Conan chats with glassblower Dan from Vacaville, CA about his most elaborate glass creations and how Conan pulls his own weight around the household. Wanna get a chance to talk to Conan? Submit here: teamcoco.com/apply Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: https://siriusxm.com/conan.
Chapter 1: How did Dan become a glassblower?
Very nice. And I'm looking at your background. It looks like you're working on a nuclear submarine. I mean, there's all kinds of machinery behind you. It's very cool looking. What are you building? I mean, it looks like you're up to something.
I'm a glassblower, a glass artist. So I work with, these are glass lays. So I work with glass tubing and glass rods and I create stuff out of glass.
Chapter 2: What types of glass creations does Dan make?
Okay, what kind of stuff do you create out of glass primarily? Are we talking like a vase? Are we talking like a test tube? Are we talking glasses? What are you making?
My main product that I make is water pipes. So I make bongs, basically. I see them back there. Look at those.
Okay, sweet. Sona's salivating.
Yes. You make bongs. So, and was that... Did you start making bongs because of your personal affinity for bongs, or you just like making them, or you like the shape? What drew you to making bongs?
I started in high school, so I feel like everyone in high school kind of wanted or needed a bong. And I liked making things, so that drew me to it. I originally started, I wanted to do welding, but it was a little complicated, I feel like, so I went into glassblowing, which was even more complicated. Yeah.
Yeah, I was going to say glassblowing feels incredibly difficult. I mean, any just the little I know about it. Right. You have to you got to heat up the material. Right. Get it molten. And then you.
I watch the show on Netflix.
Blown away.
Yeah. Blown away. So I know I'm basically a glassblower.
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Chapter 3: Why does Dan prefer torch over furnace for glassblowing?
Yeah, it is. Mine's a little different. I use a torch, so I don't have a big furnace of glass. I have a torch that I use, and then I get these glass tubes in four-foot lengths, and then I'll create stuff out of that. So I don't have a big furnace that I pull globs of glass out of. Well, you know what?
I think I have more respect for you, because I think anybody can do it with a big furnace. Oh! I do. I think anybody could do it. Oh, big furnace. Yawn. Oh, look, I have a big furnace and I accidentally made 900 glasses today. But you're using a torch and that takes real skill. I think that takes a real artist.
And I know I'm probably throwing shade on a huge part of the glassmaking community, but fuck those guys. Yeah. I'm with you, man. I'm with you, Dan. And I say it's torch or nothing. And I'm going to start saying that to people who say they're a glassblower. I'm going to say furnace or torch. And if they say furnace, I'm out. I'm just going to walk away. And then I'm going to smash all the glass.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, yeah. And I'm going to drive by later and throw stones through their window.
And go like, you should use a torch!
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Chapter 4: How to find Dan's glass art online?
And peel out. Really took a turn. I'm sorry. If you use a furnace out there and you make glass, you know where to find me. I'm not afraid of you with your furnace. Dan, I don't know what happened right there.
I love your take on that.
A neurologist would say it's a brain bleed, possibly. I don't know. I'm getting faint. But this is cool. What's the name of your company?
It's called Apex Design Glass. So I made that name when I was in high school for a web design business I was doing. And then I just kept it through my glassblowing business as well.
Okay. And is it easy for people to find you if they want some of your custom-made torch-hewn bongs?
Yeah, if you look up Apix Design, then yeah, I got a website, I got an Instagram. I have a good little following of people who like my glass, so it's easy to find it.
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Chapter 5: What unique bong did Dan create for Conan?
When someone buys a bong, how long does that bong last and do they then come back for more bongs? Does a person buy multiple bongs in a year? How does it all work? What's a bong life? Such a square. Well, I'm sorry. I want to know more of this bong culture. I took an aspirin once in 1992 and I was taken to the hospital. So I don't know a lot about bongs, but I've seen them portrayed in film.
Do you have some bongs there you could show us? I just want to see some of these bongs.
I don't want to keep saying bongs. I actually sent you guys a gift. What?
Let me see. Oh my God. Oh my God. This thing is... I didn't know about this. Look at this.
Oh my God.
Sir, I'm not... All joking aside, you are an artist. Truly. That is gorgeous. Look, he's done... I mean, yes, you've got the Conan logo. You've got, oh my God, he's got the late night moon.
There's three mouthpieces here. This is like the equivalent of sharing a milkshake except for a thruple at a Grateful Dead show.
It's a chill chums bong so you all can take a hit at the same time.
It's for when the cast of Challengers wants to use a bong together. This is beautiful. I mean, look at the... The design is gorgeous. And then it's got this... This stopper has kind of a pompadour. It's a bull.
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