Summer S’mores with Conan and the Chill Chums Season 5 Episode 4

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0:41Guys, I'm going to ask you a question. What better way is there to make summer memories than having s'mores with Hershey's milk chocolate? None that I can pick up. There's nothing. Toasted marshmallows, melted Hershey's chocolate, crunchy graham crackers. The classic taste brings family and friends together for ooey, gooey, good times. And I'm saying that with a straight face. Yeah. And a college diploma, ooey, gooey, good times. Make s'more memories. See what I did? This summer with Hershey's milk chocolate. Summer S'mores with Conan and the Chill Chumps. A six-part series with Conan O 'Brien, Sonam Avsassian, and Matt Gourley.

1:19Let's get started. And we're back. Welcome to episode four of Summer S'mores 2025. And we've got a big treat here, don't we, Mr. Gourley? Let's bring in David Hopping. David Q. Hopping. Thank you, David. Finally. Thank you so much, David. These look, I mean, this is the most, this might be the most elaborate cocktail I've ever seen. It looks gorgeous. Mr. Gorley, I saw you in the kitchen working very hard on these. Tell me what's going on. Well, this is something I call the sun damage, okay? The sun damage. So it's meant to be basically the color of a sunburn with a little egg white foam on top.

2:01That's like the sunblock with a little extra sunblock here in the lime. So this is an actual sunblock in the lime. I can eat it. No, it's not. And then there's some boba beads that are white to represent sunspots, red for freckles, and then dark for liver spots or melanoma or whatever. Oh, man. That's nice. It's a drink that evokes the tropics and melanoma. Yeah. And so this is called the sun damage, and it looks extraordinary. And you are very good at this. I like to try and put you down. I search for ways to put you down. But when it comes to making cocktails, you're the maestro. Yeah. Thank you.

2:35This is tequila-based. It's a very California drink, so it's served up with no ice. I just want to drink. The more you talk, the less. Yeah. Let's drink it. The longer it takes for me to drink it.

2:50I'm sorry. I just couldn't hear you explain it anymore, but it's nice. I understand. Very good. It's so delicious. I was just making a political point that there's no ice. Okay. That's really important. Really? You know what? You stood up to the man. I did. by making a fancy resort cocktail. That's really good, girls. This is excellent. You're the bartender of my life. I'm doing the old no booze thing. Been doing it for quite a while. And so mine is what... No, I'm kidding. That's all right. I'm kidding. It's a common response. No, I'm kidding. Whenever I go to fraternities, that's how they respond.

3:26What I did have when I was shooting in Austria with Jordan, we shot something where we're supposed to be getting trashed and we're with these other guys and you can see it in the austria episode we're at a ski resort and i'm with these other guys i leave jordan for them and we're all having a really good time and then i hung out with those guys and they were great they were really fun a bunch of them were from austria we were having beers and i was having they could tell i was having non-alcoholic beer fine and then i went upstairs to get a bite to eat and when i came back downstairs they didn't know i was there and one of them said well never meet your hero oh no I'm like, I'm just not having alcohol.

4:04There's nothing wrong with that. And non-alcoholic beers are pretty decent. Non-alcoholic beer is excellent. Spirits, not so much. That's why yours tastes... No, when someone says, try this non-alcoholic tequila, they're basically giving you death. That's why your cocktail tastes like monkey's piss. No, mine is good. Mine is good. No, I actually don't... I like drinking. Oh, we know. Oh, okay, yeah. We have it on tape. But I would... Yes. I actually prefer other ways of... You like a gummy. I like getting high, yeah. You like a gummy. Would you ever make a drink, Gourley? And I'm not saying we would do this for next year.

4:36But would you ever make a drink that had gummy in it? That had... Like THC gummies? THC gummies. I could try. I really don't know what I'm doing. I make it up each time. And I fail a lot. Yesterday, I was trying two different drinks. And I got so drunk that I couldn't tell which one was good. So I don't even know if this is good. Well, we're going to have an intervention for you. And then we realize we're just not that interested in helping you. Appreciate that. We're not interested. No, we couldn't find any friends. We're going to get an intervention for you to try to get you to drink. I love an intervention.

5:10You're more fun when you're drinking. You can't find anybody who cares about it. We were looking so hard for Gorley. We did this big blast. Even my wife. Your wife was like, oh, no, he pisses himself to sleep every night. But I can't be, I can't be, I. I'm busy. I'm kind of busy with stuff. She said that she's in a book group. She's not in a book club. She's in a book group. What? On what club? You said book group, but I think you meant book club, right? Yeah. It's okay. Let's all laugh at my neurological decay. Okay. We're going to listen to this in three years. I'm wearing a diaper over at Cedars-Sinai, and you guys are chuckling over my neurological decay.

5:48This is quite good. This is so good. Thank you. Cheers. I love this. I love the cream. Thank you. Cheers, pal. That's it. That's it. That's it. You did it. Ah. This is really good. I like little umbrellas. Yeah, keep listing things you like. It's fun. I like little spoons. Yep, that's great. Keep going. I like little limes that are bowls. Yep, that's nice. And I like, you know what? I enjoy a drinky poof from time to time. Yes, you do. And I've been there. And cheers again for that, by the way. Yeah, cheers. And you're, would you say tamer than you were back in the day? Much. When you and I were traveling around, we were on tour, we're staying in hotel rooms.

6:28You could rock and roll. Well, we would go to the hotel bar with everybody from the tour, and I'd be like, I'm going to try all these sugary drinks so I could tell people that the rusty trombone is really good and the Detroit... Wait, wait, time out. Time out. When you said the rusty trombone's really good, I went out and asked people for the rusty trombone, got it, and then had to be on penicillin for like six months. You got it? I got that, yeah. I went up to these guys and I said, hey, someone give me the rusty trombone. And they said, you really want the rusty trombone? And I said, I'm here and I'm ready to go.

7:09And then I closed my eyes and kept them closed, which is a weird thing to do. I love that the new guy's laughing. Yeah, I know. It makes me funny. Josh loves it. Josh is cracking up over there. Josh, that means when the crew's laughing, it means you're legitimately funny, especially when you're not paying them well. And he is really, we are not paying you well. and you came in angry today and feeling exploited and now you're laughing. That means I really scored. You did it. I feel like I set you up for it, though, with the rusty trombone. Nice job, Sona. Cheers. Ding, ding. Sona, everyone knew that you were a main part of that cocktail, the comedy cocktail.

7:43And so you should have been feeling secure. Yeah, I do. I do feel secure. I'll take credit even when I didn't do anything. It's called showbiz. Yeah. Showbiz, baby. Oh, wow. You know what's funny? How quickly you become drunk. you'll have a sip and be saying things like yeah look at the ass on that guy that's an apple I'd like to take a bite out of and I'm like I think there's a placebo effect with Sona I'm curious to see if there will be with you because you always talk a good game but every year we do this you start slurring your words and saying we're drunk but you get drunk too I do not it's not my thing and I that's libel I love these little moles at the bottom I got a mole removed What's that?

8:29You? Yeah. What are you talking about? I got a mole removed from my back. I was pointing to you because you've gotten probably a lot of moles removed. We've talked about this. I've had hundreds. I've shown you guys my back. Yeah, but I've never got a mole removed. Welcome. But I did. Thank you. It's nice to be here. I had something removed from my back. It turned out it was an Endeavor agent. Wow. Jesus Christ. Oh, my God. And as I took it off, I said, I get 15%. Wow. Yeah. That's very inside baseball It's really good stuff I'm telling you Also the agency doesn't exist anymore Well it doesn't work The joke isn't as good if you say it It was a WME Endeavor agency Conan I realized I almost made you sick Because these sonas in my drink have egg white foam And because yours doesn't have alcohol I realized I can't put egg white in there I don't understand Is there chemistry involved?

9:23Yeah you can get salmonella But the alcohol kills the toxins in that but you don't have alcohol. Maybe there's a tiny bit. Wish you'd told me sooner. But then I thought maybe I should. I ate a box of egg whites I found by the 405 Freeway. I just saw them and I quickly ate as much of them as I could. Then I ran away and my pants fell down. This is a good story. You know what I love? No alcohol in this drink. And I'm sloshed. Told you. Sloshed out of my mind. And I love you and Sona. I love you. I love you guys. I really love you guys. That's nice. Yeah. I like drunk Conan. I do. Non-alcoholic drunk Conan.

10:00Okay. Can I borrow a little money, drunk Conan? You bet. Whatever you want. I'll give you the check. You fill it out. Son will sign it. Can you buy me a car? I already did. No, you didn't, though. You know you didn't. I did. I bought you a car. It was on television. Look it up, everybody. That car was so terrible. It was funny. You messed up my car, my actual car. It was messed up before. No, you ripped out the sunglass holder, and then Chalemi, who was the field producer. Oh, those are irreplaceable. No, he came by and he was trying to fix the things that you messed up. And I was like, is anyone going to fix this sunglass holder?

10:34And he said, no. And then it was just broken. That's a great line producer right there that knows to do that. Listen, you're doing a lot of whining, complaining about a man. Look at you. You're getting well taken care of in this business. You are. I know. You've done well. When I met you, you couldn't read. And now look at you. Come on. It's true. No. Yes. You couldn't read. Good one. Here we go. Here we go. That improv class paid off big time. Welcome to my ice cream shop. No, you're the ice cream shop. Yeah, your face is the ice cream. I should do an improv class. Yeah. Right? You know what would be funny?

11:13I would love to see you doing improv wasted. Yeah. Because I bet that would combine. I know that people have said that before, but you would be particularly entertaining. Yeah. I think so. I think that it enhances I'm going to say I have a joint in my pocket right now that I'm looking forward to partaking in later and I feel like when I do I'm really I'm on it when your kids walk in do you say it's mama's medicine I do I don't actually tell them I say it's a tack I'm going to go take my medicine and then I go in front of a church that's a block away from me because I know no one's in there. I live in like a church that no one goes to.

11:58That's a sad, that was the saddest sentence. You smoking pot in front of a church nobody goes to. So there's a church nobody goes to. To hide from your children. And presumably someone comes in for like help from their clergyman and there's just a woman in there smoking a joint. Well, no, here's what happens. Because it happens at night. And they'll go to sleep. The boys go to sleep. Tack is home. And I'll be like, I got to go take my medicine. and I walk a block over to a church and I sit in front of it and I take my... You don't go inside. No, I don't go inside. And I take my medicine. The devil can't go into a church.

12:33This is where we should have been in the first episode. Right leading with this. This is why you guys shouldn't hold the alcohol from... I say go for it. So then what? You come home and suddenly you're cheech and chonged. You're feeling good. You walk in the door. Oh, what's going on? Are you in a different place? Can the kids tell that Mama's different now? Yeah. And then I'll watch. No, the boys are sleeping. They're sleeping. Yeah. They've never seen me. You duct tape them to the bed. I was going to say they've never seen me high. Right. But I don't know if that's. They may have taken. I may have taken a little beep, beep, boop, boop, beep, boop, boop, boop.

13:09But that was just chill. You called someone on a 1980s telephone? Right. Why am I talking? So. Whatever. It's good stuff. This is good stuff. Tell me more about eating the egg whites off the far of my freeway. A big crate of egg whites fell off a truck. They were in the sun for, I think, only six hours. I was driving along the 405. I saw them. I bashed open the crate. And then some rats tried to get in, and we fought over the egg whites. And then I won. I threw the rats as far as I could. They hit the 10 freeway. And I wasn't even at the junction. Thank you. Good guy laughing over there. Not getting paid enough.

13:40And then I just ate as much of those hot egg whites as I could. Sounds good. I think they were a couple years old. I think they were from the Obama administration. and then I just ran down the street and my pants fell down. That's the kind of story that people like.

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15:19Well, Hershey's finally decided to sponsor Summer S'mores You know, this has been the long con We invented Summer S'mores to lure Hershey's This is all I've ever wanted This is like the movie The Sting It's this really long con It's taken years to play out We don't disagree on s'mores The whole thing was staged Just to get some attention And now, old man Hershey has found himself in our snare Ha ha Yeah, well, anyway, they decided to sponsor some of the s'mores, but they left me out. Matt and Sona got all this amazing merch swag. I got nothing because I'm anti-smore. Well, now I understand why.

15:55My past comments on s'mores divided a nation. A nation, which is rarely divided. But Hershey's, I want you to know my beef is not with you. I love chocolate. I love your new Hershey caramel bar, I believe. That a s'more could be just chocolate and graham cracker, no marshmallow needed. I had the new Hershey's caramel. It was great. It was terrific. Sana, what do you think? How is the s'more with caramel? Tell me what you think. It's so good. I mean, honestly, if anybody tries to give me a s'more without Hershey chocolate, I just smack it out of their hand. Yes. And the caramel just upped the game big time.

16:26I saw your face light up. I feel like tasting that was my purpose in life. Try Hershey's milk chocolate with caramel today. S'more more.

16:41Remember last year we played that game, Chubby Bunny? where we stuffed marshmallows in our face. Yeah. So it was suggested again that we play another game, and we wait for the alcohol usually to do this. Yep. You guys want to try a game? I'm lubed up. Okay. You have to put your cocktails down, though. Okay. Okay, this is a game. Yeah. It's called Mind Meld, and the way it works is Sona and I will start, and on the count of three, we'll both clap our hands and say any word that comes to our mind. Okay. And then you've got to turn to Conan, and on the count of three, you guys clap and you both say a word, but based on what we just said, you have to try to say the same word.

17:20And then you won't get it right away. And then you turn to me. What are you already looking off into the distance for? I'm not sure I understand, but I will try to understand. Okay. So, like, you and I will try it and based on what we say, you might start to develop, like, there's a theme or something. Or you can find a common word that links those two. That's what you want to find. Okay. And then you will turn to me, we'll count to three, and try to do and we'll keep going in a circle until two people say the same word. Oh, that's fun. Okay, I'm fascinated. Who do you think is going to say the same word?

17:50I think me and Coen's. You think? Yeah. Thanks. No, it's because we've worked together for so long that sometimes I like to— Yeah, but he's going to destroy this thing. I know. Okay. All right. I honestly—we don't talk about these things beforehand because no effort goes into these shows. Yeah. There's really no professionalism. All you have to do is listen to the two words that are said before your turn and try to think of a word that unites those two or is common between those two. Okay. Or try to predict where someone is heading. I'll do what I can. Okay, you ready? I'm ready. I'm so ready.

18:19One, two, three, truck. Chicken. Okay, now go. Chicken and truck, and you guys just don't think. The whole thing is not to think. Oh, so we say it on the clap. Yeah, one, two, three, cutlet. What did you say? I said taco. Cutlet and taco. One, two, three, burrito. No, you wait. I just wanted it to stop. I just wanted it to stop. No. I didn't remember that I had to go so quickly. I didn't think I was going so quickly. We'll start again. Okay. Okay. But I said cutlet because I thought of a chicken being crushed under a truck wheel and becoming a cutlet. That's fine. That's fine. I didn't. I thought about getting a taco from a truck with chicken.

19:01Yeah, but I think with every game we play, you're going to yell taco. Yeah, I am. I love tacos. Okay, Sonya. Eisenhower, taco. He said burrito. Okay. One, two, three. Chesa dea okay one two three What you do What did you do you went ah I? Couldn't think of a word Okay, so start with me again. Let's try it again. What you can't think one two three teach Oh, I didn't hear what you said each and tree one two three mom What did you say? Waves. One, two, three. Sand. What'd you say? Sing. Sing and sand. You and me. One, two, three. Castle! What the hell? It's a musical that takes place on the beach!

19:52Yeah, in 1951. Oh my god. South Pacific and Castle, ready? Yeah. One, two, three. Moot! Yes! Yes! I knew it! I knew it! twins, not separated at birth, separated maybe before birth. Some kind of crazy operation. That was impressive. I mean, we are mind melded. You know that. That was really cool. I knew it. I said it. I said it. I know. I'm agreeing with you. Yes. Why do you act like this is a communist show trial and your life is in danger? You make so much fun of me, but you think like me. Yes. So what does that say about you? I hate myself. You are like me. I hate you. That's good. That's a simple formula.

20:43Oh, that was cool. That was cool. That was great. That's a fun game. Yeah, play it with your friends. That's great. I love that game. Now, Sona, I saw you upstairs playing some kind of 70s trivia game, but all the questions were crazily easy. They were very easy. I mean, like insanely easy. They were, oh, there they are. So I was going through all the stuff that people had donated to me after my house burned down in January. And it was a lot of clothes and stuff. That's so sweet. Really, really sweet stuff. That's really nice that people did that. And then somebody, I don't know who it was, gave me a 70s trivia game.

21:23And it's all about pop culture in the 70s. And I'm like, if I know two guys who would like this game, it's Cones and Goral. But they're easy. Well, fine. I'm sure there are some that aren't. You know what? I'm going to do television because I think we did most of the movies and girls got like all of them. Which British punk band in 1976 generated huge controversy after swearing repeatedly on the air? Sex Pistols, yeah. That is the punk band in 76. Now, you go a year or two later, you got your clash. But, I mean, it's Sex Pistols. Never mind the bollocks. I didn't want to play with you. On the Sonny and Cher show, what was the title of the song released in 1965?

22:02I got you, babe. It's the only song they have is I Got You, Babe. Which 1970s musical? I didn't realize we were in a race to do this. Is this a race? I don't know. You just seem to want to explain every question. Yeah. I want to ruin. You know the way when a bicycle is going along and the little girl riding it is having a lot of fun? If you ride alongside them and put a stick in the spokes, a little girl goes flying. Which 1970s musical sitcom has a theme tune called Come On, Get Happy? Come On, Get Happy. Pretty much. No. Oh, Monkeys. No. Do you want to stop for a second? Come on. You have an answer.

22:39You're stalling. Come on, get happy. I'm not trying to race you. I'm trying to get you to know it, but I know that. That's a lie. That is true. On which ship featured in the title of a 1970s TV show would you find Lieutenant Starbuck? Oh. Battlestar Galactica. Did you know that one? I did, but I know who played Starbuck. Who? The guy who later was on the A-team. That's right. Dirk Benedict. I guess he had no name. Oh, there we go. Benedict Dirk, if you're looking up in the phone book. We're back to the game. Who's a bigger dork? Welcome to dorkdom. In the 1978 animated series, The New Fantastic Four, what is the character of Ben Grimm better known as?

23:22The thing. That doesn't even relate to a TV show. It's a television show. Is it? The Fantastic Four was a television show? A cartoon, yeah. I was just thinking of the comic book. When did it become a TV show? In the 70s. I'm sober. Tragically sober. So you guys won't know that one. I know. I didn't realize we were racing. I don't like these racing games. Which crime fighting show is home to the characters of Huggy Bear and Captain Harold Dolby? Starsky and Hutch. Okay. And who played Huggy Bear? Snoop Dogg. Antonio Fargus. I don't know that. Okay. He did in the movie. In the movie, but in a TV show played by Antonio Fargus.