Pod Insights Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend Summer S’mores with Conan and the Chill Chums Season 5 Episode 4 About this episode Conan and the Chums sip their specialty cocktails and go head-to-head with some classic 70s trivia.
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1:11 Speaker 01 Summer Smores with Conan and the Chill Chums. A six-part series with Conan O'Brien, Sonam of Sessian, and Matt Gourley. Let's get started.
1:22 Conan O'Brien? And we're back. Welcome to episode four of Summer Smores 2025. And we've got a big treat here, don't we, Mr. Gourley?
1:30 Speaker 01 Let's bring in David Hopping.
1:31 Conan O'Brien? David Cue Hopping.
1:33 Speaker 01 Thank you, David.
1:35 Conan O'Brien? And 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. Gourley, I saw you in the kitchen, working very hard on these. Tell me what's going on.
1:49 Speaker 01 Well, this is something I call the sun damage, okay?
1:54 Conan O'Brien? The sun damage.
1:55 Speaker 01 So it's meant to be basically the color of a sunburn with a little egg white foam on top. That's like the sunblock with a little extra sunblock here in the lime.
2:04 Conan O'Brien? So this is an actual sunblock in the lime. I can eat it.
2:06 Speaker 01 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.
2:17 Speaker 02 Oh, man.
2:18 Conan O'Brien? That's nice. A drink that evokes the tropics and melanoma.
2:22 Speaker 02 Yeah.
2:22 Conan O'Brien? 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'm searching for ways to put you down. But when it comes to making cocktails, you're the maestro.
2:34 Speaker 02 Yeah.
2:35 Speaker 01 Thank you. This is tequila-based. It's a very California drink, so it's served up with no ice.
2:41 Speaker 02 I just want to drink. The more you talk, the less...
2:44 Speaker 01 Okay, yeah.
2:45 Conan O'Brien? Let's drink it.
2:45 Speaker 02 The longer it takes for me to drink it. Mmm. I'm sorry. I just couldn't hear you explain it anymore, but it's nice.
2:54 Speaker 01 I understand.
2:55 Conan O'Brien? Very good.
2:55 Speaker 02 It's so delicious.
2:57 Speaker 01 I was just making a political point that there's no ice.
2:59 Speaker 02 Okay. That's really important.
3:02 Conan O'Brien? Really? You know what? You stood up to the man.
3:04 Speaker 01 I did. By making a fancy resort cocktail.
3:07 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, yeah.
3:08 Speaker 02 That's really good, girls.
3:10 Conan O'Brien? Thanks. This is excellent.
3:13 Speaker 02 The bartender of my life.
3:14 Conan O'Brien? I'm doing the old no booze thing. Been doing it for quite a while.
3:18 Speaker 01 Yeah.
3:18 Conan O'Brien? And so mine is what?
3:19 Speaker 02 Boo. No, I'm kidding.
3:20 Conan O'Brien? That's all right. It's a common response.
3:23 Speaker 02 No, I'm kidding.
3:24 Conan O'Brien? Whenever I go to Fraternities, that's how they respond. What 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."
4:00 Speaker 01 Oh, no!
4:02 Conan O'Brien? I'm like, "I'm just not having alcohol."
4:04 Speaker 01 There's not, nothing wrong with that and non-alcoholic beers are pretty decent.
4:07 Conan O'Brien? Non-alcoholic beer is excellent.
4:08 Speaker 01 Spirits, not so much.
4:09 Conan O'Brien? No, when someone says, "Try this non-alcoholic tequila," they're basically giving you death.
4:14 Speaker 01 That's why your cocktail tastes like monkey's piss.
4:17 Conan O'Brien? No, mine is good, mine is good.
4:18 Speaker 02 No, I, I, I actually don't, I like drinking.
4:23 Conan O'Brien? Oh, we know, we know. We have it on tape.
4:25 Speaker 02 But I would, I actually prefer, uh, other ways of, uh...
4:30 Conan O'Brien? You like a gummy.
4:31 Speaker 02 I like getting high, yeah.
4:31 Conan O'Brien? You like a gummy. Would you ever make a drink, Gourley, and I'm not saying we would do this for next year, but would you ever make a drink, uh, that had gummy in it, that had...
4:40 Speaker 01 Like THC gummies?
4:41 Conan O'Brien? THC gummies.
4:42 Speaker 01 I could try.
4:43 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
4:44 Speaker 01 I really don't know what I'm doing. I make it up each time and I, 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.
4:54 Speaker 02 Really good.
4:55 Conan O'Brien? We're gonna have a, um, intervention for you and then we realize we're just not that interested.
5:01 Speaker 01 Thanks.
5:01 Conan O'Brien? In helping you.
5:02 Speaker 01 Appreciate that.
5:02 Speaker 02 We're not interested?
5:03 Conan O'Brien? No, we couldn't find any friends.
5:05 Speaker 01 We're gonna get an intervention for you to, to try to get you to drink.
5:09 Speaker 02 I love an intervention where you can't find anybody who cares about him.
5:13 Conan O'Brien? We were looking so hard for Gourley. We did this big blast.
5:16 Speaker 01 Even my wife.
5:17 Conan O'Brien? Your wife was like, "Oh, no, he pisses himself to sleep every night." But I can't be, I can't be, I...
5:23 Speaker 02 I'm busy.
5:24 Conan O'Brien? I'm kinda busy with stuff. She said that she's in a book group. And, uh...
5:29 Speaker 01 She's not in a book club, she's in a book group.
5:33 Conan O'Brien? A what club?
5:34 Speaker 02 You said book group, but I think you meant book club, right?
5:37 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, let's all laugh at my neurological decay.
5:40 Speaker 02 Okay.
5:41 Conan O'Brien? We're gonna listen to this in three years. I'm wearing a diaper over at Cedar Sinai and you guys are chuckling over my neurological decay? This is quite good.
5:49 Speaker 02 This is so good.
5:50 Speaker 01 Thank you, cheers.
5:51 Speaker 02 I love this, I love the cream.
5:53 Speaker 01 Thank you.
5:54 Speaker 02 Cheers, pal. That's it. That's it.
5:56 Conan O'Brien? The, um...
5:57 Speaker 02 That's it. You did it.
5:59 Conan O'Brien? Ah, this is really good.
6:01 Speaker 02 I like little umbrellas.
6:02 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, keep listing things you like, it's fun.
6:04 Speaker 02 I like, um, little spoons.
6:06 Conan O'Brien? Yep, that's great, keep going.
6:07 Speaker 02 I like little limes that are bowls.
6:09 Conan O'Brien? Yep, that's nice.
6:10 Speaker 02 And I like, uh, you know what, I enjoy a drinky poo from time to time.
6:13 Conan O'Brien? Yes, you do, and I've been there.
6:15 Speaker 01 And cheers again for that, by the way.
6:17 Conan O'Brien? And you're, um, you're, uh, would you say tamer than you were back in the day?
6:22 Speaker 02 Much.
6:23 Conan O'Brien? When you and I were traveling around, we're on tour, we're staying in hotel rooms, um, you could rock and roll.
6:30 Speaker 02 Well, I, I, we would go to a hotel, the hotel bar with everybody from the tour, and I'd be like, "I'm gonna try all these sugary drinks so I could tell people that like, you know, the, the Rusty Trombone is really good and the Detroit..."
6:45 Speaker 01 Wait, timeout, timeout.
6:47 Conan O'Brien? 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.
6:57 Speaker 02 You got it?
6:58 Conan O'Brien? I got, uh, 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." And then I closed my eyes and kept them closed, which is a weird thing to do. I love that this, the new guy's laughing.
7:17 Speaker 02 Yeah, I know.
7:18 Conan O'Brien? It makes me funny.
7:18 Speaker 02 Josh loves it.
7:19 Conan O'Brien? 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."
7:32 Speaker 02 You did it.
7:33 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
7:33 Speaker 02 I feel like I set you up for it, though, with the Rusty Trombone. Nice job, Sona, cheers, ding ding.
7:38 Conan O'Brien? Sona, everyone knew that you were a main part of that cocktail, the comedy cocktail, and so you should have been feeling secure.
7:46 Speaker 02 Yeah, I do. I do feel secure. I'll take credit even when I didn't do anything. It's called showbiz.
7:53 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
7:54 Speaker 02 Showbiz, baby.
7:55 Conan O'Brien? Oh wow, you just, 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." "Yeah, 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.
8:10 Speaker 02 Yes.
8:10 Speaker 01 Well, 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, and I think you might...
8:18 Conan O'Brien? I do not. It's not my thing, and I, I, I, that's libel.
8:24 Speaker 02 I love these little moles at the bottom.
8:26 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah.
8:26 Speaker 02 I got a mole removed.
8:28 Conan O'Brien? What's that, you?
8:29 Speaker 02 Yeah.
8:30 Conan O'Brien? What are you talking about?
8:31 Speaker 02 I got a mole removed from my back. I was pointing you because you've gotten probably a lot of moles removed.
8:36 Speaker 01 I've had hundreds. I've shown you guys my back.
8:38 Speaker 02 Yeah, but I've never, I never got a mole removed. I like, but I get, I did. Thank you. It's, it's nice to be here.
8:47 Conan O'Brien? I had something removed from my back. It turned out it was an Endeavor agent.
8:51 Speaker 01 Jesus.
8:51 Speaker 02 Oh, my God.
8:53 Conan O'Brien? And as I took it off, he said, "I get 15%."
8:56 Speaker 02 Wow.
8:57 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
8:58 Speaker 02 That's, that's very inside baseball.
9:01 Conan O'Brien? It's really good stuff, I'm telling you.
9:03 Speaker 02 That agency doesn't exist anymore.
9:06 Conan O'Brien? Well, it doesn't work. The joke isn't as good if you say it. It was a WME Endeavor agency, you know?
9:12 Speaker 01 Conan, I realized I almost made you sick because these, Musona's in my drink have egg white foam.
9:17 Conan O'Brien? Yep.
9:18 Speaker 01 And because yours doesn't have alcohol, I realized I can't put egg white in there.
9:21 Conan O'Brien? I don't understand. Is there chemistry involved?
9:23 Speaker 01 Well, you can get salmonella, but the alcohol kills the toxins in that.
9:28 Conan O'Brien? Very good.
9:28 Speaker 01 But you don't have alcohol. Maybe there's a tiny bit.
9:30 Conan O'Brien? Wish you'd told me sooner.
9:31 Speaker 01 But then I thought, maybe I should.
9:32 Conan O'Brien? I ate a box of egg whites I found by the 405 freeway. Um, I just saw him 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.
9:50 Speaker 01 I told you.
9:50 Conan O'Brien? Sloshed out of my mind. And I love you, and Sona, I love you. I love you guys.
9:54 Speaker 02 Oh.
9:55 Conan O'Brien? I really love you guys.
9:55 Speaker 02 That's nice.
9:56 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
9:56 Speaker 02 I like drunk Conan. I do.
9:59 Conan O'Brien? Non-alcoholic drunk Conan.
10:00 Speaker 02 Okay.
10:02 Speaker 01 Can I borrow a little money, drunk Conan?
10:04 Conan O'Brien? You bet. Whatever you want. I'll give you the check. You fill it out. Sona will sign it.
10:08 Speaker 02 Can you buy me a car?
10:09 Conan O'Brien? I already did.
10:11 Speaker 02 No, you didn't, though. You know, you didn't.
10:13 Conan O'Brien? I did. I bought you a car. It was on television. Look it up, everybody. It's a nice car.
10:17 Speaker 02 That car was so terrible. Also, you messed up my car, my actual car, and then...
10:22 Conan O'Brien? It was messed up before.
10:23 Speaker 02 No, you ripped out the sunglass holder and then Chalemi, who was the field producer...
10:27 Conan O'Brien? Those are irreplaceable.
10:28 Speaker 02 No, he came by and he's like, he was trying to fix the things that you messed up. And I was like, is anyone gonna fix the sunglass holder? And he said, "Uh, no." And then...
10:39 Speaker 02 And then it was just broken.
10:40 Conan O'Brien? 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.
10:51 Speaker 01 You are, I know, you've done well.
10:52 Conan O'Brien? When I met you, you couldn't read, and now look at you.
10:55 Speaker 02 Come on.
10:56 Conan O'Brien? It's true.
10:56 Speaker 02 No.
10:57 Conan O'Brien? Yes.
10:57 Speaker 02 You couldn't read.
10:59 Conan O'Brien? Good one.
11:01 Speaker 01 Here we go.
11:02 Speaker 02 Yeah.
11:02 Conan O'Brien? That improv class paid off big time. Welcome to my ice cream shop. No, you're the ice cream shop.
11:08 Speaker 01 Yeah, your face is the ice cream. I should do an improv class.
11:11 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
11:12 Speaker 02 Right?
11:12 Conan O'Brien? You know what would be funny? I would love to see you doing improv wasted.
11:16 Speaker 02 Yeah.
11:16 Conan O'Brien? Because I bet that would be, that would combine, I know that people have said that before, but you would be particularly entertaining.
11:23 Speaker 01 Yeah.
11:23 Speaker 02 I think so. I think that it enhances, I have a, I'm gonna 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.
11:38 Conan O'Brien? Do you call it, when your kid's walking, do you say it's mama's medicine?
11:40 Speaker 02 I actually, I do. I'm like, I gotta go take, I don't actually tell them. I call it, say it to Tac. I was like, I'm gonna go do, take my medicine. And then I go to, in front of a church that's a block away from me.
11:53 Conan O'Brien? What?
11:53 Speaker 02 Because I know no one's in there. I, well, I live in like a-
11:56 Conan O'Brien? A church that no one goes to. That's a sad, that was the saddest sentence. You smoking pot in front of a church nobody goes to.
12:03 Speaker 01 So there's a church nobody goes to.
12:04 Conan O'Brien? To hide from your children.
12:06 Speaker 01 And presumably someone comes in for like, help from their clergyman, and there's just a woman in there smoking a joint.
12:11 Speaker 02 Well, no, here's what happens, because it happens at night, and they'll go to, they'll go to sleep, the boys go to sleep, Tac is home, and I'll be like, I gotta go take my medicine, and I walk a block over to a church, and I sit in front of it, and I, uh-
12:27 Conan O'Brien? You don't go inside, that's what I-
12:28 Speaker 02 No, I don't go inside, and I take my medicine.
12:31 Conan O'Brien? The devil can't go into a church.
12:33 Speaker 01 This is where we should have been in the first episode.
12:35 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
12:36 Speaker 01 Right, leading with this.
12:37 Speaker 02 This is why you guys shouldn't hold the alcohol from...
12:39 Conan O'Brien? I, you know, I say, "Go for it."
12:42 Speaker 02 I...
12:42 Conan O'Brien? So, uh, 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?"
12:54 Speaker 02 Yeah, and then I'll watch, uh, no, the boys are sleeping. They're sleeping.
12:57 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, yeah.
12:58 Speaker 02 Um, they've never seen me...
12:59 Conan O'Brien? You duct taped them to the bed.
13:00 Speaker 02 I was gonna say, "They've never seen me high."
13:02 Conan O'Brien? Right.
13:03 Speaker 02 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 boop. But that was just chill.
13:10 Speaker 01 You called someone on a 1980's telephone?
13:12 Conan O'Brien? Right.
13:12 Speaker 02 Why am I talking? So, whatever.
13:14 Conan O'Brien? It's good stuff, this is good stuff.
13:16 Speaker 02 Tell me more about, um, the eating the egg whites off the 405 freeway.
13:19 Conan O'Brien? 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 'em. 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. And, um, and then I just ate as much of those hot egg whites as I could.
13:44 Speaker 02 Sounds good.
13:45 Conan O'Brien? I think they're a couple of years old, I think from, uh, the Obama administration. And then I just ran down the street, my pants fell down. That's the kind of story that people like.
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15:19 Conan O'Brien? Well, Hershey's finally decided to sponsor summer smores. You know, this has been the long con. We invented summer smores to lure Hershey's.
15:27 Speaker 02 This is all I've ever wanted.
15:29 Conan O'Brien? 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 smores. 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 summer smores, but they left me out. Matt and Sona got all this amazing merch and swag. I got nothing because I'm anti-smore. Well, now I understand why. My past comments on smores 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 smore could be just chocolate and graham cracker, no marshmallow needed. I had the new Hershey's caramel. It was great. It was terrific.
16:14 Conan O'Brien? Sona, what do you think? How is the smore with caramel? Tell me what you think.
16:17 Speaker 02 It's so good. I mean, honestly, if anybody tries to give me a smore without Hershey chocolate, I just smack it out of their hand.
16:23 Conan O'Brien? Yes.
16:23 Speaker 02 And the caramel just upped the game big time.
16:26 Conan O'Brien? I saw your face light up.
16:27 Speaker 02 That was my, I feel like tasting that was my purpose in life.
16:30 Conan O'Brien? Try Hershey's Milk Chocolate with Caramel today. S'mores more.
16:41 Speaker 01 Remember last year, we played that game, Chubby Bunny? Where we stuffed marshmallows in our face?
16:45 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
16:46 Speaker 01 So it was suggested again that we play another game. And we wait for the alcohol usually to do this.
16:52 Conan O'Brien? Yep.
16:52 Speaker 01 And we're, you guys wanna try a game?
16:54 Speaker 02 I'm lubed up!
16:55 Speaker 01 Okay, you have to put your cocktails down, though.
16:58 Speaker 02 Okay.
16:58 Speaker 01 Okay, this is a game. Yeah. It's called Mind Meld. And the way it works is Sona and I will start on a count of three. We'll both clap our hands and say any word that comes to our mind.
17:10 Speaker 02 Okay.
17:11 Speaker 01 And then you gotta 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. And then you won't get it right away. And then you turn to me. What are you already looking off into the distance for?
17:25 Conan O'Brien? I'm not sure I understand, but I will try to understand.
17:28 Speaker 02 Okay.
17:29 Speaker 01 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 wanna find.
17:38 Conan O'Brien? Okay.
17:39 Speaker 01 And then you will turn to me. We'll count to three and try to do it. And we'll keep going in a circle until we, two people say the same word.
17:45 Speaker 02 Oh, that's fun.
17:46 Conan O'Brien? Okay, fascinated, but oh.
17:48 Speaker 02 Who do you think is gonna say the same word? I think me and Conan.
17:51 Speaker 01 You think?
17:51 Speaker 02 Yeah.
17:52 Speaker 01 Thanks, thanks.
17:52 Speaker 02 No, it's because we've worked together for so long that sometimes.
17:56 Speaker 01 Yeah, but he's gonna destroy this thing.
17:57 Speaker 02 I know, okay.
17:58 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, I don't, I honestly, we don't talk about these things beforehand because no effort goes into these shows. Uh, no, there's really no professionalism.
18:07 Speaker 01 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.
18:14 Conan O'Brien? Okay.
18:15 Speaker 01 Or try to predict where someone is heading.
18:17 Conan O'Brien? I'll do what I can.
18:18 Speaker 01 Okay, you ready?
18:18 Speaker 02 I'm ready, I'm so ready.
18:19 Speaker 01 One, two, three, truck.
18:21 Speaker 02 Chicken.
18:22 Speaker 01 Okay, now, go. Chicken and truck. And you guys just don't think. The whole thing is not to think.
18:27 Speaker 02 Oh, so we say it on the clap?
18:29 Speaker 01 Yeah, one, two, three, cutlet! What did you say?
18:33 Speaker 02 I said taco.
18:34 Speaker 01 Cutlet and taco. One, two, three, burrito! No, you wait.
18:40 Conan O'Brien? I just wanted it to stop. I just wanted it to stop. No, I didn't, I didn't remember that I had to go so quickly.
18:48 Speaker 01 Okay, let's start again. We'll start again.
18:50 Conan O'Brien? Okay.
18:50 Speaker 01 Okay.
18:51 Conan O'Brien? But I said cutlet because I thought of a chicken being crushed under a truck wheel and becoming a cutlet.
18:54 Speaker 01 That's fine, that's fine.
18:56 Speaker 02 I didn't, I didn't, I thought about getting a taco from a truck that would chicken.
19:01 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, but I think whatever game we play, you're gonna yell taco.
19:03 Speaker 02 Yeah, I am. I love tacos.
19:06 Conan O'Brien? Eisenhower taco.
19:07 Speaker 02 You said burrito.
19:08 Conan O'Brien? Quiet.
19:08 Speaker 01 One, two, three.
19:10 Speaker 02 Chocotia. Okay.
19:12 Speaker 01 One, two, three.
19:14 Conan O'Brien? Rookie.
19:16 Conan O'Brien? What did you do? What did you do? What did you do? You went, "Uh-uh."
19:24 Speaker 02 I couldn't think of a word.
19:28 Speaker 01 Okay, so start with me again.
19:30 Conan O'Brien? Let's try it again.
19:31 Speaker 01 You can't think. One, two, three.
19:33 Speaker 02 Beach.
19:34 Conan O'Brien? I didn't hear what you said.
19:35 Speaker 01 Beach and tree. One, two, three.
19:37 Speaker 02 Waves.
19:39 Speaker 01 What did you say?
19:39 Speaker 02 Waves.
19:40 Speaker 01 One, two, three.
19:42 Conan O'Brien? Sand.
19:42 Speaker 01 What'd you say?
19:43 Conan O'Brien? Sing.
19:44 Speaker 01 Sing and sand. You and me. One, two, three.
19:47 Speaker 02 Castle. What the?
19:48 Conan O'Brien? What the hell?
19:50 Speaker 01 It's a musical that takes place on the beach.
19:52 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, in 1951.
19:54 Speaker 02 Oh my god.
19:54 Speaker 01 South Pacific and castle. Ready? One, two, three.
19:57 Speaker 02 Moot.
19:58 Conan O'Brien? Yes!
20:00 Speaker 02 Yes, I knew it, I knew it.
20:03 Conan O'Brien? Sona and I are twins.
20:05 Speaker 01 Yeah.
20:05 Conan O'Brien? Not separated at birth, separated maybe before birth. Some kind of crazy operation.
20:11 Speaker 01 That was impressive, that was really.
20:12 Conan O'Brien? That was, I mean, we are mind melded. You know that, Sona.
20:15 Speaker 02 That was really cool. I knew it, I said it, I said it.
20:18 Conan O'Brien? I know, I'm agreeing with you.
20:20 Speaker 02 Yes.
20:21 Conan O'Brien? Why do you act like this is a communist show trial and your life is in danger?
20:27 Speaker 02 You make so much fun of me, but you think like me.
20:31 Conan O'Brien? Yes.
20:31 Speaker 02 So what does that say about you?
20:33 Conan O'Brien? I hate myself, you are like me, I hate you.
20:38 Speaker 01 That's good.
20:39 Conan O'Brien? That's the simple formula.
20:43 Speaker 02 Oh, that was cool. That was cool.
20:45 Conan O'Brien? That was great.
20:46 Speaker 02 That's a fun game.
20:47 Speaker 01 Yeah, play it with your friends.
20:48 Conan O'Brien? 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.
20:57 Speaker 02 They were very easy.
20:58 Conan O'Brien? And I mean like insanely easy.
21:01 Speaker 02 They were, uh, oh, there they are. So I was going through all the stuff that I had been, that people had donated to me after my house burned down in January.
21:12 Conan O'Brien? Right.
21:12 Speaker 02 And it was a lot of like clothes and stuff and you know, really, really sweet stuff.
21:17 Conan O'Brien? That's really nice that people did that.
21:18 Speaker 02 And then somebody, I don't know who it was, gave me 70s trivia game. And it's all about like pop culture in the 70s.
21:26 Conan O'Brien? Yep.
21:27 Speaker 02 And I'm like, if I know two guys who would like this game, it's cones and girls. But they're easy.
21:34 Conan O'Brien? Well, fine, I'm sure there are some that aren't.
21:36 Speaker 02 You know what? I'm gonna do television. Cause I think we did most of the movies and, um, and girls got like all of them. Which British punk band in 1976 generated huge controversy after swearing repeatedly on the air?
21:49 Conan O'Brien? Sex Pistols, yeah. That's, 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 ball.
21:58 Speaker 02 I didn't want to play with you. On the Sunny and Cher Show, what was the title of the song released in 1965?
22:03 Conan O'Brien? It's the only song I have is "I Got You Babe."
22:05 Speaker 02 Which 1970s musical?
22:06 Conan O'Brien? I didn't realize we were in a race to do this. Is this a race?
22:09 Speaker 01 I don't know. You just seem to want to explain every question.
22:11 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, I wanna ruin, you know the way when a bicycle's going along and the little girl riding it's having a lot of fun? If you ride alongside them and put a stick in the spokes?
22:20 Speaker 01 Yeah.
22:20 Conan O'Brien? Little girl's, goes flying.
22:23 Speaker 02 Which 1970s musical sitcom has a theme tune called "Come On Get Happy" used from its?
22:28 Conan O'Brien? Come on get happy.
22:30 Speaker 02 No.
22:31 Speaker 01 Oh, monkeys.
22:32 Speaker 02 No.
22:33 Conan O'Brien? Do you wanna stop for a second? Come on.
22:36 Speaker 01 Well, you have an answer.
22:39 Speaker 02 You're stalling.
22:39 Conan O'Brien? Come on, get happy.
22:41 Speaker 02 Ah.
22:41 Conan O'Brien? I'm not trying to race you, I'm trying to get you to know it, but I know that.
22:45 Speaker 01 That's a lie.
22:46 Conan O'Brien? That is true.
22:47 Speaker 02 On which ship featured in the title of a 1970's TV show would you find Lieutenant Starbuck?
22:53 Conan O'Brien? Oh, uh.
22:53 Speaker 01 Battlestar Galactica.
22:55 Speaker 02 Did you know that one?
22:56 Conan O'Brien? I did, but I know who played Starbuck.
22:59 Speaker 01 Who?
23:00 Conan O'Brien? The guy who later was on the A-Team.
23:02 Speaker 01 That's right.
23:02 Speaker 02 Okay.
23:03 Speaker 01 Dirk Benedict.
23:03 Speaker 02 So I guess he had no name? Oh, there we go.
23:05 Conan O'Brien? Benedict Dirk, if you're looking up in the phone book.
23:07 Speaker 02 We're back to the game, who's a bigger dork?
23:13 Conan O'Brien? Welcome to dorkdom.
23:15 Speaker 02 In what, in the 1978 animated series, The New Fantastic Four, what is the character of Ben Grimm better known as?
23:22 Speaker 01 The Thing.
23:23 Conan O'Brien? Why, that doesn't even relate to a TV show.
23:25 Speaker 01 It's a television show.
23:26 Conan O'Brien? The Fantastic Four was a television show?
23:28 Speaker 01 A cartoon, yeah.
23:28 Conan O'Brien? I was just thinking of the comic book. When did it become a TV show?
23:31 Speaker 01 In the 70's.
23:34 Conan O'Brien? I'm sober. Tragically sober.
23:37 Speaker 01 So you guys won't know that one.
23:39 Conan O'Brien? I know, I didn't realize we were racing. I don't like these racing games.
23:42 Speaker 02 Which crime fighting show is home to the characters of Huggy Bear and Captain Harold Dobbs?
23:47 Speaker 01 Starsky and Hutch.
23:48 Speaker 02 Okay.
23:50 Conan O'Brien? And who played Huggy Bear?
23:51 Speaker 02 Snoop Dogg.
23:51 Conan O'Brien? Antonio Fargas.
23:52 Speaker 01 I don't know that.
23:54 Speaker 02 He did, in the movie.
23:55 Conan O'Brien? In the movie, but in a TV show played by Antonio Fargas.
23:58 Speaker 02 Yeah.
23:59 Speaker 01 I didn't realize this was a race.
24:01 Speaker 02 Oh, played by John Forsythe, what was the name of the disembodied? Okay.
24:08 Speaker 02 Peter Falk provided his own wardrobe for Columbo's iconic outfit in the show of the same name. What shabby item was he famous for wearing?
24:14 Speaker 01 His trench coat. And the sound, people used to get mad at him because it wasn't a soft jacket.
24:18 Speaker 02 Okay, yeah, great. Let's get some extra details from both of you for literally each answer.
24:24 Speaker 01 Why are we arguing? We're so much alike in this aspect, that.
24:27 Speaker 02 We mind meld and you two?
24:29 Speaker 01 Dork meld.
24:30 Speaker 02 Dork meld?
24:31 Conan O'Brien? Welcome. The Vulcan dork meld is not often talked about in Star Trek lore.
24:36 Speaker 02 Do you guys want to keep going?
24:37 Conan O'Brien? Two nerds go up and touch their glasses. When the tape holding the glasses together touches, they dork meld. I am your nerd, and I always will be your nerd.
24:46 Speaker 02 This one's a British show. In Fawlty Towers, what kind of salad is an American guest famously unable to get the hotel kitchen to make?
24:53 Conan O'Brien? Wait, what are you talking, I didn't even hear the question because Hugh and I were still doing the last bit.
24:56 Speaker 02 In Fawlty Towers, what kind of salad is an American guest famously unable to get the hotel kitchen to make? That's wrong.
25:03 Conan O'Brien? I just said it. I don't know what they're talking about. I don't know that one.
25:06 Speaker 02 Waldorf salad.
25:09 Conan O'Brien? Welcome to the dork mouth. You said that. You can't say Waldorf salad in the same tone as in your face. Waldorf salad, mic drop. Suck it! Insalada mista, bitch.
25:28 Conan O'Brien? Caprese. Caprese motherfucker!
25:32 Speaker 02 Oh, caprese motherfucker! With a little balsamic! Ha ha ha!
25:37 Conan O'Brien? Peels out in a car, laughing.
25:41 Conan O'Brien? The balsamic brothers just got me again. Go ahead.
25:43 Speaker 02 Of which TV show features the lyrics, "Make a hawk a dove, stop a war with love." You guys won't know this.
25:50 Conan O'Brien? Ah, I'm gonna just say mash.
25:53 Speaker 02 Making our dreams come true.
25:54 Conan O'Brien? Making our dreams come true.
25:56 Speaker 02 Okay, now you're up to sing it.
25:58 Conan O'Brien? And we'll do it our way, yes, our way. Sometimes I'm sad inside and I do it our way. That's just me thinking. Sorry. What is that? That's uh, Laverne and Shirley. Oh, yeah.
26:11 Speaker 02 I even knew that one.
26:12 Conan O'Brien? But Hawk-a-Dove is not that, right?
26:13 Speaker 02 No, but it says the show is making our dreams come true. I don't know what show that is.
26:18 Conan O'Brien? Oh, I don't know that show either. Oh, so we... man, we get sidetracked there. Yeah. You okay?
26:23 Speaker 02 You guys get sidetracked with every single one of these answers.
26:26 Conan O'Brien? All right, let's uh, let's do a couple more and then get out.
26:28 Speaker 02 In 1970's TV, who is the fictional character of Diana Prince better known as?
26:32 Conan O'Brien? Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman. Did I get it? You got it.
26:36 Speaker 02 Yeah, you did.
26:37 Conan O'Brien? Couple of months late, but...
26:38 Speaker 02 Which long-running show features characters that include Ruby Anderson, Joe Kelly, Leela Quartermaine, and Gail Baldwin?
26:45 Conan O'Brien? What the hell?
26:46 Speaker 02 Oh, you guys won't know this one. Unless your mom kept you home all day. General Hospital.
26:55 Conan O'Brien? Your bragging is so funny on this.
26:58 Speaker 01 That's your latchkey, dude.
26:59 Conan O'Brien? Unless your mother kept you home all day 'cause you couldn't focus on your reading. You weren't allowed at school. Some of us were kept home all day because the medications to get us to focus didn't exist yet. So take that.
27:14 Speaker 02 Oh my god.
27:16 Conan O'Brien? Alright, we're gonna, uh, I think we're gonna wrap this up. But Sonya, you're a terrific game show host. I think you're a very funny game show host. And I think that's what you should be doing with your life. Please have that be what you do with your life.
27:25 Speaker 02 Oh, okay.
27:25 Conan O'Brien? Um, but no, I think you'd be very funny.
27:27 Speaker 02 I think, um, I would, I actually think I would crush it as a game show host. But I just wanna read questions.
27:32 Conan O'Brien? And you know, the end of every game show would be, "I wanna thank the contestants, we'll see you next time." And you'd wander out of the studio, we'd follow you, you'd go to an empty church and smoke a doobie joe. Yo, doobie dude. You know, just alone as the camera panned up and it had the producers' names come by.
27:48 Speaker 02 Yeah, and I'd have this drink too.
27:50 Conan O'Brien? Laba dabba. Alright, uh, that's it for today. And this has been a really fun episode. And I think we learned what was missing in the other ones.
27:59 Speaker 01 Alcohol.
27:59 Conan O'Brien? Alcohol.
28:00 Speaker 01 Next week, we're gonna really, you two are really gonna go head to head on a game. And it's gonna be quite an event.
28:06 Conan O'Brien? And a real game, not some mind game. But a game that incorporates strategy, but also, um, coordination, musculature.
28:16 Speaker 01 You're right.
28:16 Conan O'Brien? I hope long legs and a short torso.
28:18 Speaker 01 You're right. I shouldn't have played that game 'cause what we're gonna do next week is so respectful, athletic, and you really, really have to be at the top of your game to play cornhole.
28:26 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
28:26 Speaker 02 Yeah.
28:27 Conan O'Brien? I didn't think you were gonna blow the surprise. I just, usually you say, "Stick around and find out what happens." And you just said, uh, "Hey, you should come see this movie, Orson Welles is in it." And by the way, Rosebud's the sled.
28:39 Speaker 01 You don't think they would've been a little disappointed if we built it up and it was cornhole?
28:43 Conan O'Brien? I love disappointing an audience. I've built a career on it.
28:45 Speaker 02 The same kind of spoiler.
28:46 Conan O'Brien? Thirty-two years, thirty-two years of disappointment. Uh, hey, I wanna thank everyone that tuned in and, well, just let you know that you listened to it, and I know you love it, but we love making it. So, love always wins. And I'm, again, sober. That was a non-alcoholic cocktail.
29:03 Speaker 01 I think we better bring Dr. Arroyo.
29:05 Conan O'Brien? Dr. Arroyo, you gotta help me get out of here, 'cause I can't do it. So, ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Arroyo, that's right there.
29:14 Speaker 01 You said this tastes like monkey piss, but it doesn't.
29:20 Conan O'Brien? Amazing. The only one of us here to sample it.
29:24 Conan O'Brien? All right, we'll see you next time.
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