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Podcast Notes: Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend - Episode: Adam Sandler Returns
Podcast Overview Podcast Title: Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend Description: After decades in late-night television, Conan O’Brien realized he lacked real friendships with his celebrity guests. This podcast serves as an opportunity for Conan to connect and potentially forge genuine friendships with his guests.
Episode Details Episode Title: Adam Sandler Returns Description: Adam Sandler reflects on his long friendship with Conan. They discuss his nerves around meeting celebrities, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, warm comedians, and his new film, *Spaceman*. The episode also features a humorous recount of a mistaken identity incident at the airport.
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Key Themes and Discussions
- Friendship Dynamics
- Adam expresses his sadness about being Conan’s friend, feeling he should give more.
- Their longstanding friendship spans 35 years, showcasing a unique bond formed in the entertainment industry.
- Celebrity Encounters & Nervousness
- Adam discusses which celebrities still make him nervous to meet.
- He shares moments with other celebrities, indicating how fame affects interpersonal relationships.
- The Mark Twain Prize
- Adam reflects on receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
- The significance of such awards in the realm of comedy and their impact on artists is highlighted.
- Warmth in Comedy
- Adam mentions the importance of warmth and kindness among comedians, contrasting it with the often competitive nature of the industry.
- New Film - *Spaceman*
- Adam introduces his new film, *Spaceman*, describing its unique premise and emotional depth.
- The film incorporates themes of distance, relationship struggles, and unexpected twists.
- Humorous Anecdotes
- Conan shares a comical story about a recent airport encounter where he mistakenly approaches a stranger for a selfie, believing the man to be someone he knew.
- The absurdity of mistaken identity and the resulting embarrassment is explored.
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Key Takeaways
- Friendship in Entertainment: The podcast emphasizes the difficulty of forging genuine friendships in a high-pressure industry filled with often superficial interactions.
- Humor in Vulnerability: Both Conan and Adam demonstrate that vulnerability and laughter can coexist, revealing personal insecurities while sharing light-hearted banter.
- Candid Conversations: The format allows for candid discussions, showcasing the guests' personalities beyond their public personas.
- Shared History: Adam and Conan’s shared history provides depth to their conversation, enriching the listener’s experience.
- Personal Reflections: Adam's thoughts on his career and relationships resonate with listeners, reflecting on the challenges and triumphs of life in the spotlight.
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Conclusion This episode of *Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend* provides a blend of humor, nostalgia, and reflection, as Adam Sandler and Conan O'Brien navigate their long-standing friendship and share insights about their careers and the comedy world. Through personal anecdotes and discussions about warmth in comedy, the episode captivates listeners with both laughter and sincerity.
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Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:03Hi, my name is Adam Sandler and I feel...
0:12I'm sad about being Conan. Sad? No, no, no, just because I'm... We've known each other 35 years. No, I'm sad because I should give you more. I should give you more.
0:35I can tell that we are gonna be friends. Yes, I can tell that we are gonna be friends. No one's not doing anything.
0:51Oh, almost. Almost. Don't do it! No! And welcome to Conan O 'Brien Needs a Friend. Hey! Hey, welcome to Conan O 'Brien Needs a Friend. And this is a great way to start any episode because just as we counted down, I looked at a little table that's between Sona and I, and I saw that she had her chapstick there and she was really enjoying blowing on her tea. So I picked up the chapstick, tossed it, and it went right into her tea. And the place exploded in joy. And of course Sona, miserable. and then you said we're here and that's what we're starting on. It's too good not to kick it off. Yeah, that's a great, we should kick off every episode with me just having thrown something unhygienic into your tea.
1:44Come on, man. No, I think that's a bad idea. First of all, you tried this. It's a giant wad of paper. Yeah, thank you. It's an audio medium. I did this. You're like a mime. And then I did this. I'm just mad. I don't know how to react to it. Chapstick's better. That was fantastic. The chapstick went right into your face. It made a satisfying clink and then a splosh. Oh, yeah? You were happy about that? I'm not unhappy. Okay. Oh, you should try and, can you isolate the sound of it going in? Let's play that now. See if you can hear it. Don't do it! Yeah, that's cool. That's fantastic. What a great...
2:20That's ASMR. Yeah, and also, you're still going to use that lip balm, aren't you? Well, I'm going to use the chapstick, but I can't drink my tea. Why not? Because of all the germs that are on that chapstick. That's a hot tea. All the germs are dead. That doesn't, that's not how it works. And the germs on the chapstick that you put on your lips? Yeah. It's on the tube outside. That's why there's a lid, Gourley. Oh, wow. I'm so... Oh, so when you walk around... It's a cap, it's not even a... When you walk around and you see like dog shit on the sidewalk, you take out your chapstick and you just roll it around in the dog shit?
2:51What are you doing that's so toxic? The exterior of the chapstick touches so many different surfaces, and it's picking up germs. What are you doing with your chapstick? Yeah. It's everywhere. It's on this table. What was on this table? Why are you shouting? Because I'm so angry right now because I really wanted to drink that tea. But you can still drink the tea. It's fine. I promise you it's fine. You won't get sick or anything. The tea is fine. Why are you acting like you know things? My father is a microbiologist. His father is a Marco Biologist. Would you say Marco? My father is Marco Polo?
3:22You drink my tea. I would happily drink your tea. And I'll use your chapstick. Pass it over. I use my chapstick. I'm gonna use your chapstick and then drink your tea. Don't use my chapstick. I don't know about your lips. Come on, man. Now you can't use it. God, I hope you get my herpes. I really do. I really do. I wish I had an outbreak right now. Oh, I would kill for herpetic sores. Then I'd get some sympathy from the showbiz community. You two are disgusting human beings. Come on. Oh, stirring the tea with the chapstick. Oh my God. Let me see if I can recreate that sound. Oh, almost. How did I miss it?
4:06I know, it was inches away. I held it. You know what's crazy? I swear to God, I held it an inch from an open wide mouth teacup. Gigantic cup. And I swear to God, it's, here we go. Oh, that's a lovely sound. I love that sound. You love ruining things for me. Don't leave it in there. Oh, it looks fun. It's like a little boat. Come on. Oh, my God. Anyway, Sona, tea's not good for you. That's all. What? Same with chapstick. Yeah. It'll kill you. What do you guys? You guys don't know anything. Man, my dad's a Marco Bajbolder. Thanks for sticking up for me. Of course he knows. His dad's a Mikro Bogdanovich.
4:51Uh-oh. I hate this place. God, you know what? When Sona Forrest laughs like that, that means she really is mad. It seems like it. Are you really mad? No. I could have another tea brought in here by David. I don't, no, do not make David bring in tea for me. David! No, don't do it. Someone get David. Don't do it. I won't allow, I will not take tea that David brings me. Why? Because we're peers, and it's just weird. He's your replacement. You still are above him in the chain of things. That's not true. I can't fire him. What, you could, if you told me David's gotta go, he'd be gone like that. Can I fire David?
5:25Can I fire David? Yeah, where is David? David! Try it and see if it works. David! Try firing him. Yeah, tell me if it works. Yeah, see if it works. David, come on in here. David. David, David. You better have tea. They're gonna pull this up. What? You know what, David? Pack your shit up. You're fucking done here. I'm so sorry, I can't do it. Okay, you can assist Conan. No, no, no, please come back. Please come back. David, quick question. You are the assistant that was hired because Sona was no longer really assisting me that much. Wow, okay, I went on maternity leave. Well, whatever. I had babies, I had twin babies.
6:00I still don't buy this whole maternity excuse, but anyway, only two babies at once and you get time off? I think three babies at once should get you out of work. But anyway, David, Sona said that she can't ask you to get her tea. I ruined her tea. I don't know if you, do you even listen to the podcast when you're out there? I had other things to do. What were you doing? I was talking to Paula and Gina. Okay. Really important things about your calendar and your podcast bookings and stuff. So anyway, I brought you in here for it to be fun and interesting, and that was awful. Well, it's like you have a lot of dates coming where you're busy.
6:37That's okay. I'm very busy. We were working on it. Popular celebrity. Anyway, definitely A list or top B list. A B. A B rising. Anyway, I ruined Sonas T by throwing a chapstick into it. Well, that wasn't nice. Thank you. It's kind of funny. Think about it again. and then think about your job. That's hilarious. So anyway, and then I said, well, just David will get you another tea because she doesn't want to drink this tea. And then she said, I can't do that. And I said, why not? And she said, because David's a peer. And I honestly don't, I think you're great, David. You're amazing. Thank you. You can stop there.
7:12Thank you so much. Isn't Sona a click above you? Yeah. No, I don't think so. Do you think that Sona could fire you? No. No, I don't think. You know, I'm thinking about it now. No, I don't know if Sona's called you up and said you're out and don't and lose Conan's number. I would call you then. You'd call me and you'd be rehired immediately. Yeah, you're right. Sona can't fire. I can't. But also, he's your he's your assistant. So why would he be bringing me tea? I would bring you a tea as like a friend. Yeah. You can ask people as a friend. Yeah, but I could just wait and then go get myself. You know what?
7:43This tea is seriously fine. It had a chapstick floating in it, but it's not like the chapstick was contaminated. I have a big problem with that, with just foreign objects landing in my drinking beverages. I remember this from New York when Sona refused to ride in a New York cab because she said anyone can have sat in those seats. And I was thinking, what are you talking about? When you travel the world, you're constantly getting in transportation and sitting on things where someone else has sat. She said they were covered in jizz, I believe, was the actual concern. A lot of other things, a lot of fluids.
8:14Yeah, but the good thing about jizz is it forms a protective coating when it hardens. Oh. Yeah. What? It's like a layer? It's like a shellac. Most sneeze guards are made out of dried jizz. That's true. That's a true fact. That's true. Yeah. Come on. Yeah, they use them. It's porn runoff and then they harden and they cut them into sheets and they're used as sneeze guards. Porn runoff? Yeah, they have little channels in the floors when they shoot porn and it collects all the extra semen and then that's laid out in sheets. It dries, it's cut into sheets, and then it's made into sneeze guards. They're in the condoms.
8:46That's where the jizz is. No, that's why during COVID so many plexiglass things were in need and the porn industry just rose. Okay, all right. We're doubling down on it. But jizz isn't clear. Some churches have mistakenly used a stained glass window. I went too far. But what I'm saying is it can be used as a glass. And it should be recycled. Let's have a happy, healthy earth. I'm also taking an Uber home today. So, I mean, Ubers are basically taxis now. Yeah. So it just kind of, I don't know, for some reason, Ubers, I'm like, yeah, it's cool. It's like my friend's car. And then taxis, I'm like, yeah.
9:19So. Sorry to cut off your story by enjoying this wonderful. You know what? And I have chapstick. I don't wear chapstick. And you think you can tell because my teeth are like just shredded old snakes. Your teeth? What have your teeth got to do with it? My teeth and my lips. I love when you misspeak. I do. I really enjoy it. I love when you say the wrong thing. It must be really fun to watch a man's brain decay. And then two years from now, when I'm gone, and neurologists are saying you could watch the whole thing fall apart when you listen. When you listen to the podcast, you can see it all happen.
9:51And you're laughing. It's funny. And Liza's there weeping. She would be laughing. We would all be laughing. We'd be like, remember when he said teeth instead of lips? And we would laugh about it. Remember when he accused you of having public display of affection, but he called it a PDF? I don't remember that. Do you remember Blink-187? That was me. No, it was him. Yeah. But I think I said it was me, and then it got written into history that way. Yeah. No, no, it was me, but I just think Blink-187 is an improvement. You know? Come on. No, just knock it up a few numbers, you know? Can I just say, last week, Conan asked me where his sunglasses were, and they were in his hand.
10:31Oh, my God. Oh, I love that. But see, what I'm saying is, if there's a neurologist listening, if you're listening, and you are, this is your field. I do think that I misspeak more than I used to. And I think that there could be an issue here and everyone's laughing. And later on, David, you're going to feel pretty, pretty bad. Didn't we have a neurologist on to discuss this very thing? Like someone called in? I don't know. I forget. Oh, no. Oh, no. Is this how you ask for medical advice? Yeah, it's free. Instead of just going to a neurologist, you're like, Hey, listeners, can you guys just listen to the podcast?
11:07Sourcing free medical care. I could just go down to the hospital and get it checked, but instead I'm going to ask a bunch of strangers without checking your credentials. I also want a pair of bootleg jeans. I want them with a gold stitch. Come on, let's get on it, people. All right, let's get into it. We have a, what a dumb opening that was. I know, and for, you know what? And for this person specifically, he deserves better. He does deserve better, but he's not getting it. My guest today is a hilarious actor and comedian starred in such movies as Billy Madison, The Waterboy, and Uncut Gems. I think people know who we're talking about now.
11:41Now you can see him in the new Netflix movie, Spaceman. You still don't know they say their name in the beginning of the episode. I do know. And it's written in the title. Here comes the big surprise. Oh my God. Oh my God. Someday I'm going to listen to this podcast. I'm excited he's here today. You won't guess it.
12:06Adam Sandler, welcome.
12:10I passed your house again, maybe two days ago. Screened out Conan. You always yell, I tell people this. No one in LA, everyone lives near each other, but no one, everyone lives behind a hedge. And everyone's real cool about where everyone else lives. And one of my favorite things is this man, when he's outside your house, Cody! Cody! I do it. And my kids wait for me to say it now. They just go, all right, he's gonna do his thing. I call that, call that, and then they go back to tell me something in their life. And then the times that you've come over, when you come over to my house, the first thing you say is, I gotta go.
12:46No one wants me here. I'm like, no, people are very happy to see you. Everyone's happy to see you. The party was great, it was nice. The Christmas bash. We had a good time. Perfecto. I saw your son is a big boy now. Yeah, he grew fast. Can't believe it. What a nice guy though. sweet as hell he did good doesn't love his old man that's for sure no no he's running away running away from that oh man I wish you had been here for because a good friend of yours was on this podcast Jim Downey all our favorite everybody we put him as the number one when Downey gave you a joke for one of your skits I for me I was like oh my god Downey gave me gold were you like that too with Downey when he gave you something if you could get his attention yes Because he liked to stay in his office with the door shut.
13:33Yeah. And we'd all wait for him. Yes. And Schneider was the most aggressive. And he always figured out a way to get in there. I don't know if it's because he's small or what, but he like went in through the keyhole. But we were always mad, like, God damn it, how did Schneider get in there? Yeah, they got good. And then the door would open and Downey would come out and I'd go, oh, hey, Jim. So I had this idea and he'd be like, walk with me, Coney, walk with me. Oh, yeah. And walk with me meant follow him to the bathroom. He'd use the urinal and I'd stand next to him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'd be like, yeah, so anyway, it's a caveman, and he finds a time machine, and uh-huh, uh-huh, flush, washing the hands.
14:06Right, right. Then door shut, and then I could hear Schneider in there again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where are we ordering in from? Yeah, no. But I think back on those days a lot with a lot of fondness because you were the most enthusiastic person. Back then, yes. You were so enthusiastic and your attitude was, we're at Saturday Night Live. This is amazing. Let's get milkshakes. Oh, yeah. You loved milkshakes. Yes, yes. And then they'd bring food in. They'd pay for them. You couldn't believe it. Yeah. It's like, everything was so wondrous to you. You know what I mean? And now it's like, okay, the Netflix jet is here.
14:48It's like, yeah. There's a time when you're young and you're only that young once. I was 23, yeah. Were you 23 when you got on that show? I think I would have been 24 when I got started. I have this memory of, it's like high school, of when the day people first showed up. So I remember you showing up. You were very excited and very confident. Spade was nervous. He stayed up late, though. I remember Schneider used to always say to David, you know, we're here all Tuesday night. Try to stick around, you know, in Spade. Around 11, you'd see Spade like, my neck hurts, man. I'm going home. but we did stay late you always stayed late i would sleep there yeah yeah we had the best those mornings when you'd wake up nuts and your stomach hurt from a whole night of being no sleep but it was and then the read-through was around three o 'clock or four o 'clock or something you were so off like an idiot when you're that young you think this is cool i'm like a fighter pilot you know that's true because i was i was so in i was so wanted to be I want to be the fastest gun.
15:51I want to be on the edge. I didn't sleep for two days. I'd hit these two women who were my roommates in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Lynette and Onion. I'd come in and I'd almost like bragging, like I haven't slept in 52 hours. And they'd be like, oh my, you should just go to bed. You know, my stool is a white gel. Like, I think this is cool. And it's just, and then I realized later on, you don't do good work when you haven't slept yeah that's true terrible i mean but we were we would just and then making sure that they typed it up right remember because it was back before computers i think yes it was you handed you wrote it on a legal pad a yellow pad we'd say we'd write it and hand it to anybody claire i remember used to work there a bunch of people you hand just get in and if it was a word off we're all sleep deprived and some of us have bad hand running anyway exactly and then so these very nice people would come up to us god and 10 o 'clock or 11 o 'clock in the morning and and they'd say what is this what's this word right here and usually it was a filthy sketch you'd have to say uh that's masturbation jizz machine it's very nice you know yeah yeah oh i know that 35 year old woman would go okay all right but you you i had probably told you this before but when you got the show when we found out you were hosting the show and taking uh you know over for letterman right is that what it was yeah um it was uh unanimous with our reaction everyone was like oh wow yeah that's great there was nobody going oh why come i didn't get that about everybody who it was conan's name everybody just went yeah wow that's perfect what a great idea you were you were sharper than everybody wrote wrote the coolest and uh but you you you You never came across nervous.
17:44Like I remember watching your first night. Who was the guest? It was Goodman? It was Goodman was the first guest. And then Drew Barrymore. Drew Barrymore, wow. And then Tony Randall. Right. Came out like wearing like a tuxedo. And then he and I sang Edelweiss. Oh wow. We wanted to on the first show, tell everybody this is the kind of show it's gonna be. Right, right, right. So he and I sang Edelweiss and they cut to the crowd and there was a weeping Nazi. We just wanted to tell everybody like this, this is this what this show is gonna be cool we're all pulling for you all knew you were the best and and uh like we're like wow it's official you you're that guy now that that was it's so funny it doesn't feel that way for the longest time you still feel like you're auditioning every night in the beginning yeah for a long time and um but i remembered you had had uh we all knew you were really funny but robert smigel immediately knew that you were fantastic and the other person and this is really interesting, is Jim Downey is such a giant brain.
18:42What's interesting is, remember Jim Downey sort of looking at you and saying, it's funny because you're doing like your take on a Jerry Lewis sometimes. But don't be fooled. I think he's smarter than any of us. Like that was his analysis, which I thought was very fascinating because people that took some of the buffoonery at face value didn't understand. Yeah, yeah, sure. That there's, that you're a really smart motherfucker. In my own way. No, I mean, but you are, you've always been. And that was always the plan that, okay, this is what I'm doing now, but then I'm going to start laying other stuff in.
19:21And actually, which I didn't even know at the time, but I would talk to you and you would talk about serious acting and you knew you could do it. I think I did, when I did The Wedding Singer, I probably was like, yeah, let me try not to be too goofy in this movie. we just maybe slowly ease into doing other stuff one day. Of course, PTA, he's the one who put me in like a... That's Paul Thomas Anderson. Paul Thomas Anderson. Not the PTA committee. Yeah, well, he's the guy who helped me get into doing just a straight-up serious movie. But in my head, I knew I could eventually handle something like that, and I should do something like that.
20:01I always, my family, when I first moved to NYU acting, my grandmother was always like you're you're the next james connor you're the next james connor she always used to say that to me so part of that line made me go oh shit i better do some real uh movies too one day so my grandmother can accept this uh life
20:23i probably told you this but i met james connor when i was young came i was on the paramount lot i'm walking i had an audition and james connor's with his buddies throwing a football around and he had a black eye and i was like oh shit he get a famous james conn kind of fight or something but but he was just he was shooting misery and he had the makeup on the makeup right and so i was like oh fuck i didn't realize it until like a year later i said oh shit that's why i had to but i walked by him and i said i gotta say something to james conn man and so uh i did that douchebag kind of walk up to him i see everyone going what the fuck he's having fun james conn throwing a footballer why is this guy interrupting i said hey my grandmother said i'm the next you he goes what i said my grand my grandmother said i'm the next you and he goes you don't want to be me oh wow yeah he was one of the you know people talk about who are the coolest people ever in movies was he on your show oh yeah james con was on the show and what i remember is you could uh even as even when he was getting older you could take a carpenter's level tell me if i'm You could take a carpenter's lever and put it on his shoulder and the bubble would go right to the middle.
21:33He had the craziest straight, and you can see it in The Godfather. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because there's a lot of scenes where Sonny's wearing like what was known or the, what is it, a wife beater t-shirt, but he's just got like the white strap on the t-shirt. And look at his shoulders. His shoulders are just crazy. He's got that ridge of fluff. Yeah, oh yeah, and then the fluff. A little bit of fluff there. He would keep little treats in there for later. it's got a little start a lot of little lifesavers and a starburst but no i've met him and i you know the times that i've met anyone anyone from that the godfather yeah i lose my mind a little bit they all love him too they all love him all the godfather guys would be when you say his name like oh he just had a coolness about him and he did he would fight anybody he did have that go time kind of like if somebody says the wrong thing oh no he looked like a guy who would drop his sandwich and punch you if that was called for.
22:28Yeah, I had to. I had to do that.
22:43I'm always that way. I don't want to bother these people. I get shit. You said you were that way about McCartney. McCartney, I ran past McCartney. Tell us what happened. McCartney was at a restaurant the other night, and it's actually my friend's restaurant. everybody knew he was coming i was with my wife and her friends and uh my friends and they were like you've met mccartney go say hello i said yeah yeah absolutely i got up i saw a side shot of his head he was eating and i was like come on man just say hello and then i saw ringo was at the table too and he looked up and i went i can't fucking handle it i just kept going and i ran past him and all my friends are like what happened and then my wife goes go back in you're gonna never forgive yourself go and i said yeah you're right went back in saw the side shot he was talking to his wife i think i just fucking get walking faked fake the hand wash in the bathroom then i was like what are you doing man go fucking do this just say hello amazing i love it just you're adam sandler the adam sandler did and you know what else didn't help other people were watching adam sandler be nervous and they were just going is he gonna fucking talk to mccartney or not and i just bolted out and got but you know i i get it because i someone like that i think he's been famous since about a year before i was born all right and when i say famous like the most one of the foremost famous faces in the world and then lunchbox in the house yeah there are people that i have no problem walking up to uh-huh yeah and sometimes i really give them attitude like look you're a c-lister at best so i'm gonna say hi you know i'm a real dick about it obama yeah
24:21you were president now i'm president conan that doesn't make sense um you've never been president uh but anyway um yeah i i would not uh athletes do that to me some superstar athletes where everybody says go over say hello oh the worst was uh kg i went to a clipper game with kevin garnett and after the game was it it was ending he was on the clippers he knows them all he's like let's go back say hi i said no no no no man you go he goes god come on man i go no i don't want to go in the locker room man he goes come on man and blah blah blah i go in there just feeling so goofy they're all you know the clothes are off i'm in there just after a game just there's no reason adam sandler's in the locker room they're all hugging kg i'm staring and Adam giving some head nods, and then somehow it was me alone for a second.
25:16They spread out, and me and Kawhi was in there just kind of sitting there thinking about the game, and I'm just standing there, just me and Kawhi, and I'm just like, yeah, this is a bad moment for Kawhi.
25:31Didn't say nothing, just froze. I was just thinking about this because I think he was on TV last night, but it was Joe Buck came up to me. I was at a bar with a friend and Joe Buck walks up to me and he's with John Elway. Yeah, that's cool. And, but John Elway doesn't say anything and Joe Buck is just like, oh man, I always love coming on your show. And when we were chatting and John Elway isn't saying anything and isn't really making eye contact with me and then Joe Buck's supposed to go, well anyway, I think our table's ready but so great to see you. And I'm like, yeah, good to see you too. And he walks away and John Elway is left standing looking at me for one second and he looks at me and he goes, we're fans and then walks away.
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26:10And it was so clear to me, he doesn't know who the fuck I am. And I respected him for it. I respected him, but just the generic is we're fans. And it's like, first of all, who's we? Cause Joe Buck is gone. Do you mean America? Yes. Do you mean the Elways? The Broncos. Do you mean the NFL? Yeah. We're fans. And then zing and he's gone. But now you've got the thing where you have that on the other side. I was there, part of a group of people honoring you and watched you when you got the Mark Twain prize. And it was just funny to see how many people came out and how you're that guy to them. You know what I mean?
26:58Like a Pete Davidson is telling stories about, oh shit, there's Adam Sandler. That's funny. We're those guys now to the young guys. Yeah, he's a funny bastard, that kid. He's always texting. He's just enjoying his life and then also nervous. He certainly seems to be. He enjoys it, but he's nervous about it, but he's a very nice kid. And, yeah, I don't know. That was quite a weekend, man. You were such a great man to me because I was so not enjoying it the first time. Why weren't you enjoying it? So you get this big honor, the Mark Twain prize, and everyone turns out, and it's going to be at Kennedy Center.
27:39And I ran into you. I checked in at the hotel in Georgetown in the lobby, and I walked through, and I'm thinking, well, I guess I'll see Adam at some point maybe when I go up on stage to give my speech. Yeah. And I see you standing, as you always are, in basketball shorts in the lobby alone. and I go up and I go, what's going on? You're like, I don't know, Coney. And you were in a bit of a well. I just get nuts when I have all my family, all friends, and then the thing that was bugging me the most was I knew everybody came because I felt like everyone was doing me a favor. So I was like, God damn, this is a weekend.
28:24Everybody would probably like to have their own weekend. I really wanted my own weekend. But you've made it. you said we all want to be here it's good let's just enjoy it i swear to god it was like five o 'clock at night on the friday and i went yeah yeah yeah okay let me just it's a once in a lifetime well also it's it's yeah take a second you're such a workaholic yeah you're working all the time you are too yeah but it's good to take a moment every now and then and say okay yeah this is nice all your friends turned out yeah um and it was really it was a great time it was a really We all hung.
29:01But I don't know if you're this way. I would always hate it when my new family was in the audience. They would always say, yeah, we're coming. We're gonna be in the late night audience. And I'd say, well, why don't you just, I say this to my brother, Neil. I'd say, just hang out in the dressing room. You can watch it. No, no, I wanna be in the crowd where everyone else is. And I'd say like, I'd kinda prefer it if you were, cause I can see everybody. And if I can see you in the crowd, it's weird that my brother's there and I'm trying to be a talk show host. And you're the guy who beat the shit out of me when I was five.
29:35And took more than your share of the sugar cereal. So I don't, Oh, oh. Yeah. There's six Pop-Tarts and there's six kids. And so you come down, there's only three Pop-Tarts. No one's had any. And Neil's got crumbs on his belly and he's laughing at all of us. But I would say to him, like, I would really prefer, and he would look me and go like, nah, no, this is what I like. And then he'd just be there. And then of course, you would always find a way to talk to the celebrity guests backstage. Oh, Mary Tyler Moore. It's so nice to see you. I'm Conce Butler Neal. So when you worked on a show called Bennigan's Revenge in 1966, it premiered in color, but then the second season was in black and white.
30:15Why was that? He has that kind of mind. That's amazing. He went up to Elvis Costello and was like, hey, I saw you at Live Aid. I was in the crowd. Oh wow. And I was thinking the crowd at Live Aid. That's a big crowd. i was there wempley stadium no i was uh i was wearing a blue t-shirt remember uh yeah no they changed they changed my vibe too my my my dad told my mom my dad came to see me in boston one night when i was doing stand-up and i just was getting going and i was cursing a lot and uh and my father no matter what even when i did bad he'd be oh that was terrific you were great terrific and uh i said that thing i said blah blah didn't do well huh he'd be like that was terrific you'll figure it out but he would say don't have mom come see you and then and so my mother every time i had a show my mom would go your father says i shouldn't come do you want me to come i'd be like well dad dad said not to do maybe it's better and then my i did my album and it was filthy and my father played my mother the record he listened to it first and then my mother would tell me i listened to track one five and eleven those were the ones that daddy said i can listen but i did change my vibe whenever my parents or my family there's something about my act as a stand-up i don't really tell the truth ever yeah i have the start of the truth and do some sure goofy joke and anytime i've looked out at a family member and I start my joke they have a look I'm like this isn't true and so it throws my head off I'm like you know my mother never came to see me do stand-up because that was the instructions but I my I opened for Seinfeld Seinfeld was cool he he liked me let me open for him in Boston one night and my parents are in New Hampshire and uh and went to open for Seinfeld I don't think he told me to but i i said oh he doesn't curse so i can't curse and i told my dad and mom hey i'm doing seinfeld oh that's a big deal and they were so excited i said uh i'm doing 15 minutes before he he goes on if you guys want to come and i because i'm not allowed to curse and so my father's like judy we'll go and i they both came and i had because it was a clean set i wasn't used to it And I fucking ate it for 15 minutes.
32:48And my poor parents were watching me just fail miserably. And then Seinfeld went on and it was fucking, you know, two hours of destruction. And just the whole car ride home is like, and how about when he said? And I was like, yes, that was very good. And my mother's like, you'll get there. You'll get there. That's nice. I love that your dad is, you know, the production company logo that always comes up is the golf ball. Terrific. And then terrific. And I guess that was your dad's, everything was terrific. Everything was terrific. Always about your golf swing, about everything. School, you'd come home with a report card.
33:30All right, terrific. You're doing okay. He had a great attitude. but my dad passed away and that terrific is actually me i did it in a microphone and they lowered it and put it in the uh thing and my mother for a long time thought it was my dad and happened when daddy said and then i i think i broke it to her recently i said that's me oh you destroyed it all
34:00I don't know. I liked hanging out with your mom and your sister. Yeah, my two sisters. Your two sisters, that's right. How about when my sister took over the speech the first night? There's a night before when you get the Twain Award. There's a night before. They have another night. and um yeah your sister came out and like did a set she did she did a 20 minute hit yeah and uh she took over she made me sit down on stage yeah she said get up here and made you sit and there was nothing you could do your sister was this was she said like this is my moment yes and i'm taking it she and not uh didn't try to be funny or was funny and also just nice and real didn't have the The thing that we have of like, I got to kill.
34:50She was just like taking her time and telling stories about me. But had me locked in there pretty good. But it was sweet. Everybody was nice to her. I love it when Spade's mom has been around. I'm sure I've told that story about Spade's mom. I love it when these people that I came along with, when their parents are around. I love it, like I said, when your mom's around. and I went to an event and it was an event that you were throwing for, I think it was one of your daughter's bar mitzvah. Oh, yeah, the bar mitzvah. A bar mitzvah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm sitting at a table with David Spade's on one side, his mom's on the other side, and sitting across the table from us is Dustin Hoffman.
35:37That's right. And she leans over to me and she says, Conan, that's Dustin Hoffman, and I want to go say hi to him. I love Dustin Hoffman. He's in my second favorite movie of all time. And I said, oh, that's, yeah, you should say hi to him. She said, yeah, I'm going to go tell him he's in my second favorite movie of all time. And I said, well, you know what you should do, Mr. Spade, is just say, you're like in my favorite movie of all time. I said, what was it? And he said, she was like, Tootsie is my second favorite movie of all time. And I'm trying to remember, I said like, well, what's your, you know, and she said, I just said, just say it's your favorite.
36:13And she said, it's not my favorite movie of all time. My favorite movie of all time is 9 to 5. My second favorite movie of all time is Tootsie. And my third favorite movie of all time. And then she had a third favorite. And I said, you don't have to say all that. You don't have to do it. Just go up to Dustin Hoffman and just say, you're my favorite movie of all time, Tootsie. That's all. And she looked at me and she said, but it's not my favorite movie. And so I said, David, help me here. And David was like, ma, ma, just say, you literally love Tootsie. That's all you have to do. And she was like, all right, all right.
36:49So she goes around and there's all this music playing because it's a bat mitzvah. And I see her walk around and she goes up to Dustin Hoffman and then she starts talking and then she holds up three fingers. And then she does one. And I see her mouthing it and it's not Tootsie. And I see Dustin Hoffman listening. And he doesn't even know it's David Spade's mom. He just knows it's this older woman. Now, my favorite movie. You're not in it. So hold on. You're in the list, but not at number one. And I was just dying. That's good. Yeah, my mother does the, if someone famous is in the room, my mother, I'll introduce my mother, go, you're wonderful.
37:37You're wonderful. Congratulations. And thank you so much. You were wonderful. We love you so much. And then they walk away and then like, who is that?
37:50This is years ago doing late night, but I had an impromptu party at my house and Jim Carrey just happened to be, and this was like, he had had like five number one movies in a row. And everywhere he went, they had to shut streets down. It was crazy. And he came by my small late night party in my apartment and my mom was there. And at one point I see my mom over in the corner talking to Jim. And you know, you just get that feeling like, oh, okay, I hope this goes all right. And then sooner or later, my mom drifts back to me and I go, mom, what were you talking to that guy about? And she went, well, he wants to, you know, he's in comedy and he's an actor.
38:32And I told him, listen to me. My son, a lot of people gave him a lot of guff when he started out, but he kept pushing and he kept pushing and he made it. And if you stick with it, you too are going to make it. And so I put my hand on my mom's shoulder and I said, mom, she was still working at the time at this law office in Boston. I said, mom, you're going back to Boston tomorrow and I want you to tell everybody on Monday, gather everyone at Ropes and Gray Law Firm and tell them that you met Jim Carrey and you told him to just stick with it and she was saying why why why is that funny why why would i do that who is he who is he and i said just do it just do it so then she called me from work why and she said well i didn't know and you could hear people laughing in the background my mother sat next to dice clay on the on a flight out and she was just telling me this nice boy very nice we talked the whole flight and very sweet and you should get to know him his name is dice and he's very nice and he's from brooklyn and i said are you with dice clay he's a giant star yeah yeah well he's very wise handsome and then he's got a nice head of hair he told me the loveliest little nursery rhyme.
39:52Hickory dickory duck. The mouse ran up the cock. He was always nice. Every time I'd see Dice after, say hi to your mother. Oh yeah. He was the shit. And then what about fucking Dennis when he would go, what the fuck? Dennis, what is it? Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't fucking care. And the whole place would go nuts. Something like that. Yeah. Did you get along with Dennis? back on the show he got me on the show oh he was the one that got you yeah he called lauren about me yeah yeah that's nice he um was great to me and he used to take us out before snl we were just goofy comedians schneider and spade he used to take us out golfing all the time at woodset you know in the valley and we'd play with him and got to know him and then he watched our acts and told us you know what was good and bad and that kind of shit and then he's like sand man they he used to call me sandman used to go i think he was like the first guy uh like my friends when i was a kid used to call me sandman and then nobody did that and i think he used to go sandman and and uh he's like yeah you'd be good on the show sandman and then and then i'd be on the show and i remember i wouldn't wasn't doing great in the beginning no no it's hard place to get it going but i uh i was definitely um schneider hit big and some of the youth was starting to get there and i was not getting there and then uh i remember in the hallway he goes i thought this would have caught on by now not yet not yet it'll get there but you knew you were always pretty confident that you'd get there right yeah yeah i guess so yes i kept going but but uh yeah he was great to me he did scare the shit out of you didn't exactly almost like um the mccartney thing like you just just uh you get a little fucking out of your head and nervous you're gonna say the wrong thing to dennis and guys who were just better than us back in the day.
41:47Who else had that? Phil was warm. Phil was warm. He used to make you feel calm. Phil was warm, Phil Hartman, but you always thought you didn't know the real Phil. That's right. Phil would walk in and see us and go, keep them flying, boys. Keep them flying. And then you'd go in to tell him about a sketch and go, and he'd say, what's up, fellas? All right, let's take a look. Got it. And he was a machine. He could do it. But it's not like I ever had a heart to heart with Phil. No, no, no. Never shot the shit for real. But he was sweet. He was sweet. Lovitz. Lovitz was pretty goddamn nice to us back in the day.
42:25He was funny because John Lovitz just wore his heart on his sleeve. He was who he was. He was kind of, it was all there. Like he had no armor. Right. So many comedians have armor and John Lovitz would say, I've got an idea. He always would pitch you these ideas. Because he was always looking for a new catchphrase after the liar. He was always wanting a new catchphrase. And he'd be like, I got a good idea for a character. He says, get to know me. And you'd go, yeah, I don't really know. And I'd be like, oh. I think it'd be really good. Come on. He'd get sort of like a kid. But he was very sweet.
43:03Really nice guy. Very sweet guy. Absolutely. But just felt like his inner child was exposed. But those guys were bigger than, because we were younger than them, that we always were a little nervous around. Yeah, of course. That's just how it works. Whoever... Dana. I'm in awe of people. People that were on TV when I was a kid are just always, I mean, they're all dying now. But if they were on television or in the movies when I was a kid, I'm in complete awe of them. Well, you owe something to them. What I have found is that people can be absolute icons, make the biggest stars in the world. but if they came along five years ago, I'm very happy to meet them, but they don't have that effect on me.
43:46Sure, yes. I'm not like, oh my, oh my God. Taylor Swift, because what she means to my kids, I get a little fucking jumpy. I'm this guy, because I don't want to blow up my kids, so I'm a little like, Taylor, Taylor. You know, like I talk a little too loud or something. I don't act as cool as I can. Do you yell her name outside her house? Taylor, Taylor! Talk to me. Speak to me. Yeah, she's, I mean, she's this whole other level now. That is, people talk about the Beatles of it all and her just, man, I mean, fuck so many smash hits. There's not a word my kids don't know. Yeah, my daughter, it means so much.
44:31I know him too, by the way, but they know him inside and out. But it's just, remember the Beatles, every fucking song on the record you knew? That's Taylor Swift, too. There's not a song you skip. You go, that one's pretty damn cool. Very few people have hit that level of fame. For that long? I think it's me. Oh, boy. That's Taylor. You've been outside with me. People just lose, you know, they're like shouting out different sketches and bits. No, they're just like, do I know you from something? How do I know you? Big man, what's up, big man? Taylor has called me and said, like, how long will this go on?
45:14How do I handle it? And I go, look, you just got to be chill, you know? You got to breathe into it. That's what I always say. Never have. You know, what's very cool is I think you have had an extremely, and continue to have an extremely unique career. I'm just, it's amazing the vantage point I've had, you know, meeting you that first day you showed up at SNL and then just seeing this body of work that you've made, which is so varied that when people come up to you and they're touched by something you did or they love something you did, there's a lot of people who they know what's coming. Yeah, you like that one movie, but for you, you never know what it's gonna be because you've done so much.
45:56You've done so much stuff that's affected people in different ways. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, shit, the latest, that Leo movie. Leo. Smigel. Yeah. My daughter's obsessed. Oh, yeah? She loves that. And it's such a good movie because I've watched it with her three times. That's fantastic. Yeah, it's like a joke bag. Feels great. Bill Burr. Smigel crushed it. I'm so happy. I also love, too, that the voice you did in Leo. Oh, Bernie. We all know it's, you know, my former representation, your former Bernie Brillstein had this just unbelievable voice. I mean, first of all, he looked - You used to do him.
46:33You and Smiley used to do him talking about your Adam West pilot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you do Sandy better than everybody does. But this was this great, Bernie Brillstein was this iconic figure and they don't make him like that anymore. Right. And he wore all black. He was a very heavy guy with a big white beard and he looked like a Jewish Santa Claus and he'd wear dark and he'd say, it's slimming. I'd be like, well, apparently it's not. But everyone did a Bernie Brillstein impression but you took that voice and then changed it. Yeah. And if you had told me this massive hit movie, Leo is coming out and kids are gonna love it and it's gonna be an instant classic and the main character is the voice of Bernie Brillstein.
47:24That was... Unabsent. Remember that you guys, I think, Smigel used to do Bernie if he was a cannibal? No. He used to go, you know, he'd be giving advice and be like, you have to tell Paramount Fiction, you see, or whatever he'd be saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me, you have a wonderful hand. Let me feel that hand for a second.
47:55it's such a specific i love a really specific impression yeah yeah that was good that the kids coming up talking about that fantastic feeling and then you have this uh i just watched it last night you got the spaceman spaceman which is i really loved it and it's quite different from other work that you've done. And it's got a great premise. I don't know how much I want to say to give anything away, but it's someone who's about as far away from Earth as you can get. Right. Who gets some upsetting news and feels like something in his relationship with his wife has gone wrong. And you're literally on the other side of Jupiter.
48:34Yes, yes. And then there's this element that comes into the movie that is really fantastic and you don't expect it. And I thought it was a beautiful movie. That's cool. It really did. Great, great. Yes. Well, it's this director, great guy, Johan Rink, just a great person. You would love him. He's from Sweden. He directed Bowie's last video. He's a really cool bass. I love that video, by the way. I love that video. It looks cool. Bowie, he has great stories about Bowie, and he did Madonna, and just cool stuff. And he was a singer himself, and he gave me the script, and it was very different and this guy visually makes cool shit and let me be in it and I love it.
49:19I like it. You're in this enviable position where you can do whatever you want. You can decide, you know, I'm going to do an uncut gems and work with the Safdies before that was even a thing, you know? And I think you can make a Leo, then you can come out with spaceman which is very much it's got like a 2001 vibe and has a lot of different darker textures in it i think okay this is this amazing place to be in right now yes yes where you can be as goofy as you want yeah yeah yeah and then i did get lucky there i don't know how the i don't know what i'm supposed to do half the time i'm like shit i gotta make a movie i want to make a movie i love making them what what the fuck am i supposed to do i just just want i like doing comedies i like when there's an idea that we're freaking out over and we can't wait to get get it going and try to write it and all that shit uh but it's a weird age right now it's a new new new age i don't know what the fuck i'm supposed to really talk about what i'm supposed to be uh what kind of movie i'm supposed to make right now but it all it all eventually gets there well Well, I think my take on you is I think your secret weapon, and I like to think I've been this way too, but you've mostly been interested in pleasing yourself.
50:43And you decided a long time ago, I'm not going to read anything about me, and I'm not going to try and make certain people happy. I'm just going to do what I think is right and what I want to do. And it's kind of a masterclass in what more people should do. you know because i think it has i i think that's a great way to go through especially a comedy career but just make yourself happy and and if you stick to that uh chances are the worst thing that happens is you've made yourself happy and in your case you've made everybody else happy too so that's a beautiful thing that it does feel yes there are times in in your career you go i guess uh you do something that you weren't 100 sure of and then you just go i can't ever fucking do that again that didn't feel good like doing whatever makes me feel like at least i like it like you were saying and um it's just it's just yeah lucky lucky me and you are very lucky how about how long you've been getting to do this and and kill and this this new building you got's the greatest man i love it yeah i always wanted a little tree house that's what this feels like It's like a very nice tree house.
51:56Yes. It's packed with people who look happy as hell. Yeah. They don't do anything. That's all right. Super happy. The checks keep coming. And every picture on the wall is of me. I feel good.
52:16You know, I don't want to keep you any longer, but I'm just honored to be your friend. Me too, man. And I love you always. Happy. So happy for you. I'm doing a stand-up special and I dropped your name in it in a good way. Oh, in a good way. You have nothing to fear. I hate when somebody says that I heard your name at a comedy club. I'm like, oh, geez. That could go the other way. But no, this is a good way. Friend of Epstein. Oh, no. Well, listen, I love you. And I'm so happy for you. and proud of you for, you just, I don't know, you're following your own North Star and whatever you're doing is perfection.
53:03Thank you, buddy. Thank you. I love you, Conan. I love you too. And I love you too, Gourley. What? Yeah. Oh, wait. I'm sorry, different Gourley. Yeah. Sorry. That feels better. I didn't have my glasses on. Thank you. That was close. Thanks.
53:26I have a tale to tell, and it's an embarrassing tale. And I think these are the ones you guys like. These are our favorites. This is a true story. I just flew in from Boston. I was seeing my family there. I check out my family. I check out my family. Hey, you guys are looking. Hey, mom, dad, you guys are looking good. Sexy nuclear unit. No, I was checking in on my family and seeing my fam, my sibs. And then I go to Logan Airport and I'm going to take the flight from Boston to Los Angeles. You know, you wait in the line to hand your stuff over, put it on the conveyor belt. So you're a little distracted, but I'm taking my belt off.
54:05They always say you can leave your belt on, but it always sets it off. So now I take everything off. I'm pretty much naked when I go through that thing. But I'm taking everything off. I'm putting it down into this bucket. And this very nice kid who's wearing a white sweater and he has glasses and dark hair. and he says, oh, hi, Conan. And he could not have been nicer. He said, your TV show meant a lot to me. I've listened to Conan O 'Brien, needs a friend all the time. He is Armenian. He introduces himself. And I think he said his name was Arman. He could not have been nicer. And he was talking about, beautifully talking about what the work has meant to him and all that.
54:40And I just had like the nicest conversation with him. And he was kind of holding his phone, but we were just about to go through, you know, when you go through the, the, whatever, the x-ray machine, the magnetic thing. And so he had to put his phone in. And I was kind of thinking, I think he wanted to do a photo, but he didn't. Okay, hold on. But anyway, we go through and I'm thinking, that guy was so nice. Then they want to look again at one of my bags. I think it's, you know, how many men travel with nine bottles of hairspray? So it was suspicious. And it's Aquanet. It's for old women. They don't even make it anymore.
55:14It was like a two-day trip. It was a day and a half trip. and uh and so and it's all not all for my uh for my hair but anyway um no it's i'm saying i inhale that stuff it's an incredible high uh shout out to aquanet but anyway um i get through and i get some of my stuff and i stand up and standing there uh white sweater glasses dark care uh this guy and i just walk up to him and say hey let's do a selfie and he said um okay and he starts to fish around in his luggage for his camera and i'm thinking he was just holding his camera and he doesn't seem that interested what the fuck that's weird i thought i was being super nice because he said all those nice things and he starts to pick it up and he goes uh okay and I went and look at him and I go, wait a minute.
56:11Oh no. It's not that guy. I just, I swear to God, I just, so this guy who's just a guy who's wearing, and I look over and I see the other guy. Listen to me, I see, listen to me, I'm not kidding. I swear to God, this is all exactly happened. I see the other guy, he's wearing a sweater that is practically identical. They look very similar and he's got glasses and I see him standing over at a post holding his cell phone. And he's thinking, why wouldn't he take a selfie with me? And I'm looking at this guy and he goes, okay. And he takes a selfie of us. And so look at it from his perspective. He's sitting there waiting for another relative, a girlfriend or whatever to come through.
56:55And Conan O 'Brien walks up and goes, hey, let's do a selfie. He must've thought you were insane. He thought I was fucking insane. And so then I started to go, no, no, no. I thought, I thought you were him and I'm pointing to the other guy and the other guy isn't even looking at me at that point. He's looking at his phone because he just got a text and there's no good explanation for why you would walk up to a stranger and say, hey, buddy, let's get a selfie. You're gonna want this. You're gonna want this. So somewhere out there, there's a guy who isn't a fan, doesn't care, maybe actively dislikes what I do.
57:33I came up to him and made him take a selfie. And I just, and so then I walk up to the other guy and I said, I'm sorry, I thought he was you. And the other guy, I'm just, you know, there's no, now he just thinks, oh, so all non-celebrities look alike to you. I think what happened is there was no first guy and you just got a bad reaction from someone you wanted to take a selfie with. And this first guy's your like fight club Tyler Durden guy. No, no, no, no. It gets you to do selfies. Nice, nice try, yes, that I see phantom people. No, I loved, it was so perfect. And I don't have photos, but if I could show you a photo of what both of them were wearing, you would laugh because - Somewhere these selfies exist though, right?
58:17It's as if a higher being, God said, this is gonna be really funny. I'm sending down two people who look somewhat alike and they're both wearing this very similar sweater and like dark jeans. So whatever, that happened. Oh my God. And I just keep thinking about this guy. Just like, okay, where's Sarah? I just got to wait for Sarah to come through. Hey, hey, let's take a selfie. What do you, let's do it right now. Come on, get the camera out. Like you're doing him a favor. Like, hey buddy. Yeah. And now I think I've chosen you. Hey, guess what? Randomly every hundredth person gets to win the ultimate lottery.
58:54You're getting a selfie with Conan O 'Brien. I'm sorry, and you do what? Come on. Late night show, 90s, 2000s. NBC, TBS, come on, come on. Podcast, come on, come on, get the camera. Let's do this. Incredible. That's it. That's just happened. That happened 36 hours ago. And the minute it happened, I said, these exist. This is why I have the podcast, because this is fresh. This just happened. Hey, buddy, let's do it. Get the camera out. Let's get that selfie. I love that you said these two selfies still exist, but that guy probably just deleted it. He never took it. He went, She was like, yeah, oh yeah, I took it.
59:38Oh, there you go. And you know what he said? He said, click. He said, click. And I was like, I didn't think he pushed the phone. And then I saw him walk up to a trash can and throw his iPhone away. And it was the new one. It's the new one with the funny new cord.
59:59He threw it away. Click. Are you happy now? You irrelevant funk. Oh, good. A trash can. Funk. Incredible. All right. Oh, my God. Conan O 'Brien, a fool once again. Conan O 'Brien needs a friend. With Conan O 'Brien, Sonam of Sessian, and Matt Gourley. Produced by me, Matt Gourley. Executive produced by Adam Sachs, Nick Liao, and Jeff Ross at Team Coco, and Colin Anderson and Cody Fisher at Earwolf. Theme song by The White Stripes. Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino. Take it away, Jimmy.
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