Conan O’Brien can’t resist the intoxicating Jeff Goldblum

Jeff Goldblum continues to have a strange effect on Conan O’Brien even as a podcast guest.

When he launched Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Conan O’Brien said that the goal of the podcast was to uncover why he wasn’t on friendlier terms with his late night guests. Past episodes have revealed that he could very well be good pals with some of the biggest names in Hollywood. But O’Brien’s relationship with actor Jeff Goldblum is a completely different animal.

On the surface, it would seem like O’Brien and Goldblum are a perfect match. Both are known as somewhat eccentric and strange fellows (though in fairness, to varying degrees). It also helps that the quite literally see eye-to-eye as they are the same height.

Yet the latest episode of Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend revealed that Goldblum truly is on another level compared to Conan. And it is very clear that O’Brien is infatuated with whatever “it” is that Jeff Goldblum has.

Only Goldblum could be the guest on a podcast that covers marriage, child rearing, jazz music, pinky rings, human sexuality, and television actresses from the 1960s. And covers all of that in less than an hour.

Like some past episodes, this one also hit on the themes of mental health and therapy. It’s come up with Stephen Colbert and Dax Shepard. So clearly it is something that has played, or continues to play, a big role in who Conan O’Brien is as a person and comedian.

But it’s hard to say how much or what kind of therapy would be required to unpack the dynamic between O’Brien and Goldblum. A “chicken or the egg” scenario may be in play when trying to determine who brings the oddities out of the other. The podcast continued what has been a longstanding strangeness between the two that has played out hilariously on television.

Perhaps if Conan O’Brien wants to be true friends with Jeff Goldblum, there need to be some parameters. They could be those friends who don’t see each other often but can pick up right where they left off the last time. Continuous interaction may be bad for their psyches and marriages, though good for therapists.