{"id":1508288,"date":"2022-06-08T18:04:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T22:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508288"},"modified":"2022-06-08T18:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T22:04:31","slug":"i-was-c-blocked-conan-obrien-says-al-gore-ruined-his-one-chance-to-meet-bob-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-was-c-blocked-conan-obrien-says-al-gore-ruined-his-one-chance-to-meet-bob-dylan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Was C***-Blocked!\u2019: Conan O\u2019Brien Says Al Gore Ruined His One Chance To Meet Bob Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-was-c-blocked-conan-obrien-says-al-gore-ruined-his-one-chance-to-meet-bob-dylan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508288&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Comedian Conan O\u2019Brien and actor Jeff Goldblum recently bonded over the fact that they both almost met legendary singer and songwriter Bob Dylan \u2014 but at the last minute, in both cases, something had happened to derail the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Goldblum, speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/sean-penn-conan-obrien-denounce-cancel-culture-calling-it-soviet\/\">O\u2019Brien<\/a> on Sunday\u2019s episode of the comedian\u2019s podcast \u201cConan O\u2019Brien Needs a Friend,\u201d said that he had seen <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/bob-dylan-to-sell-catalog-for-upwards-of-300m\/\">Dylan<\/a> while he was shopping with his wife, former Olympic rhythmic gymnast Emilie Livingston.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien began by referencing a previous meeting with Goldblum when the latter had recommended a good place to go for jeans. \u201cIt\u2019s like the John Wyck hotel, but for clothes,\u201d O\u2019Brien explained, saying that there was a place in the back where they also made hats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know who I ran into there once?\u00a0I was with Emilie, we went there to pick up a pair of jeans or a hat or something. And, um, it was just us and Bob Dylan,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/jeff-goldblum-under-fire-for-questioning-anti-gay-anti-woman-aspects-of-islam\/\">Goldblum<\/a> explained, to which O\u2019Brien exclaimed, \u201cOh my God!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goldblum went on to say that he had been talking with someone about his own purchase when he saw Dylan walk in, and by the time he had wrapped up his own business, Dylan had already come and gone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe got his hats from that guy. I saw him outta the corner of my eye. I kept \u2014 I had really important business. I was talking about a hat and he came in and before I could say anything to him, he left,\u201d Goldblum said. \u201cBut I think Emily, I don\u2019t know if she said anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien seemed surprised. \u201cYou didn\u2019t go up to him?\u201d he asked \u2014 and Goldblum replied,\u00a0\u201cNo, no. I wish I had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comedian then revealed his own almost-history with Dylan, saying that he had been backstage at a Dylan concert waiting to meet the singer when then-Vice President Al Gore had swept in and gotten all the attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to see some concert of his and I was backstage and someone pushed me to the front of a line and there he was, the great Bob Dylan. It\u2019s my one chance to meet him. All the conversation stopped and Bob Dylan looked at me and he went, \u2018I know you from the TV,&#8217;\u201d O\u2019Brien said. \u201cAnd just then, the other person backstage was Vice President Al Gore. And then I hear \u2018Conan, Conan, it\u2019s me Al Gore.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I go, what? We\u2019re all there for \u2014 We\u2019re all there for a concert to see Bob Dylan performing. And he goes like, \u2018I love rock and roll,\u2019 you know? And suddenly he\u2019s talking to me and, and I see Bob Dylan scuttle away. I was c***-blocked with Bob Dylan by Vice President Al Gore. That\u2019s a true story!\u201d O\u2019Brien concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full episode here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Conan O\u2019Brien and actor Jeff Goldblum recently bonded over the fact that they both almost met legendary singer and songwriter Bob Dylan \u2014 but at the last minute, in both cases, something had happened to derail the meeting. Goldblum, speaking to O\u2019Brien on Sunday\u2019s episode of the comedian\u2019s podcast \u201cConan O\u2019Brien Needs a Friend,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1509064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}