One Ring To Rule Them All

Conan talks to Rahil in Miami about learning to perform colonoscopies, fasting for eight days, and how to negotiate with future in-laws for a good deal on an engagement ring. Wanna get a chance to talk to Conan? Submit here: teamcoco.com/apply

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• 1:49Speaker 01

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• 1:59Speaker 02

  Hi Rahil, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan.

• 2:01Speaker 03

  Hey, everybody.

• 2:02Conan O'Brien?

  Hey Rahil, how are you?

• 2:03Speaker 03

  I'm doing amazing. So excited to meet you guys.

• 2:05Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, how are you? First of all, where are you contacting us from?

• 2:09Speaker 03

  So I'm down in Miami.

• 2:11Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, okay.

• 2:12Speaker 03

  Other side of the US, yeah.

• 2:14Conan O'Brien?

  Very nice. And tell us a little bit about yourself, Rahil.

• 2:17Speaker 03

  Yeah, so I'm currently in my fellowship. So I finished med school and I did my training. I'm still currently in my training and I'm doing gastroenterology and hepatology.

• 2:29Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, good lord, that's impressive. You're a gastroenterologist. And what was the other field too?

• 2:35Speaker 03

  And hepatology. So they go kind of hand in hand.

• 2:37Conan O'Brien?

  Hepatology is blood?

• 2:39Speaker 03

  Liver.

• 2:40Conan O'Brien?

  Ooh.

• 2:41Speaker 01

  Ooh.

• 2:43Conan O'Brien?

  Sorry. So liver connected to intestine, yes. Intestinal tract. That all makes sense. Okay.

• 2:51Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:52Conan O'Brien?

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• 2:55Speaker 02

  What do you want me to do?

• 2:56Speaker 01

  Who's gonna clean it up? Girls?

• 2:59Speaker 02

  I'm not cleaning anything.

• 2:59Speaker 01

  He's gonna edit it?

• 3:01Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, just so I know what hepatology is. Anyway, so you'll do as you're told. Okay, I'm sorry, Rahil.

• 3:08Speaker 03

  We can reconfigure it so that hepatology is actually blood.

• 3:14Speaker 03

  I'm doing great. It's great to meet you guys.

• 3:16Conan O'Brien?

  Now, I've always heard hepatology is the study of the liver. Is that correct?

• 3:20Speaker 03

  Yeah, I actually learned that from your podcast.

• 3:23Conan O'Brien?

  Thank you.

• 3:25Conan O'Brien?

  That's, you know, I never make mistakes when it comes to medicine because I too am well-trained. Well, first of all, congratulations. You're a young man and you seem like you're very well-educated. And that's very cool. And you're going to help a lot of people. Tell us a little bit about your training. What are you interested? Well, first of all, have you worked with a lot of patients so far? Has it all been textbook stuff?

• 3:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, no. So I've done, so you know, our med school is four years after our undergrad. And then we do three years of internal medicine, which is all, you know, patient-facing, hospital-based, long days, long hours. And then... GI hepatologies another three years after that. So I'm about halfway through right now. So it's been about four and a half, five years of seeing patients.

• 4:13Conan O'Brien?

  It's such a dedication it takes in the field of medicine.

• 4:18Conan O'Brien?

  There is no preparation for being in comedy. There's no, it's, I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed that you just get to dive in and be an ass and, and whatever. Start getting to practice immediately. I'm so impressed by the fact that you've had, you've spent years and years and years of your life preparing. And I'm glad you have because I'm sure you're going to be very good at what you do. You're going to help save a lot of lives.

• 4:44Speaker 03

  That's the hope. I mean, you know, even this many years in it, every day it feels like I'm still trying to figure out what's going on with everybody. So it's one of those things where learning never stops. You kind of keep going at it. New things, new experiences, new patient interactions. It all makes it worth it.

• 4:58Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, I've talked about this a lot, but can you hook me up with Profifol?

• 5:02Speaker 02

  Oh geez.

• 5:02Speaker 01

  Oh geez, come on.

• 5:05Conan O'Brien?

  Because I've, you know, when I've had colonoscopies, they give me this drug Profifol. And I've talked about it before, but it's the happiest I've been in my entire life. It's an absolutely amazing feeling and it's miraculous. And so if you could become my secret illegal supplier of Profifol. I don't see how anyone, I don't see how anyone traces it back to us. I don't see one way that it leaks out and it's tracked back to us. That's just what I'm saying. By the way, I'm terrible at committing crimes.

• 5:36Conan O'Brien?

  Have you performed any colonoscopies? Is that something that they've trained you to do?

• 5:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. So we, we kind of get into it from day one from our training. So, you know, our first year, we're fumbling around, trying to figure out what we're doing. It's, it's a new technical skill and it's, you know, not necessarily intuitive when you get started. And then, you know, over the first year, you really get your confidence. And then second year, you really start to build your skill, build your efficiency.

• 6:02Conan O'Brien?

  Can I just say, I hate to interrupt, but Rahil, doesn't that kind of suck for the patient? If you're saying like, yeah, you know, first year, you're just jamming a camera in there. You don't know what you're doing. It's banging up against stuff and you just have to kind of force it. Isn't that, I mean, you don't want to be, I don't want to encounter you at that stage, Rahil, as a patient. Is that fair to say?

• 6:22Speaker 03

  You do with Probofol. It's that magic stuff that uh.

• 6:26Conan O'Brien?

  You're right. Okay, so I I wake up and I don't know what's happened.

• 6:29Speaker 03

  Exactly. You you ask uh after they wake up, they ask, are we getting started? And that's the magic of Probofol.

• 6:34Conan O'Brien?

  Even though you've been banging around in there for three hours.

• 6:37Speaker 02

  Oh my god.

• 6:37Speaker 01

  Banging around in there.

• 6:39Conan O'Brien?

  Living furniture.

• 6:40Speaker 01

  Come on.

• 6:40Conan O'Brien?

  Uh, do you think you're pretty good at it now?

• 6:42Speaker 03

  Um, I would like to think so. Uh, you know, my attendings might say otherwise behind closed doors, but at least to my face, they say I'm doing well.

• 6:49Conan O'Brien?

  Good, good. I would think, when is the um, I would think the technology is going to improve to the point where you just swallow like a little pill or something and it works its way through your system really quickly and the pill comes out the other side and said, "Everything is fine." Colon is.

• 7:05Speaker 03

  They have one.

• 7:06Conan O'Brien?

  Do they?

• 7:07Speaker 03

  They have one of those for the small bowel, uh, for like the small intestine.

• 7:11Conan O'Brien?

  Mm-hmm.

• 7:11Speaker 03

  But the colon is just so uh wide and distended, it can't really take pictures of the whole thing. And thankfully, I hope it doesn't because then I'll be out of a job.

• 7:20Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 7:21Conan O'Brien?

  See, that's the problem is technology replaces a lot of, I mean, I'll be replaced by AI in about a year.

• 7:26Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 7:27Conan O'Brien?

  We'll have a fake colon here.

• 7:28Speaker 01

  Less than a year.

• 7:29Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, that's good to know. Just let me give you a heads up.

• 7:32Speaker 02

  Our ratings might go up.

• 7:33Conan O'Brien?

  All right, that's nice. That's nice.

• 7:35Speaker 02

  What?

• 7:36Conan O'Brien?

  Let's turn up the, let's turn up the knob on the comedy portion of the colon. Hey, it's working. Um, uh, well, I think that's, I think that's fantastic. Now, what about you? What is it? Does looking at people's intestines, has it in, has it at all adjusted or informed the way that you eat? Or the way that you treat your body when you look at other people's intestines?

• 8:01Speaker 03

  No, and it's like, it's always a running joke. Whenever you see GI fellows, um, you can always like tell who they are in the hospital because they're literally just running to the cafeteria, stuffing whatever the food they can in their mouth between procedures and then running back to the procedure room. Um, the the field and the, you know, the practice is just so fast paced and we're just running to see patients, running to do procedures. Um, I like literally, when I tell patients and counsel them in clinic, I just basically say everything I don't do in my life and um.

• 8:29Conan O'Brien?

  Oh my god, that's fast, that's fascinating to me. So you're telling them, well, it's really good to, you know, eat a lot of roughage and don't eat processed foods and it's really good to avoid the, and then you don't listen to it at all.

• 8:40Speaker 03

  I'll be stuffing a pizza in my mouth as I'm telling them that.

• 8:45Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, alright. Are you pretty healthy? Are you a healthy eater, other than when you're at work? When you're not, let's say you're not at work. Are you fairly healthy about your diet?

• 8:53Speaker 03

  Uh, I'd like, I try to be. Um, I'm vegetarian, you know, as, as, uh, just religiously. So, um, that kind of lends itself to eating more like, you know, um, lentils and vegetables and getting your, your greens in.

• 9:07Conan O'Brien?

  Right. Yeah, I'm not a big lentil guy, I'm gonna tell you right now.

• 9:10Speaker 01

  You know what? I don't like, I'm either.

• 9:12Conan O'Brien?

  I mean, I don't think I've ever said, "Hey, um, I need me some lentils."

• 9:17Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 9:17Conan O'Brien?

  You know, uh, or I, when I'm in a restaurant, I don't, it's not the first thing I ask the waiter. "Hey, you got lentils?"

• 9:23Speaker 02

  No.

• 9:24Conan O'Brien?

  "What's the lentil situation? Let's run down the list of the lentils."

• 9:26Speaker 02

  What's the lentil of the day?

• 9:27Conan O'Brien?

  Exactly. I wanna see the lentil sommelier come out and taste the lentil. So, um, do you fast ever?

• 9:36Speaker 03

  I do, um...

• 9:38Conan O'Brien?

  Cause that's a big thing now. People believe that fasting, and I would like your opinion on this because I know people that fast and they say it's good for them. And then now there's a lot of science that's saying fasting is good. But I always wonder, is it one of those things where 10 years from now they're gonna tell us, "Actually, it's terrible for you. We changed our minds," you know?

• 9:58Speaker 03

  I think, so I think the, and I don't know, uh, uh, uh, this is just what I've seen off of Instagram probably, but...

• 10:05Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, good.

• 10:06Speaker 02

  Wait, you're a doctor, are you not?

• 10:08Conan O'Brien?

  Hi, doctor, can you tell us what you're seeing on Instagram?

• 10:11Speaker 02

  Can I have some of that pizza?

• 10:14Conan O'Brien?

  Hello, doctor, tell me what's on TikTok. Go ahead, sorry, go ahead, go ahead.

• 10:18Speaker 03

  No, I was gonna say, I feel like I've seen some people or some, some, some, uh, some other experts kind of saying that the, the data around internet and fasting isn't all that it was cracked up to be earlier.

• 10:30Conan O'Brien?

  Mm-hmm.

• 10:31Speaker 03

  So, you know, but, you know, as far as fasting, um, I do, not necessarily for the health benefits, but I did, uh, just in terms of religion.

• 10:39Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, okay. What is, uh, what is, can you, can you tell me specifically, uh, what your religion is?

• 10:45Speaker 03

  Yeah, so my religion is called Jainism.

• 10:47Conan O'Brien?

  Mm hmm.

• 10:47Speaker 03

  Um, so practitioners are called Jain. Um, and so we have kind of, you know, there's similar things in other cultures. There's like Ramadan for, for people who follow Islam. There's uh like Lent and things like that. But in Jainism, we have this eight day, eight or 10 day religious festival called Baruyushan.

• 11:04Conan O'Brien?

  Mm hmm.

• 11:04Speaker 03

  And during that time, we can do different days of fasting. You know, some people will do just the last day. Um, and then, you know, kind of as much as you can. So I've done eight day fasts.

• 11:15Conan O'Brien?

  You've done eight.

• 11:15Speaker 03

  Basically, no food.

• 11:16Conan O'Brien?

  Eight day fast.

• 11:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, no food for eight days.

• 11:20Conan O'Brien?

  No food of any kind, or can you take some sustenance?

• 11:24Speaker 03

  Just boiled water when there's daylight out. And this kind of stretches back, you know, to the start of the religion and the different like, um, pre-technology ages and stuff like that. But, but yeah, just water for eight days.

• 11:37Conan O'Brien?

  Uh, okay, I, I have questions. Uh, as a, as a doctor, do you think that that's okay to go eight days without any food other than water?

• 11:50Speaker 03

  I don't. Uh, this was all pre-med school.

• 11:54Conan O'Brien?

  Gotcha.

• 11:54Speaker 03

  This is like me in undergrad, me in med school.

• 11:56Conan O'Brien?

  Okay.

• 11:56Speaker 03

  Um, I don't think it's the healthiest, I don't think it's the healthiest thing to do.

• 12:01Conan O'Brien?

  Right.

• 12:01Speaker 03

  Um, I do think it's a really interesting test of determination, interesting test of self-will. Um, and you can really push your body to the limit in a, in a way that, you know, outside of thinking medical. But, um, you can really see what your body is capable of in those eight days.

• 12:17Conan O'Brien?

  Are you even able to get out of bed on the eighth day? Are you debilitated?

• 12:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, no, you can live life as is. Um, you know, one, the first time I did it, I was in undergrad. The second time I was in med school and you live life as is. You know, the first couple of days are the hardest where you're, you know, like, I feel like if it's 11 o'clock and I'm like, it's lunchtime, um, your body's just so used to it. And then after like day one, day two, your body kind of adjusts to that feeling of, um, I'm not eating and so let me occupy myself with other stuff. And then the rest of the week, honestly, just kind of, you just don't feel that sensation of hunger as much. You.

• 12:57Conan O'Brien?

  You know why?

• 12:58Speaker 03

  I think once you.

• 12:58Conan O'Brien?

  That's because your body is eating itself. On day seven, hey, I don't feel so bad. Yeah, you just ate your heart.

• 13:08Conan O'Brien?

  Your body's like, "I'm good." Yeah, liver's gone, heart's gone. Now I'm working on the third rib.

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• 18:19Conan O'Brien?

  I mean, it's all, it's all, it's fascinating to me because clearly there is a large religious component in many religions. There's a big religious component to denying yourself food, fasting, going without, and, and people feeling like they reach a higher plane, or that they feel that they've gained something by seeing what they could do by denying themselves. So there's clearly some kind of link here. It's just, we don't know, obviously, what this, completely what the science is. And maybe it's different for all kinds of people. I don't know.

• 18:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, no, I mean, I, just going through the experience, it really showed like what the body's capable of. Was it the healthiest thing? I doubt it. But it was an experience.

• 19:06Conan O'Brien?

  And how do you break, after eight days?

• 19:08Speaker 02

  Yeah, what do you?

• 19:09Conan O'Brien?

  Is the, is it, do you, do you get a, you know, like a nine tiered hamburger? What do you get? I mean, I know you're a vegetarian. I'm just thinking about what I would do. I would, I would try to go to In-N-Out and say, can you make a hamburger that has nine patties?

• 19:21Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 19:22Speaker 01

  They can.

• 19:22Conan O'Brien?

  That structurally sound?

• 19:23Speaker 02

  That shuffle like a deck of cards.

• 19:26Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, I want a card dealer in here, a really good one to shuffle the patties and make a nine tiered sandwich. And then I want my jaw unlocked, so I can eat it in one bite.

• 19:39Conan O'Brien?

  What is your, what is, what do you, when you, would you, when you would break fast, what would you eat?

• 19:44Speaker 03

  So you actually have to go very slow, because you basically have to re-wake your bowel. And you're not gonna like this, but it's not even lentils, but it's like lentil water. So like the water that you cook your lentils in?

• 19:56Conan O'Brien?

  I'm a big fan of lentil water. Don't get me wrong. If I, I'm, I'm a foe of the lentil. That is my lifelong foe is the lentil. But lentil water, and I are best chums.

• 20:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's just that and like sugar water. And you just try to wake your, you know, wake your, your GI system back up and then you slowly, slowly advance diet.

• 20:21Speaker 02

  Right, right. Do you have a question for Conan, Rahil?

• 20:25Speaker 03

  I do, and it's like a, you know, a life dilemma that I'd love to get some insight of yours. So I am planning on proposing to my girlfriend. And so, you know, I'm about to start the whole ring shopping thing. And her parents happen to be jewelers. And so I'd like to know how you would kind of navigate the clear conflict of interest when I have no negotiating power on my side.

• 20:54Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, is your question is you don't want to purchase the ring from the parents? Is that it?

• 21:00Speaker 03

  I do, but how would I get the best deal or negotiate my way when I have no power on my side?

• 21:06Speaker 01

  Can you haggle with your future in-laws?

• 21:08Speaker 02

  But are you assuming they're not gonna give you the best deal? That they might be trying to make a profit off this?

• 21:13Conan O'Brien?

  Do they, do you get along with, do you get along with your girlfriend's parents?

• 21:17Speaker 03

  No, I do, I do. They're lovely, they're lovely.

• 21:20Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, so my guess is they're gonna give you a good deal.

• 21:23Speaker 02

  But that's the assumption that, you know, that's.

• 21:25Speaker 01

  He can't go anywhere else. He can't go to another jeweler. So they're just gonna be like, oh, he's gonna pay whatever we tell him to pay. I would pay like three times the price.

• 21:37Conan O'Brien?

  I don't know these people. I don't know who they are. You tell me they're nice people. I'm questioning whether you have to buy the ring from them.

• 21:46Speaker 01

  You have to?

• 21:47Conan O'Brien?

  Well, you could say, Rahil, that it's important for you that the ring you give your future wife have passed through your body.

• 21:56Speaker 02

  Oh, that's not where I thought you, I said, mm, like, I just wanna be an independent man.

• 22:01Conan O'Brien?

  No, no, that, that, and you, it's important to you that A, you buy the ring and that then it passed through your GI tract.

• 22:08Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 22:09Conan O'Brien?

  In order, because that's such an important part of your life. And they're not gonna wanna sell, they're not gonna wanna sell you one of their rings once they hear that.

• 22:17Speaker 03

  It's a symbolism of.

• 22:19Conan O'Brien?

  It's a symbol of your, you, it's a symbol of what you do, your profession, what you're giving your life to, but also you are willing to process this ring in every way that a human can process something. And, uh, and then they're gonna not want to sell you a ring at that point.

• 22:36Speaker 02

  No, cause there's a good chance it'll get stuck in there like a sunflower seed.

• 22:40Conan O'Brien?

  It's not.

• 22:41Speaker 01

  What?

• 22:41Conan O'Brien?

  Rahil, you'll buy, you'll buy a ring that will pass easily through the, the lower bowel, will you not?

• 22:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, at, at my current fellow salary, I don't think I can afford anything that's gonna get stuck.

• 22:53Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah. Yeah, and you can also encase it in, in a prune or something that's gonna go through a pretty quick.

• 22:58Speaker 01

  Come on, don't eat, don't eat the ring. Don't eat the ring.

• 23:01Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, you're telling me that what I'm telling him is stupid? How is it stupid that he buy a ring, stick it in a prune, eat it, pass it through his body, clean it off and give it to his wife and bypass his, her parents who are jewelers? I don't see one problem with that plan. Rahil, what do you think?

• 23:19Speaker 03

  I could get behind most of it.

• 23:24Conan O'Brien?

  Well, listen, in, in all seriousness, I think you buy the ring from them. Are they gonna be able to keep their mouths shut? Because you do want it to be a surprise when you give her the ring.

• 23:32Speaker 03

  I know. And so I don't know if I can tell her whenever this podcast comes out, if she can listen to it or if I have to cut it halfway.

• 23:39Conan O'Brien?

  Well, she's an intelligent woman. I'm assuming she's not listening. So I think you're okay.

• 23:44Speaker 02

  Art, do you think her parents are gonna have a lot of input on what the ring is? Or do you get to choose that freely?

• 23:50Speaker 03

  We've, we've kind of talked about it. Um, and they've, they've told me what her preferences are.

• 23:55Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, for God's sake, she already knows.

• 23:57Speaker 02

  What would she want?

• 23:59Speaker 03

  I don't know. I think that they, I think they can keep a secret. So I'm hoping.

• 24:03Conan O'Brien?

  But do they know what she wants? Because you keep talking about what, you know, Eduardo brings up a good point, which is they know what their preferences are. But what's her preference?

• 24:11Speaker 03

  Um, no, they've said, you know, they're, they're a family of jewelers, um, a couple of generations. So jewelry is very ingrained. I think they've always talked about that kind of stuff, like over the dinner table, probably. Um, and so they, they, they definitely know her preferences. Um, and I think that they, they're definitely guiding the right way. They're, they're sweet people. And this is obviously said, you know, with a touch of jest, but.

• 24:34Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah.

• 24:36Conan O'Brien?

  Well, I think, uh, I think it's all gonna go swimmingly. I just wanna make sure that it's a nice surprise. You know, that, that, uh, when you pull that ring out. Of yourself.

• 24:46Speaker 01

  Oh my god.

• 24:47Conan O'Brien?

  That it's a surprise.

• 24:49Speaker 02

  This is now part of the proposal?

• 24:50Speaker 01

  He's pulling it out of his body?

• 24:52Conan O'Brien?

  If he times it right.

• 24:54Speaker 01

  How is that even working?

• 24:54Conan O'Brien?

  If he times it right, he can say, "Honey, get over here."

• 24:57Speaker 01

  Oh no!

• 24:58Conan O'Brien?

  "Get over here, no, no, no, no, no, it's too nasty."

• 25:00Speaker 01

  He's gotta rinse it first. You can't just pull it out.

• 25:03Conan O'Brien?

  You have the water running. Get over here now, get over here now. "Ooh, yeah, me."

• 25:07Speaker 01

  Squat? Are you gonna squat?

• 25:09Conan O'Brien?

  He's gonna squat now.

• 25:10Speaker 01

  No, come on.

• 25:11Speaker 02

  Your fiance can never listen to you.

• 25:13Conan O'Brien?

  You could fire it across the room. "Boing, boing, boing."

• 25:16Speaker 01

  Oh my god.

• 25:17Speaker 03

  Is it like a carnival game, like a ring toss?

• 25:19Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah. Stick your finger out, honey.

• 25:21Speaker 01

  No.

• 25:23Conan O'Brien?

  Here she comes! "Boing, boing, boing." Your parents helped me pick it out. Your parents picked it out a week ago. And then I ate it with a lot of corn. Now listen. I'm sorry. Rahil.

• 25:37Speaker 01

  Come on.

• 25:38Speaker 02

  Rap, rap, rap, rap.

• 25:39Speaker 01

  Rap, rap, rap, rap, rap.

• 25:41Conan O'Brien?

  Rahil. I'm looking right now at a transcript of this entire conversation, and I see that I've made no missteps whatsoever. Everything I've said is rational and should be done. So, congratulations. No, Rahil, you are an impressive young man. I think you're gonna have a great career. I wish you the best with this proposal. I think it's all gonna go swimmingly. And I hope I bump into you in person someday, cuz I like you. You're a fine fellow. Think, really think seriously about swallowing the ring. Just think about it. Good idea. Probably get on.

• 26:15Speaker 03

  Thank you guys so much. It was so great meeting you guys.

• 26:17Conan O'Brien?

  All right, take care, man. See you later.

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