Hi there, and welcome to Inside Cone and an important Hollywood podcast. It is your hosts,

Jesse Gaskill and Mike Sweeney, and we're here under Sad Circumstances.

Yes, we are. As you may have heard, our dear, dear friend, Bill Tall passed away last week,

and Bill was the original prop master, starting back in 1993 with Leap Knight with Conan O'Brien,

worked with the Conan family for 28 years, and was the most beloved person working on the show,

just from Conan on down, everyone just flat out loved Bill Tall, because he was just an amazing guy.

Yeah, he really was a heart and soul of the show, and consistently was making the impossible,

and fulfilling our crazy requests, sometimes just minutes before showtime.

Yeah, and he was doing that, you know, the first year of the show when, you know, he was like,

oh, is the show gonna hang in there? And I know Robert Smigel just talks about how Bill was a

pillar of strength for everyone else, because he was so positive, and was like, was such a big

voice of, let's make this work. And everyone, he really was a hero, and you know, I know

Conan called him hero in his tweet, and it really was true of him. He, like you said, he made

the impossible, possible day in and day out, and I think it's not overstating it that he, I think

really inspired everyone, and he did it. But he was always in a great mood, and always really

funny, and just like, hey, let's do it. And I always trying to make the show better.

Yeah, I think everyone, I mean, I fell in love with him, like I was there a month, and I was like,

oh, my God, now I understand what a real man is. You know, he's just great in every way.

I wanted him to be our dad. Yes. Yeah, so we're all very lucky to know Bill, and we were

lucky to have Bill and our other property master, John Rao, as guests on the show a few months ago,

and a lot of people said it was their absolute favorite episode, and it's because Bill came

loaded with all these wild, wild stories. Oh, yeah, just he had a notebook fall of

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