The House Dick

Conan talks to Trisha from the Philippines about running a small hotel and what value he might provide as a house detective. Wanna get a chance to talk to Conan? Submit here: teamcoco.com/apply

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:02Conan O'Brien?

  Now Sona, clearly I'm a very important person to you.

• 0:05Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 0:05Conan O'Brien?

  Just accept the premise and we'll move ahead.

• 0:07Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 0:08Conan O'Brien?

  I'm a very important person to you. What would you get me from Macy's for the holidays?

• 0:13Speaker 01

  A vase.

• 0:15Conan O'Brien?

  No, I don't want a vase. I want something better.

• 0:17Speaker 01

  A jacket.

• 0:19Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, nice jacket. I love a nice jacket.

• 0:20Speaker 01

  Oh yeah, that jacket. Nice jacket.

• 0:21Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, so now you have to do it, because you said you would.

• 0:23Speaker 01

  Aw man, I didn't know you were doing that.

• 0:25Conan O'Brien?

  Well, I know the holidays are months away, but it's never too early, Sona, to find gifts that I will love, gifts I will wear, and surprises that make the season unforgettable for me.

• 0:37Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 0:37Conan O'Brien?

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• 1:42Speaker 01

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• 1:55Speaker 02

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• 2:05Conan O'Brien?

  Hi, Tricia. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan.

• 2:07Speaker 03

  Hi.

• 2:08Conan O'Brien?

  Hi, Tricia. How are you?

• 2:09Speaker 03

  Oh, my God. I am so happy to be here right now. You have no idea. Like, I'm screaming internally. I'm such a big fan, Conan.

• 2:16Conan O'Brien?

  Well, why are you screaming internally? You know, I mean, I like my fans to scream externally.

• 2:22Speaker 03

  No, I gotta be cool, you know? Like, I'm meeting one of my idols.

• 2:26Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, you really don't.

• 2:27Speaker 03

  You guys.

• 2:27Conan O'Brien?

  You don't have to be cool around us. Well, it's very nice to meet you, Tricia. And you are in the Philippines, is that right?

• 2:34Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 2:35Conan O'Brien?

  Whereabouts?

• 2:35Speaker 03

  Yes, that's right. Um, and right now, I'm in Santo Tomas, Batangas.

• 2:40Conan O'Brien?

  Where is that?

• 2:40Speaker 03

  It's like an hour away.

• 2:42Conan O'Brien?

  In relation to from Manila?

• 2:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's an hour away from Manila, which is the capital of the Philippines.

• 2:46Conan O'Brien?

  Yes, that's the one thing I did know.

• 2:48Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 2:50Conan O'Brien?

  And so you are about an hour away, north, south, east, west? Are you on the coast? Are you inland? I'd just like to know these things. I'm building, I'm making a map for my, uh, for my phone.

• 3:00Speaker 03

  We're south from Manila.

• 3:03Conan O'Brien?

  Okay.

• 3:03Speaker 03

  So it's an, it's an hour drive from Makati via car.

• 3:08Conan O'Brien?

  Are you in a mountainous region? Or is it more of a floodplain? And I'll be done with these questions soon. Mountainous, okay, okay.

• 3:16Speaker 03

  We're not near the beach at all.

• 3:17Conan O'Brien?

  Is the air humid? Or is it a dry heat? Are you planning an invasion? What are you doing? I'm not saying whether or not I'm...

• 3:25Speaker 03

  It's hot.

• 3:26Conan O'Brien?

  I'm not admitting that I'm planning an invasion, but sleep well and ignore any noises.

• 3:31Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 3:32Conan O'Brien?

  So, Tricia, tell me a little bit about yourself, your life. What's going on?

• 3:37Speaker 03

  Right now, it's, it's funny because I wanted to sleep early, right? For this podcast. But I woke up an hour and 30 minutes later because my daughter kicked me in the face because she was asleep next to me. So I haven't slept since then because I don't want to miss this call at all.

• 3:53Conan O'Brien?

  It's funny you say that because about two hours ago, my daughter kicked me in the face and she's 21.

• 3:59Speaker 03

  Oh, my God.

• 4:00Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, and she was wearing steel-toed boots and screaming, "I hate you, I hate you, father, I hate you." So in a way, we both had the same experience. So you have one daughter?

• 4:12Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 4:13Conan O'Brien?

  Okay.

• 4:13Speaker 03

  She's thirty-three next month, yeah.

• 4:15Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, that's really cute. That's great. And what about, uh, do you, are you married, uh, are you in a partnership?

• 4:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm married. Yeah, I'm married right now.

• 4:26Conan O'Brien?

  Right now?

• 4:27Speaker 03

  My husband's here. Right now.

• 4:29Conan O'Brien?

  Is that what you say? And who are you married to? What is the name of this?

• 4:33Speaker 04

  Every time she checks her watch.

• 4:34Conan O'Brien?

  What is the name? What is the name of your significant other?

• 4:38Speaker 03

  His name's Patrick.

• 4:40Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, so you're married to Patrick? And do every day you say the marriage is still going as of right now?

• 4:45Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yes, as we speak.

• 4:47Conan O'Brien?

  As we speak, there is still a marriage.

• 4:49Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 4:50Conan O'Brien?

  Continue.

• 4:50Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 4:51Conan O'Brien?

  Um, stand by for other alerts. And tell us about your, your life. You have, uh, it's you, Tricia, it's Patrick, you have a, a daughter.

• 5:00Speaker 03

  Um, yeah.

• 5:01Conan O'Brien?

  What do you do? What do you guys do?

• 5:03Speaker 03

  Uh, we both, um, run and manage the small hotel in, in Tenawan. It's, it's a, it's the town next to Santo Tomas.

• 5:12Conan O'Brien?

  Yes.

• 5:13Speaker 03

  Right now, there are twenty-two rooms. It's, it's, it's a simple, small hotel.

• 5:17Conan O'Brien?

  Well, twenty-two rooms is a, that's a, that's a good size. That's a lot of work, I would think. You run a hotel and it's twenty-two rooms?

• 5:24Speaker 03

  Yeah, it is. And yeah, we've been encountering problems, actually. And we would like, and we also run a restaurant, which we would like to market more. Cause right now, the hotel is doing better than the restaurant.

• 5:39Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, so let me paint the picture here. Hotel thriving.

• 5:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 5:43Conan O'Brien?

  You've got a twenty-two room hotel, but there is a restaurant that's part of the hotel, and it's not getting enough business.

• 5:51Speaker 03

  Yes. Um, we would prefer to have more foot traffic, but right now, it's not, um, at its peak. So, we would like to capture more of the market. Yeah.

• 6:04Conan O'Brien?

  Okay.

• 6:05Speaker 03

  And it's been running for five years now.

• 6:07Conan O'Brien?

  Five years.

• 6:08Speaker 03

  It's a, yeah, we would like to have more people come in the restaurant.

• 6:12Conan O'Brien?

  Now, be, be honest with me. Oh, you think I could help?

• 6:16Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 6:16Conan O'Brien?

  Use it, how could I help?

• 6:19Speaker 03

  You can help by like serving the people. You can be a waiter, yeah.

• 6:24Conan O'Brien?

  Wait a minute, Tricia. Looking for a server. Tricia, I thought you were gonna say, oh, come meet Conan O'Brien at the restaurant. Use my celebrity, but no, you want me waiting tables. Or a dishwasher. Or a dishwasher. Okay, well, I could maybe do that. My wife would say I'm not very good at washing dishes, but I'd give it a go, which is more than I do at home. Well, okay, I'm curious about something. You have guests in the hotel. You say the hotel is doing well. Do the guests eat in the restaurant?

• 6:58Speaker 03

  Yes, they do eat in the restaurant.

• 7:00Conan O'Brien?

  Do they like the restaurant? Is it a good restaurant? Or do you think the restaurant could be better?

• 7:05Speaker 03

  It's definitely a good restaurant. And I think we just want more people to know more about the restaurant. Because right now, I don't think they're aware that there is a restaurant there. So we want, aside from the hotel guests, we would like people from the town.

• 7:24Conan O'Brien?

  There's a lack of awareness. Can I ask you what the name is of the restaurant?

• 7:28Speaker 03

  It's called Victorina's Modern Restaurant and Bar. It's actually named after my husband's grandma.

• 7:34Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, that's beautiful.

• 7:36Speaker 03

  She was from the town, yeah.

• 7:37Conan O'Brien?

  Well, Tricia, we're gonna change that name. Wait a minute, wait a minute. What? Yeah, we're gonna change that name. Hey, you want my help or not? And we're gonna call it... I love that it's named after Patrick's grandmother. That's gotta go. And we're gonna change it to the International House of Pancakes.

• 7:54Speaker 03

  Oh, my god.

• 7:55Conan O'Brien?

  Or IHOP for short, okay?

• 7:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, okay.

• 7:59Conan O'Brien?

  Okay.

• 8:00Speaker 03

  Maybe make it like a Filipino version.

• 8:02Conan O'Brien?

  No, we just say IHOP. And we say we have 23 kinds of syrup for the pancakes. And when they come in, they get, you know, authentic food from the Philippines. You know? And I just say, oh, yeah, that was a misunderstanding. Eat your food and fucking shut up.

• 8:18Speaker 03

  And you'll be there to serve the food, right?

• 8:21Conan O'Brien?

  Yes, I'll be there to serve the food.

• 8:24Speaker 01

  She really wants to serve her.

• 8:25Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's it.

• 8:26Conan O'Brien?

  Do you need any help also? Would I just work in the restaurant? Or would I also maybe work around the hotel?

• 8:32Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, you can definitely man the front desk. I think, I think people would like that.

• 8:38Conan O'Brien?

  What do you have to do? What do you have to do?

• 8:41Speaker 04

  You want Conan to be the first thing they experience when they come to the front.

• 8:45Conan O'Brien?

  You think I'd be good at the front desk because I'm a white man?

• 8:47Speaker 04

  Oh, really?

• 8:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 8:49Conan O'Brien?

  He's a, he's a very white man. Yeah. I mean, there's white men and then there's me. I'm a very, very white man. Um, well, what do I do at the front desk? Do I get to wear a little cap? Or is that just the bellman who wears that?

• 9:03Speaker 03

  No, the, the girls have like this little scarf around their neck. Maybe you can, you can wear that.

• 9:08Conan O'Brien?

  The girls?

• 9:09Speaker 03

  It's part of their uniform.

• 9:11Conan O'Brien?

  Wait a minute, who are the girls?

• 9:13Speaker 03

  No, the front desk attendants.

• 9:15Conan O'Brien?

  There are front desk attendants and they wear little scarves?

• 9:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's their part of their uniform. So maybe you can wear that too. No, no, it's not what you think.

• 9:26Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, well, how do you know what I think? It better not be what I think.

• 9:29Speaker 04

  I think she knows what you think.

• 9:30Conan O'Brien?

  Because I have a mind.

• 9:31Speaker 04

  You went, mm, mm.

• 9:33Speaker 03

  No, it's a corporate hotel.

• 9:35Conan O'Brien?

  Yes, of course, of course. No hanky panky ever at a corporate hotel.

• 9:38Speaker 03

  Yes, no.

• 9:39Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, above board. You know how businessmen are always so above board.

• 9:44Speaker 03

  Oh, my God.

• 9:45Conan O'Brien?

  Hey, is it my, is it my job as the person at the front desk to make sure that couples that say they're married really are married and sort of be the house detective? Do I get to pry into their personal lives at all?

• 9:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, sure, go ahead.

• 9:58Conan O'Brien?

  What if a lady of the night tries to check in? Is it my job to investigate those things?

• 10:03Speaker 01

  You let them. You have to let them.

• 10:05Speaker 04

  I'm thinking, you know, but this is a reputable joint. He's the house dick.

• 10:09Speaker 01

  But they're business people.

• 10:10Conan O'Brien?

  You know what? I'm with Matt here. I'm, I'm with, hold it. I'm with Matt here and we're both thinking of the same thing, which is it's the 1930s and I'm the house detective. Or house dick.

• 10:20Speaker 04

  Yeah, the hotel dick.

• 10:21Conan O'Brien?

  I'm the hotel dick. I'm a dick wherever I go.

• 10:23Speaker 04

  That's for sure.

• 10:23Conan O'Brien?

  I've also been a motel dick.

• 10:24Speaker 04

  We are thinking the same thing.

• 10:26Conan O'Brien?

  But, but my thing is that I would be asking a lot of questions like, hmm, Mr. And Mrs. Smith, eh? That's a pretty common name. What's your real name?

• 10:33Speaker 04

  We come in and you gotta, you gotta grill us. We're a couple, okay? What kind of couple?

• 10:37Conan O'Brien?

  What's the name of the hotel?

• 10:40Speaker 03

  It's called Bravo Tanawan Hotel.

• 10:42Conan O'Brien?

  Bravo Tanawan? Okay. Hey, welcome to the Bravo Tanawan. How can I help you? Uh, pretty good, thanks.

• 10:47Speaker 01

  Hi.

• 10:48Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah. Okay, yeah, well, again, how can I help you? Uh, we'd really like a room, and fast, man. Okay, man, alright. I'll pay anything.

• 10:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 10:57Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, you seem like all worked up and sweating, huh? Well, it's just, yeah, it's finally gonna happen. Okay, you're gonna, alright.

• 11:03Speaker 01

  And a room just for 15 minutes.

• 11:05Conan O'Brien?

  You want a room for 15 minutes? Okay, well, you two seem all... Wait, you got lipstick all over your face there, buddy? I know, I got in a lipstick fight. Yeah. Wow, okay, and, uh, alright, I'll just need to know your names. What are your names? My name is Actually John Smith. Actually John Smith, and you are?

• 11:22Speaker 01

  Slurk.

• 11:24Conan O'Brien?

  Wait, you're not married?

• 11:26Speaker 01

  Slurk Smith.

• 11:27Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah.

• 11:27Speaker 01

  So, we are married.

• 11:29Conan O'Brien?

  I'm very suspicious.

• 11:30Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 11:30Conan O'Brien?

  I'm gonna need some identification. Oh, God, I just, um, I got off a, I got mugged. Okay, alright, well, listen, I'll give you a room for 15 minutes, but I'm gonna have to be in the room with you to make sure there's no hanky panky. Cool, man, I'm into that. No, uh, we're all gonna stand, no one gets to lie on the bed.

• 11:47Speaker 01

  That costs extra, sir.

• 11:49Conan O'Brien?

  Hmm, I'll pay it. Let me see some ID. Here, here it is, sir. Can I come upstairs with you guys? Yeah. Hey, your name is Slurk, too? Yeah. I'm from a long line of Slurks. The Connecticut Slurks? Yeah, I just heard a Slurk. Was that you, sir? You seem pretty worked up. Oh. Alright, let's get out of here.

• 12:14Conan O'Brien?

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• 12:17Speaker 01

  Yeah, I love awards.

• 12:17Conan O'Brien?

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• 12:31Speaker 01

  Nice.

• 12:32Conan O'Brien?

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• 12:40Speaker 01

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• 12:45Conan O'Brien?

  I've been tooling around in an Ioniq 5 N, which I love.

• 12:49Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 12:49Conan O'Brien?

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• 13:04Speaker 01

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• 13:05Conan O'Brien?

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• 13:50Conan O'Brien?

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• 14:34Conan O'Brien?

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• 15:10Conan O'Brien?

  So, you have to admit, the holidays, it's really about hanging with the people you love.

• 15:15Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 15:16Conan O'Brien?

  And getting to be yourself, not going to some stuffy holiday party where you need to conform to what the man wants you to think about the holidays.

• 15:24Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 15:25Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, it's about being yourself. Turn your holiday time into Miller time by enjoying a Miller Lite in a place where you're free to enjoy yourself on a walk with a cousin. With a cousin, why are they getting all specific about it?

• 15:36Speaker 03

  Because it's family.

• 15:37Conan O'Brien?

  But what about a niece or a nephew?

• 15:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 15:41Conan O'Brien?

  Like a walk with an ex-wife.

• 15:44Conan O'Brien?

  I don't know, I mean, they're just throwing, that's a weird, they just made a very specific choice.

• 15:47Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 15:48Conan O'Brien?

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• 16:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, you guys are just doing chest bumps and high-fiving.

• 16:18Conan O'Brien?

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• 16:40Conan O'Brien?

  That was the sketch. It was called...

• 16:42Speaker 03

  Oh my god.

• 16:42Conan O'Brien?

  Three's a Crowd. What do you think? Did you like it?

• 16:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 16:49Speaker 03

  I was thinking, I was thinking you can even like catch cheating husbands, you know?

• 16:54Conan O'Brien?

  Yes, that's what I'm gonna do.

• 16:55Speaker 03

  But that doesn't happen.

• 16:56Conan O'Brien?

  I'm gonna be a very nosey house detective. I would like to work, I mean, I'm kind of interested in working in the restaurant, but I'm really interested in working in the hotel. And do you have a little bell that dings when people check in?

• 17:10Speaker 03

  Uh, no.

• 17:11Conan O'Brien?

  Gotta have a bell. I'm gonna bring a bell. I'm bringing a bell.

• 17:13Speaker 03

  I can, I can put your name on it.

• 17:16Conan O'Brien?

  No, you don't have my name on the bell. It's just a bell and people know to ding it and then I cover it really quickly. It's a fun bit that's existed in many old movies. You do need to be in a little bell cap. I'm gonna have a bell cap. Pillbox hat or whatever. I want a little, uh, little pillbox cap with a strap around the chin. I want the little bell. Uh, I wanna have a big quill or a giant pen that signs in the registry. We need a big old fashion registry. I want all of the old tropes that would be in a sketch from the 1940s. A luggage cart you can ride in too. Yes, exactly. And, oh, does the elevator have an arrow that goes up, up, up, up, up? In a semicircle?

• 17:50Speaker 03

  No.

• 17:52Conan O'Brien?

  Oh my god, we gotta fix this hotel.

• 17:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, you gotta, yeah, you need to.

• 17:57Conan O'Brien?

  Um, now tell me, how did you get into the hotel business?

• 18:00Speaker 03

  Um, we, my husband's, um, grandparents, they had this plot of land.

• 18:05Conan O'Brien?

  Mm-hmm.

• 18:06Speaker 03

  That was, um, available to be developed. So my husband decided to make a hotel with it because he saw potential in the market. Cause nearby, there's an industrial park. So, um, they're big international companies as well. So that's why we also put this hotel up because there are people from abroad who bring their, um, employees to work here for a while, like engineers.

• 18:32Conan O'Brien?

  Got it, got it.

• 18:33Speaker 03

  Things like that, yeah.

• 18:34Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, so you, you built this hotel. Was this your dream as a child, one day I'll have a hotel?

• 18:40Speaker 03

  No, far from it actually. Um, I, I was more into the arts. I was more right-brained and, um, I actually belonged to a family of doctors. So I was so out of place, yeah. So I didn't wanna be a doctor. I knew I would regret it and I knew I would be unhappy. So I decided to, to go the safer route and take business. So at least with business, it's, I can evolve or it's more, I can do more things with it. You know what I mean?

• 19:11Conan O'Brien?

  Ah, I like it. What kinda art did you like to do?

• 19:13Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm. Um, when I was young, you know, I'd like, I'd paint and all that. But it was never really, it was never really, um... Prioritized, so it was kind of placed to the side, so the skill was never, um, yeah.

• 19:29Conan O'Brien?

  You weren't getting encouragement, you weren't getting encouragement.

• 19:33Speaker 03

  Um, yeah, or it wasn't like, it wasn't a priority.

• 19:39Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah.

• 19:39Speaker 03

  So it, yeah, it wasn't something they saw that could be like a career.

• 19:44Conan O'Brien?

  Sure.

• 19:45Speaker 03

  Yeah, mhm.

• 19:46Conan O'Brien?

  Well, my parents always thought this wasn't a career. And even after you're very successful. After thirty years in late night, they said, when's your career?

• 19:54Speaker 03

  But you're successful though, oh my god.

• 19:57Conan O'Brien?

  Well, Tricia, um.

• 19:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 19:59Conan O'Brien?

  I would very much like to help your hotel and restaurant. We gotta change the name to IHOP.

• 20:03Speaker 03

  That would be great. Okay, no worries.

• 20:06Conan O'Brien?

  And have a lot of syrups around, different flavored syrups. No hotel.

• 20:10Speaker 03

  Sure.

• 20:10Conan O'Brien?

  And then, um, I want to be the house detective that, and also the, I want to be dressed as a bellman but working the front desk. Um, and I think I'll mix well with the ladies who wear scarves around their necks. I will also wear a scarf if you wish, and I think I could be a big help to you. And my one question is, do you like, do you like balot?

• 20:34Speaker 03

  Oh, no, my dad does though, but I don't. You have to eat that though.

• 20:40Conan O'Brien?

  I don't know if I can, it's, you know what a balot is? Is it the little bird? It's the little embryo, baby chicken that's inside a pickled egg.

• 20:48Speaker 03

  That's my dad's favorite.

• 20:49Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, people swear by it and they say, once you have it, you go insane and you just have balot the rest of your life. Yeah.

• 20:56Speaker 03

  Yeah, and sometimes you can even feel like the tiny bones go down your throat. Stop it.

• 21:02Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah.

• 21:02Speaker 03

  No, they say it's good, yeah.

• 21:06Conan O'Brien?

  What's the problem with tiny bones going down your throat? It's just tiny bones going down your throat. I mean, when you think about it, it's no different than eating chicken. Yeah, or eating any fetus, uh, so. Um.

• 21:20Conan O'Brien?

  Well, Tricia, it's been very nice talking to you until this imagery late in the podcast.

• 21:27Conan O'Brien?

  I do wish you well, and I wish Patrick well and your daughter.

• 21:30Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 21:30Conan O'Brien?

  If I get a chance to come visit you, I'd like to try and help your business.

• 21:35Speaker 03

  Yes, of course. You're welcome anytime.

• 21:37Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah. Let me ask you quickly, am I known in the Philippines? Am I a known fellow in the Philippines? So if you say Conan O'Brien's here at the hotel, people would be happy to see me? Or would they be angry and want to come hit me?

• 21:49Speaker 03

  They'd definitely be happy to see you.

• 21:52Conan O'Brien?

  And then hit me?

• 21:52Speaker 03

  Yeah, six foot four man with red hair.

• 21:55Speaker 01

  You'd be like an attraction.

• 21:56Conan O'Brien?

  Yes, I am.

• 21:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, like, come see the tall white guy.

• 22:00Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 22:01Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 22:02Conan O'Brien?

  All right.

• 22:03Speaker 01

  Circus.

• 22:03Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, take it easy here, buddy. Sideshow.

• 22:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, like a side, almost sideshow.

• 22:08Conan O'Brien?

  Like the bearded lady.

• 22:09Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 22:10Conan O'Brien?

  Except weirder.

• 22:11Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:12Conan O'Brien?

  Take it easy. Sorry. Tricia. Oh, and what's the name of this stew that's made with blood and all kinds of stuff? What is that?

• 22:19Speaker 03

  Oh, um.

• 22:20Conan O'Brien?

  Gabagala?

• 22:21Speaker 03

  Dinuguan.

• 22:22Conan O'Brien?

  Duduguan. Duduguan.

• 22:24Speaker 03

  That's so good. Dinuguan.

• 22:26Conan O'Brien?

  Tell us what it's named of. Goat's blood?

• 22:30Speaker 03

  I'm not exactly, I think it's pig's blood, but it's really good with rice. I think you should try that.

• 22:35Conan O'Brien?

  Sure.

• 22:36Speaker 03

  It's really good. We even have this dish.

• 22:38Conan O'Brien?

  Fetal bird and then the pig's blood, yeah. Yeah, no, one of the restaurants in trouble. I'll have the fetal bird with some, and then bring me the pig's blood, and then we'll throw a little rice in it.

• 22:50Conan O'Brien?

  Can I have pancakes with raspberry syrup? You betcha!

• 22:55Conan O'Brien?

  All right, Tricia, it was very nice talking to you. Best of luck to you.

• 22:57Speaker 03

  It was so nice meeting you.

• 22:58Conan O'Brien?

  And maybe I'll see you in the near future. You never know.

• 23:01Speaker 03

  Yes, yes. You're welcome anytime, though.

• 23:04Conan O'Brien?

  Thank you so much. It was lovely talking to you.

• 23:06Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 23:07Conan O'Brien?

  Bye-bye.

• 23:07Speaker 03

  Nice meeting you guys.

• 23:08Conan O'Brien?

  Nice meeting you too.

• 23:09Speaker 03

  Thank you. Bye.

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