Pod Insights Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend Summer S’mores with Conan and the Chill Chums Season 5 Episode 1 About this episode Conan and the Chums announce their backyard locale for this year’s Summer S’mores. Also, Conan muses on a studio animal mascot.
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1:11 Speaker 02 Summer smores with Conan and the Chill Chums. A six-part series with Conan O'Brien, Sonam Mufssesian, and Matt Gourley. Let's get started.
1:21 Conan O'Brien? Why, hello and welcome to the 2025 installment of Summer Smores with Conan and his Chill Chums. This has become a rite of passage. It started, I think this is our fifth one. Did you say that, Gourley? It's our fifth, yeah. It's our fifth. We've gone to many exotic locations. We went to Altadena.
1:44 Speaker 01 Yeah, last year.
1:46 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, a little bittersweet now because you have lost that home.
1:50 Speaker 01 I did not lose the backyard.
1:52 Conan O'Brien? Backyard's still there.
1:53 Speaker 01 So that's still there.
1:54 Conan O'Brien? Can I ask you, um, we taped last year in your backyard
1:58 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:59 Conan O'Brien? of your lovely house. And, uh, what's the view like from your backyard now? Is it, are all the houses in your neighborhood gone?
2:07 Speaker 01 They're all, all the houses are gone, but now all the debris has been removed at pretty much every house. So it's like an alien came and just sucked up all the houses.
2:16 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
2:16 Speaker 01 But the yards are the same. So if we did it in my yard. We could, we could do it.
2:22 Conan O'Brien? Is a lot of the vegetation gone? Because I've noticed so many views are different.
2:26 Speaker 01 Yeah.
2:26 Conan O'Brien? If you drive through the Palisades, you see vistas you never saw before because a lot of the scrub and the trees and foliage is gone.
2:33 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, but then you see the green that's growing. So that's cool. I mean, there's like, you know, and suddenly there's sunflowers sprouting in my backyard. I don't know where they came from.
2:42 Conan O'Brien? Right.
2:42 Speaker 01 So there's, you know, and I do love that we have last year's Chill Chums.
2:48 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
2:48 Speaker 01 As kind of like a documentation of my house and my yard and stuff. So it's nice.
2:54 Conan O'Brien? That's nice.
2:55 Speaker 01 It's nice.
2:55 Conan O'Brien? What are the other locations we've done? We've done.
2:57 Speaker 03 Well, first we did in studio.
2:59 Conan O'Brien? Right.
2:59 Speaker 03 Then we did my backyard.
3:00 Speaker 01 Mmm.
3:01 Speaker 03 Then we did this place on the balcony here at the studio.
3:05 Conan O'Brien? That's right, we were outside on the balcony.
3:07 Speaker 03 Then we did Sonas and then this year.
3:09 Conan O'Brien? This year, okay, here's the plan.
3:10 Speaker 01 All right.
3:11 Conan O'Brien? Gather round. I've been thinking about this. I wanted to go someplace.
3:14 Speaker 03 Get closer.
3:14 Conan O'Brien? I thought about, we should really go someplace foreign exotic. And I looked around, I was thinking about St. Bart's. Have you guys been to St. Bart's before?
3:22 Speaker 01 No.
3:22 Conan O'Brien? It's very exotic.
3:23 Speaker 01 Love to go to St. Bart's.
3:24 Conan O'Brien? And I was thinking about it and I was looking into various hotels there and, or maybe just doing what I think a lot of rappers and pop stars do and just get yachts.
3:36 Speaker 01 Oh, hell yeah.
3:37 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, so I was doing all that and getting into the paperwork of it all, but then it turned out, and I was fine with the price. It was fine, I was happy to do that. I'll just pay for that myself.
3:44 Speaker 01 Okay.
3:45 Conan O'Brien? Um, but, um, yeah, the weather right now isn't quite ideal.
3:52 Speaker 03 In St. Bart's?
3:53 Speaker 01 It's perfect.
3:54 Conan O'Brien? What's that, in St. Bart's? It's like 71.
3:57 Speaker 01 Oh.
3:58 Conan O'Brien? And I prefer 72.
3:59 Speaker 01 Ah.
4:00 Conan O'Brien? So I decided that maybe it makes more sense, um, to just use the backyard.
4:08 Speaker 01 Oh, come on.
4:09 Speaker 03 I'm looking at the forecast, it's gonna be in the 90s there.
4:14 Conan O'Brien? No, not, I'm gonna have various humidifiers. The thing that they use in grocery stores to keep the lettuce moist. I'm having those brought in, cuz I have to keep myself moist at all times.
4:24 Speaker 04 Why can't you bring those to St. Bart's?
4:27 Conan O'Brien? Look, you know what? I really was so close to pointing the trigger on St. Bart's.
4:30 Speaker 01 Yeah.
4:31 Conan O'Brien? And I looked at a lot of places. I looked at Anguilla. I looked at, you know, just so many very wealthy enclaves and islands. And I decided the best thing to do is just go to our backyard here. Because it's gonna put us, first of all, there's a bathroom right here.
4:51 Speaker 01 You don't think there's bathrooms in St. Bart's?
4:53 Speaker 04 There's actually isn't.
4:54 Conan O'Brien? My travel agent said, yeah.
4:56 Speaker 01 Okay.
4:56 Conan O'Brien? That's why, they say, they tell all the, all the pop stars and rappers to bring a bucket.
5:02 Speaker 04 It's called a pickle bucket.
5:03 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
5:03 Speaker 04 Yeah.
5:04 Conan O'Brien? So I... Whatever he was, yeah, that little "uh" afterwards gave it a real validity. He said, "What?"
5:17 Conan O'Brien? Reminder, you're under oath, sir.
5:20 Conan O'Brien? So, I like our backyard because I haven't been there. There's a backyard here at Larchmont that I'm told is really nice. And also, I'm a king with his castle and I, I wanna walk my domain. I want to walk my lands, my estates. And I'm told that, stretching, how, how big is it back there? I haven't been there yet, but I'm told it just goes in...
5:42 Speaker 01 Like square footage-wise?
5:43 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, it doesn't, it just, it's, it's...
5:44 Speaker 01 No, it's actually kinda small. It's a small yard. Was I supposed to say it was big?
5:50 Speaker 04 Well, you know what's back there? Fruit trees.
5:51 Conan O'Brien? What?
5:52 Speaker 01 Oh, boy.
5:53 Speaker 04 You got, you got some fruit trees back there, man.
5:55 Conan O'Brien? I just asked how big it was and you went, "Yeah, fruit trees."
5:58 Speaker 04 Well, I mean, I'm just saying, well, it's a sizable piece of property, I think. It's a little crazy to me that you've never been back there cuz you parked your car very close and you just could take five more steps around the corner and see this beautiful Shangri-La.
6:12 Conan O'Brien? It's in sunlight.
6:13 Speaker 04 Oh, I see.
6:14 Conan O'Brien? I can't go in, I'm like a vampire.
6:16 Speaker 01 That's true.
6:16 Conan O'Brien? So I scurry like a rat. We have a little parking space, structure. I'm back there, Mr. Ted Danson's back there.
6:23 Speaker 01 Oh, we're not.
6:24 Conan O'Brien? No, no, you guys aren't, no, no, no. Oh, no, no, no.
6:27 Speaker 01 I probably have a ticket right now.
6:28 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, well, that's your problem. Anyway... I know I don't have a ticket because I'm in my special parking spot. Ted Danson and I in the clear, but um, no, anyone of my ilk is well cared for. But uh, I have to scurry in. I have not really hung out back in the backyard. Blay shouted "fruit trees," so I guess there's fruit trees back there.
6:50 Speaker 01 Yeah.
6:50 Conan O'Brien? No question as to what the actual uh, space is. Do you know what it is?
6:54 Speaker 05 I, it's small. Uh, it's a narrow backyard.
6:57 Conan O'Brien? I envisioned it.
6:58 Speaker 05 It's nice. Blay brought up the fruit trees because it's a reference to the last time he, he, he brought up fruit trees was one, we were trying to think of a good segment idea and Blay's idea was that we talk about fruit trees and it was, it landed with the giant thud.
7:11 Conan O'Brien? Do you have a brain injury where you just repeat "fruit tree" over and over again?
7:14 Speaker 04 No, no, I, I really thought it would kind of, everyone would remember.
7:17 Conan O'Brien? Aaron's coming out of a coma.
7:18 Speaker 04 No.
7:19 Conan O'Brien? After 15 years. Aaron, are you there? "Fruit tree."
7:22 Speaker 04 In my life, the fruit trees was a seminal event, but I guess no one else remembers.
7:25 Speaker 01 No, I don't remember anything.
7:28 Conan O'Brien? I don't think our hardcore fans know what you're talking about right now.
7:31 Speaker 04 But, but to get back to your original question. See, I think, I don't have, I live in an apartment. I don't have a yard, so to me, it's massive.
7:38 Speaker 03 And we should tell the listeners that they can see how big this yard is too, because all of these Summer S'mores episodes will be available in full length on YouTube.
7:46 Conan O'Brien? Now, Adam probably has a pretty big yard. Eduardo, why don't you weigh in on how uh, what you think the size is back there?
7:51 Speaker 05 It's alright.
7:52 Speaker 03 It's tiny.
7:54 Speaker 01 I don't have a yard either and it's small.
7:56 Speaker 05 Let's get, it's got potential though.
7:58 Speaker 03 Well, I believe you have only a yard.
8:00 Conan O'Brien? Oh my god!
8:04 Conan O'Brien? Hey, I guess enough, you know what? Tragedy plus time. And for Gourley, that means not a lot of time.
8:12 Conan O'Brien? Wow. Take that, Sona. Well, it is your fault your house burned down.
8:17 Speaker 01 It is not my fault my house burned down.
8:20 Conan O'Brien? You're right.
8:21 Speaker 01 Oh my god. How come we don't go to your house? Every year we say we're gonna go to your house and then we just never do. Like, I think since the beginning.
8:30 Conan O'Brien? I wonder what's going on.
8:34 Conan O'Brien? Sonny, you can't come to my house.
8:36 Speaker 01 Come on!
8:37 Conan O'Brien? No, it's not gonna happen.
8:39 Speaker 01 Okay.
8:40 Conan O'Brien? No, maybe next year we'll do my house.
8:43 Conan O'Brien? Listen. This is my yard because this is my building. So, in a way, this is kinda my house.
8:52 Speaker 01 Yeah.
8:52 Conan O'Brien? Away from home, and so, we're gonna go to our backyard here at Larchmont. And I like this idea.
8:58 Speaker 01 Yeah.
8:58 Conan O'Brien? Because as I said, all the amenities you might need, legal pads.
9:02 Speaker 01 Fruit trees.
9:03 Conan O'Brien? Fruit trees, toilets, everything is right here. And I like the idea of just being in our backyard. I think it could be fun, it's gonna be outdoors, it's gonna be summersy. And also, I think it's a tax write-off. What's the deal with that, Adam? You might know about the financial implications of doing it on our own business property.
9:22 Speaker 05 It's cheap, I know that. I mean, we're not paying, you know, anybody. I don't know about the tax write-off, I'm not an accountant, but...
9:28 Conan O'Brien? Well, I'm just putting it out there that this is a business expense, the whole thing. And we're doing Koniko business here at the Koniko property. Or is it Team Coco? Or is it Ham Fat? I have so many subsidiaries, I don't even know anymore.
9:41 Speaker 05 And yeah, we'll look into writing it off, for sure. Well, see, I don't think we're gonna spend a lot, but whatever we spend, we'll write it off.
9:47 Speaker 03 This is gonna be at high noon when we do this, so what precautions are you taking for the sun?
9:51 Conan O'Brien? I bought Rose Kennedy's hat that she used to wear to the beach.
9:56 Conan O'Brien? At an estate sale. And I think we're gonna, I think we're planning to, I have thought about this. And it wasn't even me that thought of it, it's my staff. I think Shalemi and people are looking into various shades that they can put up. Umbrellas, screens, tarps, I think I'm gonna be covered in a tarp.
10:17 Speaker 01 Yeah.
10:17 Conan O'Brien? The same tarp that you would put over a barbecue in the rain, that's gonna be covering my head the whole time.
10:22 Speaker 01 That's good.
10:22 Speaker 03 Yeah. I picture you like, do you remember Marlon Brando in The Island of Doctor Moreau? And he was just all white cream with a little silver umbrella hat and a white, like, caftan?
10:32 Conan O'Brien? Caftan, yeah. Yes, I'm working with the same people that lathered up, that slathered Marlon Brando. They're called Brando Slatherers. It's an actual gig you can get, it's a union job.
10:47 Speaker 01 Okay.
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11:02 Speaker 01 Yeah.
11:02 Conan O'Brien? I was like, "Give me that milk chocolate." And they'd say, "Okay," and I'd say, "Is that Hershey's?" And "Bada baa, I'll kill ya." I was a mean little kid.
11:09 Speaker 01 Oh my god!
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13:22 Conan O'Brien? I think this is gonna be a good move for us.
13:24 Speaker 01 Sure.
13:25 Conan O'Brien? And it's gonna really connect us to this property. It's good, as I said, for tax reasons. And I think it's gonna be a lot of fun.
13:31 Speaker 01 I like the yard.
13:32 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
13:33 Speaker 01 I mean, right now, I think the yard is only used for taking dogs out there so they could do their poo poo and pee pee out there.
13:40 Conan O'Brien? Are you serious?
13:40 Speaker 01 I really think there's a lot of poo poo pee pee out there.
13:43 Conan O'Brien? I'm sure people clean up after themselves, don't they?
13:44 Speaker 01 They do, I think.
13:45 Conan O'Brien? What do you mean? Who are you talking about? Who has a dog?
13:47 Speaker 01 Me.
13:48 Conan O'Brien? Who brings their dogs there right now? You personally?
13:50 Speaker 01 I brought Oki here and she's done poo poo pee pee out there, but I have cleaned up.
13:55 Conan O'Brien? Okay, who has been bringing dogs here? Let's, because now David has a dog.
13:59 Speaker 01 David, Andy brings his dog Daisy.
14:02 Conan O'Brien? Right.
14:03 Speaker 01 And then now Gina's dog Betty is here.
14:07 Conan O'Brien? And you bring your dog occasionally.
14:08 Speaker 01 I sometimes bring Oki.
14:10 Conan O'Brien? That's four dogs.
14:10 Speaker 01 Yeah. Yeah, so that's like the best place where dogs can do their business. So we're going to a dog's toilet to do our summer S'mores this year.
14:20 Conan O'Brien? Oh, man.
14:20 Speaker 01 The puppy toilet.
14:21 Conan O'Brien? I didn't think of that angle.
14:22 Speaker 01 It's okay. I mean, it's clean. I don't know.
14:27 Conan O'Brien? What? You just said it's covered in dog shit and then you said, but it's clean. I don't understand. You and Blay aren't making any sense on this broadcast.
14:34 Speaker 01 Well, the dog.
14:35 Conan O'Brien? Well, covered in dog shit, but it's clean.
14:37 Speaker 01 The dog shit is fertilizing the fruit trees.
14:42 Speaker 01 We did it.
14:43 Speaker 04 You know, Matt actually brought up something. You brought up the idea of getting like a studio cat or like an animal that just lives here at the house.
14:50 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. I want an ape.
14:55 Conan O'Brien? I do, I want like an orangutan. Like a free, a little tuxedo? An ape that will eventually lose its mind as, you know, Elvis had an ape. Yeah. A chimp. A chimp, right. You remember his name? Scatters.
15:06 Speaker 01 Bubbles?
15:06 Conan O'Brien? I didn't know. Scatters. That's Michael Jackson. That's Michael Jackson.
15:09 Speaker 01 That's Michael Jackson's world.
15:11 Conan O'Brien? No.
15:14 Conan O'Brien? Elvis's chimp was called Scatters.
15:16 Speaker 01 Okay.
15:16 Conan O'Brien? And, uh, um, or just Scatter. But anyway, uh, I want to, I want some kind of ape. Some kind of chimp. An orangutan would be amazing if he's always just sitting in the corner when we record. And kind of sullen? Yeah, they always are. But then at one moment, he has to lose his mind and attack us. And he'll rip our face and genitals off.
15:35 Speaker 01 Oh.
15:36 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, they do that. They take your genitals off. Well, I guess chimps do. That's what happened to me. 1974. Um, but, uh, yeah, I think an ape would be good, some kind of ape or chimp.
15:47 Speaker 01 Sure, that's a great idea.
15:48 Speaker 04 What would you name your ape? What would the ape be named?
15:49 Conan O'Brien? Oh, I, what do you, is this an improv class suddenly? Yes and it would be called. Question. Yes and. Just ask your question. Yes and, yes and, yes and.
15:58 Speaker 04 Oh, yes and, the ape?
16:00 Conan O'Brien? Um. What about like a little fishbowl right here, you know? Or a little, little? No, it's gotta be something that can go, uh, fish can't go insane at some point. I want it to be something that after thousands of hours of listening to the podcast has gone truly insane. Okay, well, how about just some white tigers?
16:16 Conan O'Brien? I, no, we should have an exotic animal here.
16:18 Speaker 01 Exotic? I don't, I mean, who, but we're out of here for like weeks at a time.
16:23 Conan O'Brien? Right, and then it just roams around the halls. Looking at pictures of me with various hosts. An orangutan would be good because they, they have orange hair, kinda like you do. Yeah, and they could sit in if there's a day I can't be here, there's just a orange ape sitting here. You're welcome. Eighty percent of fans don't know the difference.
16:42 Speaker 01 Flinging its poop and we're like.
16:43 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
16:44 Speaker 01 There's Conan flinging his poop.
16:47 Conan O'Brien? Uh, we should think about it. Yeah. We should look into that and someone should get on that, yeah.
16:51 Speaker 01 It's an important thing to do.
16:52 Conan O'Brien? But it does need, my only prerequisite would be an animal that can lose its mind at some point. Okay. And that's important to me. Okay. It has to be a mammal that can lose its mind. Okay. A mammal that can go quite insane. Um, I like this. I like that we're doing it in the yard. I think this is a very wise choice. I'll make sure that, Blay, would you clean the yard first before we go back there?
17:13 Speaker 04 Yeah, sure.
17:14 Conan O'Brien? Okay.
17:17 Speaker 04 I mean, I think if it's Sona's dog and Sona's, as she said, poo poo pee pee, shouldn't you have to clean it up?
17:22 Conan O'Brien? No, no, but there are many dogs back there now.
17:24 Speaker 01 Yeah, no one goes back there, then it's just, you know.
17:27 Conan O'Brien? Hey, do you think David has brought his dog back there to do its business?
17:30 Speaker 01 They all have. Everybody has.
17:32 Conan O'Brien? Do you think he cleaned it up?
17:33 Speaker 04 No, I would be sh- I mean, no offense.
17:36 Conan O'Brien? I'll fire him on the spot if he let Atlas.
17:37 Speaker 04 David, can you come in here, please? Can you come in?
17:39 Conan O'Brien? Okay, if Atlas went to the bathroom out there and David didn't clean it, and that includes urine, I want urine extracted from the soil with a syringe.
17:45 Speaker 04 I guarantee you he did not pick up. I mean, I love David, but I just don't see him as a poop picker.
17:50 Speaker 01 Oh, he picks up poop?
17:51 Speaker 03 He won't leave poop out there?
17:53 Speaker 01 You gotta pick up poop.
17:54 Speaker 04 I don't know.
17:54 Speaker 01 It's a special kind of shitty person who doesn't pick up poop.
17:59 Conan O'Brien? This is David's new dog, Atlas, and Atlas is a fine, it's a Belgian Malinois. It's like, it's like a fancy way of saying Malamar, I think.
18:10 Conan O'Brien? Well, that's, yeah, take more time putting the headphones on. That's okay, David.
18:12 Speaker 06 Well, they're stuck on the chair.
18:13 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, who knew?
18:14 Speaker 06 Talk amongst yourselves.
18:15 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, okay. Well, he became really entitled after he started bringing his dog here. So, anyway, David.
18:21 Speaker 06 Yeah.
18:22 Conan O'Brien? Have you taken Atlas to our little small backyard where we're going to be doing?
18:25 Speaker 06 Yeah, he loves running around there.
18:27 Conan O'Brien? Has he relieved himself back there?
18:29 Speaker 06 He has gone number one back there.
18:31 Conan O'Brien? Okay.
18:32 Speaker 01 No number two?
18:32 Speaker 06 No number twos.
18:33 Speaker 01 Oh, okay. Okay, he has. Okay, he has. I'm sure Daisy has. I'm sure Betty has.
18:39 Conan O'Brien? Well, I'm sure everyone's taking care of it because, and cleaning up after themselves because we have very responsible staff.
18:44 Speaker 01 Yeah.
18:45 Conan O'Brien? So, I'm excited about the backyard. I'm gonna make sure that it's cleaned beforehand. I'm sure it is. And I think these are gonna be terrific episodes of Conan the Chill Chums. I know that we have special activities planned. Do I know what they are? No. Was a list of the possible things that we might do been put on my desk? Yes, it was. Did I look at it? No, I didn't.
19:06 Speaker 06 That sounds right.
19:06 Conan O'Brien? Is this high on my list of things to do? No, it's not. Yes, Sonya, have your hand up. Yeah.
19:10 Speaker 01 Is there going to be a Gourley cocktail again today? And are we getting it sooner?
19:15 Conan O'Brien? Well, it's not today.
19:17 Speaker 01 Then the last episode. Are we getting it sooner than that?
19:21 Conan O'Brien? Gourley, do you, are you thinking about a cocktail that we might serve on the day that we tape this one? Not today, Sona.
19:26 Speaker 01 Okay, not today. Yes.
19:28 Speaker 03 Yes and yes. So, yeah, we're getting a new cocktail and it's gonna be in that episode sooner.
19:34 Speaker 01 Good.
19:34 Speaker 03 So, we've really relaxed the restrictions.
19:39 Speaker 03 It's like semi prohibition.
19:41 Conan O'Brien? It's so funny, because every year I say, "We're gonna really tighten the reins next year." And then we go in the other direction. So you're saying-
19:49 Speaker 03 I think they were too tight last year.
19:51 Conan O'Brien? You do?
19:51 Speaker 03 And so we had to walk it back. Yeah.
19:52 Conan O'Brien? Okay.
19:53 Speaker 03 Yeah.
19:53 Speaker 01 Yeah, they were too tight.
19:55 Conan O'Brien? In what way?
19:55 Speaker 01 As in, we started drinking like the last episode, so we obviously-
19:59 Conan O'Brien? So you'd be cogent?
20:00 Speaker 01 Yeah, I, yes. Or boring, another way of saying it. So I had to really down that stuff as soon as I got it.
20:08 Conan O'Brien? You get drunk fast.
20:09 Speaker 01 I do. My tolerance is low. My tolerance is low.
20:12 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. You'll have like a lemon cough drop with a little bit of rum flavoring in it, and you'll be three sheets to the wind.
20:18 Speaker 01 Yes.
20:18 Conan O'Brien? That's just a total lie. But, um, I am, again, uh, I have not reviewed what we might be doing. I don't know what we're gonna be doing. There's a lot of surprises. There's a lot of things I don't know. Blay, you're probably on the team that's thinking of all this kind of stuff.
20:33 Speaker 04 Uh, we have, we have some, uh, surprises, uh, in store. That's right. Yeah.
20:38 Conan O'Brien? Okay.
20:39 Speaker 04 Yeah, we, we definitely have, we've thought about this.
20:41 Conan O'Brien? Well, great. Well, that's, what a joyless rendition of what we're gonna be doing.
20:45 Speaker 04 Yeah. No, we, we have thought about it, yes. I also did buy, um, another dangerous weapon this year at the Ren Faire. Last year I brought my big sword to show Tac.
20:54 Conan O'Brien? Mm-hmm.
20:54 Speaker 04 Uh, so maybe I'll bring my, my big weapon this year.
20:57 Speaker 01 Bring your, bring your big weapon.
20:59 Conan O'Brien? New, new big weapon.
21:00 Speaker 04 Yeah.
21:01 Conan O'Brien? We'll see.
21:02 Speaker 04 I think it's gonna be a fun summer sports. I'm excited that it's gonna be daytime and that we're not wrapping at like 11:30 PM, which is always a little, everybody, like Sona's kinda, no offense, a little drunk. It's really late. We all trying to wrap up and go home. But this time's gonna be in the afternoon. I'm very excited. You can get drunk during the day. Yeah.
21:19 Speaker 01 I could, I could do the, do the drink.
21:21 Speaker 03 You're drunk now.
21:23 Conan O'Brien? I think you are. A little numb.
21:25 Speaker 01 I like nighttime shoots too, though.
21:27 Speaker 03 Me too. I do too.
21:27 Speaker 01 I mean, daytime is fun, but nighttime is cool too.
21:29 Conan O'Brien? Do you have that thing where when you're around people that you work with, but it's nighttime? It's that very elemental, it goes back to when you're a kid and you see your teacher-
21:39 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah.
21:40 Conan O'Brien? You know, in the parking lot at night?
21:42 Speaker 03 It feels weird.
21:43 Conan O'Brien? You attack them? That's just me.
21:45 Speaker 03 No, I didn't know you meant that.
21:46 Speaker 01 Yeah.
21:47 Speaker 03 Uh, it does feel weird. It feels like you've kind of like ran into them in an intimate way or something like that.
21:52 Speaker 01 But we're friends.
21:53 Speaker 03 Yeah, we are.
21:54 Speaker 01 I mean, we've never, we are. Well, I mean, we've never like hung out and gone to the movies.
22:00 Conan O'Brien? You and I, back in the day, we did plenty of hanging out as pals.
22:04 Speaker 01 No, yeah, we're still pals, I think.
22:06 Conan O'Brien? Not so much.
22:06 Speaker 01 Okay, all right, well, the three of us.
22:08 Conan O'Brien? Well, you had children, and then suddenly they were your focus.
22:11 Speaker 01 Oh, I know, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I did that, but...
22:14 Conan O'Brien? There's a distance. And then, you know what, David, I'm gonna say, since you got Atlas, your new pup.
22:18 Speaker 06 Yeah.
22:19 Conan O'Brien? You are not as attentive.
22:20 Speaker 06 When I told you that I was looking at a dog, your first thought was, "What about me?"
22:25 Conan O'Brien? It's true.
22:26 Speaker 03 Oh, my god.
22:27 Conan O'Brien? He's gonna take me for my walk.
22:28 Speaker 06 That's what you said.
22:29 Speaker 03 Oh, my god. Do you need to go poopy and pee pee out in the backyard?
22:32 Conan O'Brien? It's not.
22:33 Speaker 04 Am I gonna have to clean that up?
22:34 Conan O'Brien? All right, guys.
22:35 Speaker 01 Oh, guys, come on. Don't do the poo poo pee pee humor. Come on, let's be adults, guys. You know what?
22:43 Conan O'Brien? We can always go a rung lower, I guess.
22:45 Speaker 01 Yeah, come on.
22:47 Conan O'Brien? It's going to be a fantastic series of Chill Chums episodes. I'm excited about it. I'm gonna keep saying that until I believe it.
22:57 Conan O'Brien? I believe that these are gonna be the way forward, and I look forward to this adventure with both of you.
23:06 Speaker 01 Samezies.
23:07 Conan O'Brien? And I think being in that backyard together, which is just maybe, I think, I'm gonna say it's 14 feet from where I'm sitting right now.
23:15 Speaker 03 It is, probably.
23:16 Speaker 06 It's really close.
23:16 Conan O'Brien? I think that's pretty, I think 14 feet's not incorrect. It's right behind the wall that Elviro is...
23:22 Speaker 01 Elviro.
23:24 Conan O'Brien? He's drunk.
23:26 Speaker 06 Elviro?
23:27 Conan O'Brien? You know who Elviro is?
23:28 Speaker 06 The male Elvira?
23:29 Speaker 01 I know.
23:30 Speaker 06 I know.
23:30 Conan O'Brien? Elviro's the guy I do weights with three days a week, and so I associate with him with great pain and torment. So when I looked into Eduardo's eyes, I thought, I'm in pain.
23:40 Speaker 03 I thought you were talking about some, like, male version of Elvira. Like goddess, the mistress of the dark, you know?
23:48 Speaker 04 I'm Elvira.
23:49 Conan O'Brien? Right behind the wall that your back is up against is the, is the great, and I can't wait to explore that wondrous backyard.
23:56 Speaker 03 And that wall.
23:59 Conan O'Brien? All right, well, listen, if this episode sold you on what's coming up, then you're an idiot.
24:09 Conan O'Brien? Chill Chums, more Chill Chums coming your way pretty soon. Backyard, Larchmont Studios.
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