Pod Insights Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend Summer S’mores with Conan and the Chill Chums Season 5 Episode 3 About this episode Conan and the Chums get a history lesson on the invention of the Hershey Bar.
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0:02 Conan O'Brien? This episode of Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend is sponsored by Hershey's. Guys, I'm gonna ask you a question. What better way is there to make summer memories than having smores with Hershey's Milk Chocolate?
0:11 Speaker 01 None that I can think of.
0:12 Conan O'Brien? There's nothing. Toasted marshmallows, melted Hershey's chocolate, crunchy graham crackers. The classic taste brings family and friends together for ooey, gooey, good times. And I'm saying that with a straight face. Yeah. And, uh, college diploma, ooey, gooey, good times. Make smore memories, see what I did, this summer with Hershey's Milk Chocolate.
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1:15 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.
1:25 Conan O'Brien? Hey there and welcome to episode three of Summer Smores 2025. I got the Chill Chums here, Matt Gourley, Sonam of Sessian. Yeah. Uh, and as I said before, uh, we are in the backyard of our Larchmont Podcast Studios. Yeah. It's very nice back here and we are protected, of course, by, uh, beautiful, uh, LL Bean umbrellas. We have a, just a great show planned.
1:51 Speaker 01 This is our fifth Summer S'mores, I was figuring.
1:53 Conan O'Brien? Is it? Yeah.
1:53 Speaker 01 We've been a podcast for seven years, but we started after summer the first year. And we did a deep dive at Dana Carvey the second year.
2:01 Conan O'Brien? Yep.
2:02 Speaker 01 Then we did an in-studio one of these and then we started doing them outside.
2:05 Conan O'Brien? And when did we start going after smores? I mean, saying, uh, our smore is good, our smore is bad, what do you think? The first one. Was it? The first one. I was very skeptical about smores. I thought that it was a snack that people pretended to like, but they don't really like it. And it, it inspired, I think, the greatest division in America we've yet seen. I'm hard pressed to think of a more divisive moment in recent American politics.
2:31 Speaker 02 Yes, I agree.
2:32 Conan O'Brien? And it really got everybody electrified. S'mores people are just nuts for smores.
2:39 Speaker 02 Yes.
2:39 Conan O'Brien? So it was just a simple misunderstanding.
2:41 Speaker 01 Yeah.
2:41 Conan O'Brien? But I should probably bring up that we have a special sponsor today, is that right?
2:47 Speaker 02 Who are you looking to?
2:48 Speaker 01 Who are you looking to?
2:48 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
2:49 Conan O'Brien? I'm asking.
2:49 Speaker 01 Eyes over here.
2:50 Speaker 02 It's right here.
2:51 Conan O'Brien? You're just sitting there and I keep waiting for you to say, I'm filling time here, saying some stuff. I think I'm doing a great job because when I fill time, it's when other people, you know, give the greatest speech of their life. I think I'm doing my part and then I think you're gonna come in at one point and go, hey Conan, I got some interesting news for you. But that part never comes.
3:08 Speaker 01 I didn't want to step on your 15 minute tirade about conduits last week.
3:12 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
3:12 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, that's true.
3:13 Speaker 02 Hey, hey Conan, I have something interesting for you.
3:15 Conan O'Brien? Oh, you do? This is great. When we first called Ripley's Believe It or Not.
3:18 Speaker 02 Okay.
3:19 Speaker 01 What is it?
3:20 Speaker 02 Honestly, nothing. I just said it. Because I felt like someone needed to say it, but you know.
3:27 Conan O'Brien? When you said I have something important to say, I was fascinated.
3:30 Speaker 02 Come on.
3:30 Conan O'Brien? I was!
3:31 Speaker 02 I say important things sometimes. I say interesting things.
3:34 Conan O'Brien? Just find one time.
3:35 Speaker 01 Try to say something important right now.
3:37 Conan O'Brien? Yes, let's say it.
3:37 Speaker 01 Off the top of your head.
3:38 Speaker 02 Off the top, not, who can ever do this off the top of their head?
3:42 Conan O'Brien? I love my children. I mean, that's pretty important and.
3:44 Speaker 02 Yeah, I do.
3:45 Conan O'Brien? Okay.
3:45 Speaker 02 Yeah.
3:47 Conan O'Brien? Wow, so defensive.
3:48 Speaker 02 Yeah, I love my children.
3:49 Conan O'Brien? When was the last time you saw him? Six months.
3:52 Speaker 02 You know, something important. Um, the, uh. Fucking, uh, I love smores. Like, that's just an important aspect.
4:03 Conan O'Brien? You do love smores.
4:03 Speaker 02 I remember the first time I had smores.
4:06 Conan O'Brien? Was it at that summer camp you went to that was, you went to an Armenian school, yes?
4:11 Speaker 02 I did. I went to an Armenian school. Shout out Meserobian, what's up? Um, no one else cares.
4:17 Conan O'Brien? Wow, the boards are lighting up. Let's bring her out.
4:22 Speaker 02 No, but this was, this was Girl Scouts. And then I, cause you know, even Armenians, like, we're not, I don't know, for smore people, like, we don't go camping. At least, my family didn't go camping. So I went with Girl Scouts, and someone handed it to me, and I was like, "What is this?"
4:38 Conan O'Brien? You loved it.
4:38 Speaker 02 And they said, "It's a smore. It's short for, you, when you get one, you want some more." And I was like, "I do want some more."
4:45 Conan O'Brien? Hence the addiction.
4:46 Speaker 02 Hence, ha, yeah.
4:47 Conan O'Brien? Wow, okay.
4:48 Speaker 02 Freaking love, love them.
4:49 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, I call them no more's.
4:51 Speaker 02 Okay.
4:52 Conan O'Brien? I want no more of these.
4:53 Speaker 01 Celeste.
4:54 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, a lot Celeste. I think we've got a very good comedy routine going that will rival who's on first. Look it up, kids. It's really funny. I make a lot of references that are at least 50 years old, some as long as 100 years old.
5:06 Speaker 02 Yeah.
5:07 Conan O'Brien? But that's another matter. I think you have something important to say. I really do.
5:11 Speaker 01 Me?
5:11 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
5:11 Speaker 02 Is it about Hershey's?
5:12 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
5:13 Speaker 01 Well, we do have this whole smorgasbord.
5:16 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
5:17 Speaker 02 Why can't you say it?
5:18 Conan O'Brien? Um, I didn't know, I'm, I-
5:19 Speaker 02 We're sponsored by Hershey's.
5:21 Conan O'Brien? There you go.
5:21 Speaker 02 Here we go. This is, they, they sponsored it, cause they're a very key ingredient in smores.
5:26 Speaker 01 But they've also got a new line of perfectly suited smores chocolates here.
5:31 Conan O'Brien? Look at this, they've got Hershey's caramel smore.
5:34 Speaker 01 That actually sounds really good.
5:36 Conan O'Brien? Oh wow, look, it's, uh-
5:38 Speaker 01 Thank you, Chills.
5:39 Conan O'Brien? All right, well, show us what we got here.
5:41 Speaker 02 I'm so happy.
5:42 Conan O'Brien? This is very exciting. Uh, Hershey's, of course, a vital ingredient in the smore. You know what you're not gonna find in a good smore? Some dark, bitter chocolate that has a panda on it, from, uh, Norway. Do you know what I mean?
5:54 Speaker 02 Yeah.
5:55 Conan O'Brien? It's gotta be, it's gotta be Hershey's. What is that?
5:58 Speaker 01 It's caramel.
5:58 Speaker 02 Oh, God.
6:03 Speaker 02 This is the best day of my life.
6:04 Speaker 01 What is this?
6:05 Speaker 02 Oh, my God.
6:06 Speaker 01 Get it out of the sun, I want it to live forever.
6:08 Speaker 02 This is the best day of my, oh, my God.
6:09 Speaker 01 Oh, my God, we got a letter.
6:12 Conan O'Brien? Okay, okay, wait for it to, you know, this is important.
6:15 Speaker 02 Oh, my, I am so happy.
6:16 Conan O'Brien? Um, and can I say something? We've had many different people, uh, you know, sign up to advertise on the podcast, but Hershey's, this is a bond. This is a bond that goes way back.
6:28 Speaker 01 Hershey's has won me over.
6:29 Conan O'Brien? Cause summer, I mean, summer camp, to me, meant Hershey's, you know? It really did.
6:34 Speaker 02 Uh, it went down the wrong pipe. I can't breathe anymore. I'm really serious.
6:38 Conan O'Brien? Are you okay? Do you need, I mean, you can't joke about that. Do you need medical attention?
6:42 Speaker 01 Drink the water.
6:42 Speaker 02 I do.
6:43 Conan O'Brien? Okay, well, we'll take care of it later.
6:45 Speaker 02 We actually have a doctor here.
6:47 Conan O'Brien? Oh, Dr. Royo, step in.
6:49 Speaker 03 Hi, are you okay?
6:51 Speaker 02 Yeah, I'm fine.
6:52 Speaker 03 All right, because if you can laugh, you can breathe.
6:54 Speaker 02 Okay. You're right, I'm sorry, thank you.
6:57 Conan O'Brien? Apparently, no one's breathing here.
7:04 Speaker 01 Here's a letter from Hershey's.
7:05 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, letter from Hershey's, let's go.
7:07 Speaker 01 Dear Sona and Gourley, Hershey's is thrilled to finally sponsor summer S'mores with our favorite Chill Chums. We know some people, not a lot, who aren't chill enough to appreciate what makes this classic campfire treat so great. But you both get it. Whether it's with your family, your friends, or your fellow podcast co-hosts, when you are making smores, you are making memories. As a token of our appreciation, please accept these sweet gifts from all of us at Team Coco OA.
7:33 Speaker 02 Ayy.
7:34 Speaker 01 And let us know, let us know what you think of our new Hershey's caramel made for smores. But please make it clear to Mr. O'Brien, we are sorry, but we only sponsor smores lovers and Chill Chums. Let's smore more. Andrew R. Shombo, President of Chocolate, the Hershey Company.
7:50 Speaker 02 How do I get that job?
7:52 Conan O'Brien? He's like Willy Wonka, he's the president of chocolate at Hershey's.
7:54 Speaker 01 We got a hand-signed letter from the president of chocolate.
7:57 Conan O'Brien? Do you know that he wears a giant top hat? And he's holding a contest to see who will take over Hershey's, and he has a glass elevator?
8:03 Speaker 01 Oh.
8:04 Conan O'Brien? Do you know that he was written by Roald Dahl? And that this is me doing some sort of weird parody? Of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, except it's Hershey's?
8:11 Speaker 02 You know, you're really bringing us down.
8:12 Conan O'Brien? Sorry.
8:13 Speaker 02 This is so cool. Can I also say, I mean, this is a very serious thing, and I know they're sponsoring us, but if you give me smores that don't have Hershey's in it, I won't eat it.
8:22 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, that's, uh, that's good to know.
8:24 Speaker 02 Look at that, our names are on here.
8:27 Conan O'Brien? What's that, that's, uh, is that their mascot? Is it a chocolate bar? What are you holding in your hand?
8:31 Speaker 02 Yeah, it looks like a little chocolate bar.
8:33 Conan O'Brien? All right, here's a question I want to ask. Robert Smichael and I used to talk about this back at Saturday Night Live, which is products that want you to eat them. Do you know what I mean? Isn't that a strange concept? So that's a Hershey bar that's saying,
8:45 Speaker 02 Eat Hershey bars!
8:46 Conan O'Brien? And he is a Hershey bar.
8:47 Speaker 02 Eat me! I'm so delicious.
8:49 Conan O'Brien? It's a strange thing.
8:51 Speaker 02 Yeah.
8:51 Conan O'Brien? He longs for himself to be devoured.
8:54 Speaker 02 Well, that's his.
8:55 Conan O'Brien? It's just a strange concept.
8:56 Speaker 02 That's his job in life. If he, if no one eats him, then he just goes bad and he throws them away.
9:01 Conan O'Brien? Are those pajama bottoms? Oh, yes, sir. I'm just going through my swag. Sorry. This, you've got some serious swag there. This is amazing. I love swag. Wow, this is incredible.
9:08 Speaker 02 Did you get anything?
9:09 Conan O'Brien? Well, I probably shouldn't say this on camera, but Hershey's sent me a completely refurbished Cobra.
9:18 Conan O'Brien? You mean the snake? What do you mean? No, it's a, it's a version of a Mustang Cobra. It's refurbished 1969. I think it's got a, probably a street value or collector value of over $700,000. They sent it to me and it says Hershey's Chocolate on the back. And so, thank you Hershey's for the, I mean, it's a, it's a classic car and they used seven helicopters to bring it in.
9:39 Speaker 02 Oh, boy. Why didn't they just drive it and?
9:41 Conan O'Brien? You know, I don't know.
9:42 Speaker 02 Okay.
9:43 Conan O'Brien? Because they're just three blocks away. I don't know, but, um, no, I did not get anything from Hershey's, but you know what? Hershey's already gave me a gift. Years and years of memories, happy memories. And I just thought of that. I didn't say on my feet because I'm sitting, but that's pretty good.
9:57 Speaker 02 Can I eat a smore?
10:00 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, of course you can.
10:01 Speaker 02 How do we eat smores? Can we eat the?
10:03 Speaker 04 So, uh, Hershey's.
10:04 Conan O'Brien? Play, everybody.
10:05 Speaker 04 Yeah, so we have special torches just for Sona and Gourley.
10:07 Conan O'Brien? These are Hershey torches, you said?
10:09 Speaker 04 Special torches.
10:10 Conan O'Brien? This is amazing.
10:11 Speaker 04 To make your smores. Conan, uh, Hershey's wanted you to know that they specifically did not sponsor you because you've, uh, said that you didn't like smores.
10:19 Conan O'Brien? Can I?
10:19 Speaker 04 That's right. You get to keep those.
10:21 Conan O'Brien? That made it all worth it.
10:22 Speaker 04 That's right.
10:23 Conan O'Brien? That's great. You guys have laser beams now. Oh, smell it. I believe I have identified the flaw with the smore and this may cause some controversy. I was thinking about it. I love Hershey Chocolate. I love graham crackers. It's the marshmallow. It's the marshmallow. Sona, do not get your hand in the way of that. That's unf-.
10:42 Speaker 02 I know. This is really.
10:43 Conan O'Brien? You've got a burning marshmallow. That's.
10:45 Speaker 02 Oh, my God. It's on a wooden tray, too. This is not good.
10:49 Conan O'Brien? Is it still on fire?
10:50 Speaker 02 Everybody, hold on. Everybody evacuate.
10:53 Conan O'Brien? Whose idea was it to give Sona?
10:55 Speaker 02 I got it. I got it.
10:56 Conan O'Brien? Don't hold it.
10:57 Speaker 02 I don't know how else to do it. I really don't know what else to do. I mean, someone gave me a blowtor- my house burned down.
11:05 Conan O'Brien? Her house burned down in the Altadena fires and you are creating this triggering situation for her where she's supposed to hold a fire and shoot it at herself?
11:15 Conan O'Brien? Blake, get in there and help her.
11:16 Speaker 04 Look, I could do it for you here. I'm sorry.
11:18 Speaker 02 How are you gonna do it without holding it?
11:20 Speaker 04 It's easy.
11:21 Speaker 02 You have to hold it.
11:22 Conan O'Brien? He's not a real person, Sona.
11:24 Speaker 04 Hold my mic.
11:25 Speaker 02 I want it more...
11:25 Speaker 04 Look how good that is.
11:26 Speaker 02 No, I need it more melted. Thank you. Thank you.
11:29 Conan O'Brien? Oh, now Chill shows up with a fire extinguisher.
11:35 Conan O'Brien? Today's the day I brought my kerosene rag collection.
11:41 Conan O'Brien? The best moments happen outside, wandering along and hey, look, that mama bird's making a nest.
11:48 Speaker 02 Yeah.
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13:03 Conan O'Brien? Hey, time for a shout out to Hershey's and a huge thanks to them for sponsoring Summer Smores. You have to admit, kind of a perfect sponsor for Summer Smores. Hershey's, the chocolate bar in America, I think the world. Now you can s'more like never before with Hershey's Milk Chocolate with Caramel. These are people that won a long time ago and they're not satisfied. They keep thinking of new ways to delight us.
13:27 Speaker 02 Yeah.
13:27 Conan O'Brien? Sweet new take on the classic treat, this Hershey's Milk Chocolate with Caramel. Groundbreaking delight delivers an over the top smores experience. Each Hershey's caramel bar is perfectly sized for smores. They did this, they engineered it with smores in mind. Delivering optimum ooey gooey goodness in every bite. And I say that with great sincerity. It's not just goodness, it's ooey gooey goodness. Blah, you laugh when no one else did. So grab your chums and gather round for toasted marshmallows, crunchy graham crackers and new Hershey's caramel bars. Only a fool could resist a smores like this. I think they're talking to me.
14:06 Speaker 02 Yeah.
14:07 Conan O'Brien? I'm not a fan of a smores, but you know what? They're tempting me a little bit with this new chocolate confection they've arranged. It's an indulgent new way to make summer memories. Try Hershey's Milk Chocolate with Caramel today. S'more more.
14:28 Speaker 02 Oh.
14:30 Conan O'Brien? Is it good?
14:31 Speaker 02 Yes.
14:32 Conan O'Brien? Do you like the caramel?
14:33 Speaker 02 I love it so much.
14:33 Conan O'Brien? Hershey's, you've done it again. We thought you had perfected the chocolate bar, which goes way back to, I don't know the history of Hershey's, so I'm gonna make it up. Elijah P. Hershey came to this country on a chocolate canoe in 1881. And he created the chocolate factory for Hershey's in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Yeah, oh yeah. And since then, Hershey's been the chocolate bar that Americans love. Famously handed out in World War II to GIs.
15:07 Conan O'Brien? It became kind of a calling card, saying, "America is sweet and tasty." It was actually 1883. Was it 18... and what did I guess? 1881. Isn't that crazy? And I know it's not Elijah P. Hershey, but I bet it's something close. It's Milton S. Hershey. Milton, oh, it's an even better name. Milton. Oh, Milton. Milton created the chocolate bar accidentally. Yeah.
15:30 Speaker 02 Why? How?
15:31 Conan O'Brien? Oh, it's a crazy story.
15:34 Conan O'Brien? It's really insane.
15:34 Speaker 02 What is the story?
15:35 Conan O'Brien? Oh, wait till you hear it. We're waiting. Well, I think for help, we're gonna bring in Dr. Arroyo.
15:41 Speaker 02 Oh, yes!
15:43 Conan O'Brien? Dr. Arroyo... Wait, you outsourced your improv to your doctor?
15:49 Conan O'Brien? Dr. Arroyo, tell him how Milton Hershey accidentally invented the chocolate bar. This is the kind of thing I could improvise like a madman in my twenties and thirties, but those days are gone. So take it for me, will you, doctor?
16:02 Speaker 03 Sure. Well, it's a fascinating story.
16:05 Conan O'Brien? Well, I had that part already.
16:07 Speaker 03 Oh, very good.
16:09 Conan O'Brien? This thing's a real corker. Tell him, Dr. Arroyo.
16:12 Speaker 03 Well, Milton Hershey came to this country in a canoe.
16:15 Conan O'Brien? I did that!
16:16 Speaker 03 You did that. All right. He stuck to cold water to keep it going. And he had a dream. And his dream was to make the best chocolate he could, and he succeeded. And I'm being told to stand closer to you by your directors, and I hope that's okay. You're enjoying that chocolate.
16:35 Conan O'Brien? I ate this whole thing, and you know what? It's nice. And I like chocolate when it's a little bit melty, and because it's warm out here.
16:40 Speaker 03 Yes.
16:41 Conan O'Brien? I'm still wearing corduroys. I think it looks good. I die for my public. I'm now eating this, and it's pretty much liquid.
16:47 Speaker 02 What was the city of Hershey called before Hershey got there?
16:52 Conan O'Brien? I think it was called Wonderful Town. People love that name.
16:57 Speaker 02 Where's the torch? I'm gonna do another one.
16:59 Conan O'Brien? They took yours away.
17:01 Speaker 02 I promise.
17:02 Speaker 03 By the way, I fully endorse playing with torches in a hot day.
17:08 Speaker 03 That's right in my wheelhouse. Are these for anybody, or just for the town?
17:14 Conan O'Brien? Um, and I think not for you, Dr. Royal. Very good, very good. We don't want you on a sugar rush when you're doing brain surgery in an hour. For someone who can't afford real brain surgery. Well, there, that was wonderful of them to send all this nice stuff.
17:28 Speaker 02 That really was.
17:30 Conan O'Brien? You could perceive it as kind of an ad, but I don't. I think it's just a gesture of goodwill. And that's lunch taken care of. Exactly, yeah. We don't need to eat lunch because we've just had, well, you've had smores. I've just had several Hershey's chocolate bars at this point, and they're delicious. It reminds me of my old camp, Cragged Mountain Farm in Freedom, New Hampshire. That's where I used to go. I loved it there. And I used to wear very short shorts because that was the style in the 70s. And... You ever thought about bringing those back?
17:58 Speaker 02 You have very long, skinny legs.
18:01 Conan O'Brien? Uh, what I will tell you is that I once took a really long trip in an aluminum canoe. Oh, yeah, we've heard. Yeah. A few times. And man, that fried me up. Oh, man, I guess we've done this for seven years.
18:11 Speaker 02 Oh, my god.
18:12 Conan O'Brien? There's gotta be something.
18:13 Speaker 02 This is bad.
18:13 Conan O'Brien? What's that?
18:14 Speaker 02 This is bad.
18:16 Conan O'Brien? Why is it bad? Oh, it's a mess.
18:19 Speaker 02 It's such a mess.
18:20 Conan O'Brien? I'm really questioning your choice of wardrobe today.
18:23 Speaker 02 This was such a bad idea.
18:23 Conan O'Brien? Why did you wear a white jacket on smore-making day?
18:26 Speaker 02 I didn't know someone was gonna hand me a torch and tell me to melt stuff.
18:29 Conan O'Brien? Look at Conan and I, planned ahead, we're literally wearing brown.
18:31 Speaker 02 Yeah, I know, but...
18:32 Conan O'Brien? Jesus, you look like you just tended to someone in a collar award. Hey, guys, we are a smores. What? Chocolate marshmallow graham cracker. Hey, that's something that could probably make it into the actual podcast. That's good. That's great. I like that. Yeah. She's, no, I'm serious. I do, I want to double down on this. I think the marshmallow's the flaw. I agree, though. Because I like chocolate, I like graham cracker, and the marshmallow is this gooey... Do you need more sugar on a Hershey bar? I don't think so. Well, is there any reason we can't have you try just the chocolate and the graham cracker? I'll roast some chocolate, and we don't have to put the... Do you even need to roast it? Just hand me a chocolate bar. No, you gotta, you gotta have the effect.
19:08 Speaker 02 What are you gonna roast over a fire if you don't have a marshmallow, though?
19:11 Conan O'Brien? I'm thinking of something right now. What?
19:14 Speaker 02 Me?
19:15 Conan O'Brien? No, that's a terrible joke to make. I don't want to see you burn over a flame. Man, I'd love to see her burn over. Oh, wow, you're a really top chef. God, you are torching the hell out of that thing.
19:26 Speaker 01 It's gotta get, it's gotta penetrate, you know? Don't mess with my technique.
19:30 Conan O'Brien? Okay.
19:30 Speaker 02 It's gotta penetrate.
19:31 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, man. Yeah, I know what you're saying.
19:33 Speaker 02 Yeah, I am.
19:35 Conan O'Brien? Oh, wow, what a fancy plate. I wonder who makes it. I wonder if they're allowed to be mentioned in this segment. I don't know how things work. I don't know what the rules are.
19:42 Speaker 02 Well, I mean, there's logos everywhere.
19:44 Conan O'Brien? Tanisha, who runs our advertising world, is wearing those reflective sunglasses that the guard wears in Cool Hand Luke, and it's terrifying. Every time I wonder if I'm handling the product correctly or saying the right things, I look at her and she's staring back at me with reflective shades like I'm gonna die. Oh, that's great. I don't miss the marshmallow. Hey, here's my suggestion. When you're gonna make a smore this summer, think about not putting the marshmallow on. I do think that's the flaw.
20:13 Speaker 01 Maybe this is a new dessert we've created. Instead of smore or sluss, it's just some.
20:18 Conan O'Brien? You know? I think that's a terrific thing you just said.
20:21 Speaker 01 But it's S apostrophe O M E.
20:23 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
20:24 Speaker 01 Yeah.
20:24 Speaker 02 I got chocolate on my pants.
20:26 Conan O'Brien? What, that?
20:27 Speaker 02 I got chocolate on my pants.
20:28 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, of course you did.
20:29 Speaker 02 Yeah.
20:31 Conan O'Brien? I have eaten with you all around the world, Sona, and all across the nation on our tour. I never saw you not spill something on yourself.
20:37 Speaker 02 I am, no, you're making, are you doing a bit?
20:39 Conan O'Brien? I'm not doing a bit. You always spill on yourself.
20:42 Speaker 02 I love eating, and I want it in my body as quickly as possible.
20:46 Conan O'Brien? Right.
20:46 Speaker 02 And sometimes some of it comes off and on me.
20:49 Conan O'Brien? We know what spilling is all about. Yes, we know the concept of spilling.
20:53 Speaker 02 But I just, I really, I think it comes from my enthusiasm for eating.
20:57 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, that's great.
20:58 Speaker 02 So you give me smores and a torch, and then, obviously, obviously.
21:01 Conan O'Brien? I didn't give you smores and a torch. Someone who works here had that idea.
21:05 Speaker 02 Yeah.
21:05 Conan O'Brien? And I think they will not be working here tomorrow. They'll be at NASA, because I think they're geniuses.
21:11 Speaker 02 I got on my pants. I got on my pants.
21:14 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. Well, this has been lovely of Hershey to send all this, and I think we said their name many times, and I think we said it in a positive way. But thank you, Hershey. You did exclude me. No, no company we've worked for has ever rewarded you two and then excluded me in such brutal fashion. But I understand why they're doing it. They have integrity, and they don't want to have anything to do with someone who's actively anti-smore.
21:39 Speaker 01 And it got us to talk about the product for the entire 20 minutes.
21:42 Speaker 02 The entire, the whole time.
21:44 Conan O'Brien? I bet you there are a lot of fans right now thinking, this is a ripoff. And that's why I'm trying to add a little something kind of fun and add a little protein, you know, so it's not all about Hershey.
21:54 Speaker 02 Hmm.
21:54 Conan O'Brien? But god, Hershey's good.
21:55 Speaker 02 So what are you adding?
21:56 Conan O'Brien? Okay. Yeah.
21:57 Speaker 02 Um.
21:58 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, what's the protein?
21:59 Speaker 02 So like, what did you add?
22:00 Conan O'Brien? Okay. You wanna get Dr. Arroyo back?
22:03 Speaker 02 I know.
22:03 Conan O'Brien? No, no, I really don't. Um, I, uh...
22:07 Speaker 02 You wanna talk about the time you were in an aluminum canoe again?
22:10 Conan O'Brien? Wearing little hot pants. I'll tell you this story. The tents that we had at Cragged Mountain Farm were, I think, army issue from the 1940s. They weren't the modern tents that you would get like at, say, an REI or some other place that sells camping technology. They were just these sheets of like old faded green canvas, and when it would rain, rain just poured through the tents, especially if there was, if the tent was bulging and you tried to hold it up a little bit, once your skin touched the tent, it would bring all the water into the
22:43 Speaker 02 Oh my god.
22:44 Conan O'Brien? I've never been that miserable in my life.
22:46 Speaker 02 You guys, so you did actual camping?
22:48 Conan O'Brien? Oh, yeah.
22:49 Speaker 02 Oh, I was in like...
22:50 Conan O'Brien? I hiked the Presidential Mountain Rain.
22:52 Speaker 02 Oh, that's nice.
22:53 Conan O'Brien? They had you do Mount Washington, Madison, uh, they, there was even a, there was a Mount Trump then, because someone was thinking ahead.
23:01 Speaker 02 Ohhh.
23:03 Conan O'Brien? Oh, come on, no, we are not a political show. I won't have booing and I won't have yaying. I'm just telling you, I just did a little fun. Didn't hear many yays.
23:10 Speaker 02 Yeah.
23:11 Conan O'Brien? I heard one.
23:12 Speaker 02 Didn't hear any.
23:13 Conan O'Brien? Dr. Arroyo. He's in, ever since they got, ever since they, they, ever since they said vaccines are bad for you, and they pretty much got rid of all the medical experts. Dr. Arroyo was thrilled.
23:28 Speaker 02 I think he was offered a cabinet position.
23:30 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
23:30 Speaker 03 Yes, I was, but I was overqualified.
23:33 Conan O'Brien? Oh, okay, okay. There's Dr. Arroyo with some political humor. Very good, Dr. Arroyo. Look at us, we're the Daily Show. Look at me, I'm Bill Maher, yeah. I'm showing the man what it's all about.
23:48 Speaker 01 What's that? Two for two on buttoning these episodes.
23:50 Conan O'Brien? He did a great job, and let's not talk too long afterwards. But I have to tell you, those tents.
23:55 Speaker 01 Oh, God.
23:55 Conan O'Brien? They really were.
23:56 Speaker 01 Oh, my God. You act like you were in Vietnam or something.
23:59 Speaker 02 I know.
24:01 Conan O'Brien? I keep dragging us back in.
24:02 Speaker 02 When I went to camp, we were in like, air-conditioned cabins.
24:06 Conan O'Brien? That's not camping.
24:07 Speaker 02 In like, the Palisades.
24:09 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
24:09 Speaker 01 Oh, my God.
24:09 Speaker 02 It was really nice.
24:10 Speaker 01 What you were just...
24:11 Speaker 02 It was the Armenian camp I went to. I don't even know how they got these, this like, place that we went to, but it was so fun.
24:17 Conan O'Brien? Did you, um, but you liked the camp, obviously, because it sounds like you just went to a spa.
24:21 Speaker 02 Yeah.
24:21 Conan O'Brien? You went to a real camp, I bet.
24:23 Speaker 02 He didn't go to camp.
24:24 Speaker 01 But, that being said, I did a lot of camping. In fact, one time, I slept on the ground with some friends way up in Yosemite, and there was a bear 50 feet away in the middle of the night, just staring at us.
24:34 Conan O'Brien? Right.
24:34 Speaker 02 I, you know what? I don't like camping.
24:36 Speaker 01 I do.
24:37 Speaker 02 I think that people buy so much gear when they go camping, so that it feels like they're at home.
24:42 Speaker 01 That's true.
24:42 Speaker 02 And it's like, just stay home. Like, why are you going outside?
24:46 Speaker 01 Can I remind you that L.L. Bean is our sponsor?
24:49 Speaker 02 Right, right, right, right.
24:50 Conan O'Brien? I want to counter what you said, Sona. I love getting in the great outdoors. I really do.
24:55 Speaker 02 No, you don't.
24:56 Conan O'Brien? I do. I used to go camping all the time. I love camping.
24:59 Speaker 01 Do you have any stories about it?
25:00 Conan O'Brien? What's that?
25:00 Speaker 01 Do you have any stories about it?
25:02 Conan O'Brien? I do. I'll tell you about a tent I had once, a dragon mountain farm. Really inferior quality, and I think it was Army issue. Probably World War II or the Korean War. And that's no joke. Wettest night of my life. Um, but...
25:12 Speaker 01 Third time I've put this up here.
25:14 Conan O'Brien? Uh, he's putting the wrap up again, but I'm not gonna listen.
25:16 Speaker 02 I'm not camping again. You know where I went camping once? Was Hawaii.
25:19 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
25:19 Speaker 01 Come on.
25:20 Conan O'Brien? That's not, Hank, you're not camping.
25:21 Speaker 01 You're just vacationing.
25:22 Conan O'Brien? Remember the time you camped in Las Vegas at the Wynn Hotel?
25:27 Conan O'Brien? Uh, we're gonna wrap it here, because we've gone too far, and I think been too funny.
25:32 Conan O'Brien? Okay, uh, Dr. Royal, come in and get us out of here. Here he comes. Time of death of this episode. 1:07 PM.
25:41 Speaker 01 See you next week.
25:42 Conan O'Brien? We'll see you next week. Thank you, Dr. Royal.
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