Sona Movsesian
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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Suspiciously Healthy
Well, I just looked over at Sona and this is what she was doing.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Suspiciously Healthy
Can you just be someone that can speak the dead language of Latin?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Suspiciously Healthy
Conan O'Brien, suspiciously healthy. Wait a minute.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Suspiciously Healthy
Does he know that you're getting advice about your relationship from Conan on here today?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
Did you say you're a fan? Yeah. You said as a fan. I am a fan.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
You're trying to get on the show.
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Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
Well, where are we going now? And it goes back to what you're saying, too, just talking about that moment on the street, but also with Javier Bardem. Yes, we'll do all this research and like, okay, you're going to go to Botin and have a meal with him. But then you really take it from there and improvise within each segment. So much of it is improvised. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
Yeah. But I also think, I've said it many before, but just from having a late-night talk show where you worked in six-minute segments, I think, and shot tons and tons of remotes out on the street, you bring all that when every one of these situations, you go into it going, all right, I'm having dinner.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
with Javier Bardem in this restaurant, this will probably be a five, six-minute piece, and your brain, you just know you're also directing it kind of as you go, and we're all looking for a dismount. But you are as well, and we're always trying to think about what's the out.
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Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
It's like punching yourself. We put you in a bag with wild dogs and cats and threw you in a river.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
Paid employees loved it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
It was Javier Bardem. No, I'm disappointed it's Javier Bardem.
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Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
Right. Probably because of the 10 minutes notice before recording.
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Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
They were extra invaluable in Spain because, well, Jose grew up in Spain and Jesse grew up all over the world and is very fluent in Spanish as well. Yeah, very helpful. And of course, I too. And you have a knack for Spanish.
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Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
No, if you need to go to a library. Excuse me, la biblioteca.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
I'm a fan fave. I can do whatever I want.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
You should not have told me I was a fan fave. That was a big mistake.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
We have three fans in this episode. Three fans. Which is one more than usual because they were all great.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
He's great. Unbelievable. The whole week, we'd check back in with him and be like, because he's... TV, TV's great. What a medium. But he's a movie star.
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Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
He was like, it was like handling plutonium.
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Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
Cinema. And bilingual. He's the master of the Spanish cinema as well as now the English language. So we'd be like, are you sure? Because... Also, it was physically demanding, the things, and we were going to shoot with Javier Bardem.
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Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
I can't wait to see this. He finally just was like, listen, I am yours for the day. Yeah. I will go start. And we started at 7 a.m. Yeah, 7 a.m. We met him at the Prado. The Prado Museum. Prado Museum. They would only let us in before they opened their doors. And right through till the evening. He's my hero.
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Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
Take it easy. He was incredible.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
Good to see you. Hi, Sona.
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Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
You're a room fave. Room fave. I like being a room fave.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
And he still and he produces everything in the field, everything on the ground. And it's my favorite. One of my favorite things is when we zero in on potential countries. So he'll call, you know. Spain, he'll call the fixers there and he'll talk to two or three. Fixers, the people that arrange everything. There's a registry of television producers where he'll get recommendations. I see.
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Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
And he has this, I always like talking to him because he has this unerring sense of it. And he's like, I talked to three people. I got a really good sense, a really good feeling about, you know. The second one. Yes. And he's always, they're always great. Wow. Yeah.
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Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
There's tons of improvising.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
I missed the drop at the hotel. And he's like, you know, you kind of live in the town. I assume you have a washer and dryer. Amazing guy.
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Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
Really? And that kept COVID going.
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Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
I was off by two years. 1725. And the food is very good. They're famous for their suckling pig, which... And so there's an actual room where they're mass-cooking suckling pigs, and they're all up on these little plates all around this room where they get re... They kind of heat them up again right before they go out, so... I have to say... That room was amazing.
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Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
Yeah, they're all very charming. Yeah. Well, you know, a lot of the legwork's done. when you talk to your fans here on the podcast. So we all get a really good, I mean, you know, like in Spain, Bruno, the airplane pilot. Do you remember him? Yeah, I remember Bruno. See, see, see? Well, so then it's kind of like, uh, duh, let's go visit Bruno. Wasn't he like really dashing or something?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan O’Brien Must Go: Spain Roundtable Discussion
He was unflappable. Yeah, he he he was a good advertisement for him. For him as a pilot, he was very large and in charge.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Canada O'Brien
What color are they? What are they sponsored by? What's on their sled?
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Canada O'Brien
It's like you're shipping something somewhere and it's got to get there fast.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Canada O'Brien
Conan O'Brien needs a fan. With Conan O'Brien, Sona Movsesian, and Matt Gourley. Produced by me, Matt Gourley. Executive produced by Adam Sachs, Jeff Ross, and Nick Liao. Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino. Take it away, Jimmy. Take it away, Jimmy. Supervising Producer, Aaron Blair. Associate Talent Producer, Jennifer Samples. Associate Producers, Sean Doherty and Lisa Byrne.
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Canada O'Brien
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Canada O'Brien
You would just slide down the track into a crowd of people dressed in black.
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Canada O'Brien
That's a little rough. That's a little rough. Sorry. Did you bring your dog to the podcast?
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Canada O'Brien
How do you even get into bobsled? You call it bobslaying?
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Never Ask Directions In Rabat
Hi, Yusra. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan. Hi, Yusra. How are you?
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Never Ask Directions In Rabat
There's that robotan arrogance. I love it. You are so arrogant.
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Never Ask Directions In Rabat
Conan, what I'm hearing is maybe what you're getting to is you want to know, where are the clubs? Are you going to take them to the clubs?
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Oh, my God.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Desiccated.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
I was going to say, I didn't want to mention it, but I heard you say the lest is history.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Did we mention that it's for achievement in comedy and it's given at the Kennedy Center? American comedy. Yeah, that's why. I don't know if we mentioned what the Mark Twain Prize was.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Someone lied to you.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Yeah. For the most know-it person who should never use the word Riz.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
No, we got to stop. They just took the award away. They're here to take it away because I said Riz or both.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
There were a lot of old characters.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Yeah, yeah. I'm not going to give anything away, but there's a lot of, you know.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Will there even be one again? We don't know. Who gets it next year?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Look at me now.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Who won that one?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Didn't it feel like a funeral, kind of? Sorry, doesn't it feel like we were eulogizing you in a way?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
She said it felt like we were eulogizing you and kind of did.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
I don't know.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
A bowl. No one eats lasagna out of a bowl.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
It went off.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
That's when it started going downhill.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
I love it. And you were really, really funny.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
And she co-created Party of Five, which for my generation is, you know...
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Well, there are no stakes, really. I mean, and also, I don't know if you felt this too, but that's one of the most nerve wracking speeches, though, just to talk to you about how much you mean to people. That's a very awkward speech to do.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Your kids were there. Liza was there.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
I had no idea who was going to be there.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Kumail Nanjiani.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
There's pictures.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Oh, okay, I'm sorry.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
You guys know that things are documented.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
It was very cool. It was nice of you to acknowledge that.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Well, I didn't want to. Oh, okay. Well, there's a lot of uncertainty there, too.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Long In The Leg
There's so much water that's almost spilling. Hi, Micah. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Long In The Leg
Natural woods, Micah. I see you have those famous Dutch books.
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Long In The Leg
Conan O'Brien needs a fan. With Conan O'Brien, Sonam Ovsessian, and Matt Gourley. Produced by me, Matt Gourley. Executive produced by Adam Sachs, Jeff Ross, and Nick Liao. Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino. Take it away, Jimmy. Supervising Producer, Aaron Blair. Associate Talent Producer, Jennifer Samples. Associate Producers, Sean Doherty and Lisa Berm. Engineering by Eduardo Perez.
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Long In The Leg
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Long In The Leg
That's my favorite food and you're somehow making it off-putting.
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Get Over Myself!
I can't believe there might be a point in the future where the three of us are faces that close together. We're going to.
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Get Over Myself!
Conan O'Brien needs a fan. With Conan O'Brien, Sonam Ovsessian, and Matt Gourley. Produced by me, Matt Gourley. Executive produced by Adam Sachs, Jeff Ross, and Nick Liao. Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino. Take it away, Jimmy. Take it away, Jimmy. Supervising Producer, Aaron Blair. Associate Talent Producer, Jennifer Samples. Associate Producers, Sean Doherty and Lisa Byrne.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Get Over Myself!
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Get Over Myself!
Hey Dan, welcome to Conan O'Brien needs a fan. What? I couldn't remember if it was friend or fan.
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Get Over Myself!
There's three mouthpieces here. This is like the equivalent of sharing a milkshake except for a thruple at a Grateful Dead show.
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Get Over Myself!
It's a chill chums bong so you all can take a hit at the same time.
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Get Over Myself!
Is this a gerbil? What? Those are gerbils, yeah. Oh my God. You put Charles in there. Let's talk of gerbils. This is incredible. This thing is, we need to take Bley.
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Get Over Myself!
What are you saying? How does this get in your butt with these three things in the way? What's your butt like?
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Get Over Myself!
We have Conan's doodle on there. We've got the old... We've got Late Night Moon and Stars, Team Coco branding, Conan on TBS branding. It's got a big cockatoo kind of glass... It could be a pompadour.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Get Over Myself!
That's the real question. Do you think we'll ever actually three? Yes, we will. Does it work? I think we will.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Get Over Myself!
I want to drink anything. There's no drinking when it comes to bogs. There's no drinking. You said, oh, you take a sip here. Can I just say one thing?
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Get Over Myself!
He's also made some glasses here. We have some glasses.
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Get Over Myself!
And then he made special drinking glasses for each one of you. This is really—I'm—God. Sona, this is yours here. Oh! Gorgeous. And this is for Conan. It's obviously the biggest one. Oh, my God. And then Matt here. The smallest. Yeah, these little goblins.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Get Over Myself!
Is it safe to drink out of? Dan, can I drink out of this? Okay. Yeah, you can drink out of it. How long did it take you to build that bong?
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Rascally Nincompoop
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Rascally Nincompoop
But it doesn't bother you that your picture is associated with people just going pee-pee and poo-poo? No, no, those are beautiful.
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Power Point Night
No, you're not. No, you're not, Cooper. You can't lie about the Civil War.
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Power Point Night
You can meet someone at a Civil War reenactment. You've done a Civil War reenactment.
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The Cock of the Rock
Can you postpone the wedding till after the Oscars?
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The Cock of the Rock
Yeah. You know, Sona means gold in Hindi. Okay, no one cares.
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The Cock of the Rock
We're talking about India. And my name means gold.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
The Cock of the Rock
No, no, no. You know what? You're right. And I get it. And I own that about myself.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
The Cock of the Rock
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The Cock of the Rock
He's really having a really sweet moment talking about India. I couldn't help it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Club Grub Hub
Conan O'Brien needs a fan. With Conan O'Brien, Sonam Ovsessian, and Matt Gourley. Produced by me, Matt Gourley. Executive produced by Adam Sachs, Jeff Ross, and Nick Liao. Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino. Take it away, Jimmy. Supervising Producer, Aaron Blair. Associate Talent Producer, Jennifer Samples. Associate Producers, Sean Doherty and Lisa Byrne. Engineering by Eduardo Perez.
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Club Grub Hub
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Club Grub Hub
I think if we just use just kind of foggier voices like that. Yeah. Now you just sound.
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Club Grub Hub
9, yeah, starting at 9. I'm asleep by then. No, no, I'm serious.
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Club Grub Hub
Yeah, what time do you go to bed? And are you going to bed just in full digestion mode where...
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Club Grub Hub
Young and hip again. Your children are nowhere to be found, but you're back.
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We’re gettin’ Belayed!
We're on the same team. You're tearing our team even further apart.
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We’re gettin’ Belayed!
You know, chill chomps when I was drunk. Yeah. I was happy I was drunk and I was also frustrated I wasn't also a little high. Yeah.
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We’re gettin’ Belayed!
Yeah, I want to belay. I want to be in charge of your life.
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We’re gettin’ Belayed!
Oh, no, I was thinking Josh Holme from... Queens of the Stoners?
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We’re gettin’ Belayed!
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We’re gettin’ Belayed!
Yeah, I like that idea. I think we should do this team building thing. I think that would really bring us closer together.
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Fanhausen (Re-Release)
Yeah, I think that you would be arrested if a lot of the things that you said were relieved. What are you talking about?
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Fanhausen (Re-Release)
Well, she's asking if you ever turn your mental illness off, but it's actually much more amplified a lot of times.
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Fanhausen (Re-Release)
Sorry, I know. I'm just using what Leanne said. Yes, your gift.
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Fanhausen (Re-Release)
Oh, God. What? Why is that your first impression?
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Fanhausen (Re-Release)
I'm not trapped in a celebrity bubble. No, I'm not even adjacent to it.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
That's an intimidating room. To be up on that stage and looking at all those people must have been intimidating.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
Yeah, I, you know, I was really, um, you can say it. I know I was a little nervous for you and it was weird not to work it. It's one of the, you know, those big events that I would normally have worked. I didn't work at the event.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
I brought tack and we were sitting next to Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
We were behind the complete unknown cast.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
Yeah, we were in the fourth row. Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were just a few rows ahead of us.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
I really think you made a mistake. And I just didn't move the whole time because I was like, I can't draw attention.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
Yeah, and also, every time you'd come up, Tac would be like, yeah, Conzi! And I'd be like, stop talking. You can't do that here, it's the Oscars.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
Behind, Oprah! Oprah sat behind you!
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
How did that happen? So, you know, Erica Brown was there as well, who works on the show. And I was like, we have to get you to meet Oprah. So we were following her.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
And, you know, she's from Jackson, Mississippi. Everybody back home is just like, oh, my God. And so, you know, I was like, we'll just walk by her and I'll like push you into her. You know, like just like.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
So we were following Oprah and then she just disappeared.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
And I think she went out of like a special exit, you know.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
But it was really exciting to just be there in the audience watching you and just like hearing the jokes for the first time. You know, I mean, it was it was awesome. It was really, really cool. And everybody around was talking about how great you were doing.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
How much of this show do you guys write?
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
Yeah, but like the rest of the Oscars have a different writing.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
So you guys are on the fly, just, like, coming up with things.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
Yeah, we were real pleasant leading up to your mind works constantly when you're focused on something. And, you know, I feel like a lot of times when you're getting your creative energy out, you're just making fun of us more than you normally would.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
Do you feel that way too, Matt?
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
I felt like it was just. A cloud of anger.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
So it was a real joy for all of us who work for you.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
It was a nice reunion. It was really, really nice to see everybody.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
A room set up just to make fun of people.
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Conan Recaps the Oscars with Mike Sweeney
What's next? I mean, you've hosted the Emmys. You've hosted the Emmys.
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Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
Two baskets, naughty and nice, and they can make the choice, but they have to choose one.
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Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
And we could make a chart of, like, who went naughty and who went nice. Cher went naughty. Jane Fonda went naughty. Oh, that's fine. Colby Hahn went nice. You guys keep saying Cher.
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Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
Blay, you know that a rap light is just an indication. You go as long as you want.
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Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
It's a whole party full of people that gets bisected.
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Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
It's like, no, it's some line on the ship that gets broken and then like 50 people at a 1920s party just get severed in half and that becomes the ghost ship.
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Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
They put actual pieces of gold in here. And actual pieces of Hailey Bieber.
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Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
It's red. I like the joke. Thank you.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
Hold it up and look at the bottom. That's her blood.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
Conan O'Brien needs a fan. With Conan O'Brien, Sonam Ovsessian, and Matt Gourley. Produced by me, Matt Gourley. Executive produced by Adam Sachs, Jeff Ross, and Nick Liao. Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino. Take it away, Jimmy. Supervising Producer, Aaron Blair. Associate Talent Producer, Jennifer Samples. Associate Producers, Sean Doherty and Lisa Byrne. Engineering by Eduardo Perez.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
I want to find out what's going on. Do you have any exhibit A's?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
I just want to say Sona and I have your back at all times.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
They look kind of saturated with oil or something.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
We should be trying some of these. I know you're not supposed to eat on podcasts.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
It looks like a vagina. This looks like a vagina. And in the ear.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
Just a skinny dipped dark chocolate peanut butter cup.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
You just attacked her for 10 minutes straight. I know, what?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
In every term of Musk, you're not the Musk.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
You just knocked both of the gluten-free brothers on the floor.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
There's no mushroom jerky in there.
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Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
Try the seaweed. And is it possible that we start kind of tailoring it to what we think the guests would like? Because this all seems very Woody Harrelson to me, but not necessarily. Oh, this is awful.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
God, I've never seen him so charged of all the things. Maddie, do you taste test these?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
My daughter eats these seaweed things and they're not anywhere near as good as these ones.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Snack Attack with Talent Coordinator Maddie Ogden
Right. Have you ever seen Ghost Ship where everybody gets bisected by a metal cable? That's kind of what this is.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
I have an update from this person I will not name. OK, that's OK. I asked, is Ryan's roses fake? It is right. And the person said, depends on who is asking and what they would want to use this information for.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
That was my superlative in high school, most legally dubious.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
Well, there's usually some big city ex-boyfriend that they've got to kind of like get out from under, but barely.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
And don't sell yourself short. You've disappointed all of us as well. I was calling. Listen, you are my core fan base.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
What would your situation, if you're the star of a Hallmark movie, what's your situation? Who are you meeting? Where are you going? Who are you leaving? Well, geez. Okay.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
Well, you have Conan O'Brien written on your hand currently.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
A woodsman. Not even an outdoorsman. You have the specific trait of a woodsman.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
We thought we might initiate a series of staff reviews here at Team Coco facilities. We're going to start with your producer, longtime producer, Jeff Ross.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
So anyway... So wait, it's back on there? Just like an old dry pig ear?
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Elle Fanning Returns
Okay, let me get back to the review part of it. Could I just do a segment of reviewing the staff reviews? Because I have a couple notes. Hold it. But listen.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
Well, when something's quizzical or skeptical, one falls out.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
Totally painless. All right. Foreskin on the table.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend with Conan O'Brien, Sonam Ovsessian, and Matt Gourley. Produced by me, Matt Gourley. Executive produced by Adam Sachs, Jeff Ross, and Nick Liao. Theme song by The White Stripes. Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino. Take it away, Jimmy. Our supervising producer is Aaron Blair. And our associate talent producer is Jennifer Samples.
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Elle Fanning Returns
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Elle Fanning Returns
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Elle Fanning Returns
But should it be that you are in a current relationship with a kind of mean, snobby academic and you go to a rural area and suddenly you meet this, let's say like a nature guide, a woman who's like does whitewater rafting and breaks you out of your shell and you don't know what to do and you frolic and she finds the real you.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
Yeah. And then you leave her and go back to the office.
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Elle Fanning Returns
Hi, how are you? I'm good. Hey, I want to bring up something that was a direct quote from you just now. You just said, in this room, when I see a Hallmark movie, I watch it.
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Elle Fanning Returns
And then you guys kind of get marooned on a little forest island and you have to like kind of spend the night and make a fire together and stuff like that.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
Like a mama owl puts its wings over the baby owl's ears.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
It's sad that these cheaters are fake and that they're not real cheaters. What was the show?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
But this isn't like Santa Claus. This is good news that this is fake.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
Well, you know it better than I do, because I, yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Elle Fanning Returns
I just texted a deep source within Ryan's Roses. And I asked this person if it was fake. And hopefully by the time this interview is over, we'll have at least their denial, if not admission. Okay. This is good.
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Elle Fanning Returns
I'll say this is Ryan. Yeah. It's what we've been doing. Maybe he doesn't know. Yeah. He could be Nixon, innocent.
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Christina Ricci
Yeah, I mean, it's a historic bar in L.A. It's like a really cool spot.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
So you've been more than once in the bar aspect of it where I've had drinks there and I've partied and I, you know, I love it there.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
You just wear your, everybody knows what you're thinking.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
What? The bin of balls at Chuck E. Cheese. They just changed your camera. No!
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Is it T9 texting? You have to press each button until the letter pops up? Yes.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
No, the whole point is that they can't. That's why it's a burner phone.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
And I have your number too. And Jeff has it. Where are you going to go? What are you going to do?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
But you're also very recognizable. So people will like see you and maybe someone who knows Liza will just be like.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Yeah. Every single person. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Isn't it kind of nice, though, not to like be obsessed with looking at your phone?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
I don't want a smart phone. No. I want a, yeah, I want no email. I want no apps.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Flip it up. Yeah. What's the what's the slogan? Hey, so are you saying that flip town?
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Christina Ricci
The flip flop isn't good because a flop means it didn't go well. I'm trying to... I came up with a good slogan for it. Just say flip town.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Yes. A lot of products. Waxes and Eastern oils. Why are they Eastern?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
You know what? I'm the one who moved. Everything is different for me. You don't even look at the camera when we're recording most of the time. Nothing's changed for you.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Shouldn't we get one of those lorgnettes? I didn't even know that was the word for it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
You know, a bin of balls just tells me you've never been to a birthday at Chuck E. Cheese.
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Christina Ricci
You know, I will take you. I also used to hear one time a kid died in a ball pit. And I think it was suffocated. Yeah. Yeah. Like they got stuck underneath them. But it's not true. It's an urban legend.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
We should just cut that part out, but that's what I heard. And did you ever hear that?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
But the ball pits are all gone now, too. Oh, that's sad.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
What did he just say? What did he just say earlier? Shut the fuck up.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
I do think, you know... I know, maybe that was, you know... Okay, sorry, go ahead.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
I think you know, okay, la, la, la, la, la, we have to like talk when the microphones are on. But sometimes I just want to catch up with you guys because I'm actually your friend.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
We're friends. And sometimes it's okay to just catch up.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
I love you, Adam. And can I say something to bounce off of what Adam just said?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
I'm saying you're not someone who's like making like, hey guys, let's wheeling and dealing decisions. I'm doing it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
You've been doing this for so long that I'm surprised you don't know how to talk into a microphone properly.
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Nicholas Hoult
Off of what Adam just said, how often during when we were taping the show did you hold up rehearsal because you were noodling on your guitar so much? And isn't that kind of the same thing? We both have a process.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
Are you comparing yourself to Prince? Yes. It's the same thing. You do podcasting.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
I'm just saying you wouldn't know what's wrong because you don't.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
Just admit it. Just admit you bring soups from the old country.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
You were the first one to spill all over this, and it was like a full glass of water.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
You know what's funny is I'm thinking of khash, which would come with like a hoof. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
I'm trying to share with you. That's all I'm trying to do.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
Look, it's just because I like you. You don't like it when I have a good time sometimes.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
This is a bigger conversation about how you, the work environment you've created. Yeah. And how we can't comfortably speak. So I'm glad you brought this up.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
This is kind of like us having Miller time. You know what?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nicholas Hoult
I have a process. Can I say something, though? I think you always forget, out of the three of us, I'm the least... Professional.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
I'm not talking. So I, you know, like completely checked out because it's not coming out of your mouth.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
I mean, it's unheard of that anything I would say would have any.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
You don't even hear words coming out of my mouth like when I'm talking.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Yeah. Let's get some Ralph Fiennes content.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
He's still got it, and he can get it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Yeah, I know. I'm not going to fuck Ralph Fiennes. I mean, it's not going to happen. I shouldn't have said it, so I'm not going to make love to him.
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Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
He would be. If there was any chance of him coming on, I think I just killed it, right?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
That killed it. No, no, that killed it. You don't know.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
I think it's because they're not, you know, they don't do enough. Like, he needs to, like, hook up with, like, you know, Selena Gomez. What? Yeah, yeah. Like, something needs to happen.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
You just want to talk about Benny Blanco any chance you can get.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Does it mean if I say she draws like a 10-year-old?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
I mean, no offense to Amanda.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
They had to, I think, sit on the edge of the seat.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
I'll have to get back to you on that.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
He was pooping in the potty and he had the pee pee.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
We should do this. We should predict what people are going to wear and stuff.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
So those aren't the only three AAA listeners. No, no. Those are the only ones we did. Yeah.
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Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Yeah, we do that. We talk about, I mean, Ruthie's the one who's kind of spearheading it. And she goes around and makes a list of what people are going to dress up.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
I think they forget that you do this podcast sometimes.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
No, no, no. I meant like just like wearing the same stuff a lot.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
I love that you're talking about Benny Blanco sliding into your DMs while you're talking to Benny Blanco. That just made me laugh.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Someone would be rude enough to just be like, hey, old guy, why are you at this party? You know?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Yeah. All the women are undressing.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
You just shouldn't go to those parties. If someone invites you, just don't go.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Who knows? You could be. You could go to a party where Benny Blanco and Selena are.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Oh, my. I don't even know if I can like say give it justice because I was talking about something and you were talking about something and you were talking.
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John Mulaney Returns Once More
Yeah. Okay. So there were eight people. It started with eight people. Okay. First, you're up against Jennifer Lawrence. So, you know. Who I love and who's hilarious. The other people are Paul Rudd, Shaq, Idris Elba, Gordon Ramsay, Jennifer Lawrence, Lorde, and Ariana Grande.
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John Mulaney Returns Once More
And these are all really memorable Hot Ones episodes. I mean, you know.
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John Mulaney Returns Once More
And they really chose such flattering pictures of everyone.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
John Mulaney Returns Once More
Your funeral when they have pictures on the... Yes!
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John Mulaney Returns Once More
Oh, my God. Yeah. A lot of things they can etch on your tombstone.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
John Mulaney Returns Once More
There could also be a little masturbating bear. Your tombstone could be a freak show. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
John Mulaney Returns Once More
I mean, it's just all the stuff in your mind.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
John Mulaney Returns Once More
When, you know, you get a lot of fan mail.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
John Mulaney Returns Once More
And it's the job of your assistant to take the fan mail, get the autographed picture, and then do it. Yes. Sometimes, and this is my fault, I would take too long to show you the thing so you would do it. But at that point, it may have been like a year after we got the actual letter. So somebody may have sent a letter asking for it.
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John Mulaney Returns Once More
Liked you enough to ask for a picture but didn't take the picture with him or her.
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John Mulaney Returns Once More
I want to just congratulate you because you got something called Dab of the Decade.
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John Mulaney Returns Once More
Yeah, you have been voted by the people as the top guest on Hot Ones in their entirety of the whole run.
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John Mulaney Returns Once More
You were up against Ariana Grande in the last round. And there's a picture of the two of you.
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John Mulaney Returns Once More
And her picture, she's stunning. She looks gorgeous and stunning and she's beautiful. And you, like right underneath her, you're this crazy person and there's milk just coming out of your mouth. A monster. A true monster. An absolute monster.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
You just might think they're looking at you.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
They're probably looking at me.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
they look at you happily and they look at me like what's happening over here so when i whenever i say anything it's always they immediately want me to shut up because they want to hear from you no i think there's something about you that makes people think that they could just immediately just be not shitty but like joke around with you like i i'm saying you're back now and i'll take
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
And I mean, yeah, we're starting off with a big one.
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
I know this was one of those like special days where I was like, I'm going to remember this forever. Just being here talking to her. It's amazing. I just.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
And I responded by saying, you don't have to. You're right. We don't have to try to fill those... gigantic shoes, is what I'm saying.
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
Yeah, and then you made a joke about later on listening to a clip from Walton Jodgins, and that didn't make sense.
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
How does it make sense? I said bang-ger, it would be gawkins. I'm pretending that there's no such thing as a hard G, that everything's a soft G. Okay, so I'm going to channel Conan and be like, it's good that you have to explain what your joke is. We're starting with a banger. So, you're French and you still got the hard G in there? I did. Banger. Banger. Banger. Banger. Banger.
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
Like a total pro. And also, there are moments when everybody's on their best behavior. Yeah. You know, like we're all like dressed a little nicer. We're all not goofing off.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
And yeah, we had the same amount of gravitas towards her as we would a president, a first lady.
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
Conan's so jealous right now.
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
Make sure it's done right. You should bring a friend in who has the right butt and then have them do it.
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
Yeah, that's pretty good. Okay.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
No, I'm just saying, you could borrow the one she uses for Reno 911. All right, maybe I can, do you have a name for it?
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Can I tell you, I love Niecy Nash, and I love Reno 911, and I had no idea that was a fake butt until that conversation.
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So he talked about it before...
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
Oh, man, that's awesome. I loved when Niecy Nash was here because I've always loved Reno 911. Me too. And she was just like, she had that energy the whole time. You really missed out. It was so much fun. You really, really missed out. Yeah. Do you ever?
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I hate missing recordings.
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
Do you? I really don't have much going on besides this. So I just, I really don't miss very many, but I have missed a couple. And I always have big time FOMO. There was one. I remember I was just like, I wish I was here for that.
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
FOBJ. Where did the J come from?
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
I have to say, when we find out who gets booked on this show, there's an email sent to all of us just being like, this person got booked on this day. And it's very rare for me to respond and just be like, I'm really excited, even though I am. But this one, I replied to everybody on the email, including, I think, probably SiriusXM employees and like a lot of other executives who don't,
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
care about my opinion the guest himself and i was just like i cannot wait for this episode i think you said something like little baby billy no that wasn't me i forgot what i said i i can't remember but i feel like you said little baby billy i don't know yeah but then everybody else started responding it's like it every single person was excited about this
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Hello, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. Sorry, we just ate and there was a little gurgle there and I really apologize. And if you didn't notice it, now everyone's rewinding so that they can hear it. Why am I talking? Can I start over again?
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Oh, I love him. Did you watch Vice Principals?
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Just dripping. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I love him. Yeah. I think I love every single role he's in, and if I hear he's in something, I will watch it.
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Yeah, that's why I watched Fallout, even though I never knew anything about the video game.
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He has, like, barely a face.
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But if you haven't watched it, you should. It's really good. Okay. Yeah.
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I know. We were all waiting for Woody to get here, and he explains it in this clip, right? I mean, that's what the clip is.
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I take Ted Danson over a real doctor. Thank you.
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Do you ever, after we leave, are you like, -"I want to be friends with you so bad." -"Oh, yeah." I feel every once in a while, someone will come in and they'll leave and I'll be like, we could be, we could have such a good friendship together. I thought about that with Mila Kunis.
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I thought about that with a few other people, but Mila Kunis jumps out because we, I feel like we really bonded when she came on here. But with them, I really just like would love to just go to dinner parties with them and just be friends.
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Oh, really? Oh, my God. And he was there.
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
Yeah. And this moment is a very Curb Your Enthusiasm Larry David moment.
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You're just like, this would be a plot point in Curb.
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He doesn't even pretend to take, hey, I need to talk to you about something.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
Yep. Yep. And we'll be back next time with Conan, right?
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Yes, we are sending a lot of love to all the O'Briens and the Reardons on the East Coast. It's all of Conan's whole family is out there. And yeah, it's a really hard time. But also they lived very long, very beautiful lives, made a huge impact on everybody and made a huge impact in their fields. And they're going to be missed. And I mean, this is the end of the year, too, really, isn't it?
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
I know it's the holidays and everybody take it easy out there and enjoy yourselves and we'll start fresh next year with good attitudes okay good attitude because we usually have bad attitudes or I don't know why are you questioning I'm sorry I was just it was an odd thing to say but yeah 2025 here we come happy holidays Matt happy holidays Sona you know you're like my sister You know what?
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2024 Memorable Moments: Celebrity Interviews
I feel like we have a brother-sister relationship now.
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We've been doing this for a while and you're my favorite part of this podcast.
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You know what? Just like sitting across and looking at you whenever Conan says something silly.
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We're just like two kids in church just like making each other giggle.
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Oh, well, that's nice. I'm quitting next week.
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Yeah. We have a good team.
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We do. I don't want to sit in this chair again.
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There's something about this chair that makes me uneasy. I like being over in the corner, just like not saying anything. That's right.
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Hello and welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. I'm Sona Movsesian.
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Yes. And then I don't do this usually. But, you know, Conan is not here in case anyone has noticed. It's me talking. I'm Sona. I am not Conan. And the reason that he's not here.
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Yeah, I think I saw that. And also, I love that it just cuts to you just so you could say, wow.
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I know. Can you believe that we get to do that?
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And also not in this kind of like atmosphere. And you could, I mean, I can tell just from looking at that clip how I was feeling. And I was like, just don't say anything. Don't move. Don't do anything dumb.
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And it's a three-hour movie.
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I can't believe that was like... You watched it early on. I would never... I don't know. I was watching, like, Goonies.
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I know. That was really cool.
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You know what? Yeah. Tom Hanks is next. And I was walking by and he was just standing in the hallway and somebody introduced me. I think it was Paula who introduced me to him. And then he said, what's the first car you ever drove and what's the car you're driving now? And it was just such a like, I'm sure that's a question he asks a lot of people just to like just had that ready to go.
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He had that ready to go, and it was so cool, but also made me reflect that my first car was like a broken down Jetta, and now I drive a minivan. So it's like my evolution.
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Oh, I was. I had three Jettas before. Yeah, I have. I was a Jetta girl for sure.
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Is that a compliment? Yeah.
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Did you just read the description?
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The reason Conan is not here is he's back east with his family. He unfortunately lost both his parents not that long ago, so he's taking some time away. So Matt and I are holding the fort.
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Yes. I really need him to be here just to make this easier and more smooth. But I kind of like the vibe.
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It's easy going. There's just the five of us here. Adam's with us and Eduardo and Blay. And we're just reading pizza and we're just hanging out.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
What do you mean? Like, it's tough for you to bring around someone who has that?
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
And it's tough. But in her defense, you eat like an animal. I mean that in a nice way, but the way you eat is... Describe it.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
First of all, you're angry whenever you're eating. I don't know why. I don't know if you enjoy the food. And then you inhale it as if all of your siblings are just looming over you. They were. But nobody is anymore.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
Okay, I figured. Because I saw you eat not that long ago and it's the same.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not going to be like, I'm in a bed just crying all day. So, you know, and then they're ready to continue on. And so you're ready to continue on.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
I think everything feels very heavy right now. For sure. Even if you're not going through something, things just feel really heavy. It's okay to talk about it, you know.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
Okay, come on. Why does it all go back to Gil and his mustache?
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, your house. Where are my Tic Tacs?
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
No, no, no, I don't. I mean, I even asked if I would still get a discount somewhere. And they're like, oh, we stopped doing that a week ago.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
It was like a 20% discount. How long did that last? Was that three weeks? That was like a few weeks. And then I went into a store. I'm not going to say which one, but I was like, hey, I lost my home in the fire. Do you guys have a discount? And they're like, oh, we stopped doing that a week ago.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
I think that there's still people. I mean, there's still the empathy there. It's still there. There's still some feeling of it, but it is waning a lot. It is very quick how quickly people kind of just move on.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
Why didn't you work up your orphan angle instead of the fire one? I tried that.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
You're changing your name? Billy does work better.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
But isn't that nice? He's using his imagination. Isn't that the whole point?
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
It's fun, though. How fun is that? Isn't that fun? If you're a little kid, you know, you're not going to go to the ocean and go in a submarine. That's I used to make things out of boxes.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
I mean, that's kind of cool. We can't get enough air from a vacuum. Oh.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
Also, how do you do that? How do you just take a motor out of a vacuum? Why do they think an eight-year-old would even know how to do that? Okay. I'm asking the real question, but you guys are being nostalgic. I agree.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
That's a look that goes back to 2008 questions. We don't think about that. We just live in the moment.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
I am completely confused. But I also I mean, I think that every generation has like toys and stuff that like kind of you.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
But I was thinking of the spy tech gear. Do you guys remember the spy tech stuff? It was like a bunch of gear that they sold to kids that was supposed to help you be a better spy.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a microphone or like a not a microphone, but something you held up so you could hear things from further away.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
I know. I think we bought a bunch of it. I don't think any of it worked.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
Yeah, on our neighbors. We would go around our neighbors, hide behind bushes and try to spy on them.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
Yes, I was thinking that too. Like a penny for like CDs.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
Oh, my God. How about the two of you, you and this person that Matt's talking about, eat. You have a time minimum to eat a meal. And this person... What are we talking about?
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
Can we please just actually give you a sandwich and say you can't finish this in less than 10 minutes? That would be hard.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
I'm dying. I'm dying. I'm actually dying. My guest today.
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Lizzy Caplan Returns
A lot of little orphan Annie gets in their text messages.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
You should not ask Conan if you should be on medication.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
Well, you know, you know what a MILF is. Oh, yeah. And a DILF is a dad I'd like to fuck. Oh, I didn't know that. I haven't heard the term. A mom is a mom I'd like to fuck and a dad is a dad I'd like to fuck.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
Yeah, it does. Yeah. Yeah, it's hard. It is. It's just, you know, you want to keep things in perspective and say everyone's okay, but you miss the stuff that you lost. The community's gone.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
Well, like, so, you know, I mean, a MILF is a hot mom. And this gives me hope.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
That's a compliment. That's nice. You guys are two hot dads, man.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
They've moved on already. I don't even know if they fully... I mean, I know they remember the house, but they it's starting to be muddled in with like, oh, we went to the mountains once. So that's like maybe the mountain house that we went to. Like they're just they're losing their memory of it. Yeah. And you're like, I don't remember my house at three and a half.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
So, yeah, it makes sense that they just kind of.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
You know what? I think they're calling and they want to rescind it right now. I think they're on the line. You know who we are?
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Bill Hader Returns Again
After we talked about losing our homes, he didn't have the right sneakers. You had sneakers, but not the right sneakers.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
Oh, you need to do a lot more than that. I know. What do you want?
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Bill Hader Returns Again
Yeah. There's an email that is no longer checked. It's not it's not a working email, but every once in a while someone will check it like once a month, once every two weeks, whatever. It was forwarded to me, but it's an email from Conan O'Brien. Yeah. And it says request for contact information.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
When you have a moment, could you please share your personal mobile number with me? I have a task I'd like you to assist with. Best regards, Conan O'Brien.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
And a baby and a baby, whatever, Bjorn. Yeah. I like it. Let's get that. Dill fight. Yeah.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
And so, you know, I mean, it's just but it's also best regards, Conan O'Brien. And then in what world do you not have my cell phone?
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Bill Hader Returns Again
I hope you're doing well. You don't hope I'm doing well.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
That's the thing. It's like if we were actual functioning adults, that would make sense. But that doesn't you've never ended an email with best regards, Conan O'Brien.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
You don't know who Benny Blanco is? Where have you been, man? Oh, come on, Matt. Get with it, bro.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
Skrillex. Oh, my God. Eduardo's laughing at you so hard. Skrillex. Skrillex. Oh, God.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
You know what? You don't even. Can I just say.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
If he does, would you try to like say cool things to him? Yes, I would. Okay. I was just wondering if like.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
Why are you saying Benny Blanco? Why don't you just say, hey, Benny, nice to hear from you.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
Then you said, what's the score? Yeah. Sorry, okay, all right. Why are you talking so weird, Conan? I'm just seeing what's up, man.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
Hey, Conan, is this really Conan or is this a scam?
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Bill Hader Returns Again
Oh, Brewski Aruni, huh? You know what? Actually, I'm busy. I just wanted to check in and I heard you've been talking a lot about me, but I'm not sliding into your DMs. You're old.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
Oh, God, I hope not. I won't ever get as old as you.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
Yes. Okay. It was really good talking to you. You'll never hear from me again, Conan. See you in the clubs. Oh, God. Don't say clubs. You won't see me in any of the clubs that you think that you would go to. I don't know.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
If Diplo or Benny Blanco or any DJ ever invited you to Vegas for one of their DJ sets, I know it's not your scene. I'll go. You have to go. I'll go. And you have to stand next to them in the booth.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
With a big hat because it's Vegas and you're probably outside and you're like... Fully covered.
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Bill Hader Returns Again
All right. Congrats on being admitted into the Dilfs of Larchmont.
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Paul W. Downs
I have friends. Not the guys I'm talking to. What? These AIs.
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Paul W. Downs
I actually think you might be talking about a different person at this point. Who's I'm sure wonderful as well.
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Paul W. Downs
I did have a conversation with a Shakespeare AI once. Like, you could go to this website, okay? Matt. Hold on. Don't make fun of me.
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Paul W. Downs
No, I don't know. Maybe someone sent it or I heard about it on a show or something. I don't remember. I've never done AI. This was early AI days, though.
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Paul W. Downs
But in that universe, you're dead and you can never be on that show except the flashbacks.
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Paul W. Downs
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We test you and make you stronger. You're welcome. That's what you want. And we're actively trying to drown you. It's called drag.
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Paul W. Downs
I married an improviser, too, and this is making me really look back, usual suspect.
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Paul W. Downs
You're trading my content for this? Shut up. I'm on fire right now. She's on fire. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Sona got her fire badge from just leaving a curling iron on.
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Paul W. Downs
It's also weird how you kind of like turned it towards yourself. I don't like it.
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Paul W. Downs
I think he's attempting an accent, but it's more of a, like, actual disability.
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Jason Bateman
It's gone. It was in the house. I did wear it a lot. I felt like, but the Fonz wears his jacket all the time. Like, there's cool people who wear the same jacket.
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Jason Bateman
Yeah, I know. But I didn't I don't need other jackets. I had a jacket I like.
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Jason Bateman
They do. They still it was like I think I bought it like maybe 10 years ago, but it's like kind of a staple for the brand.
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Jason Bateman
And it was a splurge for me. So I thought to myself, okay, if I wear it enough, it'll justify how much I spent on it. And so that's part of the reason why you wore it so much.
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Jason Bateman
If I do buy another one, are you going to make fun of me? Yes.
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Jason Bateman
No, the Terminator wears like a normal motorcycle jacket, doesn't he?
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Jason Bateman
I'm scared to say it because I do want to say I did splurge on this. Let me say it. It's $5.50.
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Jason Bateman
I'll bring it in. I will definitely bring it in because I'm going to wear it probably all the time.
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2024 Memorable Moments: Conan, Sona, and Matt
Fall is here, hear the yell. Back to school, ring the bell. Brand new shoes, walking blues. Climb the fence, books and pens. I can tell that we are gonna be friends.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
It's not stupid. It means a lot when you check in and just everybody texting. I haven't been able to even respond. There's people who've texted that I haven't even talked to in years. It feels really good at a time like this to feel like people are thinking about you. Yeah. So it's nice.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
I need lots. Can I live in your house? Can we all come live in your house?
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
I need this. I know. I'm like, am I?
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Oh, I am really glad your house is because the Palisades is also very, very scary.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
And I really was worried you were going to lose it. And I know you're not attached to the things in your like you're saying. I'm very attached to the things. Yeah. And I think also if you lost yours, it would overshadow mine a lot. So in a way, I'm like just really happy that you're okay.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
I do. I do. I know we talked about Altadena a lot and we talked, we joked about it a lot, but it was, it is a really special place. It was an incredible place to raise my kids. And I just I hope I hope we find a way to get back there. Even after all this, I just know I've lived in L.A. my whole life and I was just that's the happiest I've ever been. Right.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
So I just want to make sure people know it's it's a really incredible place. It's an incredible community. The people there are just amazing. The way that also Los Angeles is just banded together is.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
As someone who is from here, and girls, I know you're from here too, it's really inspiring. It's beautiful. It's uplifting. There's just little bright spots in all of this shittiness and, you know, the way the city comes together.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
They don't have a clue about what's going on. They think... They think we told them... You know, there's always this like, oh, you should be honest with your kids and tell them. And we're like, no, we're just not going to tell them that their house burned down. I think that that's probably, for us, the right thing to do. I gave them emails when they were babies. So I emailed their future selves.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
You know what? We're really lucky. Our family is here. They're all in L.A. We had no shortage of places to go, which is very we're very fortunate for that. There's a lot of people who don't. have anything and don't have any connections. And I think before people think about sending stuff to us, I think you should definitely look into people who really need it.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
The boys have more underwear than they've ever had before. They have more socks. I can't stress how many toys they have now. I think they just think that that's their life now. Every day a package comes and there's more toys. And they're just like, this is the best. We're living at Yaya's house. They're like, Just eating. She's feeding them constantly. They're eating.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
They're having more screen time and watching more TV than they ever have before. Like, so they're they're happy. We're happy if they're happy. So we're we're OK.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
I like a guy who doesn't even... Your true colors are showing. What are you doing?
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
The links that connect to this episode.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
It's cute. Um, It's just going to be in the summary of the episode.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
It's okay. It's okay. It's not your fault.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
It's fine. We should have given you a script. Anytime links are mentioned, we should just tell you exactly how to say it. And that's on us.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
And I said, this is what happened to this house that you were born, you came into when you were first born in the first three and a half years of your life. But they think we're just living... somewhere else until we build a house and they're really into construction. So like Mikey's like, I'll drive the cement mixer and Charlie can drive the excavator. And it's like, you're not going to build it.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Because when I try and do it, it's, you're doing a really great job.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
So good. Look at you. And then we threw the word link in there and that there's just got you all frazzled. That's okay.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
I love that your son is so fluent in it. It's almost like God played a joke on you.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
It is there. It's also... Look, I love my parents, but the moment I step into that house, I'm a 16-year-old angsty teenager, and this time I'm coming with my kids and my husband, but I'm still like... You regress. Everything my mom says, I'm like... And I've been there for only like what, like four days we've been there. And I'm just like, oh, I can't. I can't.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
She's cooking a meal for us from scratch.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
You know, and I'm just kind of like, mom, you're just you don't get it, mom. It's so much of me just being a kid again.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
I become an asshole a little bit. And I think that that's not healthy for anybody. So I don't know how long we're going to last.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
But when we were like texting, a part of me was like, well, my dad, you know, my dad can build a house because he's good with wood because he's because he built my he carved your brother because he wanted a boy, a real boy.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Yes. But... You know you don't. Even if I said, oh, you know what? I'd rather you just did it. Yeah. I think you would last... Right.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Okay, you know what? I think we got to wrap it up. We got to wrap it up.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Well, I don't know about 18. How old are they now?
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
They're three and a half. And they're, honestly, we're living with my parents right now. They're getting toys every day. I don't think they've ever been happier.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Oh, thanks. Thanks so much for your concern. You're so nice.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Tack's fine. I don't know if it's this like stoic Soviet thing, but he's like... All right, we got to fill this out. We got to do like he's he's sad about his guitars. He lost all his guitars. But one of his friends gave him one, which is really nice. But, you know, he he's like worried about his random. He's like worried about his kettlebell that he got for Christmas.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
And he's like, God, I hope I find my kettlebell in the rubble. And I'm like, your kettlebell. We could just go. go get that right now.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
He is. He's very worried about me and the boys and how we're feeling. And he's very sweet. And, you know, Oki's fine, too. I know people were probably wondering she's fine, too. She's also like really happy because my dad feeds her a lot of like people food. He'll make a whole meal just for Oki. And so she's like just lounging. Boys are lounging.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Oh my God. So yeah, Tack is, Tack is, Tack's really, he's such a great person. He's such an incredible father and husband and he's been really good. So yeah, we're very lucky. We're very lucky. I told girls this. I was like, we're the luckiest unlucky people because we have others we can turn to when we need to.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Oh, well, thank you. You're okay. I do think... I know there's going to be a point where I have to go, like, see someone because I think I legit... Every time I hear wind, I, like... tense up and it's really nerve wracking.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Yeah. I mean, we are a people. We're in yell therapy, I think, Armenians, my people. But we let it all out. That's very good.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
getting it out and uh and i'm lucky i have a lot of friends who i just i you know we'll talk to them or text them and i'll just tell them exactly how i feel and it's nice to have that comfort to be able to talk to people openly about it because yeah it is this is probably and it's also good but this is probably this is the hardest thing i've ever gone through yep
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
And if this is the hardest thing I've ever gone through, then I've been lucky.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Because it's, you know, I can rebuild, but other people have gone through so much worse. So I'm lucky in that sense.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
It's not. It's begun. It's not going to take a long time.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Oh, yeah, that's what I figured. I knew you were saying that.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
They can get licensed. And I don't think they can.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Can I just say also, I'm really, really happy to come back to work. Because I think this podcast has gotten me through COVID. It's gotten me through fertility treatments. And it's going to get me through this. And I love being in this room and talking with you guys. I love my job. And I'm very lucky that I get to have it. So please don't fire me.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
It's our entire street. Our whole neighborhood has just been... just just destroyed it looks like it's hard for me to look at pictures it looks really almost apocalyptic there's just nothing there and we've been talking to all our neighbors everyone's okay um but it is you know we we really loved that community and it's yeah it's really sad that it's all gone yeah
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
I think that's the thing, too, is that you're really sad for other people who also lost their houses. And so you just... You all kind of commiserate together. I'm on a group with 70 other people from Altadena on a WhatsApp group, and we're all talking about what the next steps are. So that's keeping us busy. But you're right.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
It's just the number of people I know who lost their homes is... I mean, it's just unthinkable. It's crazy. But thankfully, everybody that we reached out to is safe somewhere. So that's important. But it is... Oh, it sucks.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
We put in an insurance claim. It's all this stuff. And people are sending us so much stuff about property taxes, about, you know, what you could do with your mortgage payments, about signing up for FEMA, signing up for this, signing up for that. And it's I think I just I want my kids to go back to their school, which is fine.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Yeah. Tax back at work. I'm back. I want like normalcy. And then we'll probably end up having to rent a house for a while and then, you know, figuring it out. It's just there's like a thousand questions. It's crazy how many.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
No, you can't. And that's the thing. It's just there's so much to do. And, you know, I don't like doing anything. And now I have to like fill out forms.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
And I have to think about things.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
It's just so much stuff to think. I mean... Also, I realized I'm not good under pressure. We saw the flames from the ridge near our house. And we had a friend whose husband works in the LAFD. And she's like, you should probably just evacuate. But everything was moving east and we're west. And then all of a sudden at 3.30 when we were at my mom's house, there was an evacuation order for our area.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
And then my alarm company called around 6.00. And they're like, the sensors in the living room and in the master are picking up movement. And I thought, oh, it's that... Can you tell if it's a person or what is it? And she's like, we can't tell. And I asked her, I was like, are they flames? And she didn't know. And then we just... I hung up and I was like, I think my house is currently on fire.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
So we went to Orange County and we just stayed there through Sunday and we made the boys think we were on vacation. And so we were like.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Having a blast. Yeah. They're just totally clueless, which is nice. It's nice to be around them because they have no idea what's going on. And I think they're one of five. They're two of we're one of five families in their school that all lost their homes. So, you know, it's going to be interesting for them to go back to school. And I hope people don't treat them any different.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
You know, we want to just sort of keep things the same. I just want to fast forward to six months from now where, like, I look back on all the stuff and I'm like, oh, it's OK. It's all just stuff. And then, you know, but.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
I took some stuff. I took like the very important like family heirloom jewelry. I took my grandma's ice bucket, which is like, it's not, you can get it on eBay. It's not like, it's not a special ice bucket.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
We got some heirlooms. But there's a lot of things I think about that are gone. And that makes me really sad. I had a personalized Kobe autograph picture that's gone.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
It was really nice. And he signed an autograph for me and my brother. And then when we met Jimmy Carter and he signed the photo, I had that one. That's gone. There's just a lot of little things that are nothing I can't live without. But I don't want to. I just I really miss that stuff. And it's also it's weird.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
When we were in Orange County, we like packed up our stuff and we're like everything we own is just in our car right now. And that's a very weird thing to think about that, like all of your possessions, everything that is something that you you you've accumulated over the last 40 years, they're all gone and all you have left is whatever's in this van. And it's just it's just really sad.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
I know. And it, it, it's weird. It does feel like you're kind of grieving and you realize like, I mean, I wish I took like, I had a bin full of the boys, like first three years, like little things that I wanted to keep forever. And that's gone. Um, But, you know, and then you're like holding out.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Maybe we'll go back and like we'll find things that we like in the rubble of whatever's left and we'll just like find something and just be really happy that things still exist. So we're also waiting when we can go back. I mean, the National Guard is everywhere. And so we can't go to our house and, you know, the air quality sucks and everything's just ash. But, you know...
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Me and Erica Brown went shopping and like the third because I need a whole new I need all new things, everything new. And we went and it kind of like was brought up when I was checking out somewhere that my house was gone. And she's like, oh, we give a 20 percent discount to victims of the fire. And me and Erica were like, we have to call all the stores we just went to. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Do you give a 20% discount? But then it's awkward because you go to a store and you're just like, my house burned down.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
Well, then sometimes, but also it's like an awkward thing to bring up. It's like, hi, how are you doing? It's like, uh, uh, my house burned down. Do I get a discount?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
I know. And then Erica was like, stop saying your house burned down. Say you were displaced by the fires. She just wanted me to use a different wording. No, I think burned down gets you the discount.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
I thought I would last longer before I started crying.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
It's just nuts to just like go around just being like, hi. So the other stores are giving discounts. Like, can I get a discount here when my house burned down? And at first it was like, you know, it's hard to say, oh, my house burned down. I would cry every single time. And then I just like I got to a point where I was like, hi, my house burned down.
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
It's like, what kind of discounts you got for me?
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Conan, Sona, and Matt Discuss the LA Fires
I really thought I was like, keep it together. Yeah. Well, you don't have to keep it together.
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Malcolm Gladwell Returns
I bet, oh, here's Malcolm Gladwell. Let's ask him about being a parent. You know, we're going to get this. And then you say, it makes you really tired. And people are like, what? What? What?
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Sarah Silverman Returns Again
See, that's the thing is they don't even need a reason. They don't even need a reason. Hey, man, you're not thinking it through, man.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Sarah Silverman Returns Again
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that pussy wall.
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Sarah Silverman Returns Again
A lateral move. A lateral move near the vaginal wall. Well, I didn't want it to sound... Could lead to tearing.
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Sarah Silverman Returns Again
Exactly. I mean, what's the problem? I don't see a problem. I really don't. I don't. What? What?
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Sarah Silverman Returns Again
It's okay. I'm slowly getting better with...
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Sarah Silverman Returns Again
Well, you still don't sound great. Oh, it's a long process. I'm getting better.
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Bill Burr Returns Again
You can be honest. I really do think you have. And I think mushrooms might be good for you.
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Bill Burr Returns Again
Oh, yeah. He's like a multi-degree black belt in taekwondo.
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Bill Burr Returns Again
You should. Maybe we should get him in here. He's probably out there. Is RJ out there?
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Bill Burr Returns Again
I do think it takes time. I think you get sometimes impatient. You're like, I want to be flexible now. But you have to just like take your time with it. Maybe. Can you be patient?
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Bill Burr Returns Again
I agree. Yeah. And I think you should definitely put the work into it and be patient.
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Bill Burr Returns Again
He is, like, full, like, past splits. It's amazing. I know. It's pretty incredible.
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Bill Burr Returns Again
Maybe we evolve into a nicer person. Yeah. Maybe that's what we're... Who's going to listen to that podcast?
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Bill Burr Returns Again
I think your body is capable of it. I don't think your mind is capable of it. Be honest. I'm being very honest. Sounds honest to me. I think your body can become flexible if you work at it, but you're also so tightly wound, you're just like...
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Adam Scott
Jesus, Matt. Sorry. It does not. No, no. Did that jacket go up in the fire? Yes, it did. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. So maybe you should apologize.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Adam Scott
You know, I'm going to tell you something. You get a little bit more than if you do listen to it with the sound, right?
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Adam Scott
I always, that's the thing I remember most about that movie.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Adam Scott
Wait, what are you saying? He should be pissed at Mike. Sure. No, no, no.
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Adam Scott
We just also noticed that this is the first recording we've done since the one recording we've done after the fires. And already you're back on.
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Adam Scott
I looked so cool in that jacket. I did. Nothing is cooler than a worn-in jacket.
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Adam Scott
And these hard... Why are you asking the crew about your acne? I don't know.
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Adam Scott
My current jacket, my best friend Veronica got me this one. Oh, look at this. What is that? And she gave me, because I had pins all over my other denim jackets, so she got me a happy face, a popcorn, a Freddie Mercury, and a vagina pin.
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Adam Scott
Sorry. No, it's more like a cattle head with roses for horns. Yes. I'm sorry. What do you guys got going on in there?
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Adam Scott
Yeah. What are we doing? Don't make me do an anatomy lesson because to be honest, I don't even know how it works. I don't even know what's going on down there. Do you guys know what's going on?
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Adam Scott
No, there are. There's a lot of things going on with this. And it's, you know, I don't I never I never really examined it, but maybe I should. And I'll learn some stuff.
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Adam Scott
Don't say undercarriage. Don't say undercarriage. My vagina. You can say vagina. It's OK to say it.
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Adam Scott
Yeah. Like you in the Letterman Theater. Here we are 10 years later. And look at the gold it's giving. Yeah.
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Adam Scott
Did you help him out at all, or were you just sitting there just watching? You did.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Adam Scott
Why do you shrug your shoulders when you do that? So uncomfortable. Oh, my God.
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Adam Scott
You guys remember back in the early days of this podcast, we did a few drawing contests? I do.
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Adam Scott
No, I really lost both of them. Did you? Yeah, I'm pretty sure I did. Okay.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Adam Scott
Well, I went back and I found, you guys might remember this from your childhoods. I think especially you will. Do you remember these advertisements for drawing contests?
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Adam Scott
Yeah. And comic books. And they were also, I think TV commercials. And basically you would draw one of these, send it in and they would assess if you had any talent and then you could take their trade school. It was all a scam basically. Was it a scam? I think it was, I think it was like the Barbizon modeling schools, you know, like they'll take anybody just to get the money out of them.
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Adam Scott
Wasn't it a kit though? I thought it was like they send you a fan with a motor and then you have to build like an inner tube around it or something.
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Adam Scott
Our guys are on it. Let's do this drawing contest and maybe by the end we'll have an answer. All right, what's the plan here? Okay, so you get to choose one and I'm going to give you guys five minutes in real time. It'll be edited down by the time we listen.
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Adam Scott
I can tell you. Oh, yeah? What's that? They always say it's because, oh, they lost an eye, but it's because they'd be below deck, and they have to, when they're above deck in the sun and they have to go below deck, they don't need time to adjust their sight, so they open their eye patch and they can see it.
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Adam Scott
What? The pirates have both eyes and they're both functioning. Yeah. Yes. That is crazy.
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Adam Scott
Okay. All right. Somebody pick a number between one and ten. Conan. Oh, my God. Why does everything have to be complicated? Five. Sona.
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Adam Scott
I think at this point they just like don't know what to. They can't tell me not to do something.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Adam Scott
Mine's going to be awful. Let's get to it. Okay. All right. Let's do it.
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Adam Scott
One, two, three, go. Five minutes. We'll make it three minutes. Give three minutes. Okay. Oh, my God. That's an abomination.
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Adam Scott
Would she just looking at that? Would she know it's a vagina? Because it's not.
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Adam Scott
But keep in mind, it's not just technical ability. It's that certain aspect of life. The je ne sais quoi. It's the je ne sais quoi. So, Sona, you could take it on just having more life. You know, Jackson Pollock, he did his paintings, it was about the experience, not the result. Yeah, he died in a drunk driving crash.
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Adam Scott
I just didn't, I assumed it was down to them. All right, I'll get in there.
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Adam Scott
It's weird. It's pretty vaggie. You have to. You have to. Yeah, I think your first instinct is vaggie, but you have to give it a double look.
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Adam Scott
We show our... Yeah, put them in the center here. And then Adam, Eduardo, Blay get to adjudicate.
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Adam Scott
I think you guys should give some points for speed. Because I did mine really fast.
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Adam Scott
Well, I'll just say I did mine in like a quarter of the time of anybody else. If we're doing speed.
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Adam Scott
You go and you illustrate with your mom. Mine's also the biggest.
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Adam Scott
Yeah, but make it brief because we don't have a lot of time.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Adam Scott
This is a vagina. This is how a vagina looks. It's a vagina.
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Adam Scott
Yeah, it's true. It's just this tiny has a really large brain. Right.
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Adam Scott
Social media! Go to Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram. And are we still on the vast hellscape of Twitter X? Let's just send people to Instagram. Let's do that. Yeah, that's good. All right, we'll see what happens. This is pretty exciting. It wouldn't be a drawing contest without abject hatred for the game.
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Adam Scott
Because down on the side, they're showing people inside the cockpit of this thing.
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Adam Scott
Same with the hovercraft. It's a manual on how to build it, if I'm not mistaken. And there's somewhere in the front.
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Adam Scott
Yeah, we got to find out more about this. Okay, to be continued. All right. Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend with Conan O'Brien, Sonam Ovsessian, and Matt Gourley. Produced by me, Matt Gourley. Executive produced by Adam Sachs, Jeff Ross, and Nick Liao. Theme song by The White Stripes. Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino. Take it away, Jimmy. Take it away, Jimmy. Our supervising producer is Aaron Blair.
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Adam Scott
And our associate talent producer is Jennifer Samples. Engineering and mixing by Eduardo Perez and Brendan Burns. Additional production support by Mars Melnick. Talent booking by Paula Davis, Gina Batista, and Brit Kahn. You can rate and review this show on Apple Podcasts, and you might find your review read on a future episode. Got a question for Conan? Call the Team Coco hotline at...
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Adam Scott
And if you haven't already, please subscribe to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend wherever fine podcasts are downloaded.
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Adam Scott
Yes. Oh, you were being more like, yeah, it's the whole thing. It's all of it.
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Adam Scott
know they probably want to celebrate that we have the ability to create life and that makes us special unlike men who just like don't do anything where's the tattoo that says do not enter yeah we have no but listen we have a we do something what do you what do you do we carry the sacred seed OK, don't say we do.
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Adam Scott
I don't know. But the way you approach this is very to say that we do nothing, I think, is absurd.
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Adam Scott
Yeah. OK, you're right. I do think, obviously, yes, biologically, yes. But then we have to do everything after that. And that's a lot.
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Adam Scott
I don't want to be here. Listen. Can I fervently hold this up, please?
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Adam Scott
So you're sad that you don't really get to make fun of it anymore.
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Adam Scott
It's an endless supply of arrows. Like another one just popped up. And I don't know for what, but it's there. So don't worry about it. You'll be okay.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jesse Eisenberg Returns
The guy, the little guy, the paper boy comes back at night just for your house?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jesse Eisenberg Returns
Yes, I ate garlic. Lots of garlic, lots of lemon. But I did eventually get it.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
Not even the root. I know. But you know, Gorley, who's not here, has never had it yet.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
He could be. He could be. And Eduardo never had it up until like a month ago. Oh, wow. Yeah. I know. Isn't that crazy?
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
Wait, you guys are living in the houseboat? I don't understand why you're- Yes, that's the whole point.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jesse Eisenberg Returns
When I go to your house, I'm just going to break it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jesse Eisenberg Returns
We'll get some good comedy here. I'm not a monster.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
Oh, it was heavy. It was really heavy. I mean, I'd never been to Armenia. I am Armenian. I felt a lot of what Conan was saying about how you get there. I was crying the entire time I was there, I feel like. But then I saw my dad's village engraved in the wall of all the villages that were affected by the genocide. And it's like I instantly just felt some kind of connection to my grandparents there.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
I'm feeling emotional talking about it now. It was amazing. It was one of probably the most heart-wrenching moments of my life.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
I was not expecting to feel that overwhelmed about it. I don't know. I mean, I think that something just got very triggered in me. And you suddenly feel very connected to your past.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
Yeah. It puts everything into a very different perspective.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
I need to talk about what happened to me on Saturday. Because I hosted all day, and it was so much fun. I hosted the Pasadena Armenian Festival.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
I had posted it up on Instagram that I was going to be at this thing to just kind of help promote it. And I had a few of our fans who aren't even Armenian come to the festival to come meet me. Oh, that's cool. Which was honestly really cool.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
Yeah, I brought us together. So can I can I give a shout out to a couple of people who came?
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
Daniel came with his girlfriend, Michelle. Daniel's a fan. Michelle doesn't listen. So we could just forget Michelle.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
And then Marianne and Dean came. So they came all the way from, I think, the Midwest. They drove all the way out here.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
Not for me specifically. They came for something else. But then I was like, a stop. So I'm just going to tell myself it was for me.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
But they they did. Let's just say they did. But they also Dean and Marianne. I met them. They're lovely people. Dean, I find out, writes fan fiction about you. He writes it about a lot of things, but he also writes a lot of Conan O'Brien specific fan fiction.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
It's explicit. It's erotic fan fiction. It's erotic fan fiction.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
It's funny you say that because I was like, really, Conan? And I'm like, he's just, you know, he's very, he's like, I was like, you know, I was talking to Dean and Marianne and I said, he's just a very kind of repressed, got this repressed Catholic energy. And he said a lot of the fan fiction that he writes comes from you like coming out of your Repression.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
I mean, I looked at just the descriptions. I said, pass. I can't do it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jesse Eisenberg Returns
You know, so you never read... I love fan fiction.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jesse Eisenberg Returns
Oh, no, I think he, like, left his info, and then they had, like, a dalliance after it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jesse Eisenberg Returns
No, he's got his, the website is, can I just say the website so people can go read it?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jesse Eisenberg Returns
The website is called archiveofourown.org and he's drhpaints and he's got a lot of Conan specific fan fiction.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jesse Eisenberg Returns
And it's erotica. It's a lot of erotica and it's very explicit because that's the fun part about fan fiction.
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Jesse Eisenberg Returns
This is fun stuff. And I think it's very flattering. I mean, like, you know, there was an entire movie series, the after movie series, that was based on fan fiction written about Harry Styles.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jesse Eisenberg Returns
I'm just saying. I'm like, I just think it's very flattering when people choose you as like a main character in any sort of literary kind of take they have on anything.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jesse Eisenberg Returns
No, Matt, if you keep reading it, I'm going to burn this entire building down to the ground.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jesse Eisenberg Returns
I need to leave. I quit. I have to quit right now. First of all, you brought this up. I'm done.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jesse Eisenberg Returns
I know. He was really nice, and his girlfriend was really nice. And I thought, hey, this is fun.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jesse Eisenberg Returns
I thought you were going to say you did it, but you called it like you knew it was going to happen.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jesse Eisenberg Returns
No, no. We celebrate American Christmas, too. But we you know, we have a fake tree, which you guys got mad at me for when we were doing summer s'mores. Yeah. And then we like put a few things out. But we're not like the house people stop at when they're driving down the block and be like, oh, my God, look at this.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nathan Lane
Fall is here, hear the yell Back to school, ring the bell Brand new shoes, walkin' loose Climb the fence, books and pens I can tell that we are gonna be friends
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Nathan Lane
We put the rap light on like... Are we going to talk about the wind? Shut the fuck up, Sona! Shut the fuck up, Sona!
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I can't whistle and I don't know that.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I can't whistle. Is that true? I've never seen this movie.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Oh, he was wonderful. Everybody was wonderful.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Of course, I heard that whole, I've seen every, I've heard every episode, every single one. I don't know if we should be excited or horrified that you're coming.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Wait, you mean like if Jeff invited you to like a weird sex party, you'd be like, oh, okay.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I believed you for a second and now I feel really dumb.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Oh, my God. There's so many emissions happening.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I was on the edge of my seat the entire time you were singing because I thought he was going to go into some bit and like do something with your voice.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
It's a bit. You're like joking around.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yeah. Hugh Grant's brother. I know that reference. Yes. Yes.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
When you said Julie Andrews, I was like, yeah, she narrated Bridgerton. So I know her.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Okay, no one's going to fight you. You can have them. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
That alone. That's big. No one else would watch it otherwise.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Was it 70 minutes just the part where he goes, my name is Jeff Goldblum and I'm... And I feel like that alone was like 45 minutes. It was incredible.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Stop it. You pronounced my name right.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Oh my God, it's going to smell like garlic. Yeah, I was going to say. And gorley, and gorley.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I've never heard that. I've never heard anybody say, oh my God, it's Conan.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Do you really think he didn't have any friends?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Jeff, come on, let's prove these knuckleheads wrong.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yeah, that's true. I love him so much.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
He doesn't have to know who we are, me and Matt, and he does.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
It's also... It's like... No, I can handle it. I really want to know. He is a chill person who seems very comfortable in his skin and very confident. Not that you're not, but it seems like he's been that way much longer than you have. I feel like you went through a very awkward phase where you were like, ooh, I don't like myself.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I don't, you guys said so many names of shows and so many actors I had never heard of. And all three of you were like, oh my God, that guy was the best. Like it was just like constant splooging over like 70s obscure shows. Okay. Come on. You were just doing a whole sex thing about grumblings.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Do you think we like him because he's nice to us? Oh, right. Maybe if you tried being nice to me and Matt, then we would, like mom, maybe still not then.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
That's not being nice to someone. You got a paycheck. I'm your employee. That doesn't mean you're nice to me.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
The fact that you even thought about- Do you do okay with me?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
That doesn't sound how nice this works. It's not transaction. What are you talking about?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I wonder why we like Jeff Goldblum more than you.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
He's my favorite tall person. And he just exudes this like sense of ease. And you know what? He doesn't have to pay me for me to like him.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Into friendship? Into the concept of being nice?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
And you're telling me to clean it up because I said splooge?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
Yeah. And he remembers everybody. He's just, he like, when he looks at you, he looks at you and he knows your name and he remembers you. And that goes a long way.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
That's what you guys did the whole interview.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Jeff Goldblum Returns (Re-Release)
I didn't say each other. Every time someone would say, oh yeah, do you remember this one actor who was in one show for three episodes? You were like, oh my God, that guy was the best guy I've ever heard of in my life.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
They are unbelievable. It was so nice to let us stay there. But they also they watched a lot of Turkish soap operas. What?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
It's like all day. I mean, not all day, but it's like a lot of Turkish because they're from Turkey. They're Armenian. It's important to note that. But they're from Turkey. Wait a minute.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
No, no, no, no. God, these are comedians. I've never been in shape. That's why I was confused. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
No, I don't watch it with them. I mean, I'm in my room watching TV on a on my laptop.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
I think the lighting is different. They're all gorgeous and have beautiful skin. And then they... Eduardo, you want to jump in here.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
Yeah, there's certain countries that have dominated. Like Korean soap operas are legit.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
You played a crime boss. First of all, they tried to make you look Armenian, and it did not work.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
They put dark eyebrows and then they put a dark wig on you.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
My friend once lied to us when we were like 12 and said she made out with Austin Peck from Days of Our Lives. And we believed her. So we watched Days of Our Lives. And then we found out she didn't ever make out with Austin Peck.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
But we didn't like think of it that way. We're like, oh, my God, she made out with Austin Peck. But she just lied to us, just blatantly lied to us. And we believed her. And we all got into days of our lives to support the guy that she made out with. To support him?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
He must have been in his 20s. I have no idea. He had no idea who she was.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
Just lied about it. Did you still talk to her? No, that broke everything up. Oh, yeah. I wonder how she's doing. She lied about a lot of stuff. She also lied. She said she was a model and we were like, you're five too, but okay. Like we believed everything she said. I don't believe anybody now.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
They're just so gullible. It wasn't just me. It was like my friend group.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
Wait, why are you guys getting on my case about believing that my friend made out with Austin Peck when you guys believed all this shit your brothers and your friend told you? Good point, good point. We were all dumb.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
But you did remind him right before we started recording.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Ryan Reynolds
We have. Yeah. In fact, I was there yesterday for an inspection and I ran into a really nice man named Richard walking his dog. And he said, I usually listen to you while I'm walking my dog. Wow. Yeah. And I was like, I get to live by a fan.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
That's like a shoe insert commercial. Magellan like Magellan.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Because I feel like you've booked everybody. Is there a white whale for you?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Who is the book and why is it Cher? It's Cher, Dr. Kevorkian.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Sherilyn Sarkeesian. Okay, all right. I'm just saying. No, but that's a real question. Is there somebody who's not... And why is it Cher?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Is it exhausting to have meetings with Conan because he's always doing, like, jokes and stuff?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
Yeah, you're just saying Dana like everybody knew who you were talking about.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
It was good. It makes me angry how nice you are to Paula sometimes. It really does.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
And that seven o'clock time is the only time Dakota Johnson can be booked.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
He's doing this to an audience of UFC people. They go crazy.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Amy Poehler
I used to do bits on your show in 1993. Yeah. And then I was 10 years old.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Kevin Nealon Returns Again
You must have chosen something similar to that to get that fed to you.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Kevin Nealon Returns Again
Come on, high five, Bob. I can't reach. I can't reach.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Kevin Nealon Returns Again
But there's also part of me that thinks you're baiting him. You're trolling him a little bit. Yeah, you're a troll. You're being a troll. You're trading straight men. It's two straight men in a room and no comedian.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Kevin Nealon Returns Again
Well, this show in particular is going to be falling right in line with that. Yeah, probably. Given who's on. Yes.