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Podcast Summary: Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend - Episode: Eric Andre Returns
Podcast Overview Title: Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend Description: After years of interviews, Conan O'Brien seeks to forge real friendships with his celebrity guests in a relaxed and playful environment free from the constraints of television.
Episode Overview Episode Title: Eric Andre Returns Description: Comedian Eric Andre joins Conan to discuss the upcoming sixth season of *The Eric Andre Show*, recount funny mishaps with pranks, and explore the challenges of being a ripped comedian. Conan also hints at a potential future guest.
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Key Moments and Discussions
Introduction
- Eric Andre's Energy: The episode opens with Eric expressing his excitement about being Conan's friend, setting a humorous and light-hearted tone.
- Team Dynamics: Conan interacts with his team, Sonam and Matt, discussing their moods and dynamics, hinting at their playful banter.
Personal Anecdotes
- Parenting and Food: Conan shares his experience with picky eaters among his children, contrasting it with Eric's kids who eat a variety of foods.
- Conan's Childhood: Reflects on his strict upbringing, recalling a moment with his father regarding food preferences, mixed with humor about his past.
Eric Andre's Career
- Promotion of The Eric Andre Show: Eric discusses the upcoming season, mentioning special guests like Jon Hamm, Lil Nas X, and Mia Khalifa.
- Origins of The Show: He shares how he created the show from scratch, living modestly and hustling to get it off the ground.
Humor and Comedic Approaches
- Dealing with Pranks: Both comedians share experiences about pranks that didn’t go as planned and the unpredictability involved in comedy.
- Comedy and Looks: A discussion arises about the nature of comedians needing to look "disgusting" and the absurdity of attractive people being funny.
Personal Reflections
- Anxiety and Comedy: Eric candidly talks about his anxiety and how it fuels his comedic work, highlighting the irony of his anxiety-driven career in pranks.
- Physical Appearance: Eric and Conan discuss their body image issues and the challenges of maintaining weight fluctuations in the entertainment industry.
Hypothetical Scenarios
- Harrison Ford's Potential Appearance: Conan shares his concerns about a possible future guest, Harrison Ford, arriving at the podcast and how Sona may react.
- Imagined Situations: Humorous scenarios are generated about a Chipotle outing with Ford, exploring the fan dynamics and the potential awkwardness of the encounter.
Closing Remarks
- Friendship and Respect: The episode concludes with Conan expressing appreciation for Eric, celebrating their friendship while maintaining the comedic undertone throughout their dialogue.
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Key Takeaways
- Friendship in Comedy: The overarching theme of the podcast is the exploration of friendship, especially within the comedic landscape, as both hosts navigate personal stories with humor.
- Comedy's Absurdity: The episode emphasizes the absurdities of life, the challenges of personal image in comedy, and the importance of personal anecdotes in shaping one’s comedic voice.
- Engaging Banter: The chemistry between Conan and Eric drives the episode, showcasing their ability to weave personal stories with humor, making for an engaging and entertaining listen.
Production Notes
- Produced By: Matt Gourley, Adam Sachs, Nick Liao, Jeff Ross
- Theme Song: The White Stripes
- Additional Music: Jimmy Vivino
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Conclusion The episode featuring Eric Andre combines humor, personal stories, and the challenges of life as a comedian, all wrapped in a light-hearted friendship dynamic. The anticipation of a potential guest adds excitement and sets the stage for future discussions on celebrity interactions.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:03Hi, my name is Eric Andre.
0:07And I feel moist about being Conan O 'Brien's friend. Fantastic.
0:34Hey there. Welcome to Conan O 'Brien Needs a Friend. I am joined by my compatriots, Sonam Obsessian. How are you, Sonam? Hi. You seem a little prickly today about something. I don't know what's going on, but we'll find out soon. What are you talking about? And Matt Gorley. Hi. How are you, Matt? I'm pretty good. How are you? Nice to see you. I'm doing very well. You okay? Yeah. You okay? Yeah. Okay. I never know. Do I really seem prickly? You came in a little hot today. I didn't know what was going on. What are you talking about? I think she's responding to you. You also came in hot. Yeah. You said I was the dumbest person you ever met before we started recording.
1:03You made her feel prickly. Oh, yeah. Wait a minute. I'm thinking. Then you said, no, I meant the worst person I ever met. Yes, that's right. Right. Yeah. So I corrected it. You're not the dumbest. You're the worst. Yes. So why would that get you all? I'm not prickly stupid. I'm fine. Stupid. I like that. Can we just start calling you stupid? Yes, you can. Hey, stupid. But how are you in general? How are you? I'm good. I'm fine. You know, I was checking my wound. It's fine. I'm okay. What do you have? I cut my finger cutting zucchini, but I'm okay. It's fine. What were you making? I was just roasting zucchini.
1:37As a side dish? And then I did it on a mandolin and I sliced a piece of my finger off. And it was fine. Do your kids eat all kinds of food? Are they super picky? They eat all kinds. They do. That's amazing. Well, it's just because we give them a lot of ethnic food and then they just eat a lot of stuff. We tried that when my kids were little, especially my son. So picky. Just wouldn't, you know, super suspicious that everything was poison and would only eat very specific things. But when I've been around you, they're eating everything. You just can pull something out of the lawn and they'll eat it.
2:07It's incredible. And we do sometimes. We just go out there and get something and just put it. Well, often it's just grass. Yeah, which is weird. I don't think there's any nutritional value to that. If you put enough spices on it, it's fine. They just look like kids that eat everything. They do. They eat a lot. I mean, but Beckett eats now. Okay, we don't use his name on this podcast. You've said his name many times. Never. A lot of times. Never. Yeah. His name's Rick. his name's Rick yeah I wish I wish this is Rick O 'Brien my son I think I had a pretty good save there yeah pretty solid but Rick if anyone's mad at me they'll be like where is that Rick O 'Brien no no he's good but I'm seeing his little kids I was very picky eater I was very very picky were you which doesn't work because it was one of six there's kids there's a bunch of kids in my family and I was one of six you probably got food hand-me-downs I'm like this doesn't this hamburger doesn't fit me yeah this hamburger fits Neil the hems on this hot dog are too long none of that makes sense it's just stupid apologies all around but the point I'm trying to make is that I remembered once saying to my dad he was serving us all something you know putting it all on the table and I said don't you know I don't like this and my father said why would I know what you like or what you don't like and you know what he said why would I I know what you like or what you don't like.
3:30And look, I'm not putting my dad down because I actually think he has a point. And then he went on to call you Rick. Yeah, listen here, Rick. You're gonna shut up and you're gonna eat that marshmallow and potato sandwich. This was a rare moment of candor from my father. And he was kind of just saying, there's six kids. There's a bunch of animals running around the house, like pets, dogs, cats. My brother, Luke had parakeets. Your grandmother lives with us. your both parents work full time. And then suddenly this kid with an orange bowl haircut is saying, don't you know, this isn't my favorite repast.
4:08My father said, what? I barely know who you are. Shut up, open your gob and shove it in. But what were you thinking? He would just go make you a special meal that was different from everyone else's. I think for a second, I just, you know, whatever was put in front of me was like, no, I don't, don't you know, I don't eat swordfish. don't you know? And I, you know, this was the 70s. Nixon was resigning. You know, it was a tough time. What does it do? Oh, that changed people's appetites across the nation. Oh, okay. I think we were all just on edge about inflation and what's Ford going to do and what's this new show, Sarnot Live?
4:46Uh-oh, Chevy Chase left. Will the show ever continue? And that was the mood of the times. And then here I am saying, I'm not sure this fish is my favorite. Father. Father! Hello! Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. I had a spoon and I was banging it on a cup. It said, yeah, it said Nixon in 74. And I'm like ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Father! Oh God, it's probably real. This cod is not quite to my liking. I like it abroiled, not fried. And he was like, what? Shut up. Eat it. I don't even know which one you are. Which one are you? Are you even one of ours? Are you a boy? Are you a girl? Are you one of the pets?
5:35All these questions out loud. He's asking them out loud. And I'm like, well, first of all, as we can all tell, I'm all boy. Second of all, I'm the one we call Conan. Third from the top and fourth from the bottom. La-li-la-li-la. Then neighborhood bullies came in through the window In my own house and beat the shit out of me Oh my god Father, father, help me My father was like, here's 20 bucks Hit him again I think this is truly the first time I've felt pity for you I actually feel for you Really? Yeah, because it felt real And I do want to I do love my dad and he's a great dad And is still to this day a great dad But yeah, did he think constantly about what my desires were?
6:27No, because it was a different time. It was the depression. No. Yeah, for me, the depression includes part of my first 10 years of my life. The depression goes from 1929 to 1979 because it includes my depression as a child. Anyway, we got a lot to talk about. Yes, yeah, we'll pick up more on that. Father!
6:51Father, the toilet seat on the third floor! is vinyl and that's not how I like to ride. And you know that, father. Dear poor dad. Poor dad. My guest today is a hilarious comedian and host of the Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim, which is now in its sixth season. This man delights me. I'm thrilled he's with us.
7:20Eric Andre, welcome.
7:25You launched into this room full of pep and energy, and you're a jack. You're in good shape. You're in great shape. I'm not in great shape, but I'll take it. You are. I've been drinking a little bit. When I drink, I get a little pudgy. When I don't drink, slim up. You slim up real good. But I had my 40th birthday party a month ago. And it lasted for a month. And yeah, and I just... You went crazy. I like cocktails. What can I say? What's your favorite cocktail? What do you like? All of them. I don't know. It's kind of like, what's your favorite album? It's an unfair question. You're right. I'm insulted that you would ask such a thing.
8:00I like a rum old fashioned. I like rum. I like rum a lot. I love rum. You got a pirate kind of vibe to you? I do have a pirate vibe. And when I'm on rum, I just sprout an eyepatch and a pirate. And it just grows out of me. And I, God, I love rum. Yeah, it's fun. And then I like to fight people. You know, a lot of rum history started in Massachusetts. Massachusetts was a huge rum producer back in the day. Back in the day. So you got it in your veins, brother. Are you from Massachusetts? Well, originally from Ireland, but then we hung out in Massachusetts for a while before. You weren't born in Ireland.
8:36No, but it's so funny. You're from Boston, aren't you? Yeah, I am from Boston. But it's so funny because my name's Conan O 'Brien and I look the way they do. So many people think, ah, she's from Dublin. And I'm like, no, I grew up in Massachusetts. You were born in Ireland? No, no, no. I was born in Massachusetts. Why did you lie to me? I didn't. What did I say? Did I lie? I don't think I did. I'm asking the judge. He goes, I started in Ireland and then I moved to Massachusetts. You did. Thank you. You did say I started in Ireland. Yes. And we came over to Massachusetts. It was very strange. That's weird.
9:08I subconsciously lied to you. Why did I do that? You're a strange man. You're drunk on rum. Well, I'm going to say right now, this is a Coke Zero. It's got nothing in it. No, I started out in Lebanon. Then it was off to Ireland for my dreams to come true. Then I made my way to Boston because I heard that was the show business capital of the world. Oh, yeah. Turns out that was a mistake. Oh, right under the Citco Stein. That's where everybody. It all happens. That's where it all happens. That's where they film Goodfellas and Godfather. All good movies start right underneath the Citco Stein. Right under the Citco Stein.
9:42Next to Fenway Park. That's right. Okay, I'm going to make sense of this. Because we have things to talk about. Tell me everything. We can't be screwing around. This is a serious interview. Do you feel distracted? Am I creating a distracting environment? I think you should go. I want to continue my interview with Eric Andre without Eric Andre. Because you're a distraction. I'm sorry. You're getting in the way of my interview with you. Yeah. I love you. You're a great. I love you too. You're a very funny man. You're a very creative man. You're a force for good. Thank you. And so I was very excited that I'd be seeing you today.
10:16I think the last time we talked, it was over Zoom. And then today you come bursting in the door. Yeah. We hugged. Yeah, we kissed. I felt we kissed for quite a long time. You became moist. I felt your musculature. Then we fought for a bit, which surprised me. It didn't surprise me. It shocked me. You took the first swing. I came right. I blocked it, came right back. It was. And then I was doing major kickboxing on you. You were shocked. I did Taibo. You did Taibo. I did Taibo on you, which isn't a good defense. No, it's a very good exercise. Great exercise, not a good martial art. You weren't even facing me as you did Taibo.
10:52I know. And it made me easy to hit. I just was hitting you with a chair. Pummeling me. I'm bleeding out. And then you started doing squats as I punched you in the face. I don't know. I don't understand any of it. And now we're here. Very, very, very happy to have you here. And so glad that your show is, you got a new season of the show coming out which people absolutely adore. You've got great people on the show this year. You always get terrific guests. You always get great people to play along. But who we got this year? It's like Jon Hamm. I don't remember. Oh, Jon Hamm, yeah. Lil Nas X. Yeah.
11:25Good friend of mine. Lil Yachty. A lot of Lils. Yeah, a lot of Lil. Porn star Mia Khalifa, who you're going to pretend you don't know any of her work, Conan. Oh, my God. Please. This morning, I did a nine-hour deep dive on her work. she enunciates the dialogue very well that's what she's known for her diction is perfect i don't think i didn't notice anything else uh um you've got this great trajectory which is you made this show up completely it's like sheer force of will you pretty much made it all happen yourself in a lot of ways right at the beginning this was a homegrown project yeah it was a punkyard show it was you and you were like when you put together your show you were living on couches yeah yeah where i was like sleeping outside i would sleep in like little parks because i was too afraid to sleep in central park so i'd sleep in like saint vartan's park in murray hill and like i would pick little i had toothbrushes all around town and i would hit you had two toothbrushes hidden in the park yeah i think it was third rock from the pond to the left here it is oral b with sensinine i would like i would do stand up at night i would do over mics and i would ask the audience if i could sleep over and sleep on their couches and you meant it and i meant it i meant it wow did it heat up in here or am i excited what do you mean don't you feel like it's hotter than when we started yeah that's your body heat you think it's just you're glowing you are pregnant there's an there's an omelet cooking on your shoulder it got hotter it got hotter because i don't mean to flatter myself but i think you saw me i did and i think you thought shit i'm sitting with that conan o 'brien that's i didn't realize that's right and you had to up your game i looked into those lebanese eyes and i knew lebanese irish eyes and you knew you had to take it up a notch.
13:30That's right. Your hair looks good, man. It looks okay. It's been pushed back by my... No, it looks good. It looks okay. It's a wig. I wouldn't even care. I bought it from the estate of Lucille Ball.
13:45The only thing is that it straps around my chin with a little strap. That's the thing that always gives it away. Sometimes it slides back like a yarmulke. I wouldn't have it any other way. Okay, so, I mean. Let's focus. But I want to get before the show where your first passion is music. Yeah, jazz. Jazz. I went to jazz in your neck of the woods, Berklee College of Music. That's right. You went to Berklee College of Music, which is still, I was there not too long ago, and I was walking around near the Berklee College of Music, and everybody there was so funny. I saw a kid hustling to class late, and he was holding the largest, I don't know if, like, cello case.
14:24Yeah, yeah, yeah. And running to class, holding a giant 60-pound cello case that dwarfed this person. Yeah, yeah. I had an upright bass. I would bring the upright bass to class on my head because I was so tired of schlepping it. What a cool instrument, though, the upright bass. It's cool, but it is not a good career choice or life choice. So if I had a choice between like, and let's say the goal was to make a ton of money, hedge fund, or playing jazz stand-up bass? Yeah. What do you think is the better way to go? Well, I think you know the answer to that, brother. Yeah, okay. And that's why I work at a hedge fund now.
15:07I was thinking it'd be great if it came out that you and I co-founded a hedge fund and it was just killing it, but it was very unethical. Oh, yeah. Really, like, we were doing really unethical stuff. Ponzi schemes. Yeah, and people were saying, I don't understand, Conan O 'Brien and Eric Andre team up, but what are they doing? We're buying lower income housing. We're evicting people. We're tearing it down. And then we're selling it to nuclear power plants. That's right. And it's got a name that isn't even. It's got some name like Stylex. But you know what's interesting? And talk about this. Am I getting you off track?
15:44Because you have a specific question. I don't. I really don't. Are you sure? Well, it's mostly about financial stuff. Do you want to know how much is in my bank account? I should do a show where that's what it's all about. Let's get down to it, brother. And we really crunch it. And then we have your accountant call in. Yes. And you go, well, okay. No, he's land rich. He's got a lot of properties. But I would like us to have more liquidity. And then we really crunch it down. Because that's what people want to know about you, Eric. Yeah. The comedy is not interesting to people. I agree 100%. No one watches you.
16:15Most of your fan base. I mean, I think you famously said your fan base is like college dudes. And black skateboarders. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I was like, that's a perfect description. That is my demo. But no, they don't. And you know what? I just moved here. I moved back to New York. We're in New York City right now. Yeah. After 15 years at NI. And I was like, I need to go to a neighborhood. My profile is a little bit higher than when I was here last and homeless. What's like a quiet, safe neighborhood? Everyone will leave me alone. The East Village. that's where none of my demographic will true and i was wrong you were wrong i was dead well here's the thing when you remember what i said about college bros and black skateboarders you were wrong that's their mecca you need to be in like living in jackie onassis's old neighborhood like on the upper east side i was gonna say the same thing where everybody's and only to generalize but i'm just gonna say there's a certain neighborhood where most people are very old very white very rich yeah and they probably don't watch adult swim or the air they don't watch Adult Swim they don't know who I am they think I'm a very they think I'm a an actress who's aging poorly and they're like Conan I loved you in tar I'm like what why'd you know my name was Conan then um and they say like well I fucked up the joke uh and then we get real deconstructed but they're like Julianne Moore has been drinking
17:43poor Julianne Moore is getting people see me around and go oh my god poor Julianne Moore what happened and then people come up to her and say you were looking pretty rough I saw you walking down the street with Eric Andre no what are you talking about um are all actors completely psychotic and emotionally disturbed is there have you ever met a single actor who uh is like hey i'm grounded i go to therapy and there's nothing wrong with me they're all like every single actor i've ever met completely there's always one exception that proves the rule you know one there's one that's like a a nice yeah i mean person yeah tom hank seems like a normal person unless he's committing a string of serial crimes in the pacific northwest that nobody knows about but but you're right most people that get into the performing arts not well and uh and myself included we're not well i'm not an actor but i'm not well you know and so it's got should i start uh zoloft i have zoloft in my medicine cabinet and i'm just looking at it and i'm like should i do another decade of crippling anxiety and so did you get the prescription or did you I stole it or you found this one man's trash another man's trash the expiration date is like that's when they really hit when they're expired yeah it's from the first Bush administration the elder Bush those have just basically turned into salt now they're not even a medication anymore and they're delicious brother they're like anchovies from Sicily
19:35okay so let's talk about this because this is something that i do think we need to explore which is you talk a lot about your crippling anxiety and yet you have chosen this form of comedy which i would find to be the most anxiety producing of all yeah which is pranks terrify me when i've been around them or when when people have wanted me to sort of participate in a prank i've been terrified really something's gonna go wrong you exude confidence uh so you're so giant you're like paul bunyan i can't imagine you you howard and sasha baron cohen are so gigantic you guys just all exude confidence to me but it's also you're just so high up there that it's like but it's like but it's but the personality is formed when you're young and afraid and uh your brothers are beating the shit out of you and that's when the personality is formed and it never changes and you're going to school with carrot red hair and two front teeth that are dead and freckles and um and you don't have two front teeth that are dead i did when i was a little kid my i fell in the driveway and my two front teeth died and my parents said well the you know dentists back then were like leave them in the other ones will come out in a few years and so i walked around these two gray teeth in front it looked like corn that had rotted you were like a chimney sweep yes 19th century and i had a bowl haircut that my mother insisted on i looked like the wendy's girl on crack you know and i'd stumble around and boston is a tough that's a tough town yeah Yeah, yeah.
21:09People are tough there. Yeah. There was a lot of running away. I remember running away from people a lot. And pranks. Oh, for a person with anxiety, how can I do such anxiety-provoking things? I think that's actually part of it. And I've talked to my therapist about it a lot. And I think it has something to do. I think my anxiety, ADD, and my OCD, they're all in a band together. They're all jamming out together. And I think the only time I feel alive, that was in my head, but I didn't want to say it. I was like, I can't say that. Like I'm like the guitar player from Aerosmith. The only time I feel alive is when I'm doing something like that.
21:55So high stakes and threatening my life that it helps me focus. Maybe that's me trying to like play armchair psychologist to myself. My fear would not be that I would get hurt. My fear would be that someone else might get hurt. emotionally or physically no no um well both but physically too like you're shooting something or yeah or someone's it look it's it's supposed to look like someone got badly hurt but they didn't but someone what if someone else rushed in and then they got hurt yeah i don't know i i that's that's always the thing that's in my mind which is why i don't think about it that much yeah i go into it blind yeah well i think it helps that you're a sociopath my medulla is the size of a popcorn kernel.
22:37Is that what sociopaths have? Do they have like a neurological thing? We scanned you. When you were downstairs in the Sirius building getting your quote pass, we also scanned your mind. Sociopath. A loud entry. You have no frontal or lateral lobes at all. There's just nothing there. I'm like that guy Phineas Gage. I got a railroad spike through my frontal lobe. Oh my god, you knew his name. I'm a big Phineas Gage fan. Are you kidding me? I love his work. I got his albums. This is the guy that accidentally got a railroad spike in his head and then lived for a long time, right? Yeah, so he's like an early...
23:15Early 20th century? Yeah, or maybe even late. Late 19th century. He got a railroad spike through his frontal lobe, question mark, and it didn't kill him, but it changed his behavior. He thought he was a choo-choo train. he used to say i'm leaving the station that's okay phineas okay all right no yeah he got really cool after he got the spike through his head it was like punk rock it was like a body mod my god i can imagine a guy like that getting all that attention and then today he'd get a whole bunch of attention um on instagram and he'd blow up and everyone would be talking about phineas gage and spikers head and i know that two weeks later he'd see it start to drop and so he'd say it's time to have another piece of metal blasted into my head from in a different direction and he'd be instantly killed but he would spike again yeah but yeah yeah so go out he'd go out trending back then you could have a whole lifetime being hey you're phineas gage the guy that got a railroad spike through the head high five me not anymore and then it's like yeah no the spike thing was cool but that That's so 1998.
24:29Yeah. What have you done lately? The good old days are behind us, man. You could just get one railroad spike to the head and you'd be on easy street for the rest of your career. So this leads to my next question. Have you ever done a sketch and Adult Swim was like, okay, not that one. We're not going to let you do that one. We had a pro Al Qaeda country song. That's the only one. It was like, oh, sweet Al Qaeda. Can't believe I never tried you. something like that and and what was the point of view of this country singer that you know al-qaeda has been it's been enough we've been shitting on them too much and it's time for them to catch a break yeah it was like there's a lot of anti-al-qaeda sentiment they need like a pr shake up and they so they have a country song yeah so he had a country singer he could come in and sing a pro al-qaeda country song and they and they that's the only thing they ever cut and i'm like defecating on my desk every other interview and they're like yeah no problem right in front of celebrities Right.
25:26Have you had celebrities walk out? Yeah. Who's walked out? The rapper T.I. walked out and Lauren Conrad, the reality TV show star. Oh, from the hills or something? Don't act like you don't know. No, no, I'm not. We dated and then we were married and then divorced, then remarried, then divorced again. That was a long time ago. That was weeks ago. Yeah, yeah. So she walked out because she didn't like the flavor of your question. I vomited on the desk during the interview. I thought you slightly, you put something, you phrased something in a slightly insulting way. You misspoke and she walked out.
26:07No, I vomited. I vomited. And then I slurped the vomit back off the desk. Okay, that'll do it. She didn't think that was. Cool. Yeah, a little too blue. My real achievement was I had a guest walk out before I even interviewed them, which was yeah he's a famous director abel farrar and oh i know i love abel yeah he's genius and he showed up and he just had a panic attack he was watching me on the monitor and he had a panic attack this is when we were in rock forward center and he just said i'm out and he like he ran towards the elevator and got on the elevator and the segment producer frank smiley chased him and and lost him but then found him and there was a bar uh on the street level i think called hurley's and found him there and said like, come on, you gotta come back.
26:56And he was like, oh, okay, okay. Pulled him back. Really? So he made it just in time. But the idea that I actually had a guest walk before I even spoke to them was quite an achievement. What did you do? What did you say? It wasn't anything I, I think he just got really nervous. I think he saw me and said, I can't talk to that. That crazy man with the pastry for hair. I can't talk to him. So he ran away, which is quite, yeah. have you had pranks go awry or maybe it's or you're in it and it's not happening the way you want it to go yeah that's all that's every day that's every time you shoot a prank going awry means different things to different people so going awry going awry can be great yeah going awry i'm in the going awry business uh but it not um getting anywhere the prank being a dud happens constantly you have to shoot so much more than actually airs i think bad trip probably believe we shot your the final movie you're only seeing like 30 of the stuff we should right right well that proves my the thing i've been saying forever which is to me and it doesn't just apply to comedy but when you see something that you really like it's all about what you didn't show because i do think there are people that would look at your stuff and think yeah that just anytime you go out and do anything it's all going to be magic all the time no 90 of it is unwatchable garbage trash jesus take it easy man you okay you still have those pills are they handy can you get to them i snort zoloft don't snort zoloft that's not how it works oh in a few weeks it's gonna kick in man
28:36i wish that you would get on a mood stabilizer so powerful that it was a giant pill and like a horse they had to put it in a tube and blow it into your mouth why why do you want that for me because it would it would just be funny for me like it's time it's time eric you're like oh shit you open your mouth and they come in with a big tube and they get a veterinarian to do it or else they have a dart gun that they and they chase you with it and you're trying to get away
29:09get him in the carotid like i'm harambe or something i got a three-year-old in my hand i wish drinking was good for you wouldn't that be great it would solve all my problems it was filled rich with vitamins and antioxidants yeah turns out ethanol is poison yes it's concentrated poison. I'm like, yeah, that's a problem. I also wish regular exercise shortened your life. Yes. Shorten your life, drinking alcohol. Imagine going to the doctor and he's like, what are you even doing? Well, I jog. I also do weights three times a week and I try and get my heart rate up at least six times a week. Okay, we got to stop that now.
29:51Are you drinking? Well, water? Oh, God. No, no, no, no, no. Sugary fruity rum drinks. You need to drink so many of them that when you wake up in the morning, you wish you were dead. You wish that you were dead. You've got a pina colada machine behind you. You're going to need this. Back in the day, doctors would smoke cigarettes in the office. Yes, of course. Yeah, while they were talking to you about your lung x-ray. That's insane. You know what's crazy, though? There are these people, like Winston Churchill, obviously an example of that guy. That health nut? He hated vegetarians. He called them bean eaters.
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30:26Those bean eaters. But he ate and he drank constantly. Yeah. And all he'd eat was like roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Yeah. And he's drinking and he's power smoking cigars all day long. Mm-hmm. Dies at like 94. Are you serious? Yeah, he lived a really long time. It's not fair. And all these friends of his around him were, you know, saying, Winston, please get a hold of yourself, man. And one of my favorite quotes is Peter O'Toole, one of the greatest actors of all time, late in life. They said, what are you doing now that you've retired like Sir O'Toole? Because he's knighted. And they said, what are you up to these days?
31:12Because you're acting less. What are you doing? And he said, how do you spend your time? And he said, I attend the funerals of friends of mine who took exercise. He's a legendary drinker. Just drank his way through the 60s. Like all those guys. And George Burns cigars till he was like 101 years old. Yeah. So what does that mean? Is it all genetics? Is it just a genetic crapshoot? Yeah, they do. Or should I start doing HGH now and all crazy? You should. Dwayne the Rock Johnson kind of drugs. I should. Oh, that's a myth. It's all pure with Dwayne. He's 75 years old. No, what do I do? All joking aside, I do think it's been shown that the cigarette thing is probably a gene, meaning there are people genetically.
31:59I don't think they've isolated that gene, but there are people who can smoke and they're much less, less, less, less likely to get any kind of lung cancer. My guess is that Keith Richards is like one of those people, you know? It's insane to inhale the combustion of tobacco. Steadily. Steadily. since for you know since 1957 i think keith richard started smoking in the crib and then uh and then and then yeah but he what about all the drinking winston churchill was like he was like jack kerouac he was like glug glug glug glug glug that's another thing too where i think he was drinking throughout the day but not uh no i don't he was not jack kerouac he was not a blackout drunk he was not drinking and um like that he was drinking in a different way he was drinking in this sophisticated English imperialist way.
32:50He was drinking. It's five o 'clock somewhere is his quote. He would drink gin like all day, wouldn't he? I don't, but I don't think he was, I don't think it was glug, glug, glug drinking. That's all I'm saying is, and I also think it helps when you're an imperial power.
33:05When you're, you know, colonialists, they're just, there's something about that system that preserves the organs. It doesn't make any sense. No, everything I'm saying. So should I take over a country? Yes. Should I take over like a small Caribbean island, make a monocrop? Yes. And if you exploit their resources for your good. Cobalt. Yeah, exactly. And then underpay them. Yeah. You can drink all you want. Oh. And you'll live forever. All right. I like the way this is going. I'm off to Papaw, New Guinea. You are an essentially good person, but I keep convincing you to get a hedge fund. Yep. Be a slumlord.
33:45Become a slumlord. Yeah. Eat expired Zoloft. Yeah. And then colonize other countries for your own good. All right. That's all you take out of this thing. I think I heard you say once that it's - Did I answer a single one of your questions? No, but that's not the point of this. Are you sure? Yeah. I was - No, no. You're doing very well. I was anxious. No, no, no. But we, you know, this is my method. Okay. And this is my way of helping you. Okay. By not answering the questions, you're answering the ultimate question. wow yeah incredible that's a fucking trip yeah yeah i own that quote now hashtag conan wrote that um you're howard stern's favorite interview that's got to feel good it does feel good that's got to be that would be my oscar that'd be beyond an oscar i'd still i'd prefer the oscar because if i had an oscar you know what i would do i would i would have it uh bolted to the hood of my car no way people always act kind of coy like oh no it's at home or it's in the broom closet.
34:46No, I would have it mounted on the hood of my car and drive around and then act surprised when people notice it. If I had a Cable Ace Award, I would be doing that. I would duct tape it to the front of my door. I love that you even know what a Cable Ace Award is. I came up through the Cable Ace Awards. Cable Ace Awards raised me. Your mother was the Cable Ace Awards? You suckled at the teat of the Cable Ace Awards? The Cable Ace Awards shaped my worldview, brother. Let me explain to our listeners who are very young and doesn't know what a Cable Ace is. But a long time ago, they had a separate award show for Cable and it was really looked down on.
35:29Like now, HBO just gets the Emmy like anyone else. But back then it was the Cable Ace Awards. And when I first got to LA, I was nominated for a Cable Ace Award and I went to a Cable Ace Award show. And it was my introduction to the world because I was working on an HBO show, but it was back when you got HBO at a, at an, you know, like, I want to watch HBO. Let's go find a motel and check into it. I went to a Cable Ace Awards and just, and I've never been to an award show before. I'm 22. I'm from Boston by way of Ireland and Lebanon, and I'm excited. And I, I'm sitting in the, in the audience and someone came out with a headset and a clipboard and said, ladies and gentlemen, uh, the top of the show, there were a group, the temptations are going to come out or the four tops yeah i forget which but let's say it's the four tops the four tops you're going to come out you're going to sing a medley of their hits they'll be dressed as spacemen they will have uh pretend laser guns the lasers will be added later in special effects when they all in unison point a laser all of you please go oh as if a laser has been fired thank you very much and i was like what and then ladies and gentlemen welcome to the cable ace awards 1985 it's the four tops sugar pie honey oh sugar pie kazoo and we all went sugar pie you don't want to be kazing wow and i thought oh show business is complete embarrassing bullshit it's the most embarrassing i wish i was an attorney i wish i was a tax attorney who worked in a big office tower.
37:10Oh, shit. I'm just sad for everybody. That's insane. That's insane. That was the Cable Ace Awards. And so, you're so much younger than me. How do you even know? That's not true. Yes, it is true. You are 20 years younger than me. No, I don't believe that. Okay. Well, I know I look amazing. I mean, I fucking look amazing. Can you tell people can't see right now, but I'm not wearing a shirt. And my chest is oiled. And it's... that's you should be like my eyes are up here honey
37:44you've i mean you intentionally gained a whole bunch of weight yeah for uh the prior season yes season five season five and then for this season season six i got shredded so when you when you gained you gained a lot of weight i gained 40 i wasn't good at it it was like fluctuating a lot you can see my weight fluctuate throughout the throughout the episodes right and it was it was probably 40 45 pounds it was fun it was awesome it was that was the most fun body modification that was like pizza at night all the pina coladas you could ingest peanut butter and jelly sandwiches at night and then you get really depressed but in the beginning it's fucking awesome but what sucks is i never had i i am older and i never had problems with weight ever i was always skinny and i could always eat whatever i want but after that season i like your fat cells when they expand they um they just go oh i can do that now and now for the first time i have to like watch what I eat and I can't drink as much as I want.
38:57And I, I permanently, uh, jacked myself up. And what do you, uh, and then I got shredded for this season. And then as soon as I wrapped, we wrapped last year, this shooting this season. And, uh, the second I wrapped, I ate like an entire unsliced pizza. And then I went to bed and then I woke back up and then I ate like six bagels. And then I went to Portugal and I drank like 40 gallons of wine. And then it just all went, it all came crashing down. Well, you still look good. You look, I mean, this is, you know, when you came in, I thought like, no, he's looking good. He's looking good. It's a lot more, I'm wearing a lot more sweatpants and a lot less jeans.
39:36That's a sign that I'm a little thick, calling it thick to work. When I take my shirt off, I look like an orangutan about to breastfeed. So very maternal. That's great. Just voluptuous brown. A male orangutan about to breastfeed, which is very rare. Those are the rarest orangutans of all. What I can identify is I think we're both the same this way is I had this great run, right? A crazy high metabolism. Yeah. And I could not. So in my 20s and 30s, and I look at pictures of myself from that era and I was eating like a maniac. Disgusting pig. I have a very clear memory of getting lunch. And this is when I'm at SNL and Dana Carvey's there.
40:21and he's watching me and I order a cheeseburger and french fries I order a chocolate ice cream soda with chocolate ice cream and then when that's done I order a coke and I drink the coke and then when that's done I order an ice cream sundae and he and I'm skinny as a rail and he said how old are you Conan and I said I'm 24 and he went enjoy this enjoy it and so now he's right I flash back to that and go, oh, that's what he was talking about. The metabolism slows down. Yeah, it does. That's why I do cocaine. It speeds things up. Speeds it right up. I smoke a lot. It really helps kill the appetite.
41:07HGH. That'd be great. I have fantasized some about taking a lot of stuff. I want to start doing crazy steroids and stuff. And getting jacked like Carrot Top. I just saw him live. Oh, yeah? For my 40th birthday, I went to Vegas with my friends. And before my friends got there, I just went and saw a show. It was incredible. Yeah. I think people are too mean to him. Yeah, yeah. People were mean to him in the 90s. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and he was a total sweetheart. And he is almost 60, and he's jacked. He's a very nice guy. He's a very sweet guy, but he's crazy jacked. and I thought my fans would just be think it was really funny if I suddenly got jacked yeah they would laugh at it yeah they would and and also um anything I tried to do after that wouldn't be funny yeah yeah that's why I like it all came crashing down like I was in the best shape I'd been since I was like 18 years old but I was like this has no comedic value really and it's only funny in relationship to the previous season because it's such a drastic change but uh as a as a as a life choice like a comedian you can't be you can't be ripped as a comedian also i mean like you have to be it's very hard gross you have to look disgusting it's very i get infuriated when incredibly good-looking people are very funny it enrages me and i'm thinking of like they should John Hamm is really funny.
42:34Oh. And Tim Oliphant is really funny. And they're... Torture. And it enrages me because I think, no, no, no, this was my consolation prize. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is the cookie I got. Yeah, come on. Because I was born looking like this. Yeah. You can't give it to him. He can't get the same cookie that I got. It's not fair. It's not fair. It's like that Drew Carey joke. He's the funniest joke. He said these nude paparazzi photos of Brad Pitt leaked where he was naked and he had a huge penis. And he's like, that's not fair. He's like, you can't be that good looking and have a huge penis. He's like, Ron Jeremy, we get it.
43:11Okay. They gave him something as he was headed out the door. Just before they sent him to Earth, they were like, oh, we're sorry. Give him one of these. Elephant trunk. There you go. You feel better now? Kind of. And Drew Carey goes, this guy's so unfair. He's so hot. and he's got such a big cock. And then Drew Carey goes, I'm sitting at home jerking off to a bootleg copy of Precious. This guy's fucking Angelina Jolie.
43:43I know. I'm giving him credit. I know comics get sensitive, but it's an ill joke that he's probably done a bunch of times. Drew Carey's going to come after me after this podcast. He's going to come after you now? He's going to come after me. He has to tape so many of those game shows in a day. He doesn't have time. I love how dirty, have you seen his stand-up live? he's hella dirty oh really yeah yeah yeah because he does the game shows and you can't be dirty on the game shows so it's pent up it's pent up and he says crazy shit it's hardcore it's like a gg allen concert why doesn't he just do it one time on the game show on the game show like that and then just do one where he goes for it and then of course they can't air it but they put it online and they they give everyone a prize in the audience so they're all happy why not because Because we live in a weird puritanical society where we still have standards and practices and censor boards.
44:34And it's like an old school. That's an old school thing. Censorship. Right. You can't say a curse word or it will put a curse on your family. That's a crazy. That's medieval. Right? Yeah. It's less and less. I mean, when I got into it, there really was. I remember having a. You couldn't say hell. I wrote a sketch for Chris Rock. and I remember sitting down with actual people in suits who were saying, all right, let's go through this. This word's out. Really? This word's out, yeah. Like the censors. Yes, yes. Yo, you really met the censors. Oh, they came in and they were like, well, this is out and this is out.
45:10And of course, this is out. That's crazy. But then what was really weird is I would offer replacements that were often worse. And they would say, yes, of course. Because they just wanted to show that they had done. Right, their job. We went in and we did our job and we took this stuff out. So we took out penis and then Conan put in massive cockaroo. All right. Very good. Okay. What's the plan for the rest of the day? What are we doing? Going right back to bed, dude. Face down on my floor. Kitchen floor. Cold tile. Okay. All right. Did I answer any of your questions? I think in a way you answered every question.
45:51Did I? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I thought it was, I mean, you know, Adam, weigh in. I was just, he's, Eric's self-conscious about not answering questions, but this was a delightful conversation. I'm such a fan and I get so excited. You're like Santa Claus. It was a conversation. It was great. This was a conversation. It wasn't an interview. It was a conversation. It was two jazz musicians. You with your stand-up face. Blowing that horn. And me with my piccolo.
46:16We're just feeding it back and forth, you know, and you're wearing sunglasses and I'm wearing a miner's helmet and we're just going for it. Right on, fuzzy duck. Hell yeah. It's three in the morning, the club's empty, but we're just playing because we love to play. Eisenhower's spending my tax dollars on them highways. No way, Jack. Oh, that made me, oh, that reference made me so happy. Oh, fuck. Beatnik references? Beatnik, beatnik. No way, Ike. Not my tax dollar. That's how tame our country used to be. Eisenhower wanted to build highways that connected the states using tax dollars, which really weren't that much.
47:00And some beatniks were mad about it. I'm not playing my bongos till Ike. Till Ike. Ike not.
47:13Oh, that reference made me happy. Yeah. Well, you know what? I wrote that reference during the first Cable Ace Awards. I'm 85 years old. Ladies and gentlemen, the four tops are about to enter. It will look like they're ejaculating, but they're not. Semen will be added later. Pretend to be impressed that they're firing them like lasers. Really happened. You know what? I'm just thrilled to know you. I'm glad to consider us friends, even though you ghost me every time I text. I'm not going to make eye contact, do you? as soon as they hit cut yeah i'm gonna look at the floor and walk out i'm gonna get up when this is over i'm gonna stand up to approach you and say hey i love that that was really fun and uh someone that works for you is going to step in between us and then and then you'll be whisked out of the room no nobody no entourage i have no agent no manager my lawyer is legal zoom.com
48:15uh seriously you know who i stole that joke from in conversation matt graining told me oh really he goes you know i've never had an agent i go yeah he goes i just have a lawyer i go get out of here you've never had he goes i just never got an agent seriously and then he goes yeah and then he goes yeah legal zoom.com you know my favorite thing that i used my memory of matt is when i was on the simpsons he would come in and he would be in his travels around the world he would see when he saw the most horrific, comically horrific bootleg of a Simpsons product. He would buy it and then bring it back to the writer's room to show us.
48:49Not because he was going to pursue any legal action, just because it cracked him up. He loved it. And I don't know, somewhere in Mexico, he found someone had tried to make a wooden replica of Bart Simpson's head and then painted it with shoe polish and was like selling it on the side of the road. And he bought it and he brought it in. and it was Bart, but he looked like he'd been in a horrible accident. And then had a disease that inflated parts of his head, but not other parts. And Matt was like a little kid. He was like, isn't this great? And he kept a big collection of them. I thought, that's cool.
49:25I like that. Yeah, that's the highest compliment you could give Matt. Eric, I want to thank you for being my best friend. Yes. My only friend, really. No, not true. Seriously, keep making things. You make people really happy, and you've got a great loving spirit, and you're crazy funny, and thank you. Thank you for being out there and doing your thing. I appreciate it. The feeling's mutual. Appreciate you. I appreciate you, and let's kiss. Let's finally kiss. Okay. All right. Here I come.
50:00I don't know. That's the sound of me kissing? That's like a squid that got stuck in a blender. That's how I get it. That's my wedding night. Come here, Eliza. It's like Nixon. Nixon eating squid.
50:23Keep going. I think you got a little more meat.
50:38I'm coming in hot today and I'll tell you why. Yeah, you suck. Well, I'm just saying I'm concerned. I'm concerned about the future of this podcast. And I think we need to clear the air a little bit. Here's the issue. The issue is that this potential booking has arisen. And the reason we started fighting beforehand, as I just said, I'm worried, Sona, about this podcast, this booking happening, because there might be some issues. That's all. I'm saying you don't normally talk about bookings on the show before the show happens. Sure. And you don't like talking about potential bookings because you don't want to jinx it.
51:19I know. I know that this goes against my rules, but you also know that I'm a very freeform kind of guy. Oh, yeah. No, no, no. I just... Even Blaze, like, he's wincing. You know that I'm not a control guy. Real Pauly Shore over here.
51:38Dinah Shore, yes. Pauly Shore, no. I don't know. First of all, I've blown who our guest is. Yeah, yeah. Figure out your references ahead of time. Yeah. No, I'm just saying, I happen to know that he crafted his material, Pauly. What I'm trying to say is that I'm very much in touch with the energy around me. I go with the flow. I don't overthink things. And that's, I think, what's made me a household name. Yeah. If you're a fan of the Cone and the Barbarian films. No, I don't know. I don't know who the guy was that you just described. No, no, no. I was talking about the Conan movies. People love those movies.
52:07Anyway, here's what's happening, loyal listeners, or people just tuning in for the first time. There's a potential guest on the horizon. It hasn't been locked down yet, but he wants to do the podcast. And I've interviewed him several times or many times in the past on Late Night Show. I always love him. And the problem is there's someone in this room who's such a super fan that I almost worry about this gentleman's safety and security during the interview. Mine? No. Oh. Just stop being a wise ass for one second. Okay. I want you to accept the fact that there's a maybe 50-50 chance that you will be in a room with Harrison Ford in the near future.
52:49And that he might be a guest on the podcast and you would sit here and participate in that interview. He would be sitting maybe about, I'm going to say that's about a foot and a half from you. We can make that a foot if we really. No, no, no, no. I'm taking the wheels off these rolly chairs. Okay. I don't want you wheeling over to him every second and cuddling. You are a massive James Bond fan, but you also are a fanatic, a Harrison Ford fanatic. Star Wars, you name it. Anything Harrison Ford has done. You saw him in Eugene O 'Neill's Iceman Cometh in the audience. He was there working on a seat that was broken.
53:28But I mean, you are you are obsessed with this man, Harrison Ford. Yeah, he's my favorite actor of all time. He's played, you know, Indiana Jones and Han Solo, two of my favorite characters. He's a carpenter. He's gruff. He suffers no fools. I think you're right. You should worry about this. Yes, I'm glad. Sona, I think you're going to be cool. Oh, I'm going to be cool. Yeah, you're fine. You like you some Harrison Ford. I love Harrison Ford. But you can control yourself. This is uncharted territory. You know, I'm a professional. I've been around major stars my whole life. What? Yeah. You haven't been around major stars your whole life.
54:05My father was a microbiologist. You're also bearing the lead. He's not a professional. What I meant was major stars in the world of microbiology. Oh, right, right, right. Okay, yeah. Yeah, people that have done incredible work on antibiotic resistance. What did you think? I'm sorry. I thought you meant like celebrities, like TV stars and film stars. These aren't celebrities to me. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. We all have to look out for antibiotic resistance. Okay. Use those antibiotics wisely. But huge names in that field. That's what I was talking about. I'm sorry. I misunderstood you. Do you think you'd be able to get it together if Harrison Ford ends up doing the podcast?
54:35Truly? Yeah. I think when I'm really, really appreciate and revere someone like this, I will probably end up being a little bit more reserved and a little bit more on guard because I really don't want to blow it. Because if I play my cards right, he and I are leaving pals. Oh. Let's spin out this scenario for a little bit. Let's hear it. What do you think happens, Matt? We walk straight down to Chipotle. Oh. We pick out each other's meals for each other. We try to size each other up like, I bet you're one of these guys. Right. And I get him and I nail it. And he's like. What did you get him that nailed it?
55:08I just got him a bean and cheese burrito with some cilantro and a tomato. There's some tomato. Wait, a whole tomato? Well, they cut it up. They cut it up. I thought you took a big chance and said, oh, and Mr. Ford will have a whole tomato on the side. He's going to eat it like an apple. Have you been to Chipotle? What the fuck? He's like a bear. I hope, you know what I'm rooting for? What? I hope that you overstepped the bounds and I hope you blow it in some way that's maybe even catastrophic for this podcast. But I would live off the pure joy of that screw up forever. Challenge accepted. And leash unleashed, I think.
55:50Yeah. Unclicked, I guess. I thought that when I first heard he was a possibility, I thought you would do something to keep me and Matt away from it. That could still happen. I tried. I tried very hard, but he said the only reason that he's doing it is because of you two. Oh! Yeah, apparently. That makes sense. He doesn't even think I'm going to be here. Yeah. I don't know why. That guy's not going to be there, is he? This is my Harrison Ford. Is that your Harrison Ford? I just woke up. It's General Patton. It sounds like Clint Eastwood. I'm going to kill those Nazis. Hey. General Patton. I'm not Patton.
56:22I'm Harrison Ford. No, he is very funny. He's very dryly funny. Very, very funny guy. And in that sense, I think I understand, like, he's not the person you can, you know, be desperate around. So I probably will just clam up because I'm not going to try to make someone who doesn't like fools like me. You know what I mean? Right, right. I'm probably going to be pretty scared. I'm convinced that I will still be needy because that never changes. No, that never changes. I'll do some things that irritate him throughout the interview. On purpose? I think probably, yeah. Yeah. Just to get him going. I'll say I'm, you know, I don't think airplanes are great machines.
57:01I don't think it's a very, I don't think it's a great design and we should probably just, you know, mankind should stop using them. What the hell are you? I mean, I could, so I think that would be one thing. God, he flies planes. Yeah. You need to get into a point, get to a point where you could just like fly someone with him. That's where we're going right after Chipotle. We're going to fly from Chipotle to Chipotle and pick up full tomatoes. You know what you should do? you should convince him just do a lot of reading that you're an avid pilot and then become friendly with him and then take him up and reveal right after liftoff that you've never done this before.
57:37That's like a scene from Temple of Doom. Can you fly? No, can you? What? Oh, God. What? Don't do that when he's here. What? I'm getting it out now. I'm getting it out now. No, there's no getting it out now. I'm getting it out now. That's like a pervert saying, well, I just masturbated once. That should take care of problems. we're all taken care of for all time. I just shot my load. Oh, I'm ready to be a real regular person for the rest of my lifetime. Because we all know demon doesn't regenerate and urges don't return. I'm worried about you now. Well, for other reasons, not about Harrison Ford.
58:20I just shouldn't be out in the world. Too real. And that's also my real speaking voice. I used. whenever we're off mic, I go, how did you guys think it went? Did you like it? While masturbating. Do you think Harrison had a good time? Are you going to be your usual self? Yeah. Okay. Look, Sona, all joking around, you know that I travel in some pretty heady circles. I do. Okay, so what? I'm going to flip out because Harrison Ford's here? No, don't think so. I'm going to be like, hey, HF, you know, which way is the wind blowing? What's up? what's up what's up what's up you don't even do that normally now I'm worried when he comes in we're all going to be trying to play it so cool that like we're not even going to speak to him we'll just talk to ourselves I'm going to smoke the whole time yeah I'm just going to have a cigarette well no it's going to be one of those bubble gum vapes it's going to make a little bubbling sound
59:20and the whole room will smell like watermelon and bubble gum Let me tell you something, Harrison. I've been around.
59:31You like that sound? You like that? You said one of those watermelon vapes. I don't know what you're talking about. Do they make a bubbling sound? No, I think you're confusing a bubble pipe with a watermelon flavored vape. I know what sounds funny to me. So I essentially altered what an e-cigarette is. What a vape. Okay. what a vape pen is to match what I think is funny. So I bend time and space to make things that aren't in and of themselves funny to create a, yes, in my mind, a vape goes and there's a fruity smell in the room. It isn't just me. Harrison Ford is gone in five minutes. Guess what?
1:00:14I just, guess what? His publicist just heard some of this conversation and he's out. Yeah, he's definitely out. That's probably best. Yeah. Was that close? Yeah, she played him two seconds of us talking about him. That's the right choice, I think. I think it is. I think the right choice is for him to just not come. And I think for the team, I should call in sick. I really think I shouldn't be here. He fled this podcast like a giant boulder was rolling after him. See, that I understand. See, now you're talking. What if you have to pee real bad or poop? I'm planning to wear a diaper. All right, all right.
1:00:47Let's like that astronaut lady. There have been times when we've interviewed people where I've had to go to the bathroom really bad and I'm like sweating here and you guys are chatting. So I'm just saying, like, what happens if then that just becomes all you think about? That has nothing to do with Harrison Ford being a cool, great booking for us. That's just you needing to use the bathroom sometimes. So that's completely apropos of nothing. I know. I'm sorry. I just was I was trying to figure out all the scenarios. OK, maybe let's let's get on with the show. But HF, HF, if you change your mind, come swing on by.
1:01:18Okay. See you at Chipotle. Crack the cockpit. Bye. Grab a whole tomato. Here we go. Vape pen sound that doesn't really exist. 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. Our supervising producer is Aaron Blair, and our associate talent producer is Jennifer Samples. Engineering by Eduardo Perez. Additional production support by Mars Melnick.
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