Jessica Williams

24:07I also think my guess would be a gig on The Daily Show as a correspondent means you will get on air it's guaranteed I think that's a very smart move. Obviously, clearly I can say it now because I'm armchair quarterbacking, but that is, I would like to think that's what I would have advised you to do because SNL, there are cast members who were there for a year and a half, but you didn't really see them much. They didn't get the time. They didn't, and there are people that have, that didn't work on SNL and then went on. And I know one of your heroes is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. I mean, she technically, it didn't work out for her at SNL.

24:46And she's become one of the iconic comedians of all time. Veep, for my money, is one of, her performance in Veep is one of the most flawless things I've seen. I think about it all the time. And the writing on that show. And it's so, it's just tight. It's tight and filthy. It's filthy. It's so mean. It's so filthy. I think about that performance. All the time. The amount of like of nuance that she has for every single moment. She's always listening. That's like the kind of actor I want to be. And that's I'm always like even I did like high school plays and stuff. And we I had really great drama teachers.

25:29I'm like the product of a really good LAUSD drama program that was underfunded. But I had great performing arts teachers. And they would be like, if you think we can't see you back there because you're not in the front of the stage, we're going to throw our sandals at you. because you think we can't see you. You better freaking smile. I don't care. You know, and it's like, this is the famous sandal technique. This is the LAUSD, like sandal technique, but it still sticks with me to this day. And Julia is totally doing that. She's always listening. I didn't catch that last part, but she, she, and the other thing that's very cool about her is that she doesn't, she's one of those people that doesn't know oh, she's Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

26:13Like if I, any time spent telling her how amazing she is at her work, she'd be like, what are we talking about here? You know, what do you think of this avocado? Oh, that's Harrison. That's Harrison. Yeah, exactly. It's the same as Harrison Ford. 100%. They're like people that have been famous for so long that it's like. Were you intimidated by Harrison Ford? Because when you first see him, it can be. It's jarring. It can be. Well, you had that experience here on the podcast where he walked in and he sat right in that seat. Yeah. and most like amazing actor of my life he's the guy yeah he's no he's the guy yeah anytime i think there's like you think of the guy you've got tom cruise kind of the guy like the movie star a weird guy tom cruise weird guy yeah harrison's weird too tom tom you know i'll say this too i'm gonna say something i've worked closely with tom cruise a bunch of times and spent like time with him when we were shooting something well so have i just so we're clear yeah me too there's a different I was like, wait, I will believe you.

27:09I'm new. That was Tomas Cruz. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, I went on the cruise to Tomas. Yeah, yeah, to St. Tom's. I see. No, Tom Cruise is incredibly professional and also really nice to everyone on set. I've only heard that. I don't doubt it. No, he is. I'm gonna stick up for Tom Cruise here. He was just great. I was really impressed. And every time I've done something with him, I've seen the same guy over and over and over again. But Harrison, there's something about, you know, I remember so clearly you weren't born yet. But when Star Wars came out, it was a cultural earthquake. I had never seen, there was so much explosion of fuss about this movie.

27:58And my brothers and I went and we saw it. I had never seen anything look like that before. Or I was on the, you say, edge of your seat, total edge of my seat, floored. And then it kind of changed a lot of things. It was such a, and Harrison Ford is the one that I think he popped in this way that maybe even Lucas didn't expect. But like that first scene, I think, in the bar, he pops. And when he's bragging about the Millennium Falcon and he's a wise ass, he popped the way Clark Gable popped 30 years before, the way Jimmy Cagney, he just popped as. And that's the thing that's very cruel about movies.

28:42Movies say this is the person. That's right. And it's Julia Roberts. It's her. Yeah. And you can do everything you want. And the camera will just say, no, it's that one. You're OK, but it's that one. And that's Harrison Ford. It's been his, I mean, our whole lives. This is actually really perfect. I've been thinking about this a lot because we watched Andor the last season of Andor. Perfect. Yes. Oh, I love Andor. I love Andor. I love it. I'm glad you've seen it. I binged with my son. We binged both seasons. Hold on. You can jump in here. Hold on. We did this. We binged both seasons with my wife.

29:17Diego Luna. I love, I'm very much passionately in love with Diego Luna. I love that. He's the best. No, no. And I'm going to take this even further. I'm having surgery to be able to have a child with Diego. It's very complicated. Let me say this. Very painful. Very painful. They don't put you under for that one. No. Have you checked with him? Is he even in on this? I'm going to do this first. Okay. That's idea. Smart. And it's been suggested you're not the first one to say, hey, should you? And I'm like, no, no, no, no. I want to go to him with everything ready to, you know. So that's my choice.

29:50This has been nine months of intense surgeries. Well, so we did, did you do this? We did Rogue One right after. Yes! And then we just started like all over again. We just kept going. That's next. Oh, really? We did. That's living. No, it feels good. No, it feels good. One day you'll have the money to live this kind of life. You'll have the Disney Plus account. I spent it all on the cruise to Mosque. That was your mistake. You did the same thing. I mean, I watched both seasons. And I think it is, you know, I think my shows this year are Severance and Andor for just craftsmanship. There's TV and then there's movies.

30:30The wall has fallen between them. Yes, technically movies. No, they're so cinematic. Like, I love a ride. Yes. And I feel like Andor did such a good job with the sets and the locations and the specificity of like, God, it just looked gorgeous. And it broke my heart 35 times and it elated me 36 times. Mm-hmm. Were you saying you liked it because it blurred the line between cinema? I loved that that writer, creator is so talented. Yeah, yeah. And all their performers are so amazing. And as you said, they created these worlds. All of them seemed completely authentic. It was true to itself, meaning it would give you really bad news.

31:08It would give you good news. And that's everything a movie does. So now that commercials are no longer a part of these streaming shows, it's really the same magic. Yeah. We used to go to movies because I'm going to give you money not to show me a commercial. You can show some shit up front. But once Star Wars starts, you're not going to 15 minutes in go, you know, we've got a new soap for the cracks and pits and everywhere in between. By the way, I hate when they're graphic. I hate when it's like you're like I was sweating all over, even under my tit. You're like, what?

31:42Are you tired of tit odor? but you know we're gonna take a sidetrack here because those commercials are everywhere they are and they say things like it's for pits and privates and well assholes too and you're like we get it we're okay you said enough did we used to have an ad for something like that here Lux bidet yeah Lux bidet a bidet is different a bidet is like we're the only ones Americans are the only ones that will use bidets we should have more bidets I think but this whole they gotta come with a warning I'm watching basketball Yeah, go ahead. And this lady's like, my tits reek. And you're like, okay.

32:17And then also don't tell them. Don't tell who? Don't tell everybody else our tits reek. Like what's... Kind of weird. But they double down on it too. They keep doubling down and they'll say, and you'll say, no, no, I really get it. And then later in the ad, they'll say, and remember the taint. That small area, inch to one inch and a half between genitals and asshole. Yep. When yours stinks. And I'm horrified. What's happened? I asked, I was thinking about Harrison and I, a couple months ago, I was like, dude, what's your tits like? He's like, what? No, I asked him, I was like, I liked Andor so much.

33:01We were in the middle, I was like, have you seen Andor? And he's like, what? I was like, have you seen Andor? He's like, what is that? And I was like, it's this thing where it's like, and he was like, no, I would never watch it. And I was like, right, of course not. You don't want to talk about this anymore at all. You're Han Solo. But when I watched him again, because we're still in production for the show, we're finishing up, it was so surreal to see this guy so deeply hot in Star Wars. He's just so, he pops in that way. And I cannot believe in my insane, goofy career that I get to work with this guy.

33:35And a couple Fridays ago, There was a really tender scene that we shot for season three that was just he and I. And I stayed to like run lines with him while they were setting up the scene. And it was a big, it was a big scene between our characters. And he just, the whole crew was silent, which is what happens when it's like they know it's a big scene. and he's like coming into my character's office and he's sitting across like as far as Conan is and he walks in and he sits and he does this scene and it was like almost like you know in Oppenheimer when the blast actually goes off and they put on their glasses and it's like silent it was that and he was destroying he was like absolutely destroying the scene in every way like every single line he was weeping he was joyful He was all of those things.

34:27But it was one of those moments where they had to come in and be like, OK, Jessica, you're like weeping. So I don't know if you'd be weeping as the character. I was like, no, this guy is giving me like this guy is the best. This guy is the best. He's the goat. And I see a lot of great. I've seen a lot of great actors. But it was it was one of those moments where I just felt like, no, this is actually like the greatest living actor. And this is someone that I get to to work with. but it was like being too close to a fire. It was insane. And I work with him all the time, but it was like chill. Like I was getting chills while he was doing it.

35:02And you'll know the scene when you see it, but it was like very like, what did I get to do in my life to be here, to work with this guy? It's insane. Do you have the number of your surgeon? Because I might want to get that. Oh, right. And you're going to be awake. Turns out he's not that good. No, no. There have been some infections. it was crazy but you know what's interesting is i have learned i've had the same feeling of how did this get to happen for me and i'm learning uh i'm quite a bit older than you i've learned over time to just my grandfather who was a a traffic cop in worcester massachusetts in the 1920s and 30s he used to have this saying he was kind of like wc fields when he was old he was really funny.

35:52It was W.C. Fields, sorry. Thank you. I think one of the great comics, My Little Chickadee, I'm trying to, he was, he was always playing, it's, I know. Is it kind of Looney Tunes-y? It sounds like Chickadee feels a little Looney Tunes. Run along, kid, you bother me. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I'm with you. He worked with, you know, Mae West. Cool. Everything I'm saying is digging this I'm old reference, but I do think people should know W.C. Fields because he might be, one of my favorite comedians of all time. And his stuff is as funny today as it was in the 30s, 40s. Amazing. So anyway, he was this kind of, had all these sayings and he used to say, take what you can get and ask for more.

36:36Like he was going against the Catholic, I don't deserve this, I shouldn't have this. Oh, who me? He was like, when something good comes your way, take it, you know? And I think you've grab it and just take it because there's some trouble coming down the road. at some point. So just enjoy this. We're all going to die. I have a way around that. You have a surgeon. Yeah, I have a surgeon for that too. I think I'm going to keep this and put it on my board. But I'm going to write, do you mind if I write W.C. Fields so I don't forget? Cool. Can I say just from, what is this? No, that's there. Use this.

37:09It's calligraphy? No, it's just, it's, you know. That's an expensive pen. It's a nice pen. It is not an expensive pen. Do you like expensive pens? This is a 20-something dollar pen, but I, which is, you know, not a big pen. Can I try it? Yeah, I really love it. You use this the most? I draw and scribble all the time. And I love that. And it has little cartridges. Anyway, I should do a Calaco. Calaco. And a special pad. Conan, stop it. Inner voice not helping. Inner voice too late. I have a question for you. I have a question for you, which is, there's this path, people like us that have this affinity for comedy where you're going along, you're doing stuff, and then there's a hard right and a hard left.

37:55Stand-up or improv. I don't know about you because I think you'd be, but you chose, I'm guessing you chose improv to the exclusion of, that's what I did. I kind of knew, I really love great stand-ups. I admire what they do. I'm fascinated by it. I'm always telling John Mulaney, I don't know how you do that. I really have great respect for them, but I always knew my thing is over here. where I'm in scenes and I'm babbling in the moment. Yeah. Yeah, I have that too. Like if we were in school and it was like doing an exam and I had to do like an essay in an exam as opposed to like an ABC, like I would do an essay and just get like an A++ on it because I could like bullshit my way through and figure it out and just babble, babble, babble.

38:41But I started in high school doing improv because we had an improv team. Like the layout of comedy sports is, or they used to just have high school teams. Like you would have a football team and then you would play whose line is it anyway against different high schools. It's so weird to make it competitive, but also. It was fake competitive. Yeah. Fake competitive. It was like the ref could decide. For the sake of the audience. It's more so you're just doing the short form style thing. Right. But I loved acting in scenes. I knew I wanted to be an actor. Yeah. And then I learned, oh, I have an improv team and this is a way I could go.

39:12And then I just kind of stuck with that. But I like the teams. Like I like, you know, standup is very like isolated and in your head and you're working out bits and then you're presenting them. And that's so vulnerable to me that it kind of scares me quite a bit. And I do admire standups. But with improv and sketch and then with acting, like I knew I wanted to do that. And what I, I didn't know what the path was for that exactly because I didn't want to be like a lifelong sketch person. but being able to fold that into my acting technique is really helpful and so even at the daily show you're i i got that when i was 22 so it felt like i was college like in grad school because i was learning so much and i didn't finish school and um i was working with all these writers and field producers so we were not only that but then i was traveling kind of doing that man on the street or sitting in someone's living room and interviewing them saying like we should all eat babies like i don't know stuff like that like interviewing people you know face to face doing those field pieces but that was really i'll eat babies a lot of them and they're nutritious yeah and uh yeah so the baby eaters i would like interview them but i learned and then we would have to go back and edit these things for a couple weeks to the taste of mostly one man which was john so then i learned how to produce so it became a bit more amorphous where i didn't realize this but I was like co-producing and co-directing these little bits.

40:38And so I learned so much about storytelling in that way. It is great training if you're ever going to host a late night show. I don't know if there are going to be more of those in the future, but if you're going to host something and interview people, that is improv. It's listening, responding. Don't go negative. Don't stop the flow. Don't make it about you. Well, no, I disagree with that. Don't make it about you. Jessica, Jessica, Jessica. Jessica, the one thing I've learned in this talking to you is that I'm an impressive guy. But I do. And that I'm from El Cacho Nachos. El Cacho Nachos. You're Peggy Hill Spanish from like King of the Hill where it's like boom.

41:21But yeah, no, I acting when I'm in the zone is just reacting 100%. And even with The Daily Show, sometimes with a field piece, you can just get out with a look. Like if I can just get out with like a Jim Halpert, like, I love it. You can say so much. And so I really like, for me, acting is natural listening. And Julia is perfect at that, we're talking about, especially in Veep. I mean, she did it in Elaine, as Elaine in Seinfeld. She did it throughout her career, all these different shows, all these different things. But, you know, she's always in it completely, 100%. And it's commitment. Just commitment.

41:58Oh, I believe in commitment. Commitment. I hate half-ass bullshit. I hate it. And it works for some people. I know. Those are small. Eduardo's watching. What football match are you watching? Come on, Eduardo. We busted him recently. Were you watching something? I was watching the soccer game. Let him watch it. No, we... It's great content. Let him watch it. He's got to listen to you guys talk. But you know what? We only knew because someone sitting next to him sold him out. You snitched it? Commitment to the bit. Commitment to the bit. Or betrayal of a good friend. Same diff. But I don't like like half-assed stuff.

42:35I don't like cool comedy. I don't like cool. We were talking about that. I like earnestness 100%. And I've, comedy sports was really earnest. And that got, you know, it's not like UCB is cool. Like, and I'm a UCB person, so it's totally fine. But there is like sort of a punkness about UCB that's different than like Groundlings and Second City. And comedy sports is the goofiest, dorkiest one. It's so dorky. Why would it get flack? It's really franchised. It's kind of the Disneyland of, it's clean. A lot of church people would come to comedy sports. Yes, it's clean. It's really clean. They pass a plate afterwards.

43:07Yeah. Well, truly, if you actually, if you like said a curse word or something. You get a brown bag file. Brown bag file, the ref would put a brown bag. Oh my. Okay. That wouldn't work well here. But, and you know what's funny is I used to think like, because it was so not cool, especially coming up in like the UCB heyday. I was like, man, I've done some comedy sports since I was in high school. that I didn't learn anything. I was like, oh, this is just some bull that I do. But no, I learned so much doing that. It keeps you to be tight on what your tools are limited there. Yeah, four minutes. You play with different people so quickly.

43:40Stage time is, I mean, time in the cockpit is the answer. And the thing that when you couldn't use foul language taught you, you had to be funny, you couldn't have a crutch. Parameters, yeah. So now I can act. I mean, we say fuck on the show a lot. But I can turn it on and turn it off. And also that what's great about comedy sports is there's like this respect for the audience. You want to give them like a really premium experience. Whereas other things is like, hey, welcome. We're going to do this. We're going to do some make them up. It's kind of a suggestion. But comedy sports is like, hello.

44:09Yeah. This is the thing that we're going to do. Right. Right. And it teaches you like in order to satire something, you have to love it as opposed to satiring something and just coming from this like, look at this stupid show. You know, it taught me earnestness. I feel the same. In a way that I'll continue to have forever. You know, it's a good lesson. I'm not afraid to try stuff. Did you study theater at Cal State Long Beach? No, no, I didn't. I was doing Uprice Citizens Brigade. I, like, convinced my parents to let me go to Cal State Long Beach half, like, part-time. And then let me do UCB classes in comedy sports.

44:39You know what's funny? Full-time. You did exactly the right thing. Really? Which— I made a presentation. I think I made a PowerPoint presentation. Oh, really? Yeah. Mother? Father? You know, click. Yeah. I was like, so this is the Mount Rushmore of Uprice Citizens Brigade. Amy Poehler, Matt Wall— Like I was like explaining to my like black parents from Ohio, like what this Love Price Citizens Brigade thing was. And at the time it was like Aziz Ansari. I'd see like Rob Hubel, Derek Comedy, which was Donald Glover's old, you know, I would see like Ben Schwartz, like all these really cool, funny people that everybody knows.

45:11And I just was like, oh, this is where I need to be. It was like people are standing. It was so electric. But you knew when you know something you know. And I do think go to where they're doing the thing that you love, even if it means, okay, I'm getting paid 50 cents. Oh, yeah. But so I've got to do these other things to keep it going. But go where they're doing the thing that you love. And if that means you're not even in Santa's workshop, you're outside, but you're talking to some of the elves. And every now and then you get to go, I'd paint that choo-choo train a little, you know, and whatever.

45:48And then eventually you're in there. And then eventually. It's just being around. Yeah. Yeah. It's being around and showing up. So even then I remember I was doing the comedy sports and then I was doing, you know, UCB. And I remember sleeping in my car, like in between shows and going to auditions. And it was a really special time. I'm just laughing because I remember I have such a clear memory of taking this booking. Someone saw me do improv and I was maybe 22, 23. And they said, we want you to be in this infomercial. And it was shot deep in the valley. It was for a company that made music, that it was for an association of musical instrument salespeople.

46:27And they wanted me to do, be one of the players. So I drove, I had a terrible car that I bought at the airport. It's called a 1977 Isuzu Opal that was literally falling apart. And it had an I heart my poodle sticker on the back that I tried to get off and I scraped some of it off and the bumper was coming with it. And I'm like, forget it. I'm just going to leave it on. But I remember knowing so little that they said, yeah, you're going to do this thing and take care of your own makeup. I didn't know what that meant. So I went to a drugstore and bought one of those powder things with makeup on it.

47:01And I remember getting up at four in the morning, driving forever east of LA, like past mountains and stuff to find this place. And this is before you could geolocate off a satellite or, you know, use your Apple maps or whatever. So I had this big, thick book of maps called the Thomas Guide. I went way out there and I parked in the parking lot half an hour before I was needed and took out my one little puff. And I'm looking at it. My skin is not perfect. And I'm like, gloop, gloop. And I went in and I think if you looked at it now, look, they found a body and they made it look like it's talking.

47:37But I did that because I thought, this is my way. That's right. This is my way. Yeah, and it was that day, you know? Also doing things that, like failing a lot of times. Like I did so much bad stuff. See, I can't identify with you there. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay. Home run after home run. Everybody loved it. Yeah, yeah. No, just doing bad scenes and stuff. But that is good to just stay connected to this has gone badly and it has gone well. And that is always going to be the case. And calibrating. Like, you know, what was nice, too, about The Daily Show is John would let me calibrate. He would, you know, you worked in late night.

48:11It's like it goes up because we need it up, you know, and then we'll tack it the next day. We'll do another show, you know, one of those days, throw it, you know, throw it up. So I learned that. But then also I learned, oh, that didn't necessarily work. Oh, that didn't. But John wouldn't say anything. He wouldn't like berate me. He wouldn't send me notes. And I'd had up until that point a lot of comedy teachers who did. He just sort of let me figure it out. and he was just kind of the teacher I needed at that time. It really worked for me. Well, I don't agree with John. I think berating has its, it's how it's done and I think vicious notes work.

48:48Vicious. But I'm going to say passive aggression. Oh. That is a wonderful, long jokes about how the sketch didn't work. I have gone way over time with you because you are intoxicated. You're great. You're just great to talk to. You are. No, no, I'm saying, I'm saying this has been so effortless and fun and natural. And then you put a red light up like 10 minutes ago, like, well, this is usually. Oh, that's what that is. I saw that. That was a long time. That was more than 10 minutes ago. I think it was. We went way over and it's because this is what I experienced when we did that thing together.

49:29I was just like, more time with her, please. It's getting creepy. I'll come back anytime. I'll come back anytime. More time with her, please. I don't think it's creepy at all. Paula, get more time with her, please. I'm going to let you, next time we talk, I have to talk to you about you are quite tall and I'm wondering that's got to have influenced your... It's crazy you said that. Let's talk about it real quick. It's crazy you said that to me because you're like the tallest guy. I'm the tallest man that ever lived. But when I saw you in person, I was like, oh my God, he's tall. you know and it was nice though it was more comforting is your wife tall?

50:03she's tall but she's not she's not like me that would be that would be wrong that'd be cool I don't know why it would be wrong are your kids tall? my son is quite tall he's a little taller than me wow yeah but he we lived near a nuclear reactor when he was coming home and he has super strength sends his power plant yeah cool and I'm scared of him yeah you should be he turns green when he gets mad. Was there something you were going to say about me being tall? No, I was going to say it. I have heard women that are tall say, oh, it was awkward for me earlier on. And I think that's too bad because I just, I think, own it.

50:45It must be, you know, own it. And if you're taller, oh, you had to grow into it. People, we have these beauty standards based on what's repeated in the media. And we develop this view based on where we live about the way people are supposed to look. And whatever you're exposed to is what people think is right. And so you're like a six foot tall black lady. You're like, oh, I look different than what's on TV. And so you develop like this, you know, normal 13, 14 year old complex, which is what I had. And I was tall, I was tall early, I had like 13. And it did, but it informed so much of who I am.

51:18It made me, I don't know what it did, but it's something that as I got older, I was really happy. Especially I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't see a lot of tall, tall actresses. Maybe Sigourney Weaver. I feel like Queen Latifah might be pretty tall. But there's not like a ton. No. So it always felt really weird. And it used to be like a death sentence for an actress. Yeah. Because it meant that the male lead, like Alan Ladd, had to stand on six Apple boxes. Oh my God. One of those stories. Harrison's always like, I used to be on contract at this studio and I made a hundred bucks a week.

51:51Oh, trust me. We had him here and he was bitching. and I'm like, shut up. He's not over it. Oh, he's not over it. Jerry Tchaikovsky. Jerry Tchaikovsky was the guy that told him he needed to get an Elvis haircut and he was like, Jerry Tchaikovsky. And I'm like, yeah, that sounds like a rough day in 1968. But I think it all went your way. I will say it made me like, in comedy, like, God, that man is not over it. It's funny that you guys heard about that too. But guess what? We all have our stuff. That's right. It doesn't matter who you are. It's Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford. I don't care, you know, Tom Hanks.

52:22So you pick the people at the very top. I mean, presidents are like, God damn it, the time that, you know, Iowa didn't go my way. Like you were the president. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But they don't, no one does. Yeah. But I think with comedy, it made me feel like equal to men that I was playing against. Like it always made me feel not as boopy because I was like, I don't know how to describe it. Like not as cute in a way that I'm like, I'm just a baby doing baby things. It was like, even though that's how I got on the Daily Show, it was like, I felt like, oh, I'm taller than these guys. So I'm just going to.

52:58Sure. It informs my presence. Well, that's the way you hold yourself. You hold yourself as someone who is comfortable in your body, comfortable in your skin, like comfortable being you. And so to me, that's the key to everything. And the flip side is true, too. Like someone like Sabrina Carpenter is like, yeah, I'm whatever she is, 5 '1". Yeah. She's like, yeah, that's who she is. Yeah. That's who I am. And no one's complaining. Yeah, have you ever interviewed her? Like, I would love to see you guys standing next to each other. I know, that would be fun. That's a good one. So you don't want me to interview her, you just want me to stand next to her.

53:28Like it's a circus attraction. Come see Sabrina Capito stand next to the Wonder Freak, Corlebyan. Very small versus very tall. The singer and the guy with the zinger. Oh! Okay, wow, that was amazing. All right, I'm gonna shut it down. Okay. And scene. Oh my God. Love it. It was absolutely a joy talking to you. Aw, thank you. Come on back. say hi to everyone at Shrinking and thank you for sharing your glow with us. Thank you. Intoxicating. Intoxicating. Thank you.

54:09This is a bit of an older post on Reddit, but a user on Reddit named Earn Payal did a replica of our studio and all of us built out of Lego. Oh, that's so cool. We're going to bring it up here on the screen and you can go to at Team Coco podcast or of course watch this on YouTube. Oh, that is very good. But it's very accurate. Look at this. Oh my God. It's got Eduardo's cap. It's got Blay and his prematurely gray hair. This is really good. It's got my need to be heard. Yeah. But somehow, for some reason, your Hailey Bieber smoothie is on my table. I know. Oh, it is. Green chairs? This is... This is really good.

54:50Awesome. I love this. This person's very talented. How do you get Conan Lego hair like that? That's perfect. Where does that come from? Is it possible that he manufactured this hair? Because look at Sona's hair. It's actually made of the same stuff that Sona's hair is made of. You know what? No, that's a compliment. Your hair is very... It's full and thick and very made of plastic. Lego. You're wearing the same exact color jacket. I know. I'm wearing a brown jacket. Look, my T-shirt. This is random. I didn't know we were doing this today. I am wearing the exact same color scheme. Wow. How do we get Lego to actually make this?

55:28Or get this guy to send us one of these or three of these. Yeah, we need to have this. I want one of these. Well, okay. All right. Calm down, girls. I love Lego. I know. I do too. I would like one as well, but I think it's a little greedy to go from how can we get one to how can we get nine? I said three. Eduardo has a hat on. Yeah. That's cool. Nice touch. I think this is fantastic. I love how artistic our fans are. Yeah. I think this shows a lot of ingenuity. It's so good. Look, it's great. There's more pictures, too, if you scroll through. There's some close-ups and stuff. Okay. I feel like you guys are big Lego people, the two of you.

56:06I love Lego. And I've built some impressive Lego stuff. My son and I, I think it was during COVID, I built... What did I build? I built a, like, a Range Rover, Land Rover kind of thing out of Legos. And my son built, like, a Bugatti. Like, we just got these two kits. Yeah. Because it was COVID, man. And we built them. I got that Aston Martin in COVID, that Lego Aston Martin. You know, the James Bond Aston Martin? That's right. What do you guys, you guys just, like, after you build it, you're like, okay. Then it's a display piece. It's nice to have out. Oh, okay. That's nice. Then it's a real chick magnet.

56:40Oh, is it? Yeah. Oh, I've gotten some. Oh, look at it. It's just a little drying. Oh, my God. the doodle. Look at the drawing. Oh my God, a doodle. Look what's on front of Sona. Her phone. Look at in front of Sona's phone. Look at that. She's playing like, what is that? Candy Crush or something? I don't know what that, and I have a coffee, a big tea mug, or you, that's your tea mug. That's so cool. Oh my God. Wait a minute. We just, I didn't even think about this. There's a bubble of me talking about my Lego Aston Martin. And look how evil you look. Look how you have, you have, you're malintentioned.

57:13People say I look like that actor Michael Stuhlbarg, and that does look like Michael Stuhlbarg. Who's that actor? You know him. He's in Coen Brothers movies. He looks like my older brother. He's the dad in Call Me By Your Name, isn't he? Yes. Okay. Yeah, I see it. Yeah. Oh, look at this. Look at those guys. Look at Adam. Adam's just evil. I know. It's like bizarro Adam. Adam's like, I don't see... How is this? We're not earning enough. How do we monetize that? This is great. It really is. You got to check this out. Go online. Look at these pictures. It's really beautiful. We should try and acquire at least one or two, whatever, if we can.

57:55I just want to make sure I get one for my own. All right. Well, I just meant for display here at our Larchmont offices so the talent visiting it can see it. Look at the mini-fix. Oh, look at us. We're so cute. What if we come to find out this is all just 3D design and it doesn't really exist? It might not exist. It could not exist. Hey, maybe we don't exist. That's likely. You know, we're probably three years away from them taking the essence of this podcast, running it through AI, and then generating deep fakes that are us. Yeah. And they eliminate us. Yeah. We're turned into some kind of grouting for a bathroom.

58:24Wait a minute. Blaise wearing the Back to the Future clothes. Did you notice that? Oh, yeah. Oh, I thought those were muscles. No. I thought he just was totally ripped. Those are weird muscles. Sona's got a French tuck. I do. Sona, what's going on with your belt? I don't know. I do French tuck. I have a French tuck right now. I'm French tucking. Wow, this guy gets all the details. He knows what's up. Hey, you know what he's missing? One thing. My prominent eye vein. Sorry. Why would you want to make a note about that? Oh, look at my little smirk. Oh, you look like an asshole. I look like a bully.

58:57You know what? I look like Scott Farkas. Yes, you do. In the Christmas. What is it? Christmas story. Christmas story. Yeah. Look at that. Look at that. What are you going to do? Cry.

59:12Oh my God. That's cool. That's great. We do have really great fans. They're very creative. We have the most creative fans. And thank you. This gentleman's name? Well, his username is Earn Pow. And sorry it took us so long. Could be a man. Could be a woman. Yeah, could be. Sorry it took us. I mean, Legos is probably a man.

59:32Sorry it took us this long to get to it. Yeah. I was just alerted to it. He's since smashed the Legos out of bitterness. I spent forever on that. They never responded to me. he's moved on. He's now making Duck Dynasty Legos. At least he'll get back to me. And listeners, you can go to at Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram and see this or the YouTube page. Well, thank you very much. Very cool. 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, Jeff Ross and Nick Liao. Theme song by The White Stripes Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino Take it away, Jimmy

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