with you and it was someone you do. not want to do that with you mean do I.

say yes to everything. I just meant in person you know I meant. like the awkwardness in person yeah like. you're talking to someone who like let's. do this yeah well actually I'm ready to. do a duet with you yeah. it never happened like that ever but. yeah I mean I've turned a few down I. guess I've got my ukulele I have my. bassoon. on we could do it right now I would do. that probably it was just like really.

easy but um I I don't know I I've turned. a few things down I've turned a few. things down where I really liked the. person and I just didn't have time you. know stuff just happens but doing this. podcast it's like I have to actually ask. people now and that's kind of. nerve-wracking first to ask people to. come be on my my show now right and and. being in that position of asking and. maybe getting rejected that's been like. the most kind of like oh I don't know. what I'm doing you know you know what's. funny uh I'll just just because I've. been doing this for so long uh I used to.

take it personally yeah if someone. couldn't come on the show or said no to. the show I took it as them saying Conan. O'Brien uh thank you no yeah and jerk. that guy yeah and then later on it took. me years because my my publicist used to. say no don't take it personally they're. in town yeah and then I realized because. I'd been on the other side of it it. where I'm someplace and they'll say like. hey there are these five people that or. these five shows that are saying can you.

come do something and you think I'm only. here for a day I can do one or I don't. really want to do that this time or I. can't do it yeah and you realize that. it's not personal at all I mean. sometimes it is sometimes celebrities. say I despise that guy and I don't. realize why that has to get back to me. from them personally yeah yeah George. Clooney calls and says no no no no you. are not my cup of tea you're way too. silly uh.

um if only that were joke uh oh come on. oh come on not Clooney I'm just no no no. he loves me we'll connect eventually uh. but no no let's not put that out there. or do we oh what's that I want George. Clooney yeah really can you be better. can you change yourself. go get him tiger try I'm gonna try and. up my game yeah thank you get all of. Oceans 11 in here.

at the same time yeah please I think I. could get two of them Carl Reiner no no. no you can't get him anymore I could. have I could have but uh we'd need some. voodoo magic to get him now nice one. Gorly by the way yeah I picked the one. guy who's not alive yeah no I'm talking. about waiter number three oh okay oh. he's good though yeah. um what is your. I thought you just went right back into.

a question that's what I have to do I'm. a pro. Nora gets it because she's a pro I'm. sorry I'm sorry right you run a podcast. you know how to just snap back I love. when you get Sona going it's my favorite. thing when I get her angry no when you. get her laughing like I want to get her. laughing when she gets going it's my. favorite thing too actually well it must. feel so good to laugh like that it does. it's rare to laugh like that. and then also just working for someone.

for for Conan O'Brien has been of course. well I think the thing that comes uh. that that is real is uh how much. happens between Sona and I uh. and laughing that isn't recorded yeah. because I will call you and say there's. something really important I need you to. do for me and then it's something that's. completely made up yeah yeah and um. he'll go on riffs on the phone with me. just because I'm laughing and I think. it's a because it's a drug it is good to.

have her around it is he's such a great. laugh oh thank you thank you probably. less so no Worley isn't really a laugh. girlie is funny as hell I know yeah. I remember when I first started. listening to your podcast he was just. kind of quieter yeah well he's a quiet. and then he started he's really come out. yeah oh yeah and now guess what now. we're trying to get him back again. it's like it's one it's a Jack In The.

Box that I'm trying to jam yeah get back. into the box can't do it. really well no no it's it's I got very. lucky because this all came together I. mean Sono I knew was going to be part of. it and then uh they brought this girly. guy in yeah and I said absolutely not. and they said no one else will do it and. then that's true that's true because I. was being blackmailed oh my God it's a. beautiful thing.