Pod Insights Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend Summer S’mores with Conan and the Chill Chums Season 5 Episode 6 About this episode Conan and the Chill Chums revel in a season of success and check out Aaron Bleyaert’s weapon corner on the Summer S’mores finale.
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0:42 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?
0:52 Speaker 02 None that I can think of.
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1:25 Conan O'Brien? Welcome to the final installment of the 2025 Chill Chums with Conan and the Goo Goo Gang.
1:36 Conan O'Brien? I'm talking summer S'mores, weekend chores.
1:42 Conan O'Brien? We had a great time. I mean, looking back on everything that happened, what a panoply of fun. Don't you think?
1:51 Speaker 02 Wow.
1:51 Speaker 01 Okay.
1:52 Conan O'Brien? I mean, from the moment I started to get very negative about the conduits.
1:57 Speaker 01 Oh, my God.
1:58 Conan O'Brien? That really, I mean...
1:59 Speaker 02 That was a hell of a way to kick it off.
2:01 Speaker 01 Yeah.
2:02 Conan O'Brien? I was shocked by the amount of electrical wiring that I saw on the back of our, by the way, very small yard.
2:10 Speaker 01 Yeah, we should talk about it more.
2:12 Conan O'Brien? Can I say something? I was envisioning it being much bigger. I thought, because I, maybe this goes back to my Irish roots, but I thought it's gonna be like, ah, it's the old, it's the old estate. And so imagine my surprise. When I'm led back to postage stamp?
2:32 Speaker 02 No.
2:33 Conan O'Brien? It's tiny back there.
2:34 Speaker 01 It is small.
2:35 Speaker 02 It's quaint.
2:37 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, it's a little, small little space.
2:38 Speaker 02 But do you feel different about that conduit now that you see that it's on the other side of that wall? And it's powering all of this majesty?
2:44 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, it just makes me wonder why more amazing stuff isn't happening in here. Because it looks like, it looks like a nuclear reactor. I mean, the amount of conduit back there, it looks like something incredible's happening in here. And it's just three schlubs talking.
3:00 Conan O'Brien? I mean, I'm sorry, but, you know what I mean? There's no 3D adventure here where we're like floating. Go ahead.
3:07 Speaker 02 So we can tame Sona's voice.
3:08 Conan O'Brien? Exactly, yes.
3:09 Speaker 01 Oh, my God, Eduardo!
3:12 Speaker 02 Well, there you go.
3:12 Conan O'Brien? There you go.
3:13 Speaker 01 What the fuck?
3:14 Conan O'Brien? Jesus. Uh, more, we need more conduit.
3:20 Conan O'Brien? There were some real...
3:21 Speaker 01 We had some good times.
3:22 Conan O'Brien? There were some real highlights. I mean, first of all, Dr. Arroyo showing up.
3:26 Speaker 02 Oh, man.
3:27 Conan O'Brien? And, and, you know, you always hope for a guest star, someone big. And I don't, I can't imagine, first of all, I don't know how we got him to get Dr. Arroyo.
3:37 Speaker 02 I think it's easy to get him. We're just lucky to have him.
3:40 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, exactly.
3:41 Speaker 02 Wow, God, it's always better with Arroyo.
3:43 Conan O'Brien? He's a, he's great. He's great. He's such a terrible doctor.
3:48 Speaker 02 And we learned that he's not actually a doctor. It's just his first name is Doctor.
3:55 Speaker 02 Doctor Arroyo.
4:01 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, he's, uh, he, he's fantastic. And he says a lot about what's happened in the medical profession the last couple of years. It was great having him. Your cocktail was fantastic.
4:12 Speaker 01 Yeah.
4:13 Conan O'Brien? I have to say, you've done yourself, and to watch you craft these cocktails. I mean, it is like watching a mad scientist at work on his greatest formula.
4:22 Speaker 01 Willy Wonka.
4:23 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, how long ago did you start learning that you could make a cocktail?
4:27 Speaker 02 Not too long ago. I think when COVID hit and I was depressed, you know?
4:33 Conan O'Brien? You know what helps depression?
4:34 Speaker 02 Alcohol.
4:35 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, we've all learned that. So, um, and, and are you already thinking about what the cocktail will be next year?
4:44 Speaker 02 No.
4:44 Conan O'Brien? I bet you've had thoughts already. I could, you seem like the kind of guy to be like, hmm, next year, a little more Negroni. The Coney Negroni.
4:52 Speaker 02 Oh, well, got it.
4:53 Speaker 01 Coney Negroni.
4:55 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, writing it on a piece of paper that will soon be thrown away.
4:57 Speaker 02 That's true. No, like you, I've been kind of scaling back my drinking, so I haven't thought about it. In fact, I planned this one the day before, and I had to scramble to do it, and I had two different versions, and I was tasting them, and I truly got drunk the day before, and I couldn't tell if what I had made is good or not, because it tasted good because I was drunk.
5:15 Speaker 01 It was good.
5:16 Speaker 02 Yeah.
5:16 Speaker 01 I can tell you, it was good.
5:18 Conan O'Brien? But you were drunk, too.
5:19 Speaker 01 I was. Yes, I was. I got drunk pretty quickly on this one. Chuggy, chuggy, chug, chug.
5:25 Conan O'Brien? Okay, let's talk cornhole. I mean...
5:27 Speaker 01 No, let's not talk cornhole. Cornhole could suck it.
5:29 Speaker 02 I'd rather talk about conduit than cornhole.
5:31 Speaker 01 Yeah.
5:32 Conan O'Brien? Well, Sona, you got really mad. Why? Why are you so competitive?
5:36 Speaker 01 You want to know? First of all, I am naturally competitive. I'm fine losing. I hate losing to you.
5:42 Conan O'Brien? Not true.
5:43 Speaker 01 Yes, I do. I hate losing to you. You get smug. You will bring it up. Like, in three years, you'll bring, like, you'll bring it up.
5:50 Conan O'Brien? I have forgotten I even won until I brought it up.
5:53 Speaker 01 I can see it on your face.
5:54 Conan O'Brien? Nope.
5:55 Speaker 01 You're lying. Yes, I can.
5:56 Conan O'Brien? No, I have no knowledge of who won that game at this moment. I forgot.
5:59 Speaker 02 Oh, okay, then Sona won.
6:01 Speaker 01 Yeah, I want to remember.
6:01 Conan O'Brien? Then I'm happy for you.
6:02 Speaker 01 No, don't do that.
6:03 Conan O'Brien? I am.
6:04 Speaker 01 Don't do that.
6:04 Conan O'Brien? If you won, I'm very happy for you. I don't remember. I honestly don't remember who won. These things aren't important to me.
6:10 Speaker 01 You know exactly what to do to, like, annoy me. You know exactly what to do. You, I, I don't want to talk about that game again.
6:17 Conan O'Brien? If you told me I won, then I'm happy that someone won.
6:19 Speaker 02 Give him a taste of his own medicine. Be mean nonchalant about it. Harness your chill.
6:23 Speaker 01 I can't. Yeah, I'm so angry.
6:26 Conan O'Brien? Okay, so...
6:27 Speaker 02 This is what he wants you to do.
6:28 Speaker 01 I know.
6:29 Conan O'Brien? Okay, but what, did you go home and relate your lost attack?
6:33 Speaker 01 Of course I did.
6:34 Conan O'Brien? And what'd you tell him?
6:34 Speaker 01 I said, uh, I said, I said you cheated.
6:38 Conan O'Brien? What?
6:39 Speaker 01 I lied. I just lied.
6:41 Conan O'Brien? How do you cheat, cornhole? You put a magnet in the bag?
6:43 Speaker 01 I don't know.
6:43 Speaker 02 You did psychological warfare.
6:45 Speaker 01 You did. I think that what really was upsetting to me was that I started off very strong. I know what happened. I shifted the side I was throwing from. I think about it all the time since it happened.
6:55 Conan O'Brien? You've really thought about this.
6:56 Speaker 01 I have. I, I started throwing from where you were throwing, and then I shifted to the other side, and that was my undoing.
7:02 Conan O'Brien? Your mistake was you were throwing. I was tossing. Tossing's a better way to go.
7:06 Speaker 01 Oh, my god.
7:07 Conan O'Brien? You know what? I think... I think what made my win impressive, it's coming back to me now. And what a victory it was. What's, what made it so impressive was, and you will back me up on this.
7:17 Speaker 02 I will not, whatever it is.
7:18 Conan O'Brien? Okay, I called it. I called it in great, Eduardo, you were a fan of this because I announced when I was deep, deep in the hole, way behind, I said, here's what's gonna happen, I'm gonna get way behind, but then I'm gonna come surging back and I'm going to win at the last minute, which is exactly what happened, and it reminds me of a tale that, from baseball, that might be one of baseball's greatest moments.
7:43 Speaker 01 No.
7:43 Conan O'Brien? Babe Ruth called a shot, you know the old famous called shot?
7:47 Speaker 01 Not the same.
7:48 Conan O'Brien? Babe Ruth pointed with his bat to center field and then proceeded to hit a homerun there, and there's no photograph of it, but there's paintings of it, sketches of it. People have memorialized this as one of the greatest moments in American sports history. I, I think I did what Babe Ruth did, I called my shot. It was beanbag, it was cornhole, maybe not as grand.
8:08 Speaker 01 How, you know what, Pixar, it didn't happen. If it, if it did happen, someone should have taken a picture. You shut the fuck up, Matt.
8:18 Speaker 02 I'm just trying to help you so you don't dig too deep.
8:20 Speaker 01 I'm just saying, I'm talking about the Babe Ruth moment.
8:22 Speaker 02 Okay, I'm sorry, okay.
8:22 Speaker 01 The Babe Ruth moment, it's been like memorialized in paintings, conveniently, there's no photo of it.
8:29 Conan O'Brien? But we have video of me destroying you.
8:32 Speaker 01 It's not destroying, you didn't destroy me. I think, I think the thing is, I lost focus.
8:37 Conan O'Brien? Kelly, you're trying to be a hype man, you didn't. You didn't.
8:41 Speaker 01 I lost focus, I really do hate losing.
8:44 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, that's how people lose in sports. That's called losing.
8:48 Speaker 01 This is why I hate it. This is the thing though, you, you act, you. I could have won, but I lost focus. You. Where's my lost? Focus metal.
8:59 Speaker 02 You know what diminishes your victory is your sportsmanship.
9:02 Speaker 01 Yeah.
9:03 Speaker 02 It's non-existent.
9:03 Speaker 01 You act like you don't care, but you really want to win.
9:06 Conan O'Brien? Yes, of course I do.
9:07 Speaker 01 Okay, alright.
9:08 Conan O'Brien? And also, I think the listener, the fan, when I'm putting on a show with my
9:17 Conan O'Brien? they, they want to see me pull it out. Do you know, they, they want to see.
9:21 Speaker 02 I disagree.
9:21 Conan O'Brien? No, no.
9:22 Speaker 02 I think, I think at least Sona owns her desire to win and this affectation of you saying like, I could take it or leave it. I'm just coasting above it all.
9:31 Speaker 01 Yeah.
9:31 Speaker 02 Above the fray. It's, it's, I'm not buying it.
9:33 Speaker 01 I'm not buying it either because I know, I know you and I know how, how like happy you were that you won. And it's just upsets me that I brought you a level of happiness.
9:42 Speaker 02 A different person after you won. Truly. Even after the recording, you were like talking to the trash cans at one point. Do you see that? Do you see that?
9:51 Conan O'Brien? I, um, I have so much else in my life. My friendship with Timothy Olyphant.
9:57 Speaker 01 Okay.
9:57 Conan O'Brien? I have, um, you know, we're pals.
10:00 Speaker 02 I have my imaginary friendship with Timothy Olyphant.
10:04 Conan O'Brien? You know, I have my accomplishments. Uh, and so I didn't need, that's the great thing is I didn't need that cornhole win. But when it happened, I, I felt like I had risen to another level.
10:20 Conan O'Brien? You know?
10:21 Speaker 01 I hate this.
10:22 Speaker 02 We need a rematch.
10:23 Speaker 01 Yes, I'm down for a rematch.
10:25 Speaker 02 Yeah.
10:26 Conan O'Brien? The phrase sore winner comes to mind.
10:27 Speaker 01 Yeah. But also very sore loser. And I think that that's what I'm saying is I'm, I'm down for a rematch. And I'm gonna, I'm gonna train.
10:36 Speaker 02 Yes, train.
10:37 Speaker 01 I'm gonna rocky it up. You're my Apollo Creed. You're Drago?
10:43 Speaker 02 Ivan Drago?
10:43 Speaker 01 Ivan Drago? You're that guy. I'm the good guy, you're the bad guy. You're the bad guy.
10:48 Speaker 02 Yeah.
10:48 Speaker 01 You're the Soviet. I'm gonna fuck you up.
10:51 Speaker 02 Yeah, there you go. There you go.
10:52 Conan O'Brien? And I'm your Mickey rock.
10:56 Conan O'Brien? I think in a, in a world where Putin is in charge in Russia, maybe there's a yearning for the old, good old days of Drago.
11:06 Speaker 02 Yeah, as a villain.
11:07 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, Drago's now the good guy. Because they're like, you know.
11:13 Speaker 02 Oh my god.
11:14 Conan O'Brien? Drago you could deal with. Do you know what I mean? There's not one scene where Drago invades the Ukraine. You know, and tries to take territory that isn't his.
11:22 Speaker 02 We have to do this, and, and there's a training montage where you have all the technology and all the systems.
11:27 Conan O'Brien? My wrist is being injected with various chemicals. And Russian scientists are monitoring me.
11:32 Speaker 02 You have actual dried beans in a sack and you're just flexing with them. In a meat locker.
11:37 Conan O'Brien? Hey, can I go off on a tangent here for a second? He said, knowing he could.
11:42 Conan O'Brien? Why is it? This always amazed me that if you watch all the Rocky movies, as I have. In the arc, unlike, you know, the 15th Rocky film, he loses all his money, okay? And his only choice is to be the greeter in a small Italian restaurant in the old neighborhood. He lives in the apartment that he's in in the first movie. And there's no acknowledgement ever that he is the greatest sports figure.
12:08 Speaker 02 He could be at conventions signing autographs.
12:10 Conan O'Brien? I mean, he could, without even leaving his house, if he just answered his phone, he'd get paid a hundred. Because he just single-handedly brought down the, the Berlin Wall, you know? He, he's won, he's had come from behind victories. He's the most celebrated in, in that universe. He's the most celebrated figure. He's done the most incredible things. It would be like saying if, wow, jeez, did you hear what happened? No, Michael Jordan, I guess he had a crooked business manager and all the money's gone. Where is he now? Uh, he's at a Dave and Buster's. He's over by the bin of balls and he's, you know, yeah, and he's telling the kids, like, take it easy. You can't jump in till that one comes out.
12:55 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, I guess that makes sense. No, no, Michael Jordan signs one sneaker for, you know, the ghost of Steve Jobs and gets $150 million a pop.
13:08 Conan O'Brien? So am I wrong? I'm sorry, I'm taking away from some of the magic of what was a wonderful time. I'm shifting the focus to a new one, which is, I don't understand why Rocky's working in that restaurant.
13:18 Speaker 02 Do you remember he was also living with a robot in one of the movies?
13:20 Conan O'Brien? Yes. I remember that, but beady, beady, beady.
13:23 Speaker 02 No, that's Twiggy.
13:26 Conan O'Brien? Is that from Buck Rogers?
13:27 Speaker 02 Yes.
13:28 Conan O'Brien? Boy Spy?
13:29 Speaker 02 Oh, Mel Blanc.
13:30 Conan O'Brien? There you go. It's just Mel Blank, he's not Burr Blanc.
13:33 Speaker 02 I'm so-
13:33 Conan O'Brien? You went Mel Blanc!
13:34 Speaker 02 My god, oh my god!
13:36 Conan O'Brien? What pairs well-
13:37 Speaker 02 Do you remember also in the summer S'mores how pissed off he got about the trivia?
13:40 Conan O'Brien? What pairs well? What pairs well with the fish? I would try the Mel Blanc. Who's the voice of Bugs Bunny?
13:48 Speaker 02 Oh my god. Oh my god.
13:51 Speaker 01 Oh my god.
13:53 Speaker 02 You're such a fucking twit.
13:55 Conan O'Brien? Hey, look! I'm Data from Star Trek.
13:58 Speaker 02 Oh my god!
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14:14 Speaker 02 Me too.
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14:41 Speaker 01 I'm gonna say 36 12-ounce cans?
14:44 Conan O'Brien? You know what? You're not wrong.
14:45 Speaker 01 Uh huh.
14:45 Speaker 02 And I'm gonna guess it'd be cold for up to 50 hours with ice?
14:48 Conan O'Brien? Yes. You guys think you're joking around?
14:51 Speaker 02 Uh huh.
14:52 Conan O'Brien? You both nailed it. When I'm out there camping with my buddies.
14:55 Speaker 01 Yeah.
14:56 Conan O'Brien? I'm out there with Rodman and Greg Daniels and Rob Lesebnik.
15:00 Speaker 01 Yeah.
15:00 Conan O'Brien? And we're just-
15:01 Speaker 01 You guys are just roughing it?
15:02 Conan O'Brien? No, we're very close to a restaurant.
15:04 Speaker 01 Oh.
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15:30 Conan O'Brien? And now a shout out to Hershey's and a huge thanks to them for sponsoring Summer Smores. I was very psyched when I heard Hershey's was on board.
15:36 Speaker 01 Same, me too.
15:37 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, because I gotta tell ya, I've been eating Hershey's Milk Chocolates since I was a little kid.
15:41 Speaker 01 Yeah.
15:42 Conan O'Brien? I was like, "Give me that milk chocolate." And they'd say, "Okay," and I'd say, "Is it Hershey's?" And "Bada baa, I'll kill ya." I was a mean little kid.
15:49 Speaker 01 Oh my god!
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16:18 Speaker 02 Oh my god.
16:19 Conan O'Brien? Very good, it's very good. You know what? Why didn't they think of this before?
16:23 Speaker 02 I know.
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16:27 Speaker 01 Oh.
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16:36 Conan O'Brien? Anyway. If you think I'm a monster in this final episode, that's what these Chill Chums do to me. They wind me up.
16:44 Speaker 02 And now it's our fault.
16:45 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's our fault.
16:46 Conan O'Brien? And this is what's gonna be happening next year. This is the tip of the iceberg of the new Conan. Cause the Conan that comes to the next Chill Chums is gonna be an absolute monster.
16:55 Speaker 02 Are we gonna just do like Olympic Games, all these different games?
16:59 Conan O'Brien? We should.
16:59 Speaker 02 Just like Battle of the Network Stars?
17:01 Conan O'Brien? Yes, yes, well, I'll run a race against Gabe Kaplan. But now, but now.
17:05 Speaker 02 Excuse me, it's Gabe Kaplan.
17:07 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, Gabe Kaplan. I'll have a Gabe Kaplan and I'll have a...
17:10 Speaker 02 Pardon me, is that, do you have any Gabe Kaplan?
17:12 Conan O'Brien? Do you have any Mel Blanc by the glass?
17:15 Speaker 02 But of course.
17:16 Conan O'Brien? But of course we do here. It's Cafe Mispronounced.
17:20 Speaker 02 You know, can I say something?
17:22 Conan O'Brien? You, of course, you know you can.
17:23 Speaker 02 Way back in the first episode of this series, Blay, you teased something that we also did the year before and I think it's important that we cover this. You got a new medieval Renaissance weapon.
17:32 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, you never brought that out. What happened? Did you bring it to the set and then never use it?
17:36 Speaker 03 I felt like there was a lot of tension between you and Sona. We didn't need any more, like, any actual weapons on set.
17:41 Conan O'Brien? Did you just forget, though? I mean, it's unusual for you to bring a dorky weapon and not show it.
17:47 Speaker 02 Jesus Christ, man. Oh my god. I can't wait for the war crimes trial where we all present our evidence.
17:55 Speaker 03 I just love it.
17:56 Conan O'Brien? Who drives home?
17:57 Speaker 02 I like this guy.
17:58 Conan O'Brien? Look at, who drives home at the end of the night and looks in the backseat of their car and sees a broad axe? And goes, "Darn it!" And forgot to wield it.
18:09 Speaker 03 Why am I catching strength just shooting? At any point, he just got a machine gun.
18:14 Conan O'Brien? You didn't, you, you, you said you were gonna bring one of your weapons and you brought it? But never brought it out?
18:22 Speaker 03 Yeah, well, there's a lot going on.
18:23 Conan O'Brien? What was that like when you got home? And you're unpacking stuff?
18:27 Speaker 02 Did you apologize to it?
18:28 Conan O'Brien? And you have, you have your cooler and you move it and there it is.
18:32 Speaker 03 I, that is kind of what happened. I was like...
18:35 Conan O'Brien? The scythe from, from Sword of Gildar.
18:38 Speaker 03 I was unpacking my car, yes, and I was like, oh, that's right. Like, yeah, this year...
18:42 Conan O'Brien? So what was it?
18:43 Speaker 03 Uh, well, I have it here. This year, I...
18:45 Conan O'Brien? Of course you do.
18:45 Speaker 01 You just have it with you?
18:47 Speaker 03 Well, I left it at the office because just in case we needed it.
18:49 Conan O'Brien? So what, what's it? What is it?
18:51 Speaker 03 Well, so this year, last year I got a big sword. Uh, it was like, you know, a four foot, and I wanted something smaller because I didn't really use it at all in this past year because it was so big.
18:59 Conan O'Brien? You didn't use the fantasy sword as much as you thought you would?
19:02 Speaker 01 Why did you think you would use it? Why would you use it though?
19:06 Speaker 03 It's two-handed. It's, you know, it's hard, it's a whole thing to get out. It's like very big, so I didn't use it as much as I wanted.
19:12 Conan O'Brien? Is it on your to-do, what a sad to-do list. To-do, milk, orange, wheels, magical sword. Wielded fake magical sword.
19:21 Speaker 02 Oh, I'm sad you didn't get your bucket list checked off.
19:24 Speaker 03 Anyway, anyway, so I wanted something kind of smaller and more useful, so I got a, uh, I got this axe.
19:30 Speaker 01 Oh my god!
19:31 Speaker 03 Yeah, it's really sharp, so be careful of it.
19:34 Conan O'Brien? It just looks like an Irish musical instrument.
19:36 Speaker 03 Yeah, it's a big...
19:36 Speaker 02 This looks like a Guinness harp.
19:37 Speaker 03 It's a big, but yeah, it's, oh, it's great.
19:39 Conan O'Brien? Now, tell me what this is.
19:40 Speaker 03 Oh, it's a big, I don't really know. It's a, just a really sharp, big...
19:43 Conan O'Brien? Where did you get it?
19:43 Speaker 03 I got the Renaissance fair. I went to the...
19:46 Conan O'Brien? So you went to a Renaissance fair?
19:48 Speaker 03 I dressed up.
19:49 Speaker 01 A costume you were wearing?
19:50 Speaker 03 I did, yeah, I did. And, and, uh, and this year I learned, I don't even know, why am I?
19:55 Conan O'Brien? And this time I went.
19:56 Speaker 03 Telling you this, I brought an empty holster because I, last year I had to carry around the sword. It was really awkward.
20:03 Conan O'Brien? So you brought a holster for a sword you thought you might buy?
20:06 Speaker 03 That's right.
20:07 Conan O'Brien? That's the worst. I hate that. I hate that when you have a holster.
20:10 Speaker 03 Yeah, and so I had an empty holster, so and this fit perfect.
20:13 Conan O'Brien? It's a sheath, I think.
20:13 Speaker 03 Yeah, well, no, I had a holster because I was like, oh, I'm gonna, I don't want to buy another big sword. I want to buy something smaller, like a dagger. But then I saw this baby and I was like, oh, this thing is.
20:21 Conan O'Brien? This is incredible.
20:22 Speaker 03 Yeah, and I was, you know, also, I will, I will say, I will say, I will say, uh.
20:27 Conan O'Brien? No one's interrupting you. You're just, you're, you're pausing because you realize where you're going is sad.
20:32 Speaker 03 Yeah, it is kind of sad. Well, I will say, I, I will.
20:36 Conan O'Brien? Could someone please let me finish? We're letting you finish. I don't want to say it.
20:40 Speaker 03 Well, uh, I could, I was thinking, after I bought, I could use that to cut a pizza.
20:46 Speaker 01 What? Why? What?
20:48 Speaker 03 Well, I'm just saying, because you know, the sword doesn't have a lot of.
20:51 Speaker 02 A pizza cutter.
20:52 Speaker 01 Yeah.
20:53 Speaker 03 It doesn't have a lot of practical applications, and I was just saying.
20:55 Speaker 01 No, it doesn't, though.
20:56 Speaker 03 I didn't really use my sword last year, and so I was like, well, I could, I'll be able to.
21:00 Speaker 02 That would be pretty badass if you had a dinner party and you brought a pizza and you just went.
21:04 Speaker 03 Yeah, thank you. There we go. Look at that.
21:06 Speaker 01 No, I don't know if badass is the word.
21:08 Conan O'Brien? I am Zagar. I shall turn this pie into six slices.
21:13 Speaker 02 You're making my case for me.
21:14 Speaker 03 So, um, yeah, so I got.
21:16 Conan O'Brien? All right, so you finally got to show it. That's great.
21:18 Speaker 03 Thanks, thank, thank you for letting me, uh, show it off.
21:20 Conan O'Brien? Well, I didn't let you, and I didn't know you had it in the room. Thought we were just gonna talk about it, but of course you have it. Uh, where do you keep all this shit in your house? I mean, I imagine it's a, not a huge apartment.
21:31 Speaker 03 It's not, actually, do you want to know the, the truth?
21:34 Conan O'Brien? Well, I asked you, so I'm expecting the truth.
21:36 Speaker 03 I have, this is, oh, man, fuck, this is so sad. And, well, I think it's cool, I have a weapon corner that I just lean everything up against.
21:43 Speaker 02 You own, own it, go for it, don't apologize.
21:45 Speaker 03 Okay, yes, I have a weapon corner, so I have.
21:47 Conan O'Brien? You should apologize.
21:49 Speaker 03 I have a couple, I have a couple swords, I got this, I got a flamethrower, I got a.
21:53 Conan O'Brien? Do you really have a flamethrower?
21:54 Speaker 03 I do, yeah.
21:55 Conan O'Brien? You're an asshole.
21:56 Speaker 02 Why do you, what kind of?
21:58 Speaker 03 My friends gave it to me. We had a thing where we gave each other weapons. And then I have one of the spiked balls and chain.
22:04 Speaker 02 A mace?
22:05 Speaker 03 I got the ama- no, a mace, I think is like a club. I think that's like a morning star or something. But, uh, but that, and then I also have a-
22:12 Conan O'Brien? We're losing listeners right now.
22:14 Speaker 03 Knife, uh, I think it's from Cobra or from another movie. It's like, uh, it's like a big crazy-
22:19 Speaker 02 That's the Cobra knife that the villain has.
22:21 Speaker 03 Yeah, wavy knife and then it's got a spiked-
22:23 Speaker 02 Yeah.
22:24 Speaker 03 Handle. Yeah. So I got, I got all that stuff. It's just kind of just a one corner.
22:28 Conan O'Brien? Throwback when Greg Daniels and I were writing together on our first TV show, not so the news. We went to our offices. We were working there for like three days at Sunset Gara Studios. This is 1985 when this package arrived that they sent back to our office. And we used to get like weird promotional things. And I guess for some reason, because we were a TV show, we got a promotional package. They thought maybe we would mention it. And here I am mentioning it 70 years later.
23:03 Speaker 02 It worked.
23:03 Conan O'Brien? Oh my god. And it was a promotional package from Cobra, the movie Cobra.
23:09 Speaker 02 Oh my god.
23:10 Conan O'Brien? And, and it was all these pictures and like a couple of memorabilia, little thingies from the movie Cobra. We were just looking at it and it's like, this is gonna be Sylvester Stallone's next franchise. He plays, what's his name?
23:23 Speaker 02 Marion Cobretti.
23:24 Conan O'Brien? Marion Cobretti. You're like, his name? You know, you have to justify, this is sting operation.
23:30 Speaker 02 He cuts pizza with scissors.
23:31 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. But no, and it was, and then Greg and I went and we decided we gotta go see Cobra.
23:37 Speaker 02 Yeah.
23:37 Conan O'Brien? And I don't know if you remember, but it's, I know. Do you? He was a producer on it. He was three years old.
23:44 Speaker 02 Do you know the story that-
23:45 Conan O'Brien? But you know what's crazy? It's Cobra against a cult.
23:49 Speaker 02 Yeah.
23:49 Conan O'Brien? And it's people from all walks of life who meet-
23:52 Speaker 02 Business people.
23:53 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, business people and bakers and, and people that sell orthotics all meet in a basement and clang weapons together.
24:00 Speaker 02 Clang axes in spotlights.
24:01 Conan O'Brien? In spotlight.
24:02 Speaker 02 Chains and-
24:03 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
24:03 Speaker 02 Do you know the story of that is that Sylvester Stallone was originally gonna do- Beverly Hills Cop. And he retooled it so much that they eventually went, no, you can't, you can't do this anymore. They gave it to Eddie Murphy and he took his version and that's what Cobra is.
24:17 Speaker 01 Oh.
24:18 Speaker 02 Yeah. And that's Matt's movie corner. I have more fun facts. And if you could just open up a corner of your apartment for me.
24:24 Speaker 03 Yeah, dude.
24:26 Conan O'Brien? But anyway, that was my, when you mentioned Cobra, I thought, wait a minute. I have a visceral memory of opening a box. Oh, a lot of photographs from the set and a press packet of who Marion Corbretti was. And what his, you know, what his character is. And then I, there might've been like a plastic knife in there or something. I don't know, but I remember Greg and I thinking, wow, I guess this is gonna be the new thing. You know, Cobra. And, uh, nope, it wasn't.
24:52 Speaker 01 No.
24:53 Speaker 02 Too bad though, huh? We missed that one.
24:55 Speaker 01 Is it too bad?
24:55 Speaker 02 God, I love movies.
24:57 Speaker 01 You do?
24:57 Conan O'Brien? All right, so anyway, we got off on a tangent and I have to, I have to bring it home, which is Chill Chums isn't about a place. It's about a state of mind. And it isn't about whether it's in the yard. It isn't about whether it's anywhere in the Los Angeles area or if it's on a private island. Uh, it's not about that. It's whenever we get together and we decide to be Chill Chums and get the old smores out. It creates a special magic. It's a special bond. Uh, it's a tie-in for various companies. You wanna advertise?
25:31 Conan O'Brien? It's, uh, I'm told it's something called Fan Service by Adam, who says it in a very cold voice. Fan service.
25:39 Speaker 02 That's true.
25:40 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. Fan service. Uh, so it was a joy. It was a real joy. I wanna thank you both. I had a great experience.
25:46 Speaker 01 Me too.
25:47 Conan O'Brien? And, uh, I loved it. It's a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to, uh, next year when we do it all again. Who knows where and who knows why.
25:54 Speaker 02 And all the people that helped with this too.
25:57 Speaker 01 Yeah.
25:57 Speaker 02 And two of the big ones are in this room too, cause Blade does so much work.
26:01 Conan O'Brien? Blade does a lot. I mean, Tanisha works hard.
26:04 Speaker 02 He engineers the whole thing.
26:06 Conan O'Brien? Leonardo, um.
26:07 Speaker 02 Dr. Arroyo, thank you.
26:09 Speaker 03 Oh, definitely.
26:10 Conan O'Brien? But also, I mean, Ruthie, Sam, Rachel. Yeah, I mean, all these people work so hard. They do a great job. We love them.
26:17 Speaker 01 Yep.
26:17 Conan O'Brien? We're a family here. And by family, I mean, everyone's paid.
26:21 Speaker 02 And doesn't like each other.
26:22 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. Um, and makes fun of me behind my back, uh, so, and in front of my face. Um, this was really nice. It was really fun. So I hope you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed doing it.
26:32 Speaker 01 I love. Chill Trumps.
26:35 Conan O'Brien? Wow. You really, you thought for a long time and you came up with a great ender. Thank you, Sona.
26:40 Speaker 01 I love Summer S'mores.
26:41 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, that's, that's good.
26:42 Speaker 01 Yeah.
26:43 Conan O'Brien? Okay, Sona, well, from all of us to all of you, thank you very much. I hope you had a great summer and we'll see you soon.
26:49 Speaker 02 Rematch 2026 for Sona.
26:51 Speaker 01 Yeah.
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