Speaker 1: Hey everyone, thank you for joining me for this bonus
Speaker 1: episode of Table for two.
Speaker 2: We're back.
Speaker 1: This week's Lightning Round is with the one and only
Speaker 1: Jeff Gobloom. A few weeks ago, we had the pleasure
Speaker 1: of having lunch together at the Sunset Tower Bar. He
Speaker 1: is one of the most interesting, charming and stylish men
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, and our lunch.
Speaker 2: Was a wild ride in the best possible way.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for you to pull up a chair and
Speaker 1: hear the rest of our conversation soon, but today we
Speaker 1: wanted to give you a little taste with some quick
Speaker 1: fire questions. I asked Jeff at the end of our meal.
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy this little bonus from our conversation,
Speaker 1: and we'll be back next week with another full episode. So,
Speaker 1: in this new sort of Lightning Rounder, question is mister
Speaker 1: gone Bloom we are going to do this cab uber
Speaker 1: or subway.
Speaker 3: Cab or in New York, in New York specifically. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's good. You should have seen me. Just did you know?
Speaker 3: How do you?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 3: You must cook too?
Speaker 2: I cooked like a good steak, I have like a dish.
Speaker 2: I was going to ask who cooks in your house?
Speaker 2: Is it you Emily.
Speaker 4: Emily does and now she's posting some you know, speeded
Speaker 4: up things. Sometimes where she's she shows you her her recipe.
Speaker 3: Oh she I love her cooking.
Speaker 4: She made waffles this morning that I was just crazy
Speaker 4: that I take one quarter of those the kids to have.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I took a quarter and some some French butter.
Speaker 4: She's a kind of connoisseurrup and some syrup.
Speaker 3: And I was very happy. And then Charlie made my coffee.
Speaker 3: But she she cooks nicely.
Speaker 4: I don't do much, although I must tell you today
Speaker 4: I cooked myself an egg.
Speaker 2: You did.
Speaker 4: Oftentimes she has cooked it. But I've realized I'm getting
Speaker 4: to be persnicketty in particular, and so I just about
Speaker 4: the heat and the everything, and I think I know
Speaker 4: what to do, so I could. I've done many different
Speaker 4: scrambled things through the earth these days. One egg fried,
Speaker 4: and I take a spoonful of minced garlic and with
Speaker 4: some butter, and I start that and then I bink,
Speaker 4: I crack it into the pan and then shredded cheese.
Speaker 3: Today I think it was some kind of Mozilla.
Speaker 4: It might have been schaeddared cheese sprinkling on top, salt,
Speaker 4: and pepper just at the right time, flip it over
Speaker 4: more cheese, take it out just at the right time,
Speaker 4: eat it immediately when it's hot.
Speaker 3: I was very very happy.
Speaker 2: And then I've got no bread.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't mind a piece of bread and some you know, toast,
Speaker 4: but I had a little oatmeal on the side. That's
Speaker 4: my carb of choice. I think it's the more wise
Speaker 4: carb choice.
Speaker 3: And it can be very nice. I like it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, some blueberries and then some fresh squeezed orange juice.
Speaker 4: The difference between fresh squeezed and not fresh squeezed vast, yes, vast,
Speaker 4: and the monsieur like fresh squeeze terrifically I can be
Speaker 4: excited about.
Speaker 3: The orange juices are deeply just one. And then uh yeah,
Speaker 3: that was it. And then I got a couple of.
Speaker 4: Hot sauces, a green kind of saltsup in a bottle
Speaker 4: that I like a lot, and this other thing that
Speaker 4: they gave me it highly likely place in Highland Park,
Speaker 4: and they gave me that hot sauce.
Speaker 3: I put those on the side. I was very very happy.
Speaker 2: We wearing a robe when you did all this.
Speaker 3: Oh interesting, what was I wearing? Well?
Speaker 4: At this point, you know, I was already dressed for
Speaker 4: my workout. So I had my my shoes, my you know,
Speaker 4: my workout shoes. Yeah, and my shorts and a little
Speaker 4: T shirt.
Speaker 3: So that was it. But I do like robes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I picture you in a robe.
Speaker 3: I like robes a lot.
Speaker 4: I currently I tried to keep my collection pruned to
Speaker 4: a something minimal and right now.
Speaker 3: I still have the robe that.
Speaker 4: Wes Anderson gave the cast from Grand Budapest Hotel. It's
Speaker 4: in those color schemes, you know, he's a master of
Speaker 4: It's pink and purple with the Grand Budapest Hotel logo there.
Speaker 4: It's Terry Clark and kind of nice for warmth. And
Speaker 4: I have this sort of lighter thing that I pull
Speaker 4: out if it's really warm. I just want something to you. Yeah, stature,
Speaker 4: you just you know, thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like I like a robe.
Speaker 2: Okay now yeah robe. Yeah, so you're going to do
Speaker 2: our speed round?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: Oh we didn't got Buber subway.
Speaker 3: Uber in New York Uber Sway or well.
Speaker 4: I've I've had scenes in the subway. I've been filmed
Speaker 4: on the subway. Even in a Jurassic Park Lost World,
Speaker 4: I have a scene in a subway. I don't think
Speaker 4: it's in New York and I've been on the subway,
Speaker 4: you know these days. You know, cabs I've had, but
Speaker 4: I've had a lot of experiences with cabs in the
Speaker 4: rain and can't get a cab and da da da
Speaker 4: go you're walking blocks to get a cab. Hey, this
Speaker 4: this you know, car on demand idea. It's very exciting
Speaker 4: to me.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 3: Call it up and let's go.
Speaker 2: We're going to super hopping into oobs. Okay, okay, ideal first.
Speaker 3: Date, ideal first date. That's funny you should say that.
Speaker 4: Well, of course, I can only think now nowadays about
Speaker 4: my first date with the lovely Emily Go. And you
Speaker 4: know I met her at Equinox right here, right on sunset.
Speaker 2: Yes, I love that.
Speaker 3: You know I was. I had a membership at the time.
Speaker 4: She was doing her morning but speaking of sliding doors
Speaker 4: and what might have been if not for her sister
Speaker 4: had a baby that day and she would have been
Speaker 4: at the gym like she usually is later in the day,
Speaker 4: but she was up because of the the aby came
Speaker 4: and she I may as well go to the gym,
Speaker 4: So she coincide with me in my early morning workout
Speaker 4: and sure enough, I saw her doing some amazing things.
Speaker 3: And walk walkie talkie talkie talking.
Speaker 2: Wait wait, so she was walking walking you no, no.
Speaker 3: I walked up to her.
Speaker 4: She was doing some skin the cats, you gymnast people
Speaker 4: will notice and tiktoks, you know, some things where nobody
Speaker 4: else can do.
Speaker 3: And I said, what do you do it?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: What is this?
Speaker 3: Who are you?
Speaker 4: Et cetera, et cetera, and so, and then shortly after, oh,
Speaker 4: I know, she said, oh, you know, I'm doing some
Speaker 4: performing tonight.
Speaker 3: If you want to come see me dance. I was like, yes,
Speaker 3: I'm I'm coming.
Speaker 4: So I drove uncharacteristically, it was kind of lateish and
Speaker 4: I drove and got myself there.
Speaker 3: Boy the heart, Yeah yeah, yeah. She was fantastic.
Speaker 2: And is that this? I was quite done, Like you know,
Speaker 2: when it's right, it's right.
Speaker 3: Well, who knows, you know?
Speaker 4: I mean, if time is the malleable thing that we
Speaker 4: think it may be, and there's no such thing as
Speaker 4: the continuum that it seems on the clock, then it
Speaker 4: was already now, and we'd already had two kids, and
Speaker 4: the seeds of what might have been were already in
Speaker 4: the oak tree. Then the acorn was in the oak tree.
Speaker 4: So yes, it's something in me, maybe some molecule in
Speaker 4: some part of me. It got excited about. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: see the whole thing. And then the first day, so
Speaker 4: then that was kind of a first day. Then I
Speaker 4: went to see her dance. And then a couple of
Speaker 4: days later I was playing in the jazz gig. I said,
Speaker 4: you come and watch.
Speaker 1: Me, and.
Speaker 4: One thing led to another and we started to play
Speaker 4: that song from Fabulous Baker Boys, you know, another gin,
Speaker 4: and she got up on top of my grand piano
Speaker 4: and did a kind of an amazing routine spontaneously. That's
Speaker 4: kind of an extended part of this first date. And
Speaker 4: then I said, hey, come over, and I don't know
Speaker 4: what I say. Come over, you know, we'll work on
Speaker 4: a monologue or something like that. I don't know, and
Speaker 4: knock knock. And at that point the story gets fuzzy
Speaker 4: because now what it really is is the trigger for
Speaker 4: this joke that just keeps happening. She never seems to
Speaker 4: tire of it, and the kids seemed to get a
Speaker 4: kick out of it. Where I say, here's what happened.
Speaker 4: I keep retelling what happened when she first knocked on
Speaker 4: the door and came over the house my version, and
Speaker 4: every time it's different.
Speaker 3: Is something that she did that was that was wildly
Speaker 3: aggressive and and you.
Speaker 4: Know she's a nikiva and when saying something rippeled and
Speaker 4: you know, whenever, instead of you know, you know she said,
Speaker 4: you know, that's what she said, it's like, that's what
Speaker 4: you said when you first came over. That's always the joke.
Speaker 4: So I've told that joke a thousand times and that's
Speaker 4: our first date. Really now just the vehicle for this joke,
Speaker 4: this recurring joke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. Charlie and River get a kick
Speaker 2: out of it, and they do.
Speaker 4: Yes, And we keep saying, Charlie, what's true? She says,
Speaker 4: She keeps sayings as robustly.
Speaker 3: As she ever did.
Speaker 4: Know, why would I say that? I couldn't have said do?
Speaker 4: I seem like the kind of race says that. Then
Speaker 4: I say, Charlie River, who's right? And either always shad Mama, No,
Speaker 4: you're allow you know, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: You know, I think that the sliding doors, that's life.
Speaker 2: Life is sliding doors. Yes, you don't know. Whenever you
Speaker 2: don't know, you take a right, you take a left.
Speaker 4: Chaos theory yes, if not for a butterfly flapping its wings,
Speaker 4: we wouldn't have, you know, A Man on the Moon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, favorite book.
Speaker 3: Ooh hey, good question. Well I've enjoyed through the years. Well,
Speaker 3: listen to this. We were just talking about Emily.
Speaker 4: You know what I did on my real first date,
Speaker 4: kind of if you call it, when I said, hey,
Speaker 4: let's go to restaurant. Let's I'm going to take you
Speaker 4: to dinner. We went to some restaurant and I start
Speaker 4: I had it in my pocket or I started to
Speaker 4: read her The Great Gatsby, which she'd never read, and
Speaker 4: over the course of that night and several others, I
Speaker 4: read her the whole book. So that is so I
Speaker 4: do love that books, and that's it's a special place.
Speaker 4: And of course I love I've I like to read
Speaker 4: out a loud, so I've read her. Yeah, you know
Speaker 4: Catcher in the Rhyme, which I like.
Speaker 3: I like PG.
Speaker 4: Woodhouse, you know, I've read all like all of PG. Woodhouse,
Speaker 4: you know, I like to read that. You know, one
Speaker 4: hundred Years of Solitude and Love of the time. Cholera
Speaker 4: awful good these days, you know, I like Michael Shabbin.
Speaker 4: I think that's how he pronounces it. And I just
Speaker 4: read Mister of Pittsburgh, and do you ever read that?
Speaker 4: And I just read and I saw her reading it
Speaker 4: today because I gave her my copy of and I
Speaker 4: read some aloud to her. But she's kind of going,
Speaker 4: we don't get so much time as you can imagine
Speaker 4: these days where I can sit down and say, let's
Speaker 4: spend another couple of hours and I'll read you the
Speaker 4: next two chapters. And so she's reading The Yiddish Policeman's
Speaker 4: Union by Michael Schabban, which I got a big kick
Speaker 4: out of, kind of noir thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think i've ever heard someone reading to somebody.
Speaker 1: I like that. It's very romantic and it's really kind
Speaker 1: of great to be lost in someone else's voice and
Speaker 1: telling of a story in someone of your caliber.
Speaker 2: Who is now he's giving a smirk, like, who me caliber?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, I'll tell you who's a good reader.
Speaker 4: Is Emily Boy What an actor she is? Yes, because
Speaker 4: every night we read out loud to the kids. But
Speaker 4: really she I read some, but mostly she reads me
Speaker 4: in French and in English. She's a great reader, and
Speaker 4: she plays all the parts and it's very fun. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: I got your house is fun?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and okay, good haircut, bright the way, thank you.
Speaker 2: The worst part about fame, about fame, about fame.
Speaker 3: Let me see, let me see.
Speaker 2: Why did you know you were famous?
Speaker 4: Well, sometimes I'm not famous, you know, case by case basis.
Speaker 4: Oh sure, somebody said, as a matter of fact. At
Speaker 4: the super Bowl, this woman who she'll remain nameless, was
Speaker 4: in our group and said, oh, you know, I have
Speaker 4: this show. I'm kind of a I have a news
Speaker 4: show locally in San Francisco. Who do you think is
Speaker 4: going to win? What's your prediction?
Speaker 3: I said, I don't know. If I went away in
Speaker 3: that what's the color of the gatorade?
Speaker 4: At the end of the thing, I said, okay, turn
Speaker 4: on your iPhone because that's what you want to do,
Speaker 4: and I'll give you something and you can do it.
Speaker 4: And she said, okay, this is so and so from
Speaker 4: W and so so and I'm here with Jeff Goldberg
Speaker 4: and Jeff and I said, okay.
Speaker 3: Keep it rolling, you know, but I can I maybe
Speaker 3: it's impolite, but can I just correct you? It's it's
Speaker 3: actually gold bloom.
Speaker 4: And then she was she got oh, let's start again,
Speaker 4: let's tell you so that I said, that's okay, you
Speaker 4: could have put that on the air. But anyway, so
Speaker 4: people know me a little bit or not much or
Speaker 4: not at all, or you know, as a matter of fact,
Speaker 4: listen to this. I'll tell you something. I kind of like,
Speaker 4: did you say the is this question the worst part
Speaker 4: of the worst part there could be? Well, i'll tell
Speaker 4: you it all came home today. I was I can't
Speaker 4: tell you what establishment. We were looking into a new
Speaker 4: kind of thing to do and place to go and
Speaker 4: U in La today Emily and I were talking.
Speaker 2: We said, like a general thing to do something new
Speaker 2: and it was a.
Speaker 4: Particular kind of club or something something of something. Because
Speaker 4: we got to talking and I said, hey, you know
Speaker 4: who was talking about that? And she said, hey, that's
Speaker 4: a great idea. Let's let's go all them, right And
Speaker 4: I said okay. And I was a little bit happy
Speaker 4: once again because I thought, hey, I can help this situation.
Speaker 3: Because sometimes when I call, and I do it in
Speaker 3: a I think a.
Speaker 4: Gracious and elegant way where I say Hi, how are
Speaker 4: you this Jeff Goldblum. So I say I say hi,
Speaker 4: they say they answer, I say Hi, this is Jeff Goldblum,
Speaker 4: how are you? I think, I say, wanting to pass
Speaker 4: by quickly, but I do say my name, and sometimes,
Speaker 4: as we know, for for good or ill, if it
Speaker 4: makes people sick, I understand completely.
Speaker 3: But and I probably shouldn't have been.
Speaker 4: Accept the steps that I sometimes get to pass through quickly.
Speaker 3: But anyway, I don't mind it.
Speaker 4: And so and so sometimes people go, oh, let's help
Speaker 4: you with her restaurant or whatever it is in this
Speaker 4: case today, and so I like that part of it.
Speaker 4: It's and I don't it's it's it's it's kind of yiky,
Speaker 4: But at the same time, I don't mind it.
Speaker 3: If I can go, hey, Emily, let me help you.
Speaker 3: I think we'll be.
Speaker 4: Taken care of a little better. That's a great part,
Speaker 4: and we'll have a little magical moment. Somebody will be
Speaker 4: happy and we'll be taken care of, and the whole
Speaker 4: thing I think. I like that.
Speaker 3: There's many examples of that. When it doesn't this, I
Speaker 3: think this person said hell.
Speaker 4: They were already kind of hello, no, no, no, kind
Speaker 4: of perfunctory, if that's the right word.
Speaker 3: I say, hello, this is Jeff Goldwam. How are you?
Speaker 3: They said, fine, I went on.
Speaker 4: We're realizing immediately this was not the open says to
Speaker 4: me that I hoped, and they they said, I said, yes,
Speaker 4: well let me ask you is it in a question question?
Speaker 4: And they maintained the same level of of you know, aloofness,
Speaker 4: and and then we put down the phone and it
Speaker 4: didn't ruin the whole thing.
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, yeah, well we may pursue this,
Speaker 3: but gee, that didn't. And then I assess it.
Speaker 4: I kind of did a recap of the whole thing
Speaker 4: with Emily, and I went, well, here's what I was,
Speaker 4: here's what we got, this is what they seemed they
Speaker 4: were going through, this is who it seemed like they were, and.
Speaker 3: Maybe they were thinking this, et cetera, et cetera. So
Speaker 3: that's a boring story.
Speaker 2: Anyway story because it's like you don't know what you
Speaker 2: go further into it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was. It interested us, and it really
Speaker 3: was about this whole thing. Right.
Speaker 1: It's funny because when you realize something doesn't land the
Speaker 1: way you think it's going to land, like you try
Speaker 1: to us to see if you can lift it up again,
Speaker 1: and then you're like, okay, this is not going in.
Speaker 2: Okay, and then okay, we'll wrap it up with.
Speaker 5: These are so easily stimulated. There's about everything. None of
Speaker 5: them interested. Okay, this will be my final. They're all interesting.
Speaker 5: Superpower you wish you had.
Speaker 2: Super power?
Speaker 3: Superpower?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 3: Right, Well, off the top of my head.
Speaker 4: A little bit on the piggybacking on the last story,
Speaker 4: which is really the upshot for me of that story.
Speaker 4: It's like, hey, Buster, talking to myself. Take it easy.
Speaker 3: You know, who do you think you are? After all?
Speaker 3: So really, I mean that's the upshot of that last story.
Speaker 4: No matter how much fun Emily and I might have had,
Speaker 4: you know, busting ourselves over, here's what I expected, here's
Speaker 4: what we didn't get, and look how the world is really.
Speaker 4: I mean, here's one answer. If I had a superpower,
Speaker 4: it would.
Speaker 3: Be all right, put this to be.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, to be at you know, at a moment's
Speaker 4: you know, on a dime, devoid of which sounds too
Speaker 4: high falutin to call it ego, but you know, attachment
Speaker 4: to one thing or another, whether it's my own identity
Speaker 4: short lived and fleeting as we know, and you know,
Speaker 4: superficial identity.
Speaker 3: Uh, it would be that something in that vein. I
Speaker 3: don't want to sound too high fallutin.
Speaker 4: But really a kind of a larger perspective, the superpower
Speaker 4: of having on demand a very available the largest kind
Speaker 4: of perspective, and and and and and we're not even
Speaker 4: necessarily talking about something necessarily spiritual or high fallutint. Let's
Speaker 4: just call it what what in the same in the
Speaker 4: same adjacent to what juve All Harari talks about, which
Speaker 4: is just, hey, as a homo sapien, here's where we've
Speaker 4: come from. Uh, this is who we are, and what's
Speaker 4: the best what's the best that we can do? That
Speaker 4: that's a pretty good I mean, human beings are really
Speaker 4: possessed of the potential of real superpower and it's sort
Speaker 4: of in that area of of being conscious. Let's call
Speaker 4: it anyway, that's my real answer. I mean, instead of
Speaker 4: instead of something stupid like em shore invisible or my
Speaker 4: arms could stretch, you know, around the corner by myself.
Speaker 2: We hit a wild ride today with you, sir. Thank
Speaker 2: you very much, Thank you very very much.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
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