Pod Insights Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend Summer S’mores with Conan and the Chill Chums Season 5 Episode 5 About this episode Conan and the Chums compete in a high-stakes game of cornhole.
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1:15 Speaker 01 Summer Smores with Conan and the Chill Chums. A six-part series with Conan O'Brien, Sona Movsesian, and Matt Gourley. Let's get started.
1:25 Conan O'Brien? Hey, Conan O'Brien here, welcoming you to episode 5 of Summer Smores 2025. I'm joined by my fellow broadcaster extraordinaire.
1:36 Speaker 02 Yep.
1:37 Conan O'Brien? Trained her whole life for this. Basically screwed around and has landed her butt in butter. Uh, this is Sona Movsesian. Sona, this is exciting today, and we're gonna play a game. And I know you're very competitive when you play games.
1:47 Speaker 02 I am, and I know you're very competitive when you play games, too.
1:51 Conan O'Brien? I'm a man who has seasoned with time.
1:53 Speaker 02 Okay.
1:54 Conan O'Brien? I'm very chill and accepting of any result.
1:56 Speaker 02 No.
1:57 Conan O'Brien? Let's go now to our commentators here. We have two, of course, Matt Gourley. Matt, how are you?
2:02 Speaker 01 I'm fine, thanks, Conan. How are you?
2:04 Conan O'Brien? I'm good, um, and thank you for that, uh, very stiff, uh, rejoinder.
2:10 Speaker 03 commentator mode. I've got I've got business to do.
2:12 Conan O'Brien? Business to conduct and the business of America is the business. We are going to play cornhole.
2:18 Speaker 03 That's right.
2:18 Conan O'Brien? And I'm going to go up against the dreaded Sonoma Sessian, who's terrific at cornhole.
2:23 Speaker 02 Well, yeah.
2:24 Conan O'Brien? And we're also joined by my personal physician. Who's here in case, because I'm doing a physical activity.
2:31 Speaker 03 That's right.
2:31 Conan O'Brien? And and Dr. Arroyo, I've you suggested that you should be here to monitor my physical movements.
2:37 Speaker 03 Exactly, exactly. From the safe distance. You're going to be throwing things that weigh a little bit. And and I just want to make sure that you do it safely.
2:46 Conan O'Brien? OK, but we're talking about beanbags, Dr. Arroyo. These a child, literally, maybe a newborn could hold these beanbags.
2:54 Speaker 03 I have no, I'm not worried about a newborn.
2:55 Conan O'Brien? OK, all right. Now, Dr. Arroyo, you've been with me for, I think, 11 years now.
3:01 Speaker 03 That's correct.
3:02 Conan O'Brien? Since we we met.
3:04 Speaker 03 Yes.
3:04 Conan O'Brien? I think at a parking lot of Taco Bell.
3:08 Speaker 03 That's correct. That's correct. You looked like you needed some help and.
3:11 Conan O'Brien? I didn't. I was fine. I was walking to my car and you said, I need cash. Help me.
3:16 Speaker 03 I looked like I needed cash.
3:17 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, and anyway, you then became my physician.
3:21 Speaker 03 That's correct.
3:22 Conan O'Brien? I have not looked into your credentials and I've been told by you that's not a good idea.
3:26 Speaker 03 It's it's not necessary. And I'm I'm here to watch the the cornhole game and and I'm just as capable of doing this as I am of practicing medicine.
3:39 Conan O'Brien? Very good. All right. Well, shall we begin? What do you think, Matt? You're in charge here?
3:43 Speaker 03 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2025 Summer S'mores Cornhole Invitational. I'm Matt Gourley. This is Dr. Jose Arroyo, your color commentators for this afternoon of sport and frivolity. Our contestants today, Conan O'Brien, Sonum Obsessian. We've been talking about this game here in the office for well over a year. And it's been rumored about that we would actually have a competition between the two. We didn't do it last year, but we're doing it this year. And we have some surprise cornhole boards here, and I think it's time to reveal what we're looking at and the playing field. Blay?
4:15 Speaker 02 Oh goodness.
4:16 Conan O'Brien? Wow, look at that. Oh, these are friends. Oh wow.
4:19 Speaker 01 For the listener at home, these boards are the perfect depiction of Conan
4:24 Conan O'Brien? Yep.
4:24 Speaker 01 with a giant wide open mouth to throw the beanbags in.
4:27 Conan O'Brien? And that is to scale, by the way. That is my, uh, the circumference of my open mouth and its relationship to my head.
4:33 Speaker 01 Gorgeous. And then the same for Sona. There's a representation of Sona with an open mouth. Dr. Arroyo, do these seem anatomically correct?
4:39 Speaker 03 Uh, they do, actually. Uh, I've seen Conan yell and get that, his mouth that big. Uh, so yes.
4:47 Speaker 01 Alright, so are you guys familiar with the rules of cornhole?
4:50 Conan O'Brien? So you're just trying to get it in the hole?
4:51 Speaker 01 That's pretty much it, yeah.
4:52 Speaker 02 Where can we throw from? I know you can't go too far. The edge?
4:55 Speaker 01 You can go anywhere behind the front of the board.
4:58 Speaker 02 Okay.
4:58 Conan O'Brien? Got it, got it.
4:59 Speaker 01 And so we'll begin with you, Conan. You're tossing red into Sona.
5:03 Conan O'Brien? Okay.
5:03 Speaker 01 And, uh, whenever you're ready, you get one point for landing on the board, three points for getting in the mouth, and zero points for any that fall off.
5:09 Conan O'Brien? Okay, so I should put these up here so they're ready, right?
5:12 Speaker 02 We can talk shit, right?
5:14 Speaker 01 You should.
5:14 Speaker 02 And you alternate shots. So it's one-
5:16 Conan O'Brien? What's that?
5:16 Speaker 02 You're supposed to alternate shots, or throw.
5:18 Conan O'Brien? We alternate shots, okay.
5:19 Speaker 01 Alright, we can talk shit. If your toe does go in front of the board, that's a violation.
5:23 Speaker 02 Yeah, come on, you little bitch.
5:24 Conan O'Brien? Okay, and really, no, this is good. We need, we need to talk trash. This will up the game. So let me have it, Sona, and really give me your best, uh, you know, Glendale slash Altadena harsh vibes.
5:37 Speaker 02 Yeah, you fucking can't throw, you little bitch. Uh, you're, you're, yeah, who, what a wasted, what wasted height. Like, who's this tall and can't even fucking sport? You fucking loser.
5:51 Speaker 01 Okay, Sona.
5:52 Conan O'Brien? Let's style it back a little bit. That was atrocious, and I'm gonna go straight from here, probably to therapy, and just cry.
6:00 Speaker 01 Alright, it's your turn, little bitch.
6:01 Conan O'Brien? Okay, here we go.
6:04 Conan O'Brien? That's- I missed completely. That was terrible.
6:07 Speaker 01 Zero goose egg. That one flew over like an F-15 Tomcat.
6:12 Speaker 01 Sona with a point on the board!
6:14 Speaker 02 You know what? She's not even, she didn't come here to play.
6:15 Conan O'Brien? Okay, I was just goofing around on the first one. Now we get to business.
6:19 Speaker 02 Watch your toe, watch your toe!
6:20 Conan O'Brien? What if I knock curve one off?
6:22 Speaker 01 You can do that, yeah.
6:25 Speaker 01 Oh, damn it.
6:25 Conan O'Brien? Oh, slippery. I didn't realize, we didn't get any warm up. Uh, complaints already.
6:29 Speaker 01 Oh, my god.
6:31 Speaker 02 No, you can't fucking touch me!
6:33 Conan O'Brien? I didn't, don't swear.
6:34 Speaker 01 Next time that happens, you lose a point. Two points, three points, four points total for Sona right now.
6:39 Speaker 02 Oh, my god, this is embarrassing for you.
6:41 Conan O'Brien? What do you say we make this game interesting?
6:43 Speaker 02 Wow.
6:43 Conan O'Brien? Alright, I've been-
6:44 Speaker 03 Never mind.
6:44 Conan O'Brien? Okay.
6:45 Speaker 03 I don't think it could be.
6:45 Conan O'Brien? I was told, I'm goofing around a little bit, I was told to make this interesting. And, I was, actually.
6:51 Speaker 02 Oh, were you?
6:52 Conan O'Brien? Yes, I was. By Adam Sachs, our podcast producer.
6:55 Speaker 01 Oh, my god.
6:56 Conan O'Brien? So you've been seeing a little bit of what we call the old Baltimore Flim Flam. And, uh, it's time now to show you what can really happen.
7:04 Speaker 01 One point.
7:05 Conan O'Brien? Well, okay.
7:06 Speaker 02 That was a lot of talk.
7:06 Conan O'Brien? No, no, we're building up, we're building up.
7:08 Speaker 02 That was a lot of talk.
7:10 Speaker 01 Alright, Sona's up, she's got two more bags left.
7:14 Speaker 01 Five points, Sona, one point, Conan.
7:16 Speaker 02 I can't, I can't get better at this.
7:16 Speaker 01 Conan's last bag.
7:18 Conan O'Brien? Watch this.
7:21 Speaker 01 Whoa, one point, okay, five to two so far, Sona's got the last play, will subtract the lower score from the higher and get this round's tally. Oh! Alright, it's 62, which gives Sona four points.
7:32 Conan O'Brien? Okay, we got-
7:33 Speaker 01 For this round, we're doing three rounds.
7:34 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, I'm not worried about this at all, because I was told, make a little space up front, this is the first game.
7:42 Speaker 02 Yeah.
7:42 Conan O'Brien? Make it interesting, that's gonna get the clicks, the klacks, and the socials.
7:45 Speaker 01 So we should see you really sail from behind and, and-
7:47 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, you're gonna see it.
7:48 Speaker 01 Alright, great.
7:49 Conan O'Brien? I'm actually promised you that.
7:50 Speaker 01 Alright, you guys get to move over to the other side for, uh, fair winded damage.
7:54 Conan O'Brien? Am I still pitching red?
7:55 Speaker 01 Yes. Who went first last time?
7:58 Speaker 02 Uh, Conan did.
7:59 Speaker 01 Okay, so Sona, you go first this time.
8:01 Speaker 02 Maybe if we did a competition where we built wooden airplanes, you'd win.
8:06 Conan O'Brien? Uh, I-
8:07 Speaker 02 Dork!
8:08 Conan O'Brien? I'd build an excellent wooden airplane.
8:10 Speaker 01 Dr. Royal, mental health, does it play a part in this game?
8:13 Speaker 03 It plays a huge part in this game, and, uh, Sona so far has shown incredible confidence and stamina.
8:20 Speaker 02 Yeah.
8:20 Speaker 03 Let's just see if she can bring it home.
8:22 Speaker 02 I don't-
8:23 Speaker 01 She's on the board, another point.
8:26 Conan O'Brien? And now's the part where Conan shows you, he was just missing-
8:29 Speaker 03 The important thing is not to talk while they're, while they're about to throw, because that can throw their confidence and their, and their game off.
8:36 Speaker 01 Alright.
8:36 Speaker 03 So you, you wait.
8:38 Speaker 01 So I shouldn't?
8:38 Speaker 03 Yes, exactly.
8:40 Speaker 01 Oh! Ooh, three points, he's backing up his sack.
8:43 Speaker 03 Well done.
8:43 Speaker 01 Alright.
8:44 Conan O'Brien? So the sacchariliac jack.
8:47 Speaker 01 Oh, two, Sona, three, Conan, Conan's on his second throw.
8:52 Speaker 01 That was called a Donny Dud, back when I'm from Boston.
8:58 Speaker 02 Oh.
8:59 Speaker 01 3-2, current score.
9:02 Conan O'Brien? Oh damn.
9:03 Speaker 01 Sona's last bag. Alley-oop, it's on the board.
9:06 Speaker 02 Damn it, I was trying to get the other one in there, geez.
9:09 Speaker 01 Conan's got one more.
9:11 Speaker 02 Get there.
9:11 Speaker 01 It's one, it's 4-3, that's 1 point for Conan, 4 for the last round. Right now, it's Sona 3 points ahead.
9:18 Speaker 02 Yeah.
9:19 Speaker 01 Sona 2 points ahead. 4-1.
9:20 Conan O'Brien? What are you talking about?
9:21 Speaker 01 I'm scoring cornhole.
9:23 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, but it sounds like mush. It sounded like an auctioneer who just shot himself in the head and then started the auction.
9:28 Speaker 02 I'm winning.
9:29 Speaker 01 Sona has 4 and you have 1.
9:30 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, and trust me, watch what happens. This is called the old alley-oopsey, oopsie-doopsie. No one calls it that. If they did.
9:39 Speaker 01 This is the last round, correct?
9:40 Speaker 04 It's 1st to 7.
9:41 Speaker 01 1st to 7, okay, alright.
9:43 Conan O'Brien? It's 1st to 7?
9:44 Speaker 01 1st to 7.
9:45 Conan O'Brien? How long are we here?
9:46 Speaker 04 It's 4-1 right now, so Sona should win it now.
9:48 Speaker 01 She's overhauled.
9:49 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, yeah, watch this. You ready? And bongo.
9:53 Speaker 01 Hmm, 1 point, close to the mouth. That's what we call a chinner.
9:57 Conan O'Brien? And now it's time for the old labadoo.
10:01 Speaker 01 2, 2 on the board, 1 on the board for Sona.
10:05 Speaker 02 No!
10:06 Speaker 01 Sona knocks one in for 3 points.
10:08 Conan O'Brien? Okay. Oh, threw it completely over Sona's head, but a lot of things go over her head. She doesn't read. Here we go.
10:14 Speaker 02 Oh, someone's getting hurtful because he's losing. Alright.
10:18 Speaker 01 Alright, 5 for Conan, 3 for Sona, that's a net of 2 for Conan. And a net of 1 because Sona just put one on the board, so we are now at 4-2.
10:28 Speaker 02 Okay.
10:28 Conan O'Brien? So Conan's inching his way out.
10:30 Speaker 01 He's inching his way out.
10:31 Conan O'Brien? What did I say I was gonna do? Let me tell you something.
10:33 Speaker 01 Oh my god.
10:34 Conan O'Brien? Cornhole's a game, it's in the mind more than the arm.
10:38 Speaker 01 Jesus.
10:38 Conan O'Brien? I have created an expectation, which will soon turn into a sexpectation.
10:44 Speaker 02 Yeah.
10:45 Conan O'Brien? I think we're ready to go.
10:46 Speaker 02 I don't think I've ever seen you throw anything in my whole life.
10:50 Conan O'Brien? You seen me throw a fit?
10:51 Speaker 02 Yes.
10:52 Conan O'Brien? You've seen me throw a tantrum?
10:53 Speaker 02 Uh huh.
10:54 Conan O'Brien? You've seen me throw out my back?
10:55 Speaker 02 Yes.
10:56 Conan O'Brien? You've seen me throw out Jose's pitches?
10:58 Speaker 02 Yeah.
10:58 Speaker 01 That's true.
10:59 Conan O'Brien? So I'm, I...
11:00 Speaker 02 I stand corrected.
11:01 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, I think you go first on this one.
11:03 Speaker 02 Oh.
11:03 Speaker 01 Alright, Sona's up here, 4-2.
11:06 Speaker 02 No!
11:06 Speaker 01 Over the board, she doesn't score on that. Conan, with a nice little ginger touch, 1 on the board. 1 for Sona.
11:17 Speaker 01 Look at that.
11:18 Conan O'Brien? Look at it, it's like I'm sticking out my tongue at all of you.
11:20 Speaker 01 Yes, we gotta get a shot of that.
11:22 Conan O'Brien? Get a that, get a shot of that.
11:23 Speaker 01 But that's not a three pointer, that's a one pointer because it hasn't gone through the hole.
11:26 Conan O'Brien? But it will.
11:27 Speaker 01 You probably will.
11:28 Conan O'Brien? It will, if old man gravity knows what he's doing.
11:30 Speaker 02 God.
11:31 Conan O'Brien? He's like, Caddyshack, just wait.
11:33 Speaker 02 No!
11:34 Speaker 01 Thank you.
11:34 Speaker 02 I'm getting your bags in for you.
11:37 Speaker 01 Currently Sona 2, Conan 4 for this round. One more point for Conan.
11:44 Speaker 01 Sona with the last throw, that's one more for Sona and Conan's final throw for the round.
11:49 Conan O'Brien? Put that sack in the mouth.
11:50 Speaker 01 Yes.
11:52 Conan O'Brien? Say that again, Dr. Royal.
11:53 Speaker 01 Put that sack in the mouth, Conan.
11:54 Conan O'Brien? You know, it's funny, first time I met you, you said that.
11:56 Speaker 01 I, I remember.
11:57 Speaker 02 Oh, boy!
11:58 Conan O'Brien? There's true story, parking lot, Taco Bell.
12:00 Speaker 01 Here goes.
12:01 Conan O'Brien? Turned out I was, it was benign, remember?
12:03 Speaker 01 Your sack was benign?
12:04 Conan O'Brien? You said it tasted benign.
12:05 Speaker 01 I agree. You have a benign sack?
12:08 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, clearly, my wife's been saying that for years.
12:15 Conan O'Brien? Well, Hershey's finally decided to sponsor summer S'mores. You know, this has been the long con. We invented summer S'mores to lure Hershey's.
12:23 Speaker 02 This is all I've ever wanted.
12:24 Conan O'Brien? This is like the movie The Sting, it's this really long con, it's taken years to play out. We don't disagree on smores. The whole thing was staged just to get some attention. And now, old man Hershey has found himself in our snare. Ha ha! Yeah, well, anyway, they decided to sponsor summer S'mores, but they left me out. Matt and Sona got all this amazing merch and swag.
12:46 Speaker 02 Yeah.
12:47 Conan O'Brien? I got nothing because I'm anti-smore. Well, now I understand why. My past comments on smores divided a nation, a nation which is rarely divided. But Hershey's, I want you to know, my beef is not with you. I love chocolate, I love your new Hershey caramel bar, I believe that a smore could be just chocolate and graham cracker, no marshmallow needed. I had the new Hershey's caramel, it was great, it was terrific. Sona, what do you think? How is the smore with caramel? Tell me what you think.
13:13 Speaker 02 It's so good, I mean, honestly, if anybody tries to give me a smore without Hershey chocolate, I just smack it out of their hand.
13:19 Conan O'Brien? Yes.
13:19 Speaker 02 And the caramel just upped the game big time.
13:22 Conan O'Brien? I saw your face light up.
13:23 Speaker 02 That was my, I feel like tasting that was my purpose in life.
13:26 Conan O'Brien? Try Hershey's Milk Chocolate with Caramel today, smore more.
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13:39 Speaker 02 Yeah.
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15:03 Conan O'Brien? There it is.
15:04 Speaker 04 Conan's up 5-4.
15:05 Speaker 02 What the fuck?
15:06 Conan O'Brien? Now, what do we, what do we talk about?
15:08 Speaker 02 Are you serious?
15:09 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, what are we talking about? Well, you were goofing around. This is exactly what I said was gonna happen.
15:14 Speaker 04 Conan's two points away from winning.
15:16 Speaker 02 Okay.
15:17 Speaker 01 Sony, you have to beat him with that.
15:18 Conan O'Brien? And I start, I start, remember? I start. Oh, I gotta get mine because it went in. Here we go. It's an extra.
15:24 Speaker 01 Sony, you have to beat him.
15:29 Speaker 01 One point, Conan.
15:30 Speaker 02 Alright, this is it. I'm done, I'm done.
15:35 Speaker 01 One point, Sona. Lofty throw from Conan, it's good for another point. Sona's right on his heels with another point. 2-2 here on this round. Three points for Conan, oh man.
15:48 Speaker 02 No!
15:50 Speaker 01 Sona knocks one of hers off the board with a one-point round.
15:53 Conan O'Brien? Oh, yeah.
15:54 Speaker 01 Conan's off.
15:55 Speaker 02 Is it?
15:56 Speaker 04 Oh, she's got one more bag.
15:57 Conan O'Brien? You got one more bag?
15:57 Speaker 04 You gotta make a three-pointer here to keep, stay alive.
16:00 Speaker 02 Shut up, Eduardo!
16:02 Speaker 01 Here we go.
16:02 Speaker 02 Why don't you shut the fuck up? Why? Are you playing? Are you playing?
16:08 Speaker 01 What if she knocks off one of his bags?
16:09 Speaker 04 I got next after the recording.
16:11 Speaker 02 Oh my god.
16:12 Speaker 01 Yeah? You could knock off one of his bags, or you could just punch him in the sack.
16:17 Conan O'Brien? Been there, done that.
16:19 Speaker 02 There she is.
16:21 Speaker 01 I'm sorry, no. For all his talk, Conan comes through. And the Empire has won. God, you hate to see it. And I'm an unbiased observer.
16:33 Speaker 01 Man, Sona.
16:35 Conan O'Brien? That's voluntary, isn't it, Conan? Is that?
16:38 Speaker 01 Alright, okay.
16:40 Speaker 02 God, I started off so strong.
16:42 Conan O'Brien? Dr. Arroyo, if you don't mind, give me a quick...
16:46 Speaker 01 It's really good.
16:46 Conan O'Brien? What do you think?
16:47 Speaker 01 I, I, I think you're good for another two years.
16:49 Conan O'Brien? Could I... two years. And could you check the hearts as well, please?
16:52 Speaker 01 Absolutely.
16:53 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
16:54 Speaker 01 I'm just gonna compare it. Yeah. Okay, yeah, they're, we're both good.
16:59 Conan O'Brien? You'd get these at any costume shop.
17:01 Speaker 01 This is correct. This is correct. But this one cost me a lot of money.
17:06 Conan O'Brien? Okay, okay. Thank you very much, Dr. Arroyo. You got a problem?
17:10 Speaker 02 Yeah, I do have a problem, bitch.
17:16 Speaker 02 Yeah.
17:17 Conan O'Brien? Sticks and stones may something, something, but names will... Well, that was exciting.
17:22 Speaker 01 For you.
17:22 Speaker 02 Yeah, for you.
17:23 Conan O'Brien? Because there was this perception, which I created, that things were gonna be tough, and that I was really, you know, hurting. Then out of nowhere...
17:34 Speaker 02 Out of nowhere, it took you like four rounds to make enough points. So it's, I just crumbled. That's all it was. I just.
17:40 Conan O'Brien? I would like Eduardo to weigh in. Eduardo's a man of sport. He's a sportsman.
17:45 Speaker 04 I think luck goes a long way.
17:46 Speaker 02 Yay! That was luck. It was luck because I started to really suck after that first round, but you know what? I'm down for a rematch anytime.
17:56 Conan O'Brien? Well, I'll never touch that game again because I've just proven that I'm the best in the world at it. Walk away from success, I always say.
18:03 Speaker 01 This is a rough way to end the season of Summer Sports.
18:06 Speaker 02 I know.
18:06 Speaker 01 Sona, how are you feeling?
18:08 Speaker 02 I feel like shit. I'm really upset I lost. I hate losing things in general, but losing to Conan is probably my biggest nightmare. I hate it so much. I don't, I can't think of anything I hate more than losing to Conan. I'm really upset. I'm pissed. I'm mad at myself. I'm mad at my family. I'm mad at, I'm mad at everyone who works on this stupid fucking podcast. I hate everybody who thought of this idea so that it could open up this world in which Conan beats me at something.
18:39 Speaker 01 Boy, you have a sympathy vote and then I think you lose.
18:42 Speaker 02 Uh, I just, I'm, I don't think you realize losing to Conan is the worst person you could lose to. Because he's a gloater. You're a gloater.
18:51 Conan O'Brien? No, I don't gloat. All I do is savor the victory out loud.
18:57 Conan O'Brien? I don't know if that's what gloating is, an overextended period of time and with great bravado. If that's gloating, then I suppose I'm a gloater. I don't think it is.
19:04 Speaker 01 Conan, what are you planning to do with this victory?
19:06 Conan O'Brien? Well, I've heard there's a cornhole circuit.
19:09 Speaker 02 Oh my god.
19:09 Conan O'Brien? Now, several years ago, I went on something that I was told was the cornhole circuit. It turned out to be a very different thing. And, um...
19:18 Speaker 01 Is that how you got so good at cornhole?
19:20 Conan O'Brien? It had nothing to do with this.
19:22 Speaker 01 Okay.
19:22 Conan O'Brien? It was a misnomer.
19:24 Speaker 01 Yeah.
19:24 Conan O'Brien? They call it the cornhole circuit, but I assure you, it is not this game.
19:28 Speaker 02 Okay.
19:28 Conan O'Brien? And I met some lovely people.
19:33 Conan O'Brien? But I was filled with shame afterwards. I felt degraded and used. So that's not gonna happen again. I prefer this cornhole, but it turns out I'm good at both. So, um, I think I wanna get out there and I think I'm a good spokesperson for this game and for the other cornhole.
19:51 Speaker 02 Wait, have you ever played for Reels?
19:53 Conan O'Brien? No.
19:54 Speaker 02 Okay.
19:55 Conan O'Brien? And you've probably played a lot, and that's interesting.
19:58 Speaker 01 Have you played before?
19:59 Speaker 02 I've played a few times. Yeah, I've played.
20:01 Conan O'Brien? And where do you play it? Sort of backyard events?
20:03 Speaker 02 Yeah, like picnics and barbecues.
20:06 Conan O'Brien? Tell me a little bit about the picnic.
20:07 Speaker 02 Little friends, family, cool people, like cool people who know how to-
20:10 Conan O'Brien? You just said you hate your family.
20:11 Speaker 02 Well, I'm angry that I lost, so I'm just talking about how angry I am. I'm getting my anger out. I hate that I lost to you, so I'm blaming everyone but myself.
20:22 Conan O'Brien? Let it go. You have a beautiful family.
20:24 Speaker 02 Aw, shut the fuck up. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I called you a bitch multiple times.
20:30 Conan O'Brien? You're not wrong.
20:32 Speaker 01 You're not wrong.
20:34 Conan O'Brien? Gourley, what was it like for you to watch me come from behind after predicting it? I called it.
20:42 Speaker 01 That was the worst part.
20:44 Conan O'Brien? You know, with the Jets, I called it. No one, I was, I was the underdog. People liked to call me king of the dorks and et cetera, et cetera. And then I come out with one of the greatest displays of physical prowess and, um, mental acumen that people have ever seen.
20:58 Speaker 01 Honestly, it made me hate my family, too.
21:01 Conan O'Brien? It made me hate Sona's family. I hate Sona's family now. Well, this was, I think we learned something?
21:08 Speaker 02 No, we didn't.
21:09 Speaker 01 Just that life is a series of miserable disappointments.
21:12 Speaker 02 Yes.
21:13 Speaker 01 And there's no justice.
21:14 Speaker 02 Yes.
21:14 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, that's what we, that was the goal, that was the title of the episode. That's what we meant to achieve. I loved it. I just loved being outside. This was our last episode outside.
21:24 Speaker 01 Remember how we started this series and he was so bleak and complaining about circuits and he wins one game of cornhole?
21:29 Speaker 02 I know.
21:30 Speaker 01 And now suddenly life is all sunshine and roses.
21:32 Speaker 02 I hate that smug face. Oh, I hate your smug face.
21:35 Conan O'Brien? Let's just say I'm getting some tonight.
21:37 Speaker 02 Oh, God.
21:38 Speaker 01 Cornhole.
21:39 Conan O'Brien? No. Listen, let's just leave that up to the imagination.
21:43 Speaker 02 No, let's not.
21:44 Conan O'Brien? Okay.
21:45 Speaker 02 Let's not do that. Uh, what's happening with this cornhole set?
21:49 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, what are we gonna do with these? These two are amazing.
21:51 Speaker 01 Who made these?
21:51 Conan O'Brien? Who made these? These are terrific.
21:53 Speaker 01 Oh, Ryan.
21:54 Conan O'Brien? Ryan did this? It's great. It's great. It's really well done. Please give him our thanks. He's a very... Let's give him a full shout out. What's his last name?
22:01 Speaker 04 Ryan Goto.
22:02 Conan O'Brien? Art director Ryan Goto. Let's hear it for Ryan Goto, please.
22:04 Speaker 01 Right, yeah. And while we're at it, everybody who worked on this series, we still have one more episode in studio, but out here, everybody's at play. So, thank you to all the people.
22:12 Conan O'Brien? I'm sorry, you've gone too far.
22:13 Speaker 02 Yeah.
22:14 Speaker 01 Sorry.
22:14 Conan O'Brien? I think I made this happen. I got here early. I set up the cameras and I scheduled everything.
22:19 Speaker 02 No, whose idea was cornhole? I wanna know. I wanna know. Was it your idea?
22:24 Speaker 04 It was me.
22:25 Speaker 02 Well, I hate you, Eduardo.
22:26 Conan O'Brien? So Eduardo, you wanted to set me up to look the fool?
22:29 Speaker 04 No, I knew you would come through.
22:30 Speaker 02 What?
22:31 Speaker 04 The whole time.
22:32 Speaker 02 Nobody ever bets on Conan when there's this athletic anything.
22:36 Conan O'Brien? Eduardo said I'd have The Tonight Show for 10 years.
22:38 Speaker 02 Oh, boy.
22:40 Conan O'Brien? He put a lot of money in it and no one in his family's ever going to college now. Hey, um, I wanna say, in all sincerity, to echo and continue what Matt so nobly began, we sail in at the last minute like a bunch of goons, three goons in a pod, and everyone here has worked so hard to make this really fun. This was a fun day.
23:02 Speaker 02 Yeah, it was.
23:03 Conan O'Brien? It started out with me moaning about all the conduits that are visible in the back of the Larchmont Studios and ended with triumph of evil over good.
23:12 Speaker 02 Oh, okay.
23:12 Conan O'Brien? And, um, let's...
23:14 Speaker 02 Over good, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:16 Conan O'Brien? I can't believe that you were like, no, no, no. Wait a minute.
23:18 Speaker 02 Yeah, I don't know that, yes, yes, yes.
23:19 Conan O'Brien? But, uh, yeah. I wanna thank everybody here who worked so hard. And I also wanna thank Dr. Arroyo.
23:27 Speaker 02 Yay.
23:27 Conan O'Brien? Dr. Arroyo, step in here, please. And, um, you are a man with, uh, a very shadowy background, a man, um, who has been derided by the Medical Association of America.
23:41 Speaker 01 That's correct.
23:41 Conan O'Brien? And worldwide for being a poser, a fraud, a huckster. But you came here today with...
23:46 Speaker 01 But they also say bad things.
23:51 Conan O'Brien? You came here today with, I'm assuming your time is very valuable?
23:55 Speaker 03 It is, it is. I have to be somewhere right now. I get, actually, I am a live cornhole target. I don't know if I-
24:04 Conan O'Brien? You do that-
24:04 Speaker 03 I do that for nineteen dollars an hour.
24:07 Conan O'Brien? So for people that don't have a set-
24:09 Speaker 03 Exactly.
24:10 Conan O'Brien? Or a cornhole table-
24:11 Speaker 03 If they have an inclined plane, I will sit there with my mouth open.
24:14 Conan O'Brien? And so you do children's parties?
24:16 Speaker 03 I do children's parties, exactly.
24:18 Conan O'Brien? And I'm curious, Dr. Royo, has choking ever been an issue? Does the beanbag ever get in there?
24:22 Speaker 03 Oh, all the time.
24:23 Speaker 01 Who is your counterpart that is the other board?
24:26 Speaker 03 Well, I don't know, because I'm looking at the sun. So, I can't really see-
24:31 Conan O'Brien? And you have to keep your eyes open. They want an open-eyed cornholeer.
24:34 Speaker 03 Exactly, and so, and I have protection.
24:37 Conan O'Brien? So you're headed now to Tarzana-
24:39 Speaker 03 Correct.
24:39 Conan O'Brien? Where you will lay down, stare at the sun, at some event. What, is it a bar mitzvah, a bat mitzvah? Is it, I mean, tell me what kind of event this is? Is this someone's wedding?
24:47 Speaker 03 It's somebody's 30th wedding anniversary. They wanted to toss beanbags at me, and I'll be lying down.
24:56 Conan O'Brien? You know what? That's as good a use of a doctor's time as I think I've ever heard. And I want to thank you, Dr. Royo. And God bless you and the work that you're trying to do but failing.
25:04 Speaker 03 Thank you, thank you.
25:05 Conan O'Brien? All right, okay. Oh, what's this? "He does everything with such aplomb." What a show business professional.
25:14 Conan O'Brien? Practice, you practice. Incline plane.
25:22 Conan O'Brien? I so want to throw a beanbag in there.
25:24 Speaker 03 I know, I do too.
25:25 Conan O'Brien? I know, but I'd break his nose.
25:26 Speaker 01 How about a marshmallow?
25:28 Conan O'Brien? Well, we could try.
25:29 Speaker 03 Yeah.
25:29 Conan O'Brien? You know, it's worth a shot.
25:31 Speaker 02 If you can make him choke, it's like four points.
25:38 Speaker 02 This is awful.
25:39 Conan O'Brien? This is the worst thing. This is something, I think Caligula did this.
25:45 Speaker 02 Jose, ¿por qué estás haciendo esto?
25:48 Conan O'Brien? Jose, usted tiene...
25:51 Conan O'Brien? Sí, está bien.
25:53 Speaker 01 El año próximo te llevaré en cornhole.
25:55 Conan O'Brien? Sí, felicitaciones, Dr. Arroyo. Un hermano maravilloso. Absolutamente sin autoestima. Queremos, nuevamente, nos veremos la próxima semana para dar el final, el final emocional de este instalamiento de Chill Chums y, por supuesto, el mencionado... ¿Cómo se llama esto de nuevo, Summer S'mores?
26:18 Speaker 02 Me da pena de cómo te encuentras feliz. Puedes verlo, ¿verdad?
26:22 Conan O'Brien? Sí.
26:22 Speaker 02 Me da pena, tienes una... Tú eres muy chipper en la forma en que hablas. Oh, eres el peor tipo en el mundo. Oh, Dios mío.
26:30 Speaker 01 Honestamente.
26:30 Speaker 02 Oh, eres horrible.
26:31 Conan O'Brien? Bad winner, bad winner. Bien, Bueno, nos veremos la próxima semana. Paz.
26:38 Speaker 02 Eso fue brutal.
26:41 Speaker 01 Summer S'mores, con Conan O'Brien, Sonum of Sesian y Matt Gourley. Producido por mí, Matt Gourley. Executive produced by Adam Sacks, Jeff Ross and Nick Liao. Theme song by The White Stripes. Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino. Take it away, Jimmy.
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