It’s A Small World In Here

Conan talks to Anirudh in Bangalore about living amongst a “joint family” and the angry drunk email he wrote to Conan while on a date. 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?

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• 0:05Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 0:05Conan O'Brien?

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• 0:07Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 0:08Conan O'Brien?

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• 0:13Speaker 01

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• 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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• 1:55Speaker 02

  Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan. Wanna talk to Conan? Visit teamcoco.com/callconan. Okay, let's get started.

• 2:04Speaker 03

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

• 2:07Conan O'Brien?

  Hello, Ani Rude. How are you?

• 2:08Speaker 04

  Hello. Hey, hi, Conan. Hi, Sona. Hi, Matt. Hi. Okay.

• 2:14Conan O'Brien?

  Where are you right now, Ani Rude?

• 2:16Speaker 04

  Uh, I'm in my bedroom in Bangalore in India.

• 2:20Conan O'Brien?

  Very nice. Very nice.

• 2:23Speaker 04

  Yeah. Uh, I'm sorry. Can I just say it's so cool to see you guys?

• 2:30Conan O'Brien?

  Oh.

• 2:31Speaker 04

  I have been watching Conan videos since I was like, I don't know, like 15 or something. And, um, I love Sona. I love Matt. I've seen every remote sketch and it's so cool to be here.

• 2:44Conan O'Brien?

  Well, Ani Rude, thank you very much for being a fan and it's really nice to talk to you. It's also just really nice to know that someone in Bangalore is, is listening to us and that's just, I always get a kick out of that. It makes me, it makes me very happy.

• 3:01Speaker 04

  Yeah, well, yeah, of course. I mean, I have, uh, I mean, me and my brother, we do like what we call Conan bits all the time.

• 3:09Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Yeah. I feel like I gave the world shingles.

• 3:15Speaker 04

  Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

• 3:19Conan O'Brien?

  I really, uh, I'm, I'm, well, tell your brother I said hi and that makes me really happy. I've been doing Conan bits since I was born, so it's, uh, it's a problem. It's a problem for me too. I know. Well, Ani Rude, uh, am I saying your name correctly? I want to make sure I get that right.

• 3:35Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 3:35Conan O'Brien?

  Okay.

• 3:36Speaker 04

  That's right.

• 3:37Conan O'Brien?

  We practiced for an hour before we talked to you. Ani Rude, tell us about your situation. Um, do you live with family? What's going on?

• 3:45Speaker 04

  Oh, uh, yeah. So I live in something called a joint family, which is where you kind of like live with like a bunch of nuclear families all together. It's pretty common in India, uh, less so now, but basically I live with about 15 people.

• 4:01Conan O'Brien?

  Wow.

• 4:01Speaker 04

  Um, and we kind of. Are, you know, just cordon off in three different apartments that are right next to each other. I always like to say it's kind of like, like the TV show Friends or something because. Yeah, it's that's how it feels like. You just have like a bunch of people like living really, really close together. So. It's pretty chaotic. Uh, it can get quite disruptive. I mean, uh, I, I know you grew up with like six brothers.

• 4:26Conan O'Brien?

  Uh, well, I'm one of six. I have brothers and sisters. Yeah. But there was a good deal of chaos and madness, but in a fun way. I thought it was really fun to have. And my whole life I've liked it when there's a bunch of people around me. I, I, that feels normal to me. Uh, because of the way I grew up and we were all in one house and smashing into each other all the time. And it was fun. Until it wasn't. But honey rude, I'm curious. So you're talking about, there's fifteen people. So you're talking about. Siblings, but also cousins, uncles, aunts, the whole. Wow.

• 5:00Speaker 04

  That's right. The whole thing, the whole chappang. Um, yeah, I, I, it's like fifteen people and it's, uh, it's a nightmare to organize stuff. Yeah, like you said, it's fun. It's super fun.

• 5:10Conan O'Brien?

  When you say organize stuff, what kind of stuff? Like a sack race, like a, you know, what are you trying to organize?

• 5:16Speaker 04

  Yeah, like it's like a family festival thing like, so I mean, we live in India, so there's like a ton of festivals. And, um, we have like, uh, you know, we sort of celebrate everything like Diwali, which is like the festival of lights. And Holi, which is the festival of colors.

• 5:33Conan O'Brien?

  Right.

• 5:33Speaker 04

  And also we just eat out, uh, once a week, every Sunday.

• 5:38Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, that, I'm gonna say this. Going out to eat with my family, uh, you know, parents, my grandmother, six kids, that was insane. Because you're all around one table and especially if it was communal food, like if we go to a Chinese restaurant or an Indian restaurant. It was insane because if someone was trying to decide what the whole table should get. And it always devolved into street fights, you know, and people stabbing each other. And now I'm picturing fifteen of you going to a restaurant, the waiter would probably kill himself before, as he approached your table. I mean, how do you do it?

• 6:16Speaker 04

  Oh, okay, so this is a whole process. We, we sort of like, I'm responsible for selecting restaurants, booking tables, and sort of like, um, you know, like, cajoling waitstaff whenever I have to. Uh, so that's kind of my job. But basically, it is chaos. It always is. Um, it's fifteen people, sort of just sitting around a, a giant, uh, table. But sometimes we even like, reserve or book out like a room in a restaurant, because that's the only way we can see to do it. And it is a lot of stabbing. It is a lot of like, oh, I ordered that thing, but this thing came over and okay, oh, but that person ordered this and blah, blah, blah. And it's just, uh, it's, it's chaos, like, for sure.

• 6:59Conan O'Brien?

  Arjun, I have to cut to the chase on something. Who's the maniac? There's fifteen of you. I know a name just popped into your head. You can see their face right now. Who's the one who's really out of control?

• 7:09Speaker 03

  He's thinking Conan.

• 7:11Conan O'Brien?

  Besides me. Who's the one in your pod of fifteen people who's really out there? And this doesn't have to be in a negative way, but just they're the kind of the wild card.

• 7:19Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, they're just, they're the wild card. Yeah, I have, uh, I have like a couple of cousins who I think definitely fit that bill.

• 7:27Conan O'Brien?

  Give me names. I want names.

• 7:31Speaker 04

  Are you gonna be talking to them after?

• 7:33Conan O'Brien?

  No, I didn't say I was gonna do that, although that's now a possibility.

• 7:38Speaker 04

  Well, um, I have this one cousin. We call him Fatu, which is like a sweet nickname that we made up for him.

• 7:45Conan O'Brien?

  It's called fuck you?

• 7:46Speaker 04

  Fatu.

• 7:47Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, Fatu. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's the, it's a sweet nickname called fuck you. Hey, fuck you!

• 7:53Speaker 04

  That's just...

• 7:54Conan O'Brien?

  I love you. Um, I'm sorry. It's a, it's a satellite connection. These things aren't perfect, but, um... Yeah, clearly you have a lot of love for fuck you. Fatu, I'm sorry, Fatu. Go ahead.

• 8:07Speaker 04

  Yeah, and he's like, just turning eighteen and he's in that, you know, like teenage angsty phase, and so that leads to a lot of stuff like, um, I mean, he asks me about like, uh, how to like, talk to girls and stuff like that, because he's never really done that before. And also, at the dinner table, he kind of is the guy who always diverts the conversation to whatever he likes. I'm sure Conan of Sonae and Matt would be familiar. So what that's like.

• 8:36Speaker 03

  We know, we know a little something about that.

• 8:37Conan O'Brien?

  We'll get to the civil war in a second.

• 8:41Conan O'Brien?

  Talking about that in the second half of this discussion. Uh, and Tidham specifically. Um. Yeah, uh, so, okay, so, uh, Fatu is a bit of a, I mean, he's a troublemaker. It's, but i- i- in a lovable way, he's a scamp.

• 8:56Speaker 04

  Oh, for sure.

• 8:57Conan O'Brien?

  Okay.

• 8:57Speaker 04

  Yeah, he's a sweetheart. That's why we call him fuck you.

• 9:03Conan O'Brien?

  Now, are, what's your story? Are you, uh, single, married, what's happening?

• 9:07Speaker 04

  Oh, okay, um, I have a girlfriend. Uh, we met in college, thanks to you in part.

• 9:13Conan O'Brien?

  What?

• 9:14Speaker 04

  Uh, yeah, well, um, I, I was, uh, this was, I was a little drunk on this particular day in college. It was like my second year in college and, uh, we, uh, we were friends at the time, me and my girlfriend Irene. And we decided to write an email to ask you if you would be interested in hiring us as interns.

• 9:36Conan O'Brien?

  Oh.

• 9:37Speaker 04

  Um.

• 9:38Conan O'Brien?

  Like a package deal?

• 9:39Speaker 04

  Yeah, totally, like the both of us, you know, you could, you could pay us half each of an unpaid internship and we'd be happy with it.

• 9:46Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, so half of nothing, I get it, yeah.

• 9:49Speaker 04

  Half of nothing.

• 9:49Conan O'Brien?

  So, uh.

• 9:50Speaker 04

  And, uh.

• 9:51Conan O'Brien?

  How long ago was this?

• 9:53Speaker 04

  Oh, this was about like six years ago.

• 9:55Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, so you, both of you together wrote an email asking if you could be interns, uh, uh, on my show.

• 10:01Speaker 04

  Uh, well, kind of, because we kind of like went over to the show website and we were like, oh, the, you know, like international students, kind of, maybe interns or something like that. So I, I was a bit inebriated, so I wrote like an angry email, um. That was, uh, I, I have it with me, but basically it was just about the, I, it's titled Concerns About The Diversity Of The Show. In All Casts.

• 10:28Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, okay, fair, fair.

• 10:30Speaker 04

  Because, yeah.

• 10:31Conan O'Brien?

  And it started with this line, hey, Fatu!

• 10:34Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 10:37Speaker 04

  Pretty much. It started, I mean, I was just trying to be funny, but it just started with, "Hey, you. Yeah, you." And that's just how it's...

• 10:45Speaker 01

  Oh, no.

• 10:45Conan O'Brien?

  I think it's always a fun joke when you email someone that you think their show reeks of racism.

• 10:52Conan O'Brien?

  That's always a fun, fun little joke.

• 10:58Conan O'Brien?

  So, all right.

• 10:59Speaker 04

  I mean, don't you see, yeah.

• 11:00Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, I understand.

• 11:01Speaker 04

  You can see the potential.

• 11:02Conan O'Brien?

  Yes, we can all do better, I suppose. Although, look, I mean, it's the United Nations in here.

• 11:09Speaker 01

  He pointed at me and Eduardo.

• 11:13Conan O'Brien?

  What a diversity.

• 11:14Speaker 01

  It's like saying, "I love Armenians. I have an Armenian friend."

• 11:17Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, it's like, it's a small world in here.

• 11:19Speaker 03

  Oh, my God.

• 11:20Conan O'Brien?

  It really is. Yeah.

• 11:23Speaker 04

  And so the don't know is called.

• 11:25Speaker 03

  Email coming your way.

• 11:26Speaker 01

  Hey, you. Yeah, you.

• 11:28Speaker 03

  I got an email going out to Smartless to see if I can get on that show.

• 11:32Conan O'Brien?

  Good luck to you. Right there, that's all the colors of the rainbow. Those three guys.

• 11:38Conan O'Brien?

  It's the most diverse show I've ever seen. Different kinds of white male.

• 11:50Conan O'Brien?

  You know, winning an award, that's a big achievement, right?

• 11:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, I love awards.

• 11:53Conan O'Brien?

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• 12:07Speaker 01

  Nice.

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• 13:26Speaker 01

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• 13:27Conan O'Brien?

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• 13:30Speaker 01

  Yeah.

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• 13:53Conan O'Brien?

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• 13:58Speaker 01

  I fell for a scam?

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• 14:02Speaker 01

  I did lose, and it was very inconvenient, and now they put protections on my account like I'm, uh, dumb.

• 14:07Conan O'Brien?

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• 14:28Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 14:28Conan O'Brien?

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• 14:29Speaker 01

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• 14:30Conan O'Brien?

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• 14:31Speaker 01

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• 15:22Speaker 01

  Yeah.

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• 15:33Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 15:34Conan O'Brien?

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• 15:37Speaker 01

  Oh, okay. Well, that's a very thoughtful gift.

• 15:40Conan O'Brien?

  Do you wear a wig, or is that your hair?

• 15:41Speaker 01

  Absolutely not. It's definitely my hair. And so it's kind of insulting you would buy that gift for me.

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  Well, I'll just return it anyway, but I do wish I got cash back.

• 15:50Speaker 01

  Yeah.

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• 16:07Conan O'Brien?

  Unni Rude.

• 16:08Speaker 04

  Unni, Unni Rude. You can just call me Unni, that's cool.

• 16:11Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, Unni, I'll call you Unni. All right, so you wrote a hostile accusatory email to me, thinking that would be fun, and what was the response?

• 16:20Speaker 04

  I received like a, you know, like an automated response.

• 16:24Conan O'Brien?

  Uh huh.

• 16:26Speaker 04

  Which just said, hey, your email will be read by somebody soon enough, and we'll get back to you.

• 16:32Conan O'Brien?

  Okay.

• 16:33Speaker 04

  But, I mean, I think that someone who immediately is hostile and talks about concerns about diversity is just a great intern to have around.

• 16:45Conan O'Brien?

  I think so. So. Well, first of all, you know, it's all fair, and I think, it sounds like we, you know, you got a, but I think the bigger issue would have been, you were writing this from India, is that right?

• 16:58Speaker 04

  Yep, that's right.

• 16:59Conan O'Brien?

  And so, explain something to me, your girlfriend Irene, was she with you in India at the time, when you wrote this email?

• 17:08Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, we wrote this email together, and basically, that's what I consider our first date, which is

• 17:14Conan O'Brien?

  What if I had, what if we had written? That's very nice, but what if I had written back, me, I don't answer these myself, my brother does, but if you had heard that, yes, you had an internship, would you have flown all the way from India to take an unpaid internship?

• 17:29Speaker 04

  Now that you say it, it doesn't sound smart. But I do think I would have done that.

• 17:37Conan O'Brien?

  Well, that's really nice. You met because, and it sounds like Irene's a fan.

• 17:42Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah. I mean, we, we sort of like bonded over like late night shows. We talked about you, of course, and we talked about Stephen Colbert. And that's kind of how we started to like get close and become friends.

• 17:56Conan O'Brien?

  That's nice.

• 17:56Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's, yeah.

• 17:59Conan O'Brien?

  Well, it sounds like you guys have excellent taste in comedy, and that's the important thing.

• 18:04Speaker 04

  Yeah, you mean Colbert?

• 18:06Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah. I did, actually. I did. I did.

• 18:10Speaker 01

  Okay, alright. Well, the whole part started off with, "So, so your girlfriend's a fan of mine too?"

• 18:16Conan O'Brien?

  Well, yeah, because that's how they met, so I just was, I think that's a fair question.

• 18:19Speaker 01

  I feel like you were just trying to like reinforce the fact that she was your fan, just to make sure.

• 18:24Conan O'Brien?

  She's what?

• 18:24Speaker 01

  Like, you were trying to reinforce the...

• 18:26Conan O'Brien?

  Ah, gotcha! Don't do it.

• 18:29Speaker 01

  So angry.

• 18:31Conan O'Brien?

  Well, anyway, so she's a big fan, and always has been.

• 18:37Conan O'Brien?

  Only rude, how often, where does Irene live now?

• 18:41Speaker 04

  Oh, well, she, she's doing a graduate degree in the US. She's interning at Google right now, so she's all fancy. She's out there stealing jobs and learning about tech.

• 18:53Conan O'Brien?

  So, that is, that must be difficult. That's a long-distance relationship.

• 18:58Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's, that's right. As, we've had ways that we sort of like adjust with that. For, for instance, I, I sort of started up a podcast of my own called The Irene Show, where like every year on her birthday, I do one episode, basically, and it's kind of like just, you know, like soundboards of celebrities and, and you. I didn't mean for that to sound mean, but basically, soundboards of celebrities.

• 19:25Conan O'Brien?

  We get it.

• 19:29Conan O'Brien?

  And also you. Yeah, no, it, it, trust me, you're just echoing the voice in my head. So, that's, that's really sweet. He seems like a very creative, sweet person.

• 19:41Speaker 01

  That's a really sweet gift.

• 19:42Conan O'Brien?

  And this sounds like a good relationship, and I don't want to put you on the spot, but is there a potential that this relationship could go to the next level at some point?

• 19:51Speaker 04

  Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I mean, her parents need to... That's, that's a scary question. But her parents of...

• 20:03Speaker 04

  Her parents basically need to be okay with it. Yeah.

• 20:06Conan O'Brien?

  What's their problem? Why are they not okay with it?

• 20:09Speaker 04

  Uh, just Indian stuff.

• 20:10Conan O'Brien?

  Come on, no! You let me handle them.

• 20:14Speaker 04

  Yeah, so... Oh, okay.

• 20:16Speaker 01

  Bring this white guy in.

• 20:18Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah.

• 20:18Speaker 01

  He'll take care of it.

• 20:21Conan O'Brien?

  Hi, I'm on Smartless. Hi, I'm on Smartless. I'm the most diverse member of Smartless. Yeah. And I'd like to say that you need to give Unirud a break.

• 20:33Conan O'Brien?

  Well, I think, have you met them?

• 20:35Speaker 04

  Uh, yes, but, I mean, they didn't know we were dating.

• 20:38Conan O'Brien?

  Mm-hmm.

• 20:39Speaker 04

  Um, basically, I've met them a couple of times as a friend, and her dad's like this really, really strict guy. He's kind of like, um, just super quiet, a sort of, and manly, and I'm not. So, we don't really get along very well, but, yeah.

• 20:56Conan O'Brien?

  Well, I think, uh, most dads, I think, just want their daughter to be with someone who's a really good person, and that's you. So, I don't think, I don't foresee an issue. I just don't. And if there is an issue, I'll intervene, okay?

• 21:10Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 21:11Conan O'Brien?

  And that will mean nothing to your dad, to your father-in-law, who sounds like, uh, he'd be quite hostile to me. Anyway.

• 21:20Conan O'Brien?

  Please, I, you meet, you don't like me, but talk to this manly man, Conan O'Brien. Where is it?

• 21:26Speaker 03

  What's going on?

• 21:27Speaker 01

  Do you want to hear about Antietam?

• 21:29Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 21:32Speaker 01

  Let's talk about this little war.

• 21:34Speaker 03

  It was a war of attrition. You must be here for my wife's book club. It's out back. Oh, did you say book club? Yeah, I did. Do you have any, um, huckleberry tea? No, not another one.

• 21:49Speaker 03

  I'm making my sounds again.

• 21:51Conan O'Brien?

  Well, listen, um, Unirud, uh, you, uh, or Uni, as I call you, or, uh, um, of course, in the yellow pages, Rude, comma, Uni. I, uh, I'm just losing my mind. We're wasting valuable time here. Is it really valuable? What are we doing after this? Don't we just play cards after this? Yeah, I want to get to those. Yeah. Unirud, listen, I'm excited for you. You sound, I'm lucky to have such a smart, cool fan. And please give my best to Irene and tell her that I approve of you. I think you're fantastic. And

• 22:30Speaker 04

  That's really sweet.

• 22:31Conan O'Brien?

  Tell, was it Fatum?

• 22:34Speaker 04

  Fatu.

• 22:35Conan O'Brien?

  Is that right?

• 22:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, Fatu.

• 22:37Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, tell Fatu

• 22:38Speaker 04

  That's right.

• 22:38Conan O'Brien?

  Tell Fatu that he needs to settle down. But this is, no, I want him to sow his wild oats now. I want him to enjoy

• 22:44Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:45Conan O'Brien?

  being the madman of this 15.

• 22:47Speaker 01

  He's 18.

• 22:48Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, exactly. Hey, man, you were nuts all through your 20s.

• 22:51Speaker 01

  Yes, I was.

• 22:52Conan O'Brien?

  Into your 30s.

• 22:52Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:53Conan O'Brien?

  Still nuts.

• 22:54Speaker 01

  Let him live.

• 22:55Conan O'Brien?

  Yes, exactly.

• 22:57Speaker 01

  Mom.

• 22:58Conan O'Brien?

  What'd you say?

• 22:58Speaker 01

  Sorry.

• 23:00Conan O'Brien?

  Anyway, lovely talking to you, Unirud, and have a great day. Okay? And I hope our paths cross someday because I think we'd have a good time.

• 23:10Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, I absolutely agree. I think it's just bound to happen in some way. I don't know why I said that. I'm not like spiritual or anything, but I think so.

• 23:21Conan O'Brien?

  No, it's going to happen. It's like anything else. You have to manifest it like Oprah says.

• 23:26Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 23:26Conan O'Brien?

  You've got to manifest it and then it will happen. Yeah. And you know where I live and you've already sent me a threatening email. So we've probably already had you investigated.

• 23:36Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm on a list somewhere.

• 23:37Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah.

• 23:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 23:40Conan O'Brien?

  Free say that proudly. Oh, I'm on a list. All right, Unirud, take care. Nice talking to you. Bye bye.

• 23:46Speaker 04

  Nice speaking to you guys, too. See you.

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