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Hi, my name is Mila Kunis, and I feel... Indifferent
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about being Conan O'Brien's friend.
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What the hell? Indifferent? Well, okay. I've known you a
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long time. I feel lucky.
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I feel privileged.
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That's the opposite of indifferent.
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Fall is here, hear the yell Back to school, ring
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the bell Brand new shoes, walkin' loose Climb the fence,
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books and pens.
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I can tell that we are gonna be friends.
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Yes, I can tell that we are gonna be friends.
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Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. This is my
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podcast because the TV show wasn't enough. And it started
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out as a lark And I absolutely love it. It's
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really fun having a blast. And of course, joined by
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my good friends, the stalwart Sona Movsesian.
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Hey, Sona.
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Hi.
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How are you?
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I'm doing great.
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Your posture isn't great. You're sort of slumping over.
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I'm comfortable
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like this.
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Also, you have your, you're leaning your chin.
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You mean to lean your chin on your fist, but
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the fist was kind of going into your mouth and
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you're on mic. So you're not changing anything at all.
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No, I'm not. Did you say this to make me
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change it?
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I was trying to give you helpful advice.
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I don't like listening to you.
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Kind of a father figure, if you will.
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Oh, God, no.
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And then also Matt Gorley. I call him Gorley. How
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are you, Matt? I'm good.
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How are you?
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Welcome back.
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Thank you. That's right.
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I was away.
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You were in Ghana.
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I was in Ghana. We shot a travel special there,
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and it was fantastic. What did you do while I
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was away?
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I just lived in peace for the first time in
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my life for a few months.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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You mean just because I was gone?
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Yeah, just like the stress load was off.
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Oh, come on.
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What are you talking about? I think you thrive on
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this connection. I make you better. I'm like a Michael
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Jordan who raises your game, but Michael Jordan now who
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hasn't played basketball in a long time.
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And wears Hanes t-shirts and a Hitler mustache.
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Wears Hanes t-shirts, yeah, and a Hitler mustache and apparently
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bets very heavily.
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Yeah. So I'm that Michael Jordan.
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No, we complete each other and don't answer that.
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Okay.
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Wait, you have a beer?
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Why are you drinking a beer? It's Friday. Yeah, but
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it's not even two o'clock in the afternoon.
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I don't know.
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We finished the interview. It's, you know, Sona's like relaxing.
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I'm having a beer.
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What are you talking about?
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Probably go for a swim later.
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Yeah. Who cares?
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Yeah.
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Don't want to get with it, old man.
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Don't be a dork.
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Yeah.
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Nerd.
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Wow.
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To be taunted by you two is hysterical, especially Gourley.
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I bet you'd reach into your back pocket for a switchblade.
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It'd be a comb, a switchblade. No, no, no, it
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would be a vintage comb, an ironic vintage comb. What's
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an ironic comb?
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I don't know.
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Probably a comb with, like, no teeth in it because.
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Isn't it funny?
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And it used to belong to, like, you know, a
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secretary of state in 1902. You got it online. So, yeah,
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you're a threatening chap. Sona, seriously, get your hand away
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from your chin. No.
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Oh, God.
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Oh, I like this. It's comfortable.
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Were you like this as a teenager?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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I was.
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So you never grew out of this phase?
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No, I was always in detention because I had trouble
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with authority.
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Yeah.
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I've noticed you have trouble with authority.
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Yeah. I am the authority around here, and you and
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I always have trouble with each other.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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That's cool.
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I'm sorry. Are you high?
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No, I'm not.
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Do you wish you were?
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Yeah, of course. I wish I always was at work.
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It makes it so much better.
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Am I the only one here with a work ethic?
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I guess. I'm sitting here drinking water.
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You can be un.
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And you are drinking Pacifico?
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Mm-hmm.
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Okay, beer.
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Yeah. And Sona here is pining away for a sweet
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edible drink. A sweet, chewy marijuana high.
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You can be unpleasant sometimes.
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Not true.
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So it is nice to numb it.
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Not true.
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I was at jury duty for two weeks and I
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miss it.
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You miss jury duty?
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I do.
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So wait, I was in Ghana, and Matt Gorley described
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it as the best time he's had in months while
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I was away, and you are pining for jury duty.
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I was on a trial for two weeks, and I
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miss it.
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How are you allowed to be on a jury?
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I'm a great juror.
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Yeah, but you have to be a citizen of the
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United States.
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Oh, come on.
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I am a citizen.
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Sona.
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I was born here. I'm a citizen. This bit, it
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went nowhere because it doesn't make any sense. I was
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born here. Who's on today?
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You're anxious to change the conversation.
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Who do you have?
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You're out of it. You're both out of it. Who
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are you going to make friends with today? I am
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raring to go.
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I've been to Ghana, and I've come back, and I'm
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raring to go, hitting on all cylinders. And I look
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over at you two goofballs. You're sucking on a cerveza,
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having a good time. You got a tan.
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Yeah, man.
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Where'd you get your tan, man?
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Backyard.
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Oh, yeah. Backyard. I bet that's code for something, right?
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No.
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Yeah, code for the yard that's not in the front
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of my house.
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Right, in the back.
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You're in the old backyard. What about you, Sona?
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What?
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Nothing.
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What an uninspiring team. Okay.
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I want to mention something really quickly, and you're going
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to have to help me with this, Gourley, if you
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can sober up.
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Coming up, we have a real treat. A special edition.
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of this podcast.
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It's gonna be coming up called Deep Dive with Dana Carvey.
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Six episodes where Dana and I just riff and behave
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like fools.
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And man, is he funny.
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Oh, you guys are both.
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It's a- Oh, no, no, no. I'll give it to Dana.
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Okay, I'll take it. It's really Dana being absolutely hilarious.
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And you don't wanna miss these. These are slightly shorter episodes.
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but they're packed with chuckles, guffaws, laughs, and hearty har-hars,
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and that's a guarantee. Deep Dive with Dana Carvey. When
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do those roll out?
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Well, this will bridge the gap between the two seasons
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of Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, so.
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I guess it's official. We're coming back. We're doing another season.
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Yeah, that's exciting.
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If you've enjoyed this, we're coming back for more. If
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you haven't enjoyed it, ha-ha. Your life's getting worse.
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So these will come out for free between the seasons
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of Conan O'Brien.
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Needs a Friend.
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But if you want them right now, you can get
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a free month of Stitcher Premium. Sign up at stitcherpremium.com
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and use promo code Conan and hear all six episodes. Otherwise,
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the free ones will be out on August 5th, and
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they'll come out once a week for six weeks and
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lead you right up to season two of Conan O'Brien
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Needs a Friend.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And check those, the ones with, I'm really proud of
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the ones I got to do with Dana Carvey. He
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is a national treasure, and he really makes me laugh,
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and I think you'll have fun checking him out. Okay,
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so onward. Today's guest, I'm really happy. Today's guest is
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a very talented actress. I've gotten to interview many times
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over the years. You know her from That 70s Show,
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Black Swan, and
Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She's also voiced Meg
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for 17 Seasons, a family guy. I'm very excited. to
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talk to her. She's a very special person, Mila Kunis.
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Hey, Mila. Thank you so much for being here.
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Yeah, for sure. I say this quite honestly. I've loved
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you for a long time. You're just a real person,
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and I don't get to meet that many real people
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in show business.
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I mean that.
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Thank you.
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From, I think, one of the first time I met you,
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you were a kid when you came on my show.
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Mm-hmm.
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You were, and you seemed like a child to me.
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And then you started talking, and I thought, well, she's
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on this show, that 70s show, and she's an actress,
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and she's very young. So there's certain things that you
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might expect.
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I thought, there's a lot of people that live in
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a bubble.
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You know what I mean?
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They live in a bubble, and I've experienced it firsthand.
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And they don't have much life experience. And I started
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talking to you, and you had the wisdom to, Of
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like an old Ukrainian fisherman, you know? I just was
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like blown away by how street smart you were, how
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frugal you were. You told me that your parents got
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mad at you about something and they took your right
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to drive your car away. So you were taking the
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bus to tapings of that 70s show.
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Yep.
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And I thought, this is, first of all, God bless
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your parents. But second of all, this is great.
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Yeah.
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This is fantastic.
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I have really cool parents. I mean, hindsight 2020, they're awesome.
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But when you're, you know, 16, 17, well, maybe let's
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say 15, 16. And I was on 70 Show and
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I didn't have a license at the time. My mom
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had to pick me up from work. And I was
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still going to public school. And she worked at Rite
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Aid on Laurel Canyon and Victory. And so she would
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drive down to CBS and pick me up after rehearsal.
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at like 3 and then take me back to work
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with her until she closed the store at 10 p.m.,
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and I had to do ice cream and do your photos.
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I had, like, a whole other job because I had
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no choice, and I was like, this is bullshit. Like,
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I work.
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What am I doing?
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So, like, I literally, like, I had no choice. But
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it's a different world. I bet today my parents would
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have been like, well, just Uber home. But that didn't exist.
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But that's not even the point.
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The point to me is more– Most kids your age,
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when they land at a major sitcom job, you know
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what I mean, role, it's a matter of weeks before
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they're online ordering like a Bentley, you know, or something
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they can't afford.
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No, you know what I mean.
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I mean, if you're an immigrant, you have a very
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different mentality. I really do attest to the fact that, like,
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I'm not first generation. My kids are first generation. Right.
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So because I am an immigrant, I think that that–
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creates a different perspective on what the value of a
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dollar is and what hard work is. I really do, from, like,
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you know, ground up.
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I think– I mean, you've talked about that, Sona. You've
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talked about how– Yes, yeah. I'm always convincing people that
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you are an immigrant.
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I'm not.
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My parents are, and I know exactly– So you're first generation.
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I am first generation.
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So I'm your parents.
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Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about.
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I totally get that.
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And you always had jobs, and you're extremely practical, and
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you're always– Your brother's always giving you a hard time
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if you spend like an– Sure.
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To a fault almost.
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Like there's a happy medium. And it took me– like
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I say this. Yes, there's extremes to both situations. But
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I was such an extreme like I'm going to be
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broke tomorrow. I'm not going to have a job. I
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was always living my life so much so cautiously. That
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it took me the longest time. And it didn't happen
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until I married my husband that he was like, we're
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going to be okay. And I was like, but we
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can't buy this house. And he was like, what are
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you talking about? He's like, I promise you we can
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do this. And I, to this day, have this weird
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sense of like. Well, you don't need to buy that
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plastic bottle. We have plenty of water in the sink,
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and we paid very good money to have it clean.
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So get a glass bottle, and you're fine. It's just
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the way that– and it's not necessarily healthy. So I
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think there's a balance to it that I'm finding.
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There's a kind of neuroses that comes with– Possibly. You know,
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it's interesting because– Of wastefulness.
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It has to do with being not wasteful. I think
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if you pinpoint it, I've had a very hard time
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being wasteful, whether it's with food or– not to get woo,
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but like, you know, earth. Like I'm like, why, what.
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Are we doing?
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We're such wasteful humans. Like we don't need to do
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this to ourselves.
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But that's admirable. I, I do, I really do think,
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I know you're saying there's a happy medium. I do
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think there's definitely something that comes from not being a
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citizen of the United States when you're born coming here
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and you have, you have a different perspective, famously Bob Hope,
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you know, like the, sort of master of ceremonies comedian
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of the 20th century, he was incredibly frugal and he
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was the richest landowner in California. But when he was
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in his late 80s, I know from people firsthand who
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were in his life would say, oh, I was with
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him at a Carl's Jr. today and he had his,
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I took him there and he had his certificates to
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get 20% off his Carl's Jr.
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Burger.
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He's one of the richest men in the history of
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American entertainment.
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Yeah. And he's got his coupon, and he's 88 years old,
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and you want to say, Bob Hope, what's the issue?
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Well, anyone who's done– you.
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Know, when I started reading up about Bob Hope, he
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was born to a very poor stonecutter's family in Wales.
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Yeah.
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He didn't come from the United States. They moved here,
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and he was desperately poor when he was a kid.
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He never forgot that. It was always, yeah, okay, I
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have a billion dollars, and I own most of California,
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but– I've got this.
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Yes.
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I can get 20% off my Carl's Jr. burger, and
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I'm not going to screw with that.
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I'm a big supporter of Groupon. I have walked into
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restaurants with a Groupon.
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Right.
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I use it all the time.
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Do you ever get any attitude? Because obviously they know you.
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All the time. Why is Mila Kunis using it?
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They're like, really? And I was like, yes. So if
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I check in, do I still get my 10% off
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on this bikini wax? Absolutely. I love shopping online because
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I don't get out very much. So I love, I'm
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a very good online shopper. I'm also a really great
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promo coder. I will find promo codes for everything. We're
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building a house right now.
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Right.
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But I will sometimes, like, our designer will send me, like,
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these are the chairs that we need. And I was like,
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but do we really? Because these seem a little overpriced.
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And I will then go online at, like, 2 in
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the morning and find, like, coupon codes for similar-looking chairs
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and send it back and be like, but what about these?
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And she was like, no, no, we're not. So I'm
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still doing this.
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It's like a.
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Those are made of tinfoil. We don't know who made
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them in Taiwan. They won't support your weight. You know,
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you told me this story once about how when... You
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had all these money-making schemes when you were a kid.
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And while you were on The 70s Show, you were
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still up to some of your money-making schemes.
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Yes.
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One of them involved T-shirts, and it was hilarious. I
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remember it to this day. Yeah, tell me about that.
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Okay.
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Well, there's an end to that story because I think
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I talked about it on your show.
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Yeah.
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And then I got a video message from the Backstreet
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Boys of wanting their 10% off of the t-shirts.
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Let's take it back from the beginning because let's just
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assume that no one saw that episode.
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Okay. Take it from the beginning.
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Okay. So I grew up in L.A. So there's a
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reason for this. I'm not a transplant, right? I came
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here when I was like 7, 8, and I've lived
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here my whole life. So my girlfriends, who are still
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my friends to this day, I met when I was
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in second grade and so forth. Um, I have a friend,
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her name is Julie. She's still my girlfriend and we're
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super close. And we've been friends since we were like
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eight or nine. And she's like, she's, if there's Lucy
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and Ethel, she's, she's Lucy and I'm Ethel. Like she
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gets me into trouble all the time. Like she has
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these schemes where I'm like, all right, I guess I'm
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along for the ride. So when we were in, um,
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you know, I mean, there were so many things, I
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guess I can talk about it now. It doesn't matter.
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But okay. So there used to be a mall called
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Beverly Center.
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Mm-hmm.
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And she used to be the manager at a store
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called Natural Wonder. It's out of business is the only
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reason I can talk about it. And it's a real store.
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And she would make me come in because she didn't
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want to be there by herself on like Christmas, like
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that three weeks of like Christmas shoppers. and make me, quote,
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work there so that she would have a friend. So
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I would put on, like, a brown apron and stand
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in the front of the store and be like, would
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you guys like the moon rocks?
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Totally.
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Everything's illegal about this.
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Yeah, you're not an employee.
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Nope, nope, nope.
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And I would, like, ring the register and, like, bum
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around the store. That's my friend. So prior to her
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having the job in Actual Wonder, or it might have
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been during, is when eBay popped up. Like, eBay became
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kind of what it just started out becoming. Like, wait,
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you can sell items on eBay?
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Yeah.
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And so we would go to downtown LA and buy,
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you know, whatever, for $ 2, like stacks of white t-shirts,
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white beaters, and print out on iron paper what was
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popular back then, which was Backstreet Boys, which was the
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number one selling t-shirt. Or like if it was Christmas,
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we'll do any logo for you or NSYNC or whatever
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was pop culture relevant or anything that you wanted for
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us to print out on Iron-ons.
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Right.
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And we would iron that on and send it off
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through eBay. And we became really popular.
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So wait, you had no approval. Zero. And you had
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no legal right.
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All of this is illegal. Yes.
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All of this was illegal.
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100%.
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Like this, nothing about this was okay. And mind you,
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we didn't do drugs. So we were just sober, having fun,
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little girls giggling, like iron things on.
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What?
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While I was on 70 Show.
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Yes, that's the point.
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You are a major, you're an actress in like this
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big hit sitcom, this ensemble sitcom.
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Correct.
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And at the same time, you are making illegal bootleg
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Backstreet Boys and NSYNC t-shirts and selling them through the mail.
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Put a dog on it. You know, we didn't judge.
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This is mail fraud. This is every kind of fraud.
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Yes.
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Yes and yes it was this was so bad like
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but we at 14 15 your moral compass is like
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you're like i don't know this is not very illegal
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it's very illegal yeah um but then after i talked
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about it on your show um aj from backstreet boys
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uh goes to school his daughter goes to school with
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my best friend's little girl and so one led to
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another and all of a sudden i had a video
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of like Give me my money.
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Which was very funny. AJ wants his money back.
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And I was like, oh, thank God they have a
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sense of humor.
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I think there's... I.
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Mean, we were so stupid. Conan, I can't even tell
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you the dumb things that we did.
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They were all fine. Well, I think you should. I
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think you should tell us more.
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Well, because you're a bored kid. You're bored. And we
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were so safely bored. Like, we were those kids that were...
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We weren't self-destructive. Do you know what I mean? Like,
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we were 16, but we were still, like, Like nice,
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happy-go-lucky girls. At one point, Julie had a car. Well,
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so I had a Ford Explorer. It was my first car.
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And Julie had a, oh my God, it was like
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100 years old. It was like a Toyota CRV, but
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I swear it wasn't. It was some version of that,
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but also had like 250,000 miles on it.
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It was really beat up.
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Like so bad. And so we decided we were, this
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is not even that funny to
anyone other than me
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reimagining it. Okay, so we're on Hollywood Boulevard. So you
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can imagine Hollywood. And this is where she used to
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live is like Hollywood and, um, and, like Fuller. And
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we looked at each other and we're like, what do
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you want to do this afternoon? I don't know, what
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do you want to do? Well, let's just run our
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cars into each other and see what happens.
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Wait, wait. That is funny.
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Wait.
506
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No, no, this isn't.
507
00:20:05.609 --> 00:20:07.529
I know that you had us all prepared like, well,
508
00:20:07.569 --> 00:20:08.970
this is probably only funny to me.
509
00:20:10.029 --> 00:20:15.470
No, no, no, this isn't just funny, it's terrifying and wrong.
510
00:20:15.509 --> 00:20:17.289
Stupid, I've never talked about this. So you took both
511
00:20:17.309 --> 00:20:20.250
of your cars. So she's in her car, you're in
512
00:20:20.269 --> 00:20:24.210
your car. Wait, uh-oh, there's more. Wait a minute, I'm getting,
513
00:20:24.450 --> 00:20:26.079
you're laughing too hard, you can't speak.
514
00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:29.180
We were both in my car. We decided just to
515
00:20:29.220 --> 00:20:30.279
take my car first.
516
00:20:30.579 --> 00:20:33.380
She's in.
517
00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:38.619
Her car.
518
00:20:39.670 --> 00:20:40.890
So, her car's parked.
519
00:20:41.339 --> 00:20:42.059
She's crying.
520
00:20:42.140 --> 00:20:45.140
She's crying. Your Mila Kunis is crying and can't control herself.
521
00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:46.559
Because this is so stupid.
522
00:20:46.819 --> 00:20:47.140
I know.
523
00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:49.259
I would never do that today.
524
00:20:49.539 --> 00:20:51.180
Oh, you don't think? You don't think you would?
525
00:20:51.220 --> 00:20:53.099
Hey, kids.
526
00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:55.059
Let me strap the kids into the safety seats, and
527
00:20:55.599 --> 00:20:57.329
then we'll go smashing into some cars.
528
00:20:58.730 --> 00:21:02.069
Mommy, why? Oh, come on. I did this when I
529
00:21:02.109 --> 00:21:03.609
was a kid, and you'll do it when you're older.
530
00:21:03.670 --> 00:21:04.329
Oh, my God.
531
00:21:05.789 --> 00:21:08.569
So wait, so her car's parked and you're both in
532
00:21:08.630 --> 00:21:11.099
your car. What kind of, how many miles per hour
533
00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:11.700
are we talking?
534
00:21:12.859 --> 00:21:14.519
Not that fast.
535
00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:15.319
10, 15 miles an hour?
536
00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:16.099
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
537
00:21:16.140 --> 00:21:18.089
Okay. Like under, 10, 15 under.
538
00:21:18.269 --> 00:21:18.670
Okay.
539
00:21:18.849 --> 00:21:20.109
And then so I hit her car.
540
00:21:20.950 --> 00:21:28.250
And then we're like, her mascara's running down.
541
00:21:28.269 --> 00:21:31.849
Mascara's running, your tears are coming down. I'm not lying, right?
542
00:21:31.869 --> 00:21:35.019
It seems like she's recounting a tragedy right now.
543
00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:36.480
I feel like everyone's crying.
544
00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:41.960
Okay, then she took her car. And reversed it into
545
00:21:42.059 --> 00:21:42.799
my car.
546
00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:46.039
For no reason.
547
00:21:46.859 --> 00:21:49.279
I'll never understand why we did this, guys. It'll never
548
00:21:49.339 --> 00:21:50.339
make any sense to me.
549
00:21:51.180 --> 00:21:51.799
Okay.
550
00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:54.309
I love how, first of all, correct me if I'm wrong,
551
00:21:54.329 --> 00:21:56.369
but you said, now look, we're, you know, we didn't
552
00:21:56.410 --> 00:22:00.130
do drugs, so it was innocent kind of fun. No, no,
553
00:22:00.150 --> 00:22:02.750
this story only makes sense if you're on drugs.
554
00:22:02.829 --> 00:22:03.950
I know, I'm telling you.
555
00:22:04.049 --> 00:22:05.789
And you went out of your way to tell us no.
556
00:22:05.809 --> 00:22:07.609
We were super sober.
557
00:22:07.630 --> 00:22:10.700
This is like, We didn't do, oh my God, I know.
558
00:22:10.940 --> 00:22:13.000
So stupid. I wish Julie was here because she would
559
00:22:13.019 --> 00:22:16.900
be dying. Mind you, she's really respected, has a PhD.
560
00:22:16.980 --> 00:22:19.180
Yeah, in physics.
561
00:22:20.099 --> 00:22:23.369
That inspired her to become, when an object, when an
562
00:22:23.490 --> 00:22:26.470
object strikes another object at 15 miles an hour.
563
00:22:26.490 --> 00:22:27.490
This is the problem.
564
00:22:27.630 --> 00:22:28.769
She's a, like a.
565
00:22:28.789 --> 00:22:30.329
She has a PhD from UCLA.
566
00:22:30.369 --> 00:22:31.190
Yeah.
567
00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:38.920
Oh my God, that's the greatest thing. This is the
568
00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:41.599
greatest moment. I mean, we've had a lot of great moments.
569
00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:43.880
How many of these podcasts have we done now?
570
00:22:43.900 --> 00:22:45.119
This is 33.
571
00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:47.460
Okay, I might have to give this one the award
572
00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:49.519
for just absolute greatest moment.
573
00:22:50.680 --> 00:22:51.359
My God.
574
00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:53.160
Wow.
575
00:22:53.240 --> 00:22:54.299
That's fantastic.
576
00:22:54.500 --> 00:22:56.859
So ridiculous. Stupid.
577
00:22:56.880 --> 00:22:57.579
Okay.
578
00:22:57.700 --> 00:23:00.140
Anyways, I can think of so many of them, but.
579
00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:01.240
Let's move on. Okay.
580
00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:03.279
If another one occurs to you, I want you to
581
00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:05.480
tell it because I think these are therapeutic for you
582
00:23:05.500 --> 00:23:07.880
and they're solid gold for me.
583
00:23:07.900 --> 00:23:09.920
So what happens when you grow
up in LA, you're
584
00:23:09.940 --> 00:23:11.690
just like, No.
585
00:23:12.029 --> 00:23:12.230
No?
586
00:23:12.410 --> 00:23:12.710
No.
587
00:23:12.750 --> 00:23:15.890
Yeah, I grew up in L.A. Yeah, no, no.
588
00:23:16.250 --> 00:23:19.799
Many people have grown up in L.A. and don't have
589
00:23:19.859 --> 00:23:21.099
stories like this.
590
00:23:21.380 --> 00:23:25.839
So stupid. On Hollywood, not off in a small street, guys,
591
00:23:25.859 --> 00:23:27.900
on a very busy street.
592
00:23:28.059 --> 00:23:28.339
Sure.
593
00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:29.599
Why?
594
00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:32.220
Why? I don't know. I don't know.
595
00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:34.900
If anyone knows why out there, please contact us. I
596
00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:36.339
think that's a fair question to ask people.
597
00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:37.180
If anyone understands.
598
00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:38.660
I was just supposed to call in. And then people
599
00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:39.569
just call in.
600
00:23:39.609 --> 00:23:42.069
Well, people will contact us. And also, what happened?
601
00:23:42.130 --> 00:23:43.670
Like, are the cars, were they okay? Oh, I'll tell
602
00:23:43.769 --> 00:23:44.390
you what happened.
603
00:23:44.650 --> 00:23:48.250
So nothing happened to mine, but her license plate fell off.
604
00:23:48.329 --> 00:23:49.730
And then we had to be like, well, how do we,
605
00:23:49.769 --> 00:23:51.789
what do we say about this? So we had to
606
00:23:51.809 --> 00:23:53.950
throw it in the trunk. And then her mom was like, well,
607
00:23:53.970 --> 00:23:55.359
what happened to your license plate? And Julia goes, I
608
00:23:55.380 --> 00:23:56.539
don't know. Someone hit me.
609
00:23:57.359 --> 00:23:57.710
That was it.
610
00:23:57.720 --> 00:23:59.839
We haven't talked about it again. So that would be
611
00:23:59.880 --> 00:24:00.799
insurance fraud.
612
00:24:02.059 --> 00:24:05.599
Let's take a quick break because we're going to do
613
00:24:05.619 --> 00:24:06.019
some ads.
614
00:24:06.299 --> 00:24:07.240
But we'll be right back.
615
00:24:07.420 --> 00:24:07.619
Oh, yeah.
616
00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:09.920
Ads are important because ads, you know, give you money.
617
00:24:10.140 --> 00:24:14.440
Yeah. And also, we have a bunch of people. And
618
00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:16.039
you know what? There are promo codes with each.
619
00:24:16.259 --> 00:24:17.740
Oh, that's what I like.
620
00:24:18.019 --> 00:24:19.869
So pay attention. Pay attention.
621
00:24:20.029 --> 00:24:22.349
Like write Conan in the promo code.
622
00:24:22.269 --> 00:24:24.089
And you get 20% off. It's always Conan.
623
00:24:24.150 --> 00:24:26.990
And if you ever want to have a picture of
624
00:24:27.049 --> 00:24:31.089
yours printed on glass instead of paper, I've got the
625
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company for you. It's called Fracture, and I can get
626
00:24:34.930 --> 00:24:36.529
you 20% off a Fracture print.
627
00:24:36.549 --> 00:24:37.670
When's the last time you get 20% off?
628
00:24:38.049 --> 00:24:39.970
Oh, you have come to the right guy.
629
00:24:40.470 --> 00:24:45.519
Let's say Ashton wants to manscape, and that's not my business,
630
00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:47.779
but I said I have observed you guys from afar
631
00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:49.160
with a very powerful lens.
632
00:24:50.119 --> 00:24:52.240
And he could do some cleaning up down there. What
633
00:24:52.259 --> 00:24:56.480
company is this? Oh, what company is that? Gorley? Manscaped?
634
00:24:56.549 --> 00:24:56.809
Yeah.
635
00:24:57.160 --> 00:24:58.640
I think it's just called Manscaped.
636
00:24:58.849 --> 00:24:59.380
There you go.
637
00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:01.109
I just wanted to make sure you were still paying attention.
638
00:25:01.529 --> 00:25:02.089
Manscaped.
639
00:25:02.130 --> 00:25:02.750
Manscaped.
640
00:25:03.049 --> 00:25:04.210
Manscaped. Oh, Manscaped.
641
00:25:04.230 --> 00:25:05.170
It's past tense.
642
00:25:05.509 --> 00:25:07.369
And they wax your balls? No, no, no, no.
643
00:25:07.670 --> 00:25:12.069
Well, please, let's keep this clean. This is primarily a
644
00:25:12.130 --> 00:25:14.109
podcast for children. They shave your balls.
645
00:25:14.289 --> 00:25:14.589
No, no.
646
00:25:15.569 --> 00:25:16.009
Excuse me.
647
00:25:16.069 --> 00:25:16.539
No, no.
648
00:25:16.789 --> 00:25:19.369
No, no, that's not right either. They send you the
649
00:25:19.430 --> 00:25:21.069
equipment so you do it yourself.
650
00:25:21.349 --> 00:25:22.210
Do what yourself?
651
00:25:22.410 --> 00:25:24.650
You manicure things down below.
652
00:25:24.670 --> 00:25:26.150
You shave your balls yourself.
653
00:25:26.289 --> 00:25:28.470
But why do you need equipment? What do you need,
654
00:25:28.730 --> 00:25:32.480
like a saw? What's down there for you, Conan, that
655
00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:33.259
you need equipment?
656
00:25:33.380 --> 00:25:36.059
Oh, you don't want to get into, mine is a thick,
657
00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:37.660
dense carpet.
658
00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:40.279
Well, excuse me. Hello.
659
00:25:40.460 --> 00:25:45.529
Imagine copper, a copper Brillo brush with tinges of gray.
660
00:25:46.730 --> 00:25:49.210
Oh, did we go too far? Okay. We're back from commercial,
661
00:25:49.230 --> 00:25:51.460
aren't we? Oh, we didn't even go yet. And we're gone.
662
00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:53.819
Not every day you meet an Irish legend.
663
00:25:53.980 --> 00:25:55.319
I know what you mean, Coo Column.
664
00:25:55.500 --> 00:25:58.589
Leaping vast distances, holding off armies.
665
00:25:58.740 --> 00:26:00.869
Eating tons of fresh grass.
666
00:26:01.029 --> 00:26:01.349
What?
667
00:26:01.450 --> 00:26:02.750
Not you or cows.
668
00:26:03.029 --> 00:26:05.890
That's one of the reasons Irish milk is so good.
669
00:26:06.130 --> 00:26:08.250
It's famous all over the world.
670
00:26:08.549 --> 00:26:10.150
Legendary.
671
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672
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674
00:26:21.799 --> 00:26:23.700
Did you hear about the Murphys down the road?
675
00:26:24.019 --> 00:26:26.839
I did. And with the Walshes too, of all people.
676
00:26:27.160 --> 00:26:28.740
I heard the Flins were at it as well.
677
00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:29.319
No.
678
00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:30.779
Switchers, the lot of them.
679
00:26:31.140 --> 00:26:33.599
You know, it might not be a bad idea.
680
00:26:34.019 --> 00:26:34.319
Really?
681
00:26:34.339 --> 00:26:37.109
I heard they all got a brilliant deal and saved
682
00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:41.349
hundreds of euros switching their energy with switcher.ie. Happy days.
683
00:26:42.009 --> 00:26:42.990
Maybe we should join them.
684
00:26:43.450 --> 00:26:43.549
Hmm.
685
00:26:44.140 --> 00:26:47.660
See if you can save on your energy at switcher.ie.
686
00:26:48.099 --> 00:26:48.440
Switch.
687
00:26:48.980 --> 00:26:49.400
Save.
688
00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:50.640
Happy days.
689
00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:55.170
Every day you make around 35,000 choices. What to wear?
690
00:26:55.470 --> 00:26:58.390
Toast or cereal? One more episode or time for bed?
691
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699
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And we're back.
700
00:27:38.089 --> 00:27:39.750
I'm glad we got out of there because I think
701
00:27:39.769 --> 00:27:43.970
when we left off, I was describing a copper Brillo
702
00:27:44.009 --> 00:27:47.690
pad in my nether regions. Let's move on to better
703
00:27:47.769 --> 00:27:50.779
areas because I want better for you, for your children.
704
00:27:50.799 --> 00:27:52.160
Okay.
705
00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:56.130
You worked with Ashton for... A long time. And you
706
00:27:56.150 --> 00:27:57.190
were platonic friends.
707
00:27:57.329 --> 00:27:58.289
Super platonic friends.
708
00:27:58.349 --> 00:27:59.529
Like super platonic.
709
00:27:59.569 --> 00:27:59.750
Yeah.
710
00:27:59.869 --> 00:28:01.470
It never occurred to you, oh, this will be the
711
00:28:01.490 --> 00:28:02.269
person I marry.
712
00:28:02.609 --> 00:28:08.039
No. The opposite. I love biology, but I hated chemistry.
713
00:28:09.140 --> 00:28:12.019
Ashton was a chemistry major. So he did my chemistry
714
00:28:12.039 --> 00:28:13.000
homework for me half the time.
715
00:28:13.400 --> 00:28:13.680
Really?
716
00:28:13.700 --> 00:28:16.809
So that's literally our relationship was so brother and sister.
717
00:28:17.289 --> 00:28:17.470
Yeah.
718
00:28:17.890 --> 00:28:22.859
Because when you're 14 and 19, it's such a large
719
00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:25.859
age gap. It really is. 14, 19, you're like, that's
720
00:28:25.900 --> 00:28:29.480
a grown-up. Like, that's gross on both levels. It was
721
00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:31.720
not even a plausible thought.
722
00:28:31.940 --> 00:28:32.140
Right.
723
00:28:32.339 --> 00:28:36.769
So when we reconnected when I was, you know, 27, 26, 27.
724
00:28:36.769 --> 00:28:38.759
Was he 26, 27?
725
00:28:38.730 --> 00:28:39.049
Right.
726
00:28:40.630 --> 00:28:43.730
And 34 at the time, it was totally fine.
727
00:28:43.809 --> 00:28:44.230
Right, right.
728
00:28:44.250 --> 00:28:45.910
Very different reconnection. So you see each other in a
729
00:28:45.910 --> 00:28:47.490
different light. But going back to when I was younger, no.
730
00:28:47.529 --> 00:28:47.869
Not at all.
731
00:28:48.190 --> 00:28:48.450
Yeah.
732
00:28:48.750 --> 00:28:49.430
Not in the slightest.
733
00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:52.559
You know, I've noticed we were talking about what people
734
00:28:52.579 --> 00:28:54.660
are like as parents. What I've observed is that you
735
00:28:54.680 --> 00:28:57.880
guys are– like he's a real physical dad.
736
00:28:58.000 --> 00:28:58.519
Yeah.
737
00:28:58.619 --> 00:29:00.180
And, you know, a lot of people– we now have
738
00:29:00.460 --> 00:29:06.170
science will allow people to have children. The male– and
739
00:29:06.190 --> 00:29:07.829
that's not even so much science, but women can have
740
00:29:07.950 --> 00:29:12.049
children later. But there's a lot of men that will
741
00:29:12.069 --> 00:29:15.200
become a new dad at like 65, and that's part
742
00:29:15.220 --> 00:29:15.660
of the culture.
743
00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:18.180
And I think, you know what? We're kind of meant–
744
00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:19.779
The one thing they don't take into account is we're
745
00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:22.599
meant to throw our kids around, especially the guys. We
746
00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:25.200
are meant to pick up our kids and toss them
747
00:29:25.240 --> 00:29:27.839
in the air and catch them. And one of the
748
00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:30.769
times I was hanging out with you guys, Ashton was
749
00:29:30.809 --> 00:29:34.450
in the background just throwing your children up into the
750
00:29:34.650 --> 00:29:36.630
air and then they'd go up like 10 feet and
751
00:29:36.650 --> 00:29:38.589
then he would catch them. There was a lot of
752
00:29:38.690 --> 00:29:40.660
rough and tumble and I'm that way. way. I like
753
00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:41.119
to do that.
754
00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:45.400
And it's like the one reason that I motivate myself
755
00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:48.400
to try and work
out every day is I want
756
00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:51.369
to be able to tackle my children, even.
757
00:29:51.230 --> 00:29:53.779
When they're 100%. Even when they're grown adults.
758
00:29:53.859 --> 00:29:54.660
Yes, of course you do.
759
00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:56.680
And writers on the show. Like, I'm not even kidding.
760
00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:58.900
I want to be able to tackle people and be
761
00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:00.140
a physical, goofy guy.
762
00:30:00.180 --> 00:30:00.369
Yes.
763
00:30:00.829 --> 00:30:03.130
He's the same. I mean, not to take away from
764
00:30:03.190 --> 00:30:04.829
if you do have children at a later age, I
765
00:30:04.869 --> 00:30:07.309
think all great. But I do think that the greatest
766
00:30:07.369 --> 00:30:11.069
benefit of having a kid at an age where you're
767
00:30:11.130 --> 00:30:15.279
able to be physical is important. it's, I'm not, like,
768
00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:17.700
I'm the same size as my children. Like, you know,
769
00:30:17.799 --> 00:30:18.259
it's not like.
770
00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:20.059
Yeah, I saw him tossing you around a little too.
771
00:30:20.119 --> 00:30:21.619
I think he got confused.
772
00:30:21.660 --> 00:30:25.069
He was like, child, no, wife. I love, I mean,
773
00:30:25.750 --> 00:30:28.210
I play with my kids. We just play differently. Like,
774
00:30:28.289 --> 00:30:29.890
I play pretend with my kids. Not to say that
775
00:30:29.910 --> 00:30:31.430
my husband doesn't, but I play pretend and we're on
776
00:30:31.450 --> 00:30:33.109
the floor and we're playing with trucks and we, you know,
777
00:30:33.470 --> 00:30:35.190
hide and go seek and do all these things. And then,
778
00:30:35.829 --> 00:30:38.309
you know, he comes home and it's a, it's a
779
00:30:38.630 --> 00:30:41.170
fucking jungle gym. Like, it's the greatest thing that can happen. Also,
780
00:30:41.190 --> 00:30:43.230
you get like your piss and vinegar out, like go
781
00:30:43.250 --> 00:30:45.950
play with dad. And you go outside and they, you know, just,
782
00:30:46.210 --> 00:30:48.769
they're crazy. And it's the best thing that could ever happen.
783
00:30:49.069 --> 00:30:50.950
Here's where I get in trouble. I get in trouble,
784
00:30:51.309 --> 00:30:52.450
and I used to get in trouble a lot more
785
00:30:52.470 --> 00:30:55.480
when they were younger, but it would be getting close
786
00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:56.180
to bedtime.
787
00:30:56.259 --> 00:30:57.740
Oh, yes, this happens all the time.
788
00:30:57.819 --> 00:31:01.039
I would come home from doing my late night show,
789
00:31:01.559 --> 00:31:03.059
whichever late night show I was doing at the time,
790
00:31:03.099 --> 00:31:05.619
and I would come home and it was, I'm all
791
00:31:05.720 --> 00:31:07.579
amped up from doing the show and I'm amped up
792
00:31:07.619 --> 00:31:10.250
all the time anyway. And I would come home and
793
00:31:10.329 --> 00:31:11.910
I would chase my kids around.
794
00:31:11.930 -->
00:31:12.549
Right before bedtime.
795
00:31:12.569 --> 00:31:16.519
They'd be shrieking. They'd be punching me. I'd be pretending
796
00:31:16.539 --> 00:31:19.619
to fall down. I'd be getting up, becoming a zombie,
797
00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:21.529
throwing pillows at them. They're throwing pillows at me. And
798
00:31:21.549 --> 00:31:22.750
my wife would be like, what?
799
00:31:23.359 --> 00:31:24.160
Knock it off.
800
00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:25.920
This is me a lot of times.
801
00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:27.839
And they're supposed to be in bed 10 minutes ago
802
00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:30.529
and their heart rates are both at 180, you know?
803
00:31:30.829 --> 00:31:32.180
And, and it was true.
804
00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:34.470
I was being a total, I just couldn't help it.
805
00:31:34.509 --> 00:31:36.170
It was like my crack cocaine.
806
00:31:36.569 --> 00:31:38.970
I learned to be okay with it. The first kid,
807
00:31:39.009 --> 00:31:41.029
I was like, but I, but, but I set the
808
00:31:41.089 --> 00:31:43.049
lights and the tone and the thing and everybody's ready
809
00:31:43.069 --> 00:31:45.109
for a second kid. I really very much. So it
810
00:31:45.130 --> 00:31:47.390
was like, what am I, whatever. Enjoy your kids. Like
811
00:31:47.430 --> 00:31:49.690
it is what it is. And you have 20 minutes go,
812
00:31:49.809 --> 00:31:50.029
you know?
813
00:31:50.170 --> 00:31:50.349
Right.
814
00:31:50.579 --> 00:31:52.440
Because when he was doing his show, he would come
815
00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:55.769
home from pre-shoots at like, if our bedtime was 6.37,
816
00:31:55.769 --> 00:31:57.529
he would come home at 6.15. And I was like,
817
00:31:57.619 --> 00:31:59.650
oh my God. It was either you come home at
818
00:31:59.730 --> 00:32:01.549
five or come home at eight, but do not come
819
00:32:01.609 --> 00:32:02.349
home in between.
820
00:32:02.369 --> 00:32:07.029
In this special hour when children are being put.
821
00:32:06.230 --> 00:32:07.130
Down to sleep.
822
00:32:07.250 --> 00:32:09.650
I know, but now I don't care. Now I genuinely
823
00:32:09.910 --> 00:32:12.549
do not care. I think it's great. I really think
824
00:32:12.569 --> 00:32:15.430
it's so important. It's so important for them to have that.
825
00:32:15.450 --> 00:32:17.619
Because as much as I can do that, It's not
826
00:32:17.660 --> 00:32:20.460
the same. It's just I have different energy. I just do.
827
00:32:20.500 --> 00:32:22.500
Like if they get a– if they hurt themselves, they
828
00:32:22.660 --> 00:32:25.240
naturally run to me. And if they want to go
829
00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:28.190
and play and go ape shit and pretend to be
830
00:32:28.210 --> 00:32:30.569
a zombie or a fish or a dinosaur or whatever,
831
00:32:31.029 --> 00:32:32.769
they definitely go towards him. You know what I mean?
832
00:32:32.809 --> 00:32:33.950
And it's just different play.
833
00:32:34.730 --> 00:32:37.099
Now, there's this thing I want to talk about that–
834
00:32:37.269 --> 00:32:39.390
it's a little bit of a thread I'm finding out
835
00:32:39.430 --> 00:32:42.140
that's running through this podcast, which started as a lark.
836
00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:44.119
And it's turned into this thing that I really love
837
00:32:44.140 --> 00:32:48.930
to do. And that is– this business that we're in,
838
00:32:49.509 --> 00:32:52.869
which fascinates me. And I'm pretty sure you're gonna know
839
00:32:52.890 --> 00:32:56.450
what I'm talking about, but it's a business that attracts
840
00:32:56.490 --> 00:33:00.220
a certain kind of person who very much wants validation
841
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:04.160
in this very public way. And they want their happiness
842
00:33:04.200 --> 00:33:07.180
to come in this very public forum and they want
843
00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:09.359
it to come, you know, they want the awards, the
844
00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:11.119
things that all of us can get sucked into.
845
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:13.900
And it's very.
846
00:33:13.740 --> 00:33:17.359
Interesting to me when I'm talking to someone, you in particular,
847
00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:23.019
who's had an incredible amount of success, but I sense,
848
00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:26.059
and I know I'm right, that that's not where you
849
00:33:26.099 --> 00:33:27.119
get your validation from.
850
00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:28.269
Is that correct?
851
00:33:28.349 --> 00:33:28.490
Yeah.
852
00:33:28.509 --> 00:33:34.069
Like that's not what makes you happy or fulfilled. You're proud,
853
00:33:34.089 --> 00:33:36.809
I'm sure, of the stuff that you've accomplished.
854
00:33:36.450 --> 00:33:37.029
And what you've done.
855
00:33:37.029 --> 00:33:39.269
100%, yes. And I work hard at it.
856
00:33:39.349 --> 00:33:39.589
Yes.
857
00:33:39.730 --> 00:33:42.660
So I'm definitely proud and I have, I think, a
858
00:33:42.700 --> 00:33:43.990
healthy amount of ownership over it.
859
00:33:44.259 --> 00:33:44.440
Right.
860
00:33:44.599 --> 00:33:44.779
Yeah.
861
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:45.579
But then what you.
862
00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:50.160
You seem to be someone who's figured out the thing
863
00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:52.400
that I'm going to say eludes a lot.
864
00:33:52.180 --> 00:33:54.480
Of people in entertainment.
865
00:33:54.740 --> 00:33:57.920
I don't even think people who consume entertainment don't know
866
00:33:57.940 --> 00:34:02.519
how truly unhappy some people are that work in this business.
867
00:34:03.529 --> 00:34:07.119
Because we have such– we have a culture that worships
868
00:34:07.950 --> 00:34:11.030
anyone who's in People magazine and is smiling and wearing
869
00:34:11.349 --> 00:34:12.650
leggings that are selling.
870
00:34:14.750 --> 00:34:15.210
No, you know what I mean?
871
00:34:15.230 --> 00:34:17.510
They're always walking down the street, like holding a coffee,
872
00:34:17.550 --> 00:34:20.449
and it's like rocking these new silver leggings that are
873
00:34:20.469 --> 00:34:22.590
from the JoJo
Jajaba collection.
874
00:34:23.250 --> 00:34:27.530
And, you know, we're talking about, and.
875
00:34:27.090 --> 00:34:29.409
We live in this culture where, well, that person is
876
00:34:29.449 --> 00:34:32.679
to be idolized, whereas you and I have known plenty
877
00:34:32.699 --> 00:34:34.260
of these people. We know a lot of them personally,
878
00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:37.820
and we've worked with them, who are absolutely fucking miserable.
879
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:39.500
Correct. Depressed.
880
00:34:40.300 --> 00:34:40.760
Depressed.
881
00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:41.039
Yes.
882
00:34:41.579 --> 00:34:45.429
And I almost wanted to, I don't know, like sort
883
00:34:45.449 --> 00:34:47.719
of just shed a light on how– I can't tell
884
00:34:47.739 --> 00:34:50.340
you how many times I drive around this town, Los Angeles,
885
00:34:50.820 --> 00:34:57.599
and see billboards of people beaming happiness. And it says like,
886
00:34:57.679 --> 00:35:01.940
check out blank in their new show or their sitcom
887
00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:03.880
or whatever. And they're giving you that big smile. And
888
00:35:03.900 --> 00:35:06.860
I think, I know that person. And that's not that person.
889
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:11.119
They're selling you something that's completely wrong about themselves. Yes.
890
00:35:11.530 --> 00:35:11.849
I don't know.
891
00:35:12.449 --> 00:35:14.590
I know. It's a weird thing that I've always talked
892
00:35:14.630 --> 00:35:16.610
about because I think it's always been fascinating for other
893
00:35:16.650 --> 00:35:19.050
people as to why I'm not fucked up. And I
894
00:35:19.150 --> 00:35:24.010
don't know where, what, when. Like, I don't know where
895
00:35:24.030 --> 00:35:26.150
the trajectory went this way. And I clearly went in
896
00:35:26.190 --> 00:35:28.349
this one route and not this route because my friends
897
00:35:28.409 --> 00:35:29.230
did go in this route.
898
00:35:29.469 --> 00:35:31.800
You had friends that got into it.
899
00:35:31.789 --> 00:35:32.050
100%.
900
00:35:32.050 --> 00:35:35.150
Yeah, I've been doing this since I was nine. So
901
00:35:35.190 --> 00:35:37.250
I've had so many of my friends that, especially that
902
00:35:37.289 --> 00:35:39.449
were doing this at a younger age where you're a
903
00:35:39.449 --> 00:35:40.449
little bit more susceptible.
904
00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:43.559
Well, yeah, you know, it's interesting, but there are other
905
00:35:43.619 --> 00:35:47.659
people like you. I've had the privilege of chatting a
906
00:35:47.699 --> 00:35:52.260
couple of times with Jodie Foster, and she is one
907
00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:56.150
of the smartest people I've ever talked to and completely
908
00:35:57.170 --> 00:36:00.909
seemingly unaffected by being Jodie Foster. And she started as
909
00:36:00.949 --> 00:36:04.130
a kid. And you think, how did you get through
910
00:36:04.190 --> 00:36:07.460
that maze? Because so many, you know, to go through
911
00:36:07.480 -->
00:36:10.190
everything that That she's been through in that level of
912
00:36:10.250 --> 00:36:11.070
fame and- Yeah.
913
00:36:11.110 --> 00:36:13.170
And hers has also so many other baggages.
914
00:36:13.210 --> 00:36:13.969
I mean, she has- Yeah.
915
00:36:13.989 --> 00:36:14.510
You know what I mean?
916
00:36:14.590 --> 00:36:14.789
Yeah.
917
00:36:14.829 --> 00:36:16.769
She was at the height of the hype, but I
918
00:36:16.789 --> 00:36:17.070
don't know.
919
00:36:17.369 --> 00:36:21.239
Yeah. And I think, but it's rare.
920
00:36:21.260 --> 00:36:21.340
Yeah.
921
00:36:21.780 --> 00:36:25.000
It's really rare. And so it's- It's more.
922
00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:27.820
Rare now that I've allowed, like I don't make friends easily.
923
00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:30.760
I have like my group of friends. I'm perfectly happy
924
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:33.269
with my little group of friends and- I've had what
925
00:36:33.309 --> 00:36:34.630
I used to coin as like the flavor of the
926
00:36:34.670 --> 00:36:36.230
month where like a new friend would come in for
927
00:36:36.269 --> 00:36:38.010
like a minute and I was like, that's my new friend.
928
00:36:38.050 --> 00:36:39.730
But it really wasn't. Right.
929
00:36:39.750 --> 00:36:42.429
Who tells them it's over? Does someone come in the
930
00:36:42.449 --> 00:36:43.349
room and go, it's over?
931
00:36:43.449 --> 00:36:43.809
It's done.
932
00:36:44.139 --> 00:36:48.239
Your next flavor. I stop like responding.
933
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:50.300
You leave the room on a happy note and then
934
00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:52.679
someone else comes in the room and says it's over.
935
00:36:52.699 --> 00:36:54.380
Wait, no, she said she was going to get us
936
00:36:54.500 --> 00:36:57.139
ice cream. No, no, no. Just sign this and you're done.
937
00:36:58.340 --> 00:36:59.800
But recently I've been like, you know what? I'm going
938
00:36:59.820 --> 00:37:02.139
to venture out. We're going to like make new friends, whatever.
939
00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:02.320
Cool.
940
00:37:03.110 --> 00:37:05.360
And I've learned that people in this industry and I
941
00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:06.780
have very little in common.
942
00:37:07.340 --> 00:37:07.559
Yeah.
943
00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:11.219
And I don't mean this in a negative way or
944
00:37:12.019 --> 00:37:14.559
in a judgmental way, but just things that I want
945
00:37:14.579 --> 00:37:17.989
to talk about versus things that are of interest to
946
00:37:18.590 --> 00:37:22.409
most people in this industry are very different. But that's
947
00:37:22.429 --> 00:37:24.030
not bad or good. It's just something that I've just
948
00:37:24.070 --> 00:37:24.809
recently realized.
949
00:37:25.070 --> 00:37:29.309
What I realized a long time ago is that– If
950
00:37:29.329 --> 00:37:31.489
you're in this business, and it just doesn't have to
951
00:37:31.530 --> 00:37:34.409
be show business because there's other businesses where this happens too,
952
00:37:34.909 --> 00:37:38.440
but if you tie your self-worth to something that oscillates,
953
00:37:38.460 --> 00:37:43.039
that goes up and down naturally, you're going to be
954
00:37:43.099 --> 00:37:44.360
miserable your entire life.
955
00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:45.139
100%.
956
00:37:45.139 --> 00:37:48.000
So if you're a stockbroker, same thing.
957
00:37:48.420 --> 00:37:52.400
If you're in this business and you make a deal
958
00:37:52.460 --> 00:37:57.780
that I'm going to be totally thrilled– With myself and
959
00:37:57.820 --> 00:38:02.349
my life and my reality, as long as I'm on
960
00:38:02.369 --> 00:38:05.489
the cover of the magazine, but the minute someone else
961
00:38:05.530 --> 00:38:08.809
is on the cover and I'm on page seven, I'm
962
00:38:08.849 --> 00:38:10.590
going to be in the depths of despair.
963
00:38:11.050 --> 00:38:11.530
You're fucked.
964
00:38:11.809 --> 00:38:12.050
Totally.
965
00:38:12.070 --> 00:38:12.949
There's no way out of that.
966
00:38:12.969 --> 00:38:13.190
Nope.
967
00:38:13.550 --> 00:38:15.869
And the whole industry is opinion based. So it's not
968
00:38:15.909 --> 00:38:17.510
even how good your work is. It's just what the
969
00:38:17.530 --> 00:38:18.510
guy next door thinks of it.
970
00:38:18.889 --> 00:38:19.090
Right.
971
00:38:19.550 --> 00:38:22.909
So why make yourself be worth upon some douchebag? Like,
972
00:38:23.090 --> 00:38:25.409
I don't need people I don't know telling me right
973
00:38:25.429 --> 00:38:25.769
from wrong.
974
00:38:26.210 --> 00:38:26.409
Right.
975
00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:27.880
I get enough of it at home.
976
00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:28.579
Yeah.
977
00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:30.840
You know what I mean? Like, I'm cool in that regard.
978
00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:33.139
But I think that that also helps, that I'm not
979
00:38:33.219 --> 00:38:35.739
on social media. So I don't have a constant reminder
980
00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:37.199
of how many likes I have in my life.
981
00:38:37.380 --> 00:38:37.599
Yeah.
982
00:38:38.199 --> 00:38:39.090
Which is very healthy.
983
00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:41.760
Which is really healthy. Now, okay, here's the situation. Now
984
00:38:41.780 --> 00:38:44.030
you're raising these children. Yep.
985
00:38:44.110 --> 00:38:48.349
And their parents are these two, you know, successful, really
986
00:38:48.389 --> 00:38:53.130
successful actors and people in the business. How do you–
987
00:38:53.510 --> 00:38:55.550
convince them to like, no, you're going to churn butter
988
00:38:55.590 --> 00:38:57.599
for a living or you're going to, what are the,
989
00:38:57.909 --> 00:39:00.010
what are the, we probably already started to think about it.
990
00:39:00.030 --> 00:39:01.719
Like you're going to have a job when you're 11.
991
00:39:01.699 --> 00:39:03.320
You're going to, we're going to get, you're going to
992
00:39:03.360 --> 00:39:04.480
work in a stone mill.
993
00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:06.500
She knows exactly what our job's
going to be. We
994
00:39:06.539 --> 00:39:09.599
go to this little deli in LA on Sunday mornings.
995
00:39:09.820 --> 00:39:12.900
There's like diner deli on Sunday mornings for breakfast. And
996
00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:14.579
she's gone there since both the kids have gone to
997
00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:16.639
their little And so she wants to work there with
998
00:39:16.659 --> 00:39:18.360
the waitress. Her name's Gloria. And she was like, I'm
999
00:39:18.380 --> 00:39:19.760
going to come in and work with you here. And
1000
00:39:20.179 --> 00:39:21.719
Gloria's like, great. When you're like nine years old. And
1001
00:39:21.739 --> 00:39:22.929
she's like, okay, I'm going to come here on the weekends.
1002
00:39:22.969 --> 00:39:27.929
We have it all planned out. But, you know, there's
1003
00:39:27.969 --> 00:39:30.199
a funny situation that happened at school. We haven't told
1004
00:39:30.409 --> 00:39:32.719
my kids or we haven't told our kids what we do,
1005
00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:36.179
how it relates to life. I was driving them to
1006
00:39:36.219 --> 00:39:38.239
school one day and there was a billboard with my
1007
00:39:38.300 --> 00:39:42.380
face on it for a movie. And my daughter went, oh, mom.
1008
00:39:43.340 --> 00:39:44.960
And I went, yep.
1009
00:39:45.889 --> 00:39:48.280
Had no, didn't comment, didn't elaborate. And I drove home
1010
00:39:48.300 --> 00:39:49.599
and I was like, I think that at one point
1011
00:39:49.619 --> 00:39:51.219
we're going to have to figure out how to talk
1012
00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:53.380
about this. Because she knows we play pretend for a
1013
00:39:53.420 --> 00:39:55.119
living and that's kind of how we've explained it all
1014
00:39:55.199 --> 00:39:57.989
on like sets and whatnot. So the other day she
1015
00:39:58.010 --> 00:40:00.570
was at preschool and one of the little boys, her
1016
00:40:00.610 --> 00:40:02.590
little friend, walked up to her and goes, I saw
1017
00:40:02.650 --> 00:40:04.750
your mommy and daddy on the cover of the magazine
1018
00:40:04.769 --> 00:40:07.179
when I was at the doctor's office. And I was like, no,
1019
00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:10.550
you didn't. Our daughter. And the little boy was like, yes,
1020
00:40:10.610 --> 00:40:11.929
I did. I saw your mom and dad on the
1021
00:40:11.949 --> 00:40:14.110
cover of the magazine. And so she pushed him and
1022
00:40:14.150 --> 00:40:17.559
was like, no, you didn't. And got very upset about it.
1023
00:40:19.260 --> 00:40:21.659
And so we haven't quite, this is what happened last week.
1024
00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:26.219
We haven't quite addressed that situation of explaining that aspect
1025
00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:28.019
to her. Because he didn't say it in a negative way.
1026
00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:30.440
It wasn't done in like, this kid can't read. It
1027
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:33.119
was just more like, your mom and dad are everywhere
1028
00:40:33.199 --> 00:40:34.469
type of thing. And my kid's like,
no, they're not.
1029
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:37.679
They're mine. And you're like, well. One day we're going
1030
00:40:37.699 --> 00:40:38.780
to have to explain this. And so Ash and I
1031
00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:41.559
just literally, so if you have any advice, we literally
1032
00:40:41.599 --> 00:40:45.139
just started discussing how are we going to talk about
1033
00:40:45.659 --> 00:40:48.760
how play pretend affects the rest of our lives.
1034
00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:49.300
Yeah.
1035
00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:56.820
I obviously, I mean, my experience with my kids is
1036
00:40:57.380 --> 00:41:00.519
that they, you know, for a long time I didn't
1037
00:41:00.539 --> 00:41:02.440
want them to know what I did. I really didn't
1038
00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:03.659
want them to know what I did. And I wanted
1039
00:41:03.699 --> 00:41:07.920
just to be the dad that comes home. and takes
1040
00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:11.710
his jacket off and puts his briefcase down from work
1041
00:41:12.530 --> 00:41:14.750
and plays around with them. And for a long time,
1042
00:41:14.769 --> 00:41:16.150
when they're really young, you can get away with that.
1043
00:41:16.349 --> 00:41:19.750
And then I find they notice something's different when they
1044
00:41:19.789 --> 00:41:21.929
realize people coming up to you on the street.
1045
00:41:21.949 --> 00:41:25.210
Well, my kid knows my name. My kids know my
1046
00:41:25.250 --> 00:41:28.530
name is Mila Kunis. No one has ever called me
1047
00:41:28.550 --> 00:41:31.280
Mila Kunis. And so when you go, hey, Bear, what's
1048
00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:34.820
mommy's name? And he goes, Mila Kunis. It breaks my heart.
1049
00:41:35.130 --> 00:41:37.809
Because the only reason he knows my name is because
1050
00:41:37.829 --> 00:41:39.969
somebody at the grocery store said it. Someone at the
1051
00:41:39.989 --> 00:41:41.719
gas station said it. Like it's the only reason that
1052
00:41:41.739 --> 00:41:43.440
they know what my real name is.
1053
00:41:43.739 --> 00:41:43.960
Right.
1054
00:41:44.239 --> 00:41:46.500
It's a really bizarre realization that I had that both
1055
00:41:46.519 --> 00:41:49.219
my kids know my husband and my real full names.
1056
00:41:49.340 --> 00:41:49.519
Right.
1057
00:41:49.539 --> 00:41:50.880
My kids know their parents' names.
1058
00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:51.699
Yeah.
1059
00:41:52.099 --> 00:41:53.579
Well, it's interesting because.
1060
00:41:55.079 --> 00:41:59.809
I've– both my kids, especially my son– are very comfortable
1061
00:41:59.849 --> 00:42:00.510
putting me down.
1062
00:42:00.530 --> 00:42:02.329
I hope that that happens.
1063
00:42:02.349 --> 00:42:03.969
No, no, and it's really good because I.
1064
00:42:03.949 --> 00:42:06.409
Was in a restaurant last night with my son and
1065
00:42:07.090 --> 00:42:09.929
he's 13 and we're having kind of like a guy's
1066
00:42:09.989 --> 00:42:14.539
night out because my wife and daughter were at a show.
1067
00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:17.940
So we're, I'm just talking about it, the two of
1068
00:42:17.980 --> 00:42:19.960
us were getting some, we just got a steak and
1069
00:42:19.980 --> 00:42:23.119
we're talking about stuff and a guy came over to
1070
00:42:23.139 --> 00:42:25.500
the table and he was saying all these, you know,
1071
00:42:26.239 --> 00:42:28.230
nice things to me about my.
1072
00:42:28.190 --> 00:42:29.230
Career and my work.
1073
00:42:29.909 --> 00:42:31.829
And my son was just sort of like smelling and
1074
00:42:31.869 --> 00:42:35.489
shaking his head, sort of like, and he said, the
1075
00:42:35.510 --> 00:42:37.329
guy said something really nice. Like I really, you know,
1076
00:42:37.469 --> 00:42:39.050
I am uncomfortable talking about it, but just.
1077
00:42:39.329 --> 00:42:40.050
He said like a nice thing.
1078
00:42:40.070 --> 00:42:40.739
Very complimentary towards you.
1079
00:42:40.750 --> 00:42:43.489
He was very complimentary towards me. And then my son
1080
00:42:43.530 --> 00:42:45.550
sort of was shaking his head and the guy left
1081
00:42:45.570 --> 00:42:48.409
the table. My son was like, yeah, a lot he
1082
00:42:48.449 --> 00:42:53.059
doesn't know, you know? And it was just really good, like...
1083
00:42:54.059 --> 00:42:58.119
You know, I know the real story, buddy. And I
1084
00:42:58.179 --> 00:43:01.539
love that. I love that he is, I mean, I
1085
00:43:01.579 --> 00:43:04.579
can tell he's, yeah, I can tell he's on some
1086
00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:07.239
level proud of what I'm doing, but he also knows.
1087
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:09.650
But that's okay. It's healthy to be proud of your parents, right?
1088
00:43:09.690 --> 00:43:11.530
Like that's a good thing to do is to be proud.
1089
00:43:11.550 --> 00:43:13.070
Like I was proud of my dad was a cab driver.
1090
00:43:13.090 --> 00:43:14.889
I never looked at him and was like, so it's
1091
00:43:14.949 --> 00:43:16.090
okay that you were, you know.
1092
00:43:16.329 --> 00:43:16.550
Yeah, yeah.
1093
00:43:16.920 --> 00:43:19.079
But I hope that my kids have their idea, like, oh,
1094
00:43:19.099 --> 00:43:22.059
you think that they're hot shit? Like, I hope that
1095
00:43:22.099 --> 00:43:24.420
my kids are like, no, they're not. That's healthy. That's
1096
00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:29.159
a healthy parent-child relationship. Right. You know?
1097
00:43:29.599 --> 00:43:36.219
Well, I'm just watching, knowing you all these years and
1098
00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:38.420
seeing the way you guys are with your kids, I
1099
00:43:38.460 --> 00:43:40.300
have no doubt that they're going to be fine.
1100
00:43:40.380 --> 00:43:44.000
It's my biggest, like, how do you raise kids in L.A.?
1101
00:43:44.510 --> 00:43:49.070
Doing what we do and not have them turn out miserable.
1102
00:43:50.289 --> 00:43:54.250
I do think there's something to them having to get
1103
00:43:54.349 --> 00:43:56.309
jobs pretty early.
1104
00:43:56.510 --> 00:43:58.190
You know my husband. You
don't think my kids are
1105
00:43:58.210 --> 00:44:01.360
going to– they have jobs now. They literally have– they
1106
00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:03.760
have chores starting at age two in our house.
1107
00:44:03.780 --> 00:44:04.239
Right.
1108
00:44:04.260 --> 00:44:05.619
They're responsible for our dogs.
1109
00:44:06.059 --> 00:44:06.300
Right.
1110
00:44:06.340 --> 00:44:08.079
So they have to feed the dogs. They have to
1111
00:44:08.139 --> 00:44:12.119
walk the dogs. They're literally– they have to make their bed.
1112
00:44:12.539 --> 00:44:14.159
They have to wash their dishes.
1113
00:44:14.179 --> 00:44:14.280
Right.
1114
00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:18.500
They have jobs starting at two. It's a little bit extreme, but.
1115
00:44:18.429 --> 00:44:20.610
I think that- Yeah, I saw your son building a
1116
00:44:20.650 --> 00:44:22.690
stone wall.
1117
00:44:22.769 --> 00:44:23.929
And it was for the city. It was for the
1118
00:44:23.989 --> 00:44:25.809
city of Los Angeles.
1119
00:44:26.090 --> 00:44:27.079
Did he have sunblock on it?
1120
00:44:27.190 --> 00:44:27.630
No, he didn't.
1121
00:44:27.730 --> 00:44:28.489
Oh, okay.
1122
00:44:28.510 --> 00:44:31.019
He didn't. Oh, he didn't? No, he did not.
1123
00:44:31.300 --> 00:44:31.840
I know. I know.
1124
00:44:31.860 --> 00:44:34.900
Jobs are really important. It's funny how important it is
1125
00:44:34.940 --> 00:44:36.340
for your kids to have a job at a young age.
1126
00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:37.940
It's really important.
1127
00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:38.860
Right.
1128
00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:42.150
All right. We're going to- Can my kids come work
1129
00:44:42.190 --> 00:44:42.489
for you?
1130
00:44:43.090 --> 00:44:45.349
Yeah. Yeah. Actually, they could.
1131
00:44:45.369 --> 00:44:46.530
That'd be cool.
1132
00:44:46.730 --> 00:44:49.590
They'd have to handle alcohol, though. I want them bringing
1133
00:44:49.610 --> 00:44:50.090
me drinks.
1134
00:44:50.630 --> 00:44:52.570
My daughter can bring you a drink no problem today.
1135
00:44:52.869 --> 00:44:54.989
We have a little fridge that she knows how to open,
1136
00:44:55.130 --> 00:44:56.530
and she'll bring you a beer.
1137
00:44:56.550 --> 00:44:57.530
That's fantastic.
1138
00:44:57.550 --> 00:44:59.179
Ashton goes, can you get Daddy a beer? And she's like,
1139
00:44:59.219 --> 00:44:59.820
of course.
1140
00:44:59.840 --> 00:45:00.360
Right.
1141
00:45:00.420 --> 00:45:02.139
And she goes to the little fridge and gets a beer.
1142
00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:02.639
Yeah.
1143
00:45:02.860 --> 00:45:04.860
Mine would be, can you make Daddy a rum and Coke?
1144
00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:07.119
Could your kids make a rum and Coke? I don't know.
1145
00:45:07.219 --> 00:45:08.139
I wouldn't have a rum and Coke.
1146
00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:09.400
Do you think your kids have had a drink?
1147
00:45:10.139 --> 00:45:10.480
I do not.
1148
00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:12.000
You don't think so?
1149
00:45:12.019 --> 00:45:14.139
I think they're
like, I do not think they have. No,
1150
00:45:14.219 --> 00:45:16.849
I don't think they aspire. I don't think they aspire
1151
00:45:16.869 --> 00:45:19.349
to that. I think they're in a good way. I
1152
00:45:19.849 --> 00:45:21.550
think they're growing up slowly. And I know there are
1153
00:45:21.570 --> 00:45:23.989
people listening right now that are saying, oh, man, you're
1154
00:45:24.010 --> 00:45:25.070
so you don't get it.
1155
00:45:25.110 --> 00:45:26.079
Of course, they've had a drink.
1156
00:45:26.119 --> 00:45:27.940
And I'm thinking, oh, no, I believe I don't think
1157
00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:30.099
they I don't think they I don't think they have.
1158
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:32.619
They smoke a ton of weed.
1159
00:45:34.039 --> 00:45:35.699
I've seen your daughter on vacation studying.
1160
00:45:36.219 --> 00:45:38.019
Yes, she does. I know.
1161
00:45:38.260 --> 00:45:39.920
I've seen it on a days where you're like, go
1162
00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:41.599
outside and play. And she's just like.
1163
00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:43.679
No, she's like, no, must. And it will be a
1164
00:45:43.820 --> 00:45:44.739
Saturday morning.
1165
00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:45.059
I know.
1166
00:45:45.300 --> 00:45:46.679
And she's like, I've got to work.
1167
00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:47.210
I know.
1168
00:45:47.329 --> 00:45:52.670
I must understand everything. And I'm saying, look. The sad
1169
00:45:52.690 --> 00:45:54.210
thing is it's a little familiar to me because I
1170
00:45:54.250 --> 00:45:54.909
was kind of like that.
1171
00:45:54.929 --> 00:45:55.449
Were you like that?
1172
00:45:55.510 --> 00:45:55.730
Yeah.
1173
00:45:55.989 --> 00:45:58.050
I was a bit of a freak as a child.
1174
00:45:58.829 --> 00:46:02.320
But that's the curse. That's why I have absolutely no
1175
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:03.179
exposure to the sun.
1176
00:46:03.559 --> 00:46:04.440
And I'm in my 50s. Mm-hmm.
1177
00:46:06.329 --> 00:46:07.230
When are you going back to Cuba?
1178
00:46:08.110 --> 00:46:10.289
I'll go back? I should go back. You know where
1179
00:46:10.329 --> 00:46:11.929
I was? I was just in Ghana. I like to
1180
00:46:11.969 --> 00:46:13.190
go to different places and film.
1181
00:46:13.210 --> 00:46:14.670
That's what we talked about because I was like, I
1182
00:46:14.690 --> 00:46:18.610
want to go to Cuba. Oh, Jesus. Oh, my husband's here.
1183
00:46:18.630 --> 00:46:21.610
Your husband's here peering in the window. Is he going
1184
00:46:21.630 --> 00:46:22.909
to come in and say hello or is he just
1185
00:46:22.929 --> 00:46:23.739
going to be back there?
1186
00:46:23.760 --> 00:46:24.070
I don't know.
1187
00:46:24.090 --> 00:46:25.300
Are you going to come in? Oh, by the way,
1188
00:46:25.300 --> 00:46:26.860
do you know our anniversary's tomorrow?
1189
00:46:27.079 --> 00:46:27.840
Oh, is it really?
1190
00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:30.019
I know. And he thought it was today. Ask him
1191
00:46:30.059 --> 00:46:32.679
when's our anniversary. Come in. Come in.
1192
00:46:32.840 --> 00:46:33.519
When's your anniversary?
1193
00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:34.099
Oh, God.
1194
00:46:34.460 --> 00:46:35.380
Ask him because he got it wrong.
1195
00:46:35.989 --> 00:46:38.900
Okay, sir, ladies and gentlemen, it's Ashton.
1196
00:46:39.059 --> 00:46:40.480
It's also my Uber driver.
1197
00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:41.800
And your Uber driver.
1198
00:46:42.059 --> 00:46:42.900
I'm Uber driving.
1199
00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:45.320
Wait, now when did you, you didn't know your anniversary?
1200
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:46.119
I thought it was today.
1201
00:46:46.139 --> 00:46:48.760
You thought the anniversary was today? You're always better off
1202
00:46:48.780 --> 00:46:51.059
being a day early than a day late on the anniversary.
1203
00:46:51.099 --> 00:46:52.630
So you had no idea when the anniversary was.
1204
00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:54.639
But it's hanging, there's a plaque in our house that
1205
00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:58.519
has our anniversary on it. Like, so that, just look
1206
00:46:58.539 --> 00:46:59.179
in the kitchen.
1207
00:46:59.199 --> 00:46:59.820
I don't read it.
1208
00:47:01.019 --> 00:47:03.260
So you bought a pony today instead of getting it
1209
00:47:03.300 --> 00:47:05.079
delivered tomorrow.
1210
00:47:05.219 --> 00:47:07.300
I just ran out and picked up a pony.
1211
00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:09.400
You can't see this right now, but Ashton has a
1212
00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:11.869
pony here, and it's got a big bow on it,
1213
00:47:11.880 --> 00:47:12.960
and its name is Butterscotch.
1214
00:47:14.260 --> 00:47:16.800
That's fantastic. How are you? I'm great. So you're the
1215
00:47:16.860 --> 00:47:17.260
ride home?
1216
00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:18.679
I'm the Uber driver today.
1217
00:47:18.699 --> 00:47:20.690
We have to go pick up our kids. It's going
1218
00:47:20.710 --> 00:47:21.449
to be a really.
1219
00:47:21.969 --> 00:47:22.429
Exciting day today.
1220
00:47:22.650 --> 00:47:24.469
Look, we all pretended to care about our kids during
1221
00:47:24.489 --> 00:47:26.289
the podcast, but it's bullshit, man.
1222
00:47:26.909 --> 00:47:28.210
You're carrying this too far.
1223
00:47:28.230 --> 00:47:28.889
Do you want to come with us?
1224
00:47:29.719 --> 00:47:29.900
Sure.
1225
00:47:29.960 --> 00:47:31.530
And you don't invite the Uber driver in.
1226
00:47:31.550 --> 00:47:33.900
This isn't like the Stern Show where the driver comes up.
1227
00:47:35.570 --> 00:47:36.170
It can be.
1228
00:47:36.210 --> 00:47:37.989
Can I just say one thing? You guys have both
1229
00:47:38.050 --> 00:47:41.170
seen me on the beach. What's it like when you
1230
00:47:41.210 --> 00:47:45.269
see this body, this body running down the beach?
1231
00:47:45.289 --> 00:47:45.750
What's it like?
1232
00:47:45.769 --> 00:47:50.889
Can we call you White Lightning? I'm like, there goes
1233
00:47:50.929 --> 00:47:54.900
White Lightning. He's streaking by. I'm not kidding.
1234
00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:55.300
I know.
1235
00:47:55.360 --> 00:47:56.199
I can't miss you.
1236
00:47:56.280 --> 00:47:57.639
I mean, you're very specific.
1237
00:47:57.699 --> 00:48:01.139
I'm very specific. Specific is a nice word for a
1238
00:48:01.199 --> 00:48:04.420
tall Belgian woman. With no skin tone.
1239
00:48:04.639 --> 00:48:06.059
We're like, ah, Conan's here.
1240
00:48:06.219 --> 00:48:09.300
Look, there's Conan. It's like seeing an exotic ostrich. The
1241
00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:13.219
Irish are coming. Put the beer away. We're going to
1242
00:48:13.610 --> 00:48:16.409
have any for the guests later.
1243
00:48:16.570 --> 00:48:20.030
All right, I'm going to let you guys go get
1244
00:48:20.050 --> 00:48:20.570
your kids.
1245
00:48:20.869 --> 00:48:24.309
But thank you so much for being here. Ashton, good
1246
00:48:24.329 --> 00:48:24.730
to see you.
1247
00:48:25.130 --> 00:48:25.429
Pleasure.
1248
00:48:26.329 --> 00:48:27.889
Stay focused when you're driving, okay?
1249
00:48:28.150 --> 00:48:28.349
I do.
1250
00:48:28.550 --> 00:48:30.670
Okay, I know you do. We heard about that. We've
1251
00:48:30.690 --> 00:48:31.449
discussed it all.
1252
00:48:31.469 --> 00:48:31.730
Okay.
1253
00:48:32.630 --> 00:48:37.300
And Mila, seriously, since the first day I met you
1254
00:48:37.659 --> 00:48:39.360
and then a couple of times since then, once we
1255
00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:41.719
were at some kooky award show together and I think
1256
00:48:41.739 --> 00:48:43.719
I talked to you for like five minutes backstage.
1257
00:48:43.739 --> 00:48:45.360
It was like a people's choice or something.
1258
00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:47.360
And I talked to you for like five minutes backstage
1259
00:48:47.500 --> 00:48:51.420
and you left and I was glowing like that is
1260
00:48:51.460 --> 00:48:52.619
a special person.
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And I really mean that. Thank you very much.
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Thank you.
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Thanks for being here and God bless you. And I
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look forward to running into you when I'm wearing a Speedo.
1265
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See you this weekend.
1266
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Yeah, exactly. You should see me in a Speedo. It's awful.
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We're done.
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I know what you mean, Coo Collum.
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Leaping vast distances, holding off armies.
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Eating tons of fresh grass.
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What?
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Not you, we're cows. That's one of the reasons Irish
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Over the world.
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I did. And with the Walshes too, of all people.
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I heard the Flims were at it as well.
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No.
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Switchers, the lot of them.
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You know, it might not be a bad idea.
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Really?
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I heard they all got a brilliant deal and saved
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hundreds of euros switching their energy with Switcher.ie. Happy days.
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So last week, I fed myself right into the mouth
1310
00:50:55.460 --> 00:50:58.079
of the lion by mentioning that I sketch with my
1311
00:50:58.119 --> 00:50:58.900
mother in the park.
1312
00:50:59.179 --> 00:51:03.179
You sketch with your mother in the park. Let's just
1313
00:51:03.219 --> 00:51:05.579
let that sink in for our listeners.
1314
00:51:05.940 --> 00:51:06.800
Her name is Welford.
1315
00:51:07.380 --> 00:51:10.760
Her name is Welford. She's lovely.
1316
00:51:11.360 --> 00:51:15.940
Listen, I'm not disparaging your mother, but some
people probably
1317
00:51:15.980 --> 00:51:17.800
accuse me of being hard on you, Gorley.
1318
00:51:17.880 --> 00:51:18.980
I think most people, yeah.
1319
00:51:19.019 --> 00:51:19.119
Oh.
1320
00:51:19.820 --> 00:51:20.400
Maybe half.
1321
00:51:20.739 --> 00:51:23.059
Maybe sometimes think that I'm overly tough on Gourley and
1322
00:51:23.079 --> 00:51:26.860
that I portray him as this kind of slackerish fop.
1323
00:51:27.739 --> 00:51:28.079
And then.
1324
00:51:28.099 --> 00:51:30.449
Well, you can't be a fop and a slacker.
1325
00:51:30.869 --> 00:51:35.329
Okay, let's change that. Again, fresh off the plane from Ghana.
1326
00:51:35.750 --> 00:51:36.070
Tired.
1327
00:51:36.190 --> 00:51:37.210
Came back on Monday.
1328
00:51:37.510 --> 00:51:37.849
Silence.
1329
00:51:39.889 --> 00:51:42.280
You can't just say silence. It's so wrong.
1330
00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:42.719
Silence!
1331
00:51:43.679 --> 00:51:45.000
I got that in an old sci-fi movie.
1332
00:51:45.019 --> 00:51:45.159
Silence!
1333
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:45.599
Silence!
1334
00:51:46.199 --> 00:51:49.619
No, many people have accused me of maybe being a
1335
00:51:49.619 --> 00:51:52.650
little tough on you because I portray you, you've always
1336
00:51:52.690 --> 00:51:57.570
felt unfairly, as sort of a twee, fussy fop with
1337
00:51:57.909 --> 00:52:03.289
his little mannerisms, his collection of eBay presidential memorabilia. And
1338
00:52:03.329 --> 00:52:05.179
I thought, okay, maybe I'm being too tough on him.
1339
00:52:05.639 --> 00:52:09.360
And then last week, you reveal that you got to
1340
00:52:09.420 --> 00:52:14.360
run because... you have to go sketch in the park
1341
00:52:14.579 --> 00:52:17.619
with your mother, whose name is Welford. I happen to know,
1342
00:52:17.639 --> 00:52:19.260
because I have friends that listen to the podcast. One
1343
00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:21.059
of them called me up this morning and said that
1344
00:52:21.099 --> 00:52:24.860
his jaw dropped off. His jaw dropped off when he
1345
00:52:24.900 --> 00:52:27.760
heard that. He said he was walking down the west
1346
00:52:27.820 --> 00:52:30.800
side of Manhattan and his jaw fell off and clattered
1347
00:52:30.949 --> 00:52:33.489
on the sidewalk, then fell down into a grate.
1348
00:52:33.829 --> 00:52:36.269
So now his jaw is gone. So anyway, that really happened.
1349
00:52:36.289 --> 00:52:37.889
You really do that. And that's something you do regularly.
1350
00:52:37.989 --> 00:52:39.809
Well, we do it a few times a year, whenever
1351
00:52:39.849 --> 00:52:40.130
we can.
1352
00:52:40.550 --> 00:52:40.750
Yeah.
1353
00:52:40.929 --> 00:52:41.210
Yeah.
1354
00:52:41.289 --> 00:52:43.340
So you mentioned that you wanted to talk to her,
1355
00:52:43.550 --> 00:52:45.280
and I thought maybe we could get her on the line,
1356
00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:47.639
and you can maybe get to the bottom of the
1357
00:52:47.679 --> 00:52:49.280
truth of this all, if you really want to
know
1358
00:52:49.380 --> 00:52:50.579
where this is all coming from.
1359
00:52:50.599 --> 00:52:53.000
I am definitely my mother's son. I'm a mama's boy,
1360
00:52:53.059 --> 00:52:54.019
so this would be it.
1361
00:52:54.159 --> 00:52:55.099
Oh, you a mama's boy?
1362
00:52:55.119 --> 00:52:55.659
I know.
1363
00:52:55.719 --> 00:52:56.360
It's a surprise.
1364
00:52:56.380 --> 00:52:57.260
Oh, okay.
1365
00:52:57.500 --> 00:52:59.570
No, it's all right. You never know. There's so many
1366
00:52:59.610 --> 00:53:00.769
unexpected turns in life.
1367
00:53:00.989 --> 00:53:01.289
Okay.
1368
00:53:01.829 --> 00:53:02.610
Let's give her a call.
1369
00:53:07.510 --> 00:53:07.809
Hello.
1370
00:53:08.309 --> 00:53:09.489
We are not available now.
1371
00:53:10.289 --> 00:53:13.039
Please leave your name and phone number after the beep.
1372
00:53:14.780 --> 00:53:18.199
Hello, this is Conan O'Brien calling. I'm calling for Welford,
1373
00:53:18.579 --> 00:53:21.239
the mother of Matt Gourley, if you're there.
1374
00:53:21.260 --> 00:53:25.510
Hello, this is the mither of Matt Gourley.
1375
00:53:26.230 --> 00:53:26.929
Oh, my God.
1376
00:53:26.949 --> 00:53:27.570
Hi, Mom.
1377
00:53:28.650 --> 00:53:32.840
The Mither? I'm sorry, what do I call you? Your
1378
00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:34.340
last name is, is it Meryl?
1379
00:53:34.500 --> 00:53:34.760
Mrs.
1380
00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:35.119
Meryl?
1381
00:53:35.519 --> 00:53:35.760
Yes.
1382
00:53:36.139 --> 00:53:36.440
Okay.
1383
00:53:36.500 --> 00:53:39.059
You had called me Nat Smither on your podcast.
1384
00:53:39.780 --> 00:53:41.400
Oh, I did. Oh my God.
1385
00:53:41.480 --> 00:53:43.760
I thought you were, I thought this was like a
1386
00:53:43.820 --> 00:53:48.960
character actress playing the part of Matt Gourley's mom, but
1387
00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:50.199
you really are his mom.
1388
00:53:50.659 --> 00:53:51.800
I am his mom, yes.
1389
00:53:52.429 --> 00:53:55.869
Well, let me, may I call you Welford? What do
1390
00:53:55.889 --> 00:53:56.349
you prefer?
1391
00:53:57.619 --> 00:53:57.860
Mrs.
1392
00:53:57.900 --> 00:53:59.400
Merrill, I mean, I want to be respectful.
1393
00:53:59.840 --> 00:54:02.440
No, Welford, it's fine.
1394
00:54:02.460 --> 00:54:03.659
Do you have a nickname?
1395
00:54:04.139 --> 00:54:04.380
Welf.
1396
00:54:06.099 --> 00:54:07.980
Your nickname is Welf, okay.
1397
00:54:08.019 --> 00:54:10.119
Yes, that's what my husband started calling me.
1398
00:54:10.320 --> 00:54:12.639
Mom, tell them your full name, all the names.
1399
00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:18.880
Oh, my gosh. Okay, Catherine, Welford, Noland, Warden, Gourley, Merrill.
1400
00:54:18.900 --> 00:54:23.320
Oh, my God. Did you come over on like seven Mayflowers?
1401
00:54:23.860 --> 00:54:25.619
Is that what happened? They all crashed into each other?
1402
00:54:27.150 --> 00:54:30.010
Well, I was given four names at birth.
1403
00:54:30.309 --> 00:54:31.449
And tell them what you call me.
1404
00:54:31.949 --> 00:54:32.349
Monty.
1405
00:54:33.050 --> 00:54:34.989
Why do you call Matt Monty?
1406
00:54:35.389 --> 00:54:38.860
Well, my two youngest boys, when they were real little,
1407
00:54:38.940 --> 00:54:41.280
couldn't say Matt for some reason, and they.
1408
00:54:41.239 --> 00:54:46.699
Called him Monty. Maybe they just had distaste for him. Well, anyway,
1409
00:54:46.719 --> 00:54:48.590
I won't go there. That seems cruel. Do you know
1410
00:54:48.619 --> 00:54:50.349
what my mother calls me, and I'm not kidding?
1411
00:54:51.070 --> 00:54:51.630
No, I don't.
1412
00:54:52.340 --> 00:54:52.920
Well, you shouldn't.
1413
00:54:53.780 --> 00:54:59.559
It was just, it was a rhetorical question. No, my
1414
00:54:59.590 --> 00:55:01.030
mother calls me pigeon pie.
1415
00:55:01.429 --> 00:55:01.789
What?
1416
00:55:02.150 --> 00:55:02.389
Yeah.
1417
00:55:02.710 --> 00:55:04.429
My mother will still to this day, I'll call up
1418
00:55:04.469 --> 00:55:05.809
and I'll go, hello, Ma, it's Conan.
1419
00:55:05.829 --> 00:55:07.829
And she'll say, well, hello there, pigeon pie.
1420
00:55:07.989 --> 00:55:09.989
Oh, that's all I'm ever going to call you now.
1421
00:55:10.389 --> 00:55:13.570
Hey, yes, you can do that right up until the
1422
00:55:13.590 --> 00:55:15.739
moment you're- You honestly know that's a term of endearment.
1423
00:55:17.010 --> 00:55:20.440
I think so, or else she's very hungry and will
1424
00:55:20.480 --> 00:55:24.860
eat anything. Well, I wanted to talk to you about
1425
00:55:24.900 --> 00:55:28.679
your son, Matt Gorley. You know him as Matt Gorley.
1426
00:55:29.260 --> 00:55:35.030
We just call him Monty. But let me ask you something, Welford.
1427
00:55:35.429 --> 00:55:38.789
Last week, Matt mentioned that it's a regular practice. Both
1428
00:55:38.829 --> 00:55:42.050
of you like to go to the park together at
1429
00:55:42.070 --> 00:55:44.210
an appointed time, and you like to sketch.
1430
00:55:44.750 --> 00:55:45.329
Is that correct?
1431
00:55:46.110 --> 00:55:46.590
Oh, yeah.
1432
00:55:48.050 --> 00:55:49.130
How long have you been doing this for?
1433
00:55:50.250 --> 00:55:52.519
I would say maybe about four times now.
1434
00:55:53.320 --> 00:55:55.119
Can I ask you some questions? Does Matt wear a
1435
00:55:55.139 --> 00:55:55.760
big sun hat?
1436
00:55:59.510 --> 00:56:00.389
No, he doesn't. Okay.
1437
00:56:00.750 --> 00:56:01.989
That's interesting to know.
1438
00:56:02.010 --> 00:56:03.190
He is a great artist, though.
1439
00:56:03.349 --> 00:56:04.170
Is he a good artist?
1440
00:56:04.289 --> 00:56:05.269
Oh, she's the best.
1441
00:56:05.389 --> 00:56:05.550
Oh.
1442
00:56:05.829 --> 00:56:06.389
She's amazing.
1443
00:56:06.409 --> 00:56:09.170
No, no, no. He is so much better. The last
1444
00:56:09.230 --> 00:56:11.739
time we went sketching, I didn't even want to look
1445
00:56:11.800 --> 00:56:14.800
at his drawing until I had finished mine because I
1446
00:56:14.840 --> 00:56:19.079
would have stopped doing mine. It's an architectural type of style,
1447
00:56:19.119 --> 00:56:23.500
but very light and airy, and mine is very detailed.
1448
00:56:23.519 --> 00:56:25.719
Can I just say that it seems like you both
1449
00:56:25.800 --> 00:56:29.639
have– A beautiful, special, and loving relationship, and it's making
1450
00:56:29.670 --> 00:56:34.449
me sick to my stomach. I've never gone sketching with
1451
00:56:34.510 --> 00:56:37.969
my mother. I've never gone sketching with my father. In fact,
1452
00:56:38.010 --> 00:56:40.429
my father and I have not made eye contact since
1453
00:56:40.489 --> 00:56:41.909
the Lyndon Johnson administration.
1454
00:56:43.219 --> 00:56:44.039
I want you to know that.
1455
00:56:44.179 --> 00:56:44.440
Yeah.
1456
00:56:44.659 --> 00:56:47.079
I don't know whether to laugh or to say that's sad.
1457
00:56:47.420 --> 00:56:50.960
No, it's just how we are as Irish Catholics. This
1458
00:56:51.059 --> 00:56:53.679
is clearly, I'm guessing, what is your denomination, if you
1459
00:56:53.699 --> 00:56:54.360
don't mind me asking?
1460
00:56:54.619 --> 00:56:56.280
Denomination? Yes. Religious?
1461
00:56:56.409 --> 00:56:57.849
Yes, yes. Your background.
1462
00:56:57.889 --> 00:56:58.750
Protestant.
1463
00:56:58.829 --> 00:56:59.570
Protestant, so.
1464
00:57:00.010 --> 00:57:01.469
And no, I am not for Trump.
1465
00:57:03.590 --> 00:57:05.869
Well, this is, I'm sorry. That's my mom.
1466
00:57:05.909 --> 00:57:08.789
Welford, this is not a robocall. Did you think this
1467
00:57:08.829 --> 00:57:11.880
was a robocall for Trump? I don't think many people
1468
00:57:11.900 --> 00:57:13.519
who go to the park to sketch are for Trump.
1469
00:57:13.760 --> 00:57:14.280
That's true.
1470
00:57:15.579 --> 00:57:18.500
So tell me, you say that, what kinds of things
1471
00:57:18.719 --> 00:57:21.559
are you guys drawing? What's Matt drawing, for example? What's
1472
00:57:21.579 --> 00:57:22.199
he sketching?
1473
00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:27.110
Well, we're sketching unique houses, buildings. We went to Pio
1474
00:57:27.150 --> 00:57:31.570
Pico Mansion in Pico Rivera and sketched one of the buildings.
1475
00:57:31.590 --> 00:57:33.550
I'm not sure if it was the mansion or not.
1476
00:57:33.670 --> 00:57:35.369
Let me ask you something.
1477
00:57:36.329 --> 00:57:40.269
Does Matt ever sketch people or is it always architectural shapes?
1478
00:57:41.139 --> 00:57:43.619
Um, I'm sure he's sketched people before.
1479
00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:45.289
But you haven't seen it. Let me tell you where
1480
00:57:45.309 --> 00:57:49.010
I'm going with this, Welford. It's a known fact that
1481
00:57:49.090 --> 00:57:53.260
people who only sketch architecture do so because they feel
1482
00:57:53.760 --> 00:57:59.579
removed and isolated from humanity. Adolf Hitler famously only painted
1483
00:57:59.739 --> 00:58:03.500
and sketched architecturally. And he was quite
competent at it.
1484
00:58:03.519 --> 00:58:08.170
When asked to portray humans, he had great difficulty. This
1485
00:58:08.230 --> 00:58:12.449
probably belied some kind of deep-felt frustration and alienation, which
1486
00:58:12.510 --> 00:58:14.130
led to him destroying half the world.
1487
00:58:14.369 --> 00:58:17.070
Anyway, what I'm trying to— Well, I know Matt has
1488
00:58:17.210 --> 00:58:18.250
sketched people.
1489
00:58:17.989 --> 00:58:20.250
Before he— Yes, but can I just say something, Welford?
1490
00:58:20.289 --> 00:58:24.300
He did so against their will. And— I looked up
1491
00:58:24.340 --> 00:58:29.570
the police records in Los Angeles, and seven times your
1492
00:58:29.670 --> 00:58:33.809
son has been arrested and detained for sketching women that
1493
00:58:33.829 --> 00:58:37.909
were sunbathing against their will. Were you not aware of this?
1494
00:58:38.289 --> 00:58:40.530
Well, I think I did see his poster in the
1495
00:58:40.590 --> 00:58:41.659
post office once.
1496
00:58:41.760 --> 00:58:45.059
Very nice. Oh, my God. You have the improv gene.
1497
00:58:45.139 --> 00:58:48.400
Yes, Ann. Thank you. Thank you very much. I see
1498
00:58:48.440 --> 00:58:49.360
now where Matt gets it.
1499
00:58:49.710 --> 00:58:53.269
Well, you know what? I make my jokes, and I.
1500
00:58:52.610 --> 00:58:55.639
Like to, as Sona calls it, she says, oh, you're
1501
00:58:55.679 --> 00:58:59.280
quite the josh-ter. You like your joshing and your jesting.
1502
00:58:59.300 --> 00:59:00.300
That's what Sona always says.
1503
00:59:00.340 --> 00:59:00.820
Yes, she does.
1504
00:59:02.199 --> 00:59:04.750
But I think it's very sweet that you have this
1505
00:59:04.789 --> 00:59:07.769
relationship with your son, and I'll admit to being a
1506
00:59:07.789 --> 00:59:09.590
little jealous, because.
1507
00:59:10.219 --> 00:59:12.300
Oh, Pigeon Pie, you should come along sometime.
1508
00:59:12.539 --> 00:59:13.059
Yeah.
1509
00:59:13.639 --> 00:59:15.980
I would love to, if you mentioned Pigeon Pie one
1510
00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:16.440
more time.
1511
00:59:16.460 --> 00:59:19.059
I think I heard on your podcast with Billy Eichner
1512
00:59:19.099 --> 00:59:21.480
that you wanted to come to the park one time
1513
00:59:21.519 --> 00:59:22.670
when we were sketching and.
1514
00:59:22.940 --> 00:59:24.739
I would like to come sometime, and I would like
1515
00:59:24.780 --> 00:59:26.480
to see Matt sitting there.
1516
00:59:26.719 --> 00:59:27.440
What kind of sunglasses?
1517
00:59:27.460 --> 00:59:31.309
Does he wear like a vintage sort of late 50s sunglasses,
1518
00:59:31.409 --> 00:59:35.230
those kind that have the flip-up lens, flip-up shade?
1519
00:59:35.610 --> 00:59:36.989
I really have no idea.
1520
00:59:37.110 --> 00:59:39.010
Oh, you don't look at your son ever, huh?
1521
00:59:39.349 --> 00:59:43.500
Maybe that's why you strictly sketch architectural forms rather than
1522
00:59:43.539 --> 00:59:46.380
a human being, Welford. You see, you and your son
1523
00:59:46.480 --> 00:59:50.760
suffer from the same malady, an inability to truly bond
1524
00:59:50.780 --> 00:59:51.659
with another human being.
1525
00:59:52.110 --> 00:59:53.719
Now, we're bonding with each other, right, Mom?
1526
00:59:54.010 --> 00:59:55.900
Yeah, I wouldn't give it up for the world.
1527
00:59:56.619 --> 00:59:58.679
What was Matty like when he was a little boy?
1528
00:59:58.719 --> 01:00:02.900
Was he always out there collecting butterflies? What kind of
1529
01:00:02.940 --> 01:00:03.590
fellow was he?
1530
01:00:03.889 --> 01:00:06.809
Well, he was very funny, funny all the time.
1531
01:00:06.969 --> 01:00:12.079
Oh, so what happened? Did he hit his head or something?
1532
01:00:12.119 --> 01:00:14.280
You know, those things, they say a sharp blow and
1533
01:00:14.300 --> 01:00:15.280
that can just go away.
1534
01:00:17.449 --> 01:00:22.449
He was very creative. He had made his own films
1535
01:00:22.710 --> 01:00:25.849
with Star Wars characters and the like. And, you know,
1536
01:00:25.929 --> 01:00:27.889
he majored in theater and set design.
1537
01:00:28.239 --> 01:00:31.039
Did he have trouble with bullies, I imagine? Bullies bullying
1538
01:00:31.079 --> 01:00:31.780
him for his.
1539
01:00:31.800 --> 01:00:32.539
I do now.
1540
01:00:33.219 --> 01:00:34.300
Yeah, you, Conan.
1541
01:00:35.019 --> 01:00:37.599
Excuse me, Welford. Excuse me.
1542
01:00:38.039 --> 01:00:40.699
You're the one who's incapable of drawing the human form
1543
01:00:41.429 --> 01:00:43.389
because of your desire to invade Poland.
1544
01:00:43.849 --> 01:00:46.969
That's not me. That's you, Welford. I'm sorry.
1545
01:00:48.550 --> 01:00:50.869
You don't have to answer that. I'm clearly out of control.
1546
01:00:52.289 --> 01:00:55.070
I'm way out of control today, and I apologize. You know,
1547
01:00:55.510 --> 01:00:58.199
let's get back to Matt. Matt, he got along well
1548
01:00:58.219 --> 01:00:58.820
with other children?
1549
01:00:59.119 --> 01:00:59.619
Oh, yeah.
1550
01:00:59.940 --> 01:01:01.139
No real issues then back then?
1551
01:01:01.440 --> 01:01:03.760
Not that I know of, but I'm finding out lately
1552
01:01:03.800 --> 01:01:06.800
that for most of my kids that they did things
1553
01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:09.300
that I had no idea they did, and I'm glad
1554
01:01:09.360 --> 01:01:10.809
I didn't know it when they did it.
1555
01:01:11.090 --> 01:01:13.429
Well, what are you talking about? This is fantastic. Why
1556
01:01:13.449 --> 01:01:17.429
don't you be quiet, Matt? Ah, see, my technique has worked.
1557
01:01:17.769 --> 01:01:20.789
I have kept you talking, Walford, and now the beans
1558
01:01:20.929 --> 01:01:25.599
are out of the tureen. A saying that no one's
1559
01:01:25.679 --> 01:01:28.940
ever uttered. So you find that your children now are
1560
01:01:28.960 --> 01:01:30.679
telling you things that they were up to that you
1561
01:01:30.699 -->
01:01:31.340
didn't know about.
1562
01:01:31.699 --> 01:01:31.980
Right.
1563
01:01:32.340 --> 01:01:33.019
What have I done?
1564
01:01:33.320 --> 01:01:35.719
I don't know about you, honey. I don't know. I
1565
01:01:35.760 --> 01:01:37.909
just know the other three have done stuff.
1566
01:01:37.949 --> 01:01:38.670
Yeah, it's only them.
1567
01:01:38.690 --> 01:01:39.809
Well, what did they do?
1568
01:01:39.829 --> 01:01:40.329
Okay.
1569
01:01:40.389 --> 01:01:41.469
Is there anything we can talk about?
1570
01:01:41.650 --> 01:01:43.929
Well, I just found out a couple of weeks ago
1571
01:01:44.010 --> 01:01:47.550
that my two youngest sons and a friend of theirs,
1572
01:01:48.170 --> 01:01:51.639
we have our garage is right next to a neighbor's garage,
1573
01:01:51.699 --> 01:01:54.079
and it's a little enclosed area behind a gate.
1574
01:01:54.099 --> 01:01:54.300
Okay.
1575
01:01:54.820 --> 01:01:57.219
They used to go back there, and there was a
1576
01:01:57.280 --> 01:02:02.280
couch back there, very classy. And they told me, and
1577
01:02:02.360 --> 01:02:04.260
I don't know if they're telling me the truth or not,
1578
01:02:04.300 --> 01:02:06.460
but that they used to smoke weed out there.
1579
01:02:06.860 --> 01:02:07.260
What?
1580
01:02:07.519 --> 01:02:08.800
And this is when they were teens.
1581
01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:13.909
Wait a minute, they were smoking Mary Jane on a couch?
1582
01:02:14.489 --> 01:02:17.849
And this is when you're supposedly around? Are you there
1583
01:02:17.889 --> 01:02:18.949
at the house when this is happening?
1584
01:02:19.210 --> 01:02:22.230
I'm sure they did things mostly when I, excuse me,
1585
01:02:22.289 --> 01:02:22.789
wasn't there.
1586
01:02:23.179 --> 01:02:24.599
How do you think they got a hold of this
1587
01:02:25.139 --> 01:02:26.280
wacky tabacky?
1588
01:02:26.530 --> 01:02:29.690
Well, it's certainly something beyond my knowledge.
1589
01:02:30.110 --> 01:02:30.849
Okay.
1590
01:02:31.110 --> 01:02:32.550
So you're just finding out about this now?
1591
01:02:32.889 --> 01:02:35.929
No, the only thing I would do when you were
1592
01:02:35.949 --> 01:02:39.610
gone is I would take the mattress outside and jump
1593
01:02:39.670 --> 01:02:41.539
off the roof and do my own little stunt shows
1594
01:02:41.639 --> 01:02:42.300
when you weren't there.
1595
01:02:44.559 --> 01:02:47.039
Listen, I give your son a hard time here on
1596
01:02:47.059 --> 01:02:49.960
the show, Wilford, but I do it out of good fun,
1597
01:02:49.980 --> 01:02:52.360
a sense of bon ami, you know what I'm saying?
1598
01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:55.940
Oh, I know you. Yeah, I've watched your TV show
1599
01:02:56.039 --> 01:02:58.590
and listening to the podcast.
1600
01:02:58.650 --> 01:02:59.329
Are you a regular?
1601
01:02:59.349 --> 01:03:01.750
I haven't listened to them all, but I've listened to
1602
01:03:01.789 --> 01:03:03.989
a few of them, and they're very funny.
1603
01:03:04.170 --> 01:03:06.849
Are you a regular viewer of the TV show?
1604
01:03:08.769 --> 01:03:11.840
Well, not anymore. When you were on Late Night, I
1605
01:03:11.880 --> 01:03:12.400
think it was.
1606
01:03:13.239 --> 01:03:14.079
They don't have cable.
1607
01:03:14.280 --> 01:03:18.139
So you haven't seen me since 2010. But nine years
1608
01:03:18.159 --> 01:03:21.059
I've been toiling away on my craft, and you haven't
1609
01:03:21.079 --> 01:03:21.380
been there.
1610
01:03:21.400 --> 01:03:21.760
I'm so sorry.
1611
01:03:22.320 --> 01:03:25.590
You'll watch your son jump off a roof, but you
1612
01:03:25.630 --> 01:03:28.630
won't watch me make a professional television show. Well, what
1613
01:03:28.650 --> 01:03:31.230
if we offered to buy you cable? Would you watch
1614
01:03:31.289 --> 01:03:31.590
me then?
1615
01:03:31.610 --> 01:03:32.389
Well, sure.
1616
01:03:32.409 --> 01:03:34.610
Well, I'm not sure you would.
1617
01:03:34.809 --> 01:03:36.269
Mom, play your cards right on this.
1618
01:03:36.369 --> 01:03:39.389
You know, you'd like catch up on Veep.
1619
01:03:39.840 --> 01:03:42.219
I would definitely watch you, Conan.
1620
01:03:42.320 --> 01:03:47.500
You don't even know my name. I would definitely watch you, Conan.
1621
01:03:47.539 --> 01:03:50.039
I'm in the middle of a cough. Yeah, that's everyone's excuse.
1622
01:03:50.079 --> 01:03:51.320
Conan, Conan, Conan, Conan.
1623
01:03:51.800 --> 01:03:55.099
I would definitely watch it because we enjoyed your show
1624
01:03:55.559 --> 01:03:56.260
when we saw it.
1625
01:03:56.960 --> 01:03:57.360
Thank you.
1626
01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:00.059
Welford, I'm going to get you cable, and I want
1627
01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:02.599
you to watch the show, and then we're going to
1628
01:04:02.639 --> 01:04:04.019
check back in with you, okay?
1629
01:04:04.519 --> 01:04:06.320
Sona, will you set this up? Will you make sure
1630
01:04:06.340 --> 01:04:07.300
that we get Welford cable?
1631
01:04:07.880 --> 01:04:10.000
I get.
1632
01:04:10.940 --> 01:04:12.119
Speak into the microphone.
1633
01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:14.239
I don't even have cable, but I sure.
1634
01:04:14.380 --> 01:04:15.519
Wait, you don't have cable.
1635
01:04:15.559 --> 01:04:17.159
No, but we can get her cable.
1636
01:04:17.199 --> 01:04:18.199
Wait, how do you watch the show?
1637
01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:22.179
Okay. I want you to let me tape it here.
1638
01:04:22.199 --> 01:04:22.829
Oh, my God.
1639
01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:23.760
God.
1640
01:04:24.119 --> 01:04:26.039
You want me to watch it when we're taping in
1641
01:04:26.079 --> 01:04:28.159
here and then go home and watch it again?
1642
01:04:28.179 --> 01:04:28.960
With your husband.
1643
01:04:29.199 --> 01:04:29.500
No.
1644
01:04:29.559 --> 01:04:30.320
Tack loves me.
1645
01:04:30.559 --> 01:04:30.940
No.
1646
01:04:31.320 --> 01:04:32.880
I mean, he does, but no.
1647
01:04:33.900 --> 01:04:34.159
Sure.
1648
01:04:34.300 --> 01:04:35.639
I'll get cable.
1649
01:04:36.090 --> 01:04:36.409
No, no.
1650
01:04:36.570 --> 01:04:38.369
For Welford. That's what I meant.
1651
01:04:38.429 --> 01:04:38.690
Yes.
1652
01:04:38.889 --> 01:04:39.949
Welford, we're going to get you set up.
1653
01:04:39.949 --> 01:04:40.969
Welford, I'll get you cable.
1654
01:04:41.289 --> 01:04:42.849
Will you watch my show, Welford?
1655
01:04:42.929 --> 01:04:44.190
And then I want to talk to you and I
1656
01:04:44.230 --> 01:04:45.670
want you to be honest with me and tell me
1657
01:04:45.710 --> 01:04:48.050
if it compares to the show that you watched when
1658
01:04:48.090 --> 01:04:50.659
you last saw me almost a decade ago.
1659
01:04:50.679 --> 01:04:52.280
Will you do that for me?
1660
01:04:52.579 --> 01:04:53.719
Oh, that sounds wonderful.
1661
01:04:53.900 --> 01:04:56.190
Well, Fred, there's a rumor that you dressed Matt as
1662
01:04:56.230 --> 01:04:57.170
a girl for eight years.
1663
01:04:57.909 --> 01:05:00.289
Is that true? And you made him wear a... Oh,
1664
01:05:00.349 --> 01:05:01.989
that reminds me.
1665
01:05:02.030 --> 01:05:03.789
Did you make him dress as a girl and wear
1666
01:05:04.250 --> 01:05:08.090
a turn-of-the-century 1902 girl's outfit until he was 11?
1667
01:05:08.090 --> 01:05:08.630
Is that true?
1668
01:05:08.650 --> 01:05:11.269
She did not cut my hair for how long, Mom?
1669
01:05:11.289 --> 01:05:11.769
That's it.
1670
01:05:11.949 --> 01:05:14.889
Except my bangs, so I just had long, curly hair
1671
01:05:14.909 --> 01:05:15.170
with bangs.
1672
01:05:15.250 --> 01:05:15.929
I knew that.
1673
01:05:15.989 --> 01:05:16.289
Yeah.
1674
01:05:16.369 --> 01:05:18.389
How did I know that, Welford? How did I know?
1675
01:05:20.170 --> 01:05:23.219
Well, his hair was just too cute. I couldn't cut it.
1676
01:05:23.570 --> 01:05:25.800
Oh, that's the one regret I have.
1677
01:05:26.199 --> 01:05:28.980
That's why you couldn't... Work the machinery down at the mill.
1678
01:05:29.000 --> 01:05:29.400
I'm sorry, Matt.
1679
01:05:29.559 --> 01:05:31.800
Well, listen, Welford, it's been very nice talking to you,
1680
01:05:31.820 --> 01:05:33.460
unless anyone else has any thoughts.
1681
01:05:33.780 --> 01:05:34.699
No, I love you, Mom.
1682
01:05:34.900 --> 01:05:35.659
Love you, too, hon.
1683
01:05:36.199 --> 01:05:37.599
Yeah, it's really sweet. When are you going to sketch
1684
01:05:37.639 --> 01:05:38.360
in the park next?
1685
01:05:38.380 --> 01:05:40.250
I don't know, probably a month or two.
1686
01:05:40.260 --> 01:05:44.119
Well, we don't know yet, but hopefully sometime soon. Okay.
1687
01:05:44.340 --> 01:05:46.210
Well, think about drawing people or just drawing it and
1688
01:05:46.250 --> 01:05:47.489
see if you can learn.
1689
01:05:47.550 --> 01:05:48.070
Manage it?
1690
01:05:48.510 --> 01:05:48.789
Yeah.
1691
01:05:48.969 --> 01:05:53.110
It's called having empathy and connection to others. But just
1692
01:05:53.150 --> 01:05:55.590
try it. I don't want you to turn bitter and
1693
01:05:55.610 --> 01:05:57.190
then start invading neighboring countries.
1694
01:05:58.179 --> 01:05:58.360
Okay.
1695
01:05:58.380 --> 01:06:00.800
Well, it was lovely talking to you, and I look
1696
01:06:00.820 --> 01:06:02.500
forward to hearing your thoughts about the show.
1697
01:06:02.760 --> 01:06:03.059
All right.
1698
01:06:03.119 --> 01:06:03.940
Thanks, Conan.
1699
01:06:04.079 --> 01:06:04.519
Bye-bye.
1700
01:06:04.559 --> 01:06:05.199
Thanks, Mom.
1701
01:06:05.480 --> 01:06:05.860
Bye.
1702
01:06:05.980 --> 01:06:07.880
Bye, Matt. Bye, Sona. Bye.
1703
01:06:08.159 --> 01:06:08.400
Bye.
1704
01:06:08.699 --> 01:06:08.980
Bye.
1705
01:06:12.260 --> 01:06:15.760
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