Pod Insights Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend Don’t Look A Gift Horse Meat In The Mouth About this episode Conan talks to Nurzhamal in Almaty, Kazakhstan to discuss Conan’s evasion of her attempts to get ahold of him and performing on the Kazakh stand-up circuit.
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1:47 Conan O'Brien? Hi, Nerjima. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan.
1:50 Speaker 03 Hi guys, hi!
1:53 Conan O'Brien? Hello Nerjimol!
1:54 Speaker 03 Wow, I just cannot believe. Hi Sona! Hi! Hi Conan, this is great! Hi to me first. Nice to see you too.
2:04 Conan O'Brien? Oh, we save the best for last, they say. And then hi, Matt's here as well.
2:09 Speaker 03 Hi Matt, I saw Matt early, so I said hi already, so it's so yeah.
2:14 Conan O'Brien? I know, there's no reason for us to assume he wasn't as important.
2:18 Speaker 04 I was first.
2:20 Conan O'Brien? Nerjimol, welcome to our little podcast. It's nice to meet you. Am I saying your name correctly Nerjimol?
2:28 Speaker 03 Yes, it's Nerjimol, yeah.
2:30 Conan O'Brien? Nerjimol, and where are you coming to us from?
2:34 Speaker 03 I'm calling from Almaty, Kazakhstan.
2:37 Conan O'Brien? Wow, Kazakhstan. That's first. Yeah, I think you're our first person that we're talking to you from Kazakhstan. And you're in, you said you're in Almaty, is that right?
2:47 Speaker 03 Yes, it's Almaty. It's the south, in the south part of Kazakhstan.
2:51 Conan O'Brien? That's what I assumed.
2:53 Speaker 03 It's the best city.
2:54 Conan O'Brien? It's a really good city. Do you like it there? Have you lived there your whole life?
2:57 Speaker 03 Yeah, I was born here, I was raised here. And by the way, it's not the first time we are talking with you Conan. It's, yeah, we, I think our story goes back like seven years before.
3:10 Conan O'Brien? Wait, was I married to you?
3:12 Speaker 03 No, no!
3:14 Conan O'Brien? I married some woman in Kazakhstan, I remember. And it was very, it was very short-lived. And yeah, most of it's been scrubbed from the internet. Wait, so how do, we interacted, you said seven, eight years ago? What was this interaction?
3:30 Speaker 03 So, seven years ago, I was on my undergraduate studies and I was super depressed. And I found one of your videos, like when I got this in YouTube poll. And I got, and I was so in love with the comedy and...
3:48 Speaker 03 And I saw this video where you said that if you send me snacks from the country, I will come to this country and, you know, say thank you in person. So I believed that. I was like, okay, I will collect all of the snacks that I know from Kazakhstan. I send it to you. And then no, nothing. And, and I was like, okay.
4:06 Conan O'Brien? Oh, we didn't, did we, wait a minute, hold on a second. This is important to me. You sent us a bunch of, I'm gonna say Kazakhstani snacks.
4:14 Speaker 03 Yeah, that's.
4:15 Conan O'Brien? And, and, and you never heard back from us? I do not recall getting snacks from Kazakhstan. Sona.
4:22 Speaker 05 Sona, you have some Kazakhstani snack wrappers hanging out of your pockets right now. What's going on?
4:26 Speaker 01 Listen, here's what happened. When you did that.
4:28 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
4:29 Speaker 01 A lot of people from a lot of different countries sent us snacks.
4:32 Conan O'Brien? Yes.
4:33 Speaker 01 And so a lot of us in the office would open them, save the letters, and then we would eat the snacks. And, um.
4:41 Conan O'Brien? And you didn't make me aware that I had been, I mean, the gift was to me.
4:44 Speaker 01 Can I say, though, we did send all the letters to Mike Sweeney, your head writer. So I passed along my responsibility and now I'm, I'm.
4:52 Speaker 05 And now you're passing along the buck.
4:54 Speaker 01 Now I'm passing the buck along to Mike Sweeney, who's not here to stink for himself. So, yeah, it's his fault.
4:59 Conan O'Brien? Nerjmal, Nerjmal, let me make it clear to you, I was unaware. But I would like to know, what were the snacks? What are some snacks from Kazakhstan? What did I miss out on?
5:08 Speaker 03 Uh, there were some chips with a taste of horse meat. I know it sounds.
5:14 Conan O'Brien? Oh, Christ.
5:15 Speaker 03 I know. Like, I'm sorry, but.
5:17 Conan O'Brien? Well, hold on. So wait a minute. I can't believe horse meat flavored chips didn't make their way to me. Sona, I know, I remember that week you smelled like horse. And you had all this horse chip crumbs around your mouth.
5:33 Speaker 01 We, you know what? I do remember this box because they were very unique snacks. And we tried them just to see how they would taste. They just tasted like chips, if I remember right. I mean, right? They're not like.
5:44 Conan O'Brien? So the horse meat flavor didn't really come through?
5:46 Speaker 01 No, of, I have never had horse, so maybe it did, but I, it just tasted like chips.
5:52 Speaker 03 I couldn't send horse meat because, you know, food regulations and stuff, so I.
5:57 Conan O'Brien? I, you know what? The government, I hate when the government won't let us send shredded horse through the mail.
6:05 Speaker 05 Stay out of my horse meat snacks.
6:06 Conan O'Brien? Exactly. Don't shred on me, horse meat grabber.
6:11 Conan O'Brien? Um, okay.
6:12 Speaker 03 And I sent one of the fine chocolates of Kazakhstan. By the way, I called the office, even though I was a broke student. I was call- calling the office and had office manager on call. And I was asking if you like, um, had the chance of tasting it. And I don't remember what he said, but I was making sure that you would taste it, so.
6:37 Conan O'Brien? You know what makes me suspicious?
6:38 Speaker 03 Other than that.
6:38 Conan O'Brien? You said office manager. This is not, you, you, you're, we are, this, this is not like an Apple Store. This is not a professional, we're not a Staples. This is a very goofy place.
6:52 Speaker 03 Mm-hmm.
6:52 Conan O'Brien? So anyone who picked up the phone and said, "Office manager", was probably just some random idiot.
6:58 Speaker 03 Yeah.
6:58 Conan O'Brien? It may not have been someone who worked here.
7:00 Speaker 03 Mm-hmm, possible.
7:01 Conan O'Brien? I am, let's cut to the chase. I am sorry, Narjmal, that I did not, um, receive and acknowledge your gift. That makes me feel, um, sad. Not so sad that it, I mean, it's a sadness that will be short-lived, but, um, I'm sorry that I didn't get your horse meat chips.
7:20 Speaker 03 Cause there is a continuation to that story.
7:23 Conan O'Brien? Oh, God.
7:24 Speaker 03 So, I don't know, it's.
7:26 Conan O'Brien? No, keep it going, keep it going, keep it going, we need to hear. I just feel badly for what's coming.
7:30 Speaker 03 So, um, I'm like, okay, he didn't respond to that. And then I had a graduation ceremony and I thought, okay. I, they didn't invite him, but I didn't have money, cause, you know, I was a student. And there was only one thing that was precious to me. It was a printer that was a gift from my mom. And I sold it and it was the, exactly the price of a letter, uh, to send you. Cause it was a FedEx and it was expensive.
8:02 Conan O'Brien? Wait, wait, wait, you sold a printer? That prints out, you know, emails, right? A real printer?
8:11 Speaker 03 A printer that copies and also scans and also prints.
8:14 Conan O'Brien? Wait a minute, you sold that? And that's how much it costs to send a letter from Kazakhstan to Los Angeles?
8:21 Speaker 03 To... It was like a, how to say? It's like in three, four days. It was like a very fast delivery, so it's not that much.
8:31 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. Was this, did you print your letter with this printer? Or was it handwritten?
8:35 Speaker 03 Yeah, of course.
8:37 Conan O'Brien? Oh my god, that's even more tragic.
8:38 Speaker 03 Before I sold it, I was like, this is your last letter.
8:40 Conan O'Brien? It's like the gift of the Magi. Yeah, it is. You know, I sold my hair to buy you a watch fob. The watch fob. And that's so funny, I sold my watch fob to buy you this comb. That's the trick ending. Sorry, it's a Henry story that no one cares about anymore. But, um, thanks for the help with the watch fob. Because you actually have a watch fob on you right now. Listen.
9:05 Speaker 05 So I helped you and you're gonna insult me?
9:06 Conan O'Brien? That's not an insult! Hey, that's not an insult.
9:09 Speaker 05 Well, it's a lie.
9:12 Conan O'Brien? It's a lie, but it's not an insult.
9:13 Speaker 05 I do have some pearl inlay combs on me, though.
9:18 Speaker 01 Oh my god.
9:19 Conan O'Brien? Narjomal, I can't believe this story. You sold a printer, an expensive printer, so that you could get the money to FedEx, sounds like almost overnight, a letter to me. Please tell me I responded to the letter, please.
9:34 Speaker 03 You responded.
9:35 Conan O'Brien? Yes!
9:36 Speaker 03 With a video on your Instagram account. And you made it like, just the day before my graduation. And it was crazy. I was like, to be honest with you, I was crying of happiness. This is a...
9:49 Conan O'Brien? Oh, this makes me happy. Narjomal, I'm not kidding. I hate that you went through all this. And I'm so happy that you got, that I responded. We have, we have a lot of, as you can imagine, it's a little chaotic here. And there's a lot of people in Kazakhstan sending me chips. And selling printers to send me their wigs, so that I can get them a watch fob.
10:15 Speaker 01 How long ago? Sorry, just so I know who your assistant was. How long ago was that letter that you sent? I sent in 2019. Oh. You were done by then? No, I was still your assistant.
10:29 Conan O'Brien? Hey, hey, we have it on record that she accomplished something.
10:32 Speaker 01 Okay.
10:33 Conan O'Brien? Yay, cut to footage of cheering crowds from the 1920s. Um, no, good job. Listen, Sona, all joking aside, Sona's a great assistant and she did take care of the important stuff. You really did.
10:46 Speaker 01 I did, no, I did.
10:48 Conan O'Brien? And so the fact that, um, I mean, we joke around a lot and some of it's based in truth and a lot of it's based in truth, but you,
10:55 Conan O'Brien? it's mostly based in truth. It's all true. But you.
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11:11 Speaker 01 Yeah, I love awards.
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13:47 Speaker 01 Oh, okay. Well, that's a very thoughtful gift.
13:50 Conan O'Brien? Do you wear a wig or is that your hair?
13:51 Speaker 01 Absolutely not. It's definitely my hair. And so it's kind of, it's kind of insulting you would buy that gift for me.
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14:17 Speaker 01 Yeah.
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14:19 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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14:26 Speaker 01 A vase.
14:27 Conan O'Brien? No, I don't want a vase. I want something better.
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15:18 Conan O'Brien? Narzamal, I'm so glad that I responded to you. I feel badly that you sold that printer. I do. Yeah, I think, I think we should get a new printer.
15:26 Speaker 03 There is a continuation.
15:28 Speaker 01 Oh, this story has so many layers.
15:31 Conan O'Brien? You know what, you know what, Narzamal? You can say, "But there's more." You don't have to say, "But there is a continuation," because it's just a little shorter, "But there's more."
15:38 Speaker 03 Okay, thank you so much.
15:40 Conan O'Brien? That's okay, I'm just trying to help.
15:41 Speaker 03 Well, I'm not a native speaker, so yeah.
15:43 Conan O'Brien? No, no, you're doing your, you speak very well. And just, this is a little trick, this is a little, this is a little life hack. Instead of, "But there is a continuation," "But there's more."
15:51 Speaker 03 Okay, but there is more?
15:53 Conan O'Brien? Yes.
15:53 Speaker 03 Um, years ago, you had this radio show where you told that people could call you. So, I thought like, okay, you know, he didn't still show up. I mean, I haven't seen you in Kazakhstan, so I should call. But it was 2:00 a.m., and I was trying to call, and it was an international call, so obviously it was very hard for me. So my friend, who lives in Michigan, she was at the office working. So she was like, "Let me help you." And she postponed all of her meetings, and she was calling you. We, collectively, we called like 500 times, I think.
16:35 Speaker 03 So we got you on the line, and she was on the phone. I was talking like this through laptop, and she was putting her phone like this. And we could speak for like 10 minutes, I think, with you.
16:48 Conan O'Brien? Were you speaking to me, or were you speaking to someone at the show?
16:51 Speaker 03 No, I was speaking to you, Conan, and you said that I have beautiful name. And now that I know you forgot and...
16:58 Speaker 06 I remember this, I was there.
17:00 Speaker 03 It makes me...
17:01 Conan O'Brien? But wait, I'm just trying to understand the context of it, that's all. I, so many people, Narjmal, you're very near and dear to my heart, but so many people call in.
17:10 Speaker 06 You hosted, it was like a one-hour, just call-in style show.
17:14 Conan O'Brien? Got it.
17:15 Speaker 06 At Sirius XM offices.
17:16 Conan O'Brien? Got it.
17:17 Speaker 06 It was during that time that it's out. And I remember specifically because...
17:20 Conan O'Brien? See, I don't even, yeah, we're...
17:22 Speaker 06 It was just Conan.
17:23 Conan O'Brien? I am constantly, Narjmal, you have to understand, I'm constantly on the go, interacting.
17:28 Speaker 01 Doing things without us.
17:29 Conan O'Brien? Of course I do things without you.
17:31 Speaker 01 Oh, okay.
17:31 Conan O'Brien? I gotta make some scratch.
17:32 Speaker 01 It's hurtful.
17:33 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, that's money I get to keep, I don't have to, you know, take off 2% for you guys. Does feel like we should have got Mark Twain prizes.
17:41 Speaker 01 Yeah, I agree.
17:42 Conan O'Brien? They are, they're coming. Okay. Yeah, they're called the Shania Twains.
17:47 Conan O'Brien? I'll take it. Man, I feel like a woman.
17:49 Speaker 01 It's better than Mark Twain.
17:53 Conan O'Brien? Please, I'm making it about Narjmal, and you're making your dumb Shania Twain jokes, which have been made before, by the way.
17:59 Conan O'Brien? I just borrowed it. Narjmal, I feel badly about the printer. And I'm, it sounds like I've had, I did send you a video, and I did talk to you on the phone. So I think I've been a pretty good guy, but I feel very badly about this printer and the goods you sent me that were not acknowledged. So, I think I need to replace the printer. Do you think that's fair?
18:28 Speaker 03 That would be fair, because my mom didn't know that I sold the printer, because I couldn't tell her. I was ashamed that, you know, when I showed your show, she was like, "What is this?" And I'm like, "Well..."
18:41 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, but you know what?
18:42 Speaker 03 This is the guy that I sold the printer for, and she was so disappointed. And, you know what? I bought her a printer.
18:49 Conan O'Brien? Wait, wait a minute, wait a minute. Your mother said, you showed your mother the show, and you said, "This is the reason I sold the printer," and your mother was, her reaction was disappointed? Yeah. Did she think I was funny? I mean, I'm a little disappointed. Did she think I was funny?
19:03 Speaker 03 She was like...
19:06 Speaker 03 No.
19:07 Speaker 01 Oh.
19:08 Speaker 03 But who cares? I think that you're funny.
19:10 Conan O'Brien? No, now you don't understand my psyche. Narjmal, you don't understand my psyche. I always go towards the person who's not responding. And now I feel like I will, I don't need to visit you. I'm obsessed with winning your mother over.
19:27 Speaker 03 She told me, um, this Korean guy needs to buy me a printer then. So I'm like.
19:32 Conan O'Brien? Oh, that's how you win her over?
19:34 Speaker 03 There you go.
19:35 Conan O'Brien? No, I feel like I have to wire something more than that now. I mean, I really have to win her over.
19:39 Speaker 05 Buy her a, a person who's in the trade of a printer, you know?
19:44 Conan O'Brien? From the 1880s?
19:45 Speaker 01 Yeah. She was like, she would have been okay about the printer if she liked you.
19:51 Conan O'Brien? Right, if it had been a better comedian.
19:53 Speaker 01 Yeah. Then she would have been on board.
19:56 Conan O'Brien? Does she, does she a big?
19:58 Speaker 03 It's worse.
19:58 Conan O'Brien? Is she a big comedy fan?
20:00 Speaker 03 She likes my jokes. Cause by the way, I started doing a stand-up comedy after, well, after I started watching your show, I got inspired and I started doing comedy.
20:12 Conan O'Brien? Good for you.
20:13 Speaker 03 Yeah, so, thank you. But in Kazakhstan, it's like, sometimes there are two people in the audience for English crowd. So I'm not doing that well, but it's okay.
20:24 Conan O'Brien? Can I ask you a question? Why can't you, why can't you do it in the native tongue? Why can't you speak, do stand-up comedy for the people of Kazakhstan in their own language?
20:32 Speaker 03 Um, that's a good question.
20:34 Conan O'Brien? Why are you doing it in English for two people who?
20:39 Speaker 03 I, it's, I, I start, you know what? Cause, um, I usually think in English and I, everything that I consume is in English. For example, through your show, I was introduced to great comedians like Norm MacDonald.
20:56 Conan O'Brien? Oh, yeah, he's the best.
20:57 Speaker 03 I love your segment with Kevin Nealon and so many great comedians through your show. And I was like, I got inspired and I started doing it in different countries as well. So I decided to come back to Kazakhstan to, I mean, uh, to do something here.
21:13 Conan O'Brien? You do stand-up comedy, you do it in English and you're doing it in Kazakhstan. You say the problem is that when you're at the club, how many comedy clubs are there in Kazakhstan?
21:23 Speaker 03 There are several, but for English.
21:25 Conan O'Brien? What are their names? What are the names of the Kazakhstani?
21:27 Speaker 03 Okay. There is one in, um, in, in my city. It's called Central Stand Up Club. But we have a club for English.
21:38 Conan O'Brien? It sounds very like Soviet. Yeah. The Central Stand Up Club. You must have your papers.
21:41 Speaker 03 That's true.
21:42 Conan O'Brien? You must have your papers in order. You have been given issued a warning by the Central Committee of the Stand Ups. Yuck yucks of the state. Yeah. Chuckles for the people and for the revolution. The people's belly laughs. Laughter for grain and for larger families. Um, sorry, we went on a little run there. Uh, and it was a lot of fun for everybody and I think it showed a real knowledge of different cultures. Um, Nerjomal, uh, I, um, I, I do feel like I owe you. You've been a very loyal fan. I'm glad that I've inspired you to do comedy and to try and make other people laugh. I do think it's the hope for the future is laughter.
22:26 Conan O'Brien? Well, actually also vaccines and enough food for everyone in a maybe a cooler climate. Those are ahead of laughter. Laughter is like last, but.
22:34 Speaker 03 Laughter.
22:39 Conan O'Brien? We need to get rid of nuclear, I mean, nuclear disarmament, global warming, um, enough food, uh, some kind of renewable, uh, cool energy source. We need an end to dictatorships and oligarchs and then laughter. Those are the things in that prayer, in that list, yeah.
22:57 Speaker 03 Okay. Thank you for the lecture. I.
23:03 Conan O'Brien? You're good. You're good. But let me say more in continuation. You.
23:13 Speaker 03 It's more, right? It's more to this. This is how you tell it. There's more.
23:18 Conan O'Brien? But wait. But wait.
23:19 Speaker 03 You don't say.
23:20 Conan O'Brien? But you say, but wait, there's more. But wait.
23:23 Speaker 03 Oh, okay.
23:23 Conan O'Brien? There's more. And you give kind of a look like, but wait, there's more. Yeah, that's good. You got it, you got it. I think you show a lot of promise, Narjmal. You're very funny, you're very persistent, you're very generous, you have a big heart, you're creative, you're all the things that I love about a fan, about anybody, but especially a fan of mine. I think your mother is way out of control with her comedy tastes. And I'm just gonna be, I'm gonna wake up at 3:00 in the morning and wonder, why can't I win over Narjmal's mother?
23:54 Speaker 03 I know.
23:55 Conan O'Brien? But I'm, I'm very happy that we are talking, and I hope we get to meet in, I hope we get to meet in person, and I will find a way to right what's been wrong, okay?
24:08 Speaker 03 Wow, that's a lot of promise for the person who told that you will travel to the country where you send the snacks, so I am like... Wow.
24:21 Speaker 03 You did say it. I am just, no, no, no. To be fair, I'm really honored to see you guys. I'm trying to...
24:30 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, to be fair, to be fair, you have,
24:33 Speaker 03 Yeah, to be fair.
24:33 Conan O'Brien? To be fair, you lied to me, Conan. You broke my heart. You broke my heart, you didn't acknowledge the snacks I sent, you robbed my, the, my mother of a printer that I stole from her, just so I could communicate with you, and you don't remember the time we talked on the phone. Other than that, you seem like a swell guy. You left the drapes open in the towel house. This is just, I've been annihilated, Narjmal. I will make this right, or my name isn't Steve... Blablabla. No, I'm gonna make this right, okay?
25:10 Speaker 03 Okay, okay.
25:11 Conan O'Brien? I like you, you're a nice person.
25:12 Speaker 03 You guys, I am so honored and so happy to be here and to see you. I was like a big fan, I'm still, I listen to the podcast, and I love all of you.
25:24 Conan O'Brien? Oh, that's nice of you to think that Sona and I never let you down.
25:27 Speaker 03 I'm glad.
25:28 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, you can rely on those two.
25:30 Speaker 03 Yeah.
25:31 Conan O'Brien? Because Sona never forgets a thing.
25:34 Speaker 03 Conan, it's...
25:36 Conan O'Brien? All right.
25:36 Speaker 03 It's an honor.
25:37 Conan O'Brien? Narjimal, it's an honor to talk to you and I do look forward to meeting you in person. Something tells me our story continues. Something tells me there'll be more. More in continuation.
25:49 Speaker 03 There'll be more.
25:49 Conan O'Brien? There'll be more in continuation.
25:51 Speaker 03 There'll be more.
25:52 Conan O'Brien? To put it in your own words. All right, you take care, Narjimal.
25:56 Speaker 03 You too, guys. Yeah.
25:58 Conan O'Brien? Take care.
25:59 Speaker 03 Be safe. Thank you so much for the invitation.
26:00 Conan O'Brien? You too.
26:02 Speaker 03 That's like mind blowing. Thank you for all of the people who worked there, Aaron and Eduardo. Thank you so much, guys.
26:10 Conan O'Brien? He's so sweet. She's so nice. Eduardo got shot out. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, cut out the part where Eduardo's like, please. We can convert that into landfill. Wow. Bye bye, Narjimal. Take care.
26:21 Speaker 03 Bye, Conan. Bye.
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27:28 Speaker 01 Uh, no, but maybe.
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27:31 Speaker 01 I know, yeah, I remember that. That was not good.
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