Our guest tonight is a Grammy Award winning founding member of the legendary Wu Tang Clan.

Now he's starring in two great shows to the stars.

Siri's Power book to Ghost and teenage Bounty Hunter.

Very busy.

Those air on Netflix, please.

Welcome to the show, Method Man E have you It's an honor to have you here really is.

Thank you for doing it.

Thank you for having me, Conan.

Appreciate.

Been watching your show for years, man, you're a genius.

Very quickly.

E don't know about that, But coming from you, that's I have a lot of respect.

So thank you very much.

I'm gonna go right home to my kids and tell the method man called me a genius.

First of all, let's talk you are in.

Where are you right now?

I'm at home.

I'm at home.

Staten Island, New York.

Coron Island.

Okay.

You know, I like the idea of during a quarantine being on an island.

Staten Island.

Sounds pretty safe.

Yeah, you know what?

When the whole breakout happened, I think we had the lowest number of cases.

So Staten Island did you know we did pretty well during this.

You That's great.

And you're not going.

Are you going stir crazy during quarantine?

Or are you able to stay kind of saying not like to think of myself as an extroverted introvert?

More more on the introverted side.

So this was a like this was vacationing for me.

I'm good.

You're good.

You're good.

Just You're just good hanging around.

What do you do?

Like, what does Method man do when he's stuck in the house?

And he has nothing to do during quarantine.

What's your go to move?

Quarante.

Crossword puzzles.

S's Me too.

I do a lot of those keep you keep you.

You know what I mean?

And I also do actual puzzles.

White Mountain plug, plug, plug, White mountain puzzles.

It's ah ah website.

You go on.

And it has all these different puzzles.

You could put together retro eighties puzzles, you know, just regular puzzles.

But they're they're fun.

That's cool.

That's great.

I just said that was cool.

I'm not sure it's cool.

I'm really not sure.

I have no idea.

The fact that you're doing it makes it cool.

So, e think if I if I think if I started telling people Yeah, I'm doing a lot of puzzles during quarantine.

I take some shit for it, but you're not going to take any shit for it.

E o plus like a fight E.

And I can't.

Okay.

All right.

Uh, all right, now I wanna have a question for you, which is I've got kids.

And I could never convince them that anything I do is cool.

That's gotta be different for you, right?

It's got to be.

You know what?

In the beginning, when they were younger because my son's first words were Wu Tang, my first son.

That's fantastic, right?

But as they got older and you know, we living in this millennial era now and they're mawr, they need to have it now.

Instant gratification.

I don't think they think I'm a school as I used to be.

So now I have to remind them, like, you know, I people love me all over the world.

I'm pretty famous, You know?

What I mean is like, you guys have no idea like I should respect me.

You should be bowing at my feet right now.

That is a big deal.

Yeah, but you know it.

It doesn't work.

That way.

No, no, not at all.

To them.

You're just dad, you know, Dad's and never cool.

Yeah, but what about let's say you're walking down the street back when we could all walk down the street and you see someone walked by.

We're in the Wu Tang Clan T shirt because those air everywhere and the logos everywhere do they get do they Do they give you the respect?

Then you know what?

That's funny that you brought that up because I recently passed somebody on the street with Tang t shirt on.

I mean, like, passed right by him.

And they didn't speak to me.

They had no idea I was me.

But I get it.

I get it because I could be wearing I don't know what Judas Priest shirt only person I know from Judas Priest is the lead singer.

If I saw him, I could pick him out of line up.

The drummer, the bass guitarist, the guitarist.

They could be standing right next to me.

I wouldn't even know.

And I have had their T shirt on.

Yeah, that's happened to me.

I've passed people on the street that we're in a cone and t shirt and they stopped me.

And they say, Excuse me, ma'am.

Do you know where the coffee job is?

So I've I've been there.

Most people think I'm an older French woman.

They just have no idea.

But you know what I got to say?

You have.

You have such great first of all, method, man.

Such a fantastic name.

Such a great name.

And you consider that your stage name.

But do people in real life when you go out of the bank and you say, Yeah, I want to get I wanted, you know, do this transaction.

Did they say yes, Method man, Is that what they say I want?

I want that to be true.

I go to a couple of different branches.

The really cool branch that I go to that's in my close to my old neighborhood.

They call me Method Man.

Very cool girls over there.

Very cool.

But the person that I've been going to since I've opened my account, this lady named Lori at Citibank.

She known me for 18 years, so she has every right to call me Cliff.

Okay?

All right.

She can do that that she's earned the right?

Yes.

You've got such great nicknames, Johnny Blaze.

Yeah, that's one of them.

I want a Kalyan Italian.

That's fantastic.

You know, uh, Staten Island's finest, uh, cackles hot vehicles.

Okay, that was just a silly name that came up with.

And it was supposed to represent, like, hot loaded nickel, nine millimeter bullets.

But you see how I went crazy with it and turn in the hot Nixon?

Because I had this big Nixon thing going on this stuff, and I just like the way Nixon talk.

He was crooked himself.

But I just like the way you talk.

I am not a crook.

Uh, you know what?

First of all, your That's the first Nixon impression anyone's busted out on this show in maybe forever.

That's fantastic.

And it was very good.

You know what I love?

There's a Wu Tang name.

Generator online, and you can put your own name in you're really name.

And then it tells you what your Wu Tang name would be.

Have you tried?

You know what?

I did it.

I did it.

And my nickname my Wu Tang name when I put in Conan O'Brien is thunderous observer.

Now that's dope.

That's good, right?

That's that's dope.

I like that a lot.

I like that a lot myself when I put my name and it came up Method man, believe it or not.

But then I did it a couple of more times after that.

And it was some crazy throat wizard or some some something weird like that.

You know, everything is wizard.

I ran into a lot of people and, you know, they get wizard at the end of the name or whatever.

I guess it's a Smith thing.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

All I know is you're talking to thunderous observer.

I love that.

I love that it goes with the O'Brien thing.

So, you know.

Yeah, I think I could slide right in tow.

No, no.

Counting the thunderous observer, O brien.

I mean, we might as well put a microphone in your hand and put you right on stage right now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

People would throw batteries at me, aren't they?

Would really whip batteries at me hard.

You know, I want to compliment you.

I saw this picture of you on its from teenage bounty hunters.

And you're in six shape.

You must work out constantly.

Five times a week.

Each day is a different body parts.

And you know, I'm learning a lot about myself.

I'm learning my limitations.

If anything can humble you in this world, it's the gym.

Please believe yes what I do, because clearly you and I work out about the same hold for laughter.

Yeah, but my question my question.

Is this what I do?

It helps me a lot to listen to music.

It motivates me.

Do you ever listen to your music while you're working out?

Yes, I do sometimes not too much.

But I like to listen to more of my current stuff.

I listen to Spotify so I just like to play.

Let's play.

So I get a feel of what's today, what's yesterday and from the far past.

Ah, lot of the music today, though I have to admit, I didn't like it at first because I was more into my 90 stuff.

But the more I listened, the more I understood.

Thes kids got something going on.

Man, I I applaud them and I have to applaud excellence they're doing.

It is I think sometimes it's just natural as you go on your always.

It's very easy to get stuck.

It's very easy to get stuck in.

No, this is the way.

It's the same thing with comedy.

I can think.

No, this is what comedy is, and you've got to keep watching the new people coming up, and you've got to be paying attention to what they're doing.

And still, sometimes I'll think sometimes, no, I don't like that.

But then there are so many times when I think that person's fantastic way kind of nominate ourselves as, uh, the gatekeepers off the art form.

Whereas there are no gatekeepers, this thing always changes.

It always develops.

And it always has something new.

Someone's going to breathe fresh air into it.

You just wish it was you.

Let's talk about power book to okay, Ghost.

You're a lawyer.

There's a lawyer in this, then and you were reluctant at first when you found out the role was a lawyer, you weren't sure.

Is that right?

Well, not exactly reluctant.

Not exactly apprehensive.

I was taken aback for a second.

Yeah, because you know, I'm here in power and you know, I'm a fan of the show.

and most of the show in my eyes is like, you know, where I would fit in, pop, pop, pop, pop out Just the guns off Go out there, smack somebody around, extort money.

But the agent told me No, no, no.

This is a spin off, and they want you to be a lawyer.

So I thought about it.

It's like, Oh, yeah, yeah, I could do that.

I prepared all my life for this.

E could be a warrior.

No problem whatsoever.

But I auditioned, and I, uh, I got the part.

The funny thing is, be prior to this year's before this during my acting classes, I had toe reenact the scene from Philadelphia and I played the Denzel Park.

My scene partner played the Tom Hanks part.

So what kind of prepared for this?

That's right.

Yeah.