Alex Edelman

WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.270 --> 00:00:00.770
Thank you.
2
00:00:06.710 --> 00:00:10.470
Good nights are about the people, the laughs, the real
3
00:00:10.509 --> 00:00:13.689
moments you don't want to miss. So why step outside?
4
00:00:14.589 --> 00:00:18.629
Velo tobacco-free nicotine pouches fits seamlessly into your night. Convenient
5
00:00:18.829 --> 00:00:23.050
and full of flavor. No breaks, no interruptions. Velo anytime,
6
00:00:23.179 --> 00:00:27.059
anywhere nicotine pouches. 18 and over contains tobacco-free nicotine and
7
00:00:27.100 --> 00:00:29.300
addictive substance. If you're new to Velo, start with Mellow.
8
00:00:29.379 --> 00:00:30.899
You should not use this product if you do not
9
00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:31.800
already use nicotine.
10
00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:36.039
You offer them a cuppa when they saw yours. That's
11
00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:39.960
definitely enough for a little treat. Cadbury Delights, with 91
12
00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:43.320
calories of milk chocolate, nougat, and caramel in every bar.
13
00:00:46.579 --> 00:00:53.020
Hi, my name is Alex Edelman. And I feel apprehensive
14
00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:54.539
about being Conan O'Brien's friend.
15
00:00:57.450 --> 00:00:59.929
Fall is here, hear the yell.
16
00:01:00.009 --> 00:01:05.030
Back to school, ring the bell. Brand new shoes, walkin' loose.
17
00:01:05.129 --> 00:01:07.290
Climb the fence, books and pens.
18
00:01:07.750 --> 00:01:12.510
I can tell that we are gonna be friends. Yes,
19
00:01:12.709 --> 00:01:15.890
I can tell that we are gonna be friends.
20
00:01:16.670 --> 00:01:19.010
Hey there, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. I
21
00:01:19.299 --> 00:01:27.129
am the aforementioned Conan, Conan O'Brien, Aries, Brookline, Massachusetts, Quite
22
00:01:27.150 --> 00:01:29.189
a life. Quite a life I've had. I guess it's
23
00:01:29.230 --> 00:01:32.209
drawing to a close now. And I'm being joined by
24
00:01:32.290 --> 00:01:33.510
Sona Movsesian. Sona, how are you?
25
00:01:33.530 --> 00:01:34.670
Can I ask a question?
26
00:01:34.769 --> 00:01:35.099
Go for it.
27
00:01:35.109 --> 00:01:36.170
This has been a while.
28
00:01:36.189 --> 00:01:39.189
Can we change the name of the podcast to Conan O'Brien,
29
00:01:39.250 --> 00:01:41.390
Sona Movsesian, and Matt Gourley need a friend?
30
00:01:41.409 --> 00:01:42.670
You know what? I think that's a really good idea.
31
00:01:42.730 --> 00:01:44.390
And Matt Gourley is here as well.
32
00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:44.810
Gemini.
33
00:01:45.250 --> 00:01:50.000
Yeah, Gemini. Libra. I enjoy pasta and long walks on
34
00:01:50.019 --> 00:01:55.500
the beach with pasta. Your question, Sona. No, the answer
35
00:01:55.540 --> 00:01:55.819
is no.
36
00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:56.040
Oh.
37
00:01:56.379 --> 00:01:58.019
And it's not even up to me at this point.
38
00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:00.879
I think the great Adam Sachs, who's in the room
39
00:02:00.900 --> 00:02:04.879
at all times, our overlord, our overseer, he would say, oh,
40
00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:07.480
terrible idea to change the branding at this point. It
41
00:02:07.500 --> 00:02:09.599
would diffuse. And he's nodding vigorously.
42
00:02:09.620 --> 00:02:12.169
It's also false because we don't need friends because we
43
00:02:12.210 --> 00:02:12.710
have each other.
44
00:02:12.969 --> 00:02:13.610
That's true.
45
00:02:13.629 --> 00:02:16.870
I'm just saying maybe Conan O'Brien needs a friend with
46
00:02:17.370 --> 00:02:18.969
Matt Gourley and Sonam Obsessian.
47
00:02:19.009 --> 00:02:19.349
Yeah.
48
00:02:19.509 --> 00:02:22.949
No, it just it dilutes the brand and it's bad
49
00:02:22.990 --> 00:02:25.509
for merch. And listen, Is it bad for merch?
50
00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:27.280
What if we just lose your name and it's just
51
00:02:27.300 --> 00:02:27.879
the two of us?
52
00:02:28.020 --> 00:02:28.199
Yeah.
53
00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:29.259
Okay, good luck with that.
54
00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:31.460
Meets a friend.
55
00:02:31.900 --> 00:02:34.870
I would say enjoy the poor house, but this isn't
56
00:02:35.229 --> 00:02:39.330
Dickensian London. I wish there were poor houses still. What?
57
00:02:39.469 --> 00:02:39.810
Yeah.
58
00:02:39.949 --> 00:02:41.469
They used to throw you into the poor house and
59
00:02:41.490 --> 00:02:45.449
then it's in every Dickens novel. Someone gets thrown into
60
00:02:45.469 --> 00:02:47.030
the poor house and you can't get out of the
61
00:02:47.069 --> 00:02:49.229
poor house unless you give the money back, but you
62
00:02:49.270 --> 00:02:51.710
can't make the money back if you're in the poor house.
63
00:02:51.729 --> 00:02:52.770
Because you've stolen something?
64
00:02:52.810 --> 00:02:53.159
Is that how?
65
00:02:53.210 --> 00:02:53.689
No, not even.
66
00:02:53.710 --> 00:02:55.530
Someone will just get into debt and they would come
67
00:02:55.569 --> 00:02:56.930
by and they would say, we're taking you to the
68
00:02:56.990 --> 00:02:59.110
poor house. And they would throw you in and then
69
00:02:59.150 --> 00:03:01.240
you couldn't get out for the longest time. I've heard
70
00:03:01.250 --> 00:03:01.629
that term.
71
00:03:01.659 --> 00:03:02.689
I never thought about what it was.
72
00:03:02.699 --> 00:03:05.560
Yes, it goes back to, it's all over Dickens. There's
73
00:03:05.580 --> 00:03:07.400
so many things in Dickens I wish would come back.
74
00:03:07.740 --> 00:03:10.789
Poor House, pickpockets. Where are all the pickpockets, by the way?
75
00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:11.379
Street urchins.
76
00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:12.389
Street urchins.
77
00:03:12.590 --> 00:03:12.729
Yeah.
78
00:03:12.750 --> 00:03:14.889
There's so much good stuff.
79
00:03:15.069 --> 00:03:15.770
Old hags.
80
00:03:16.210 --> 00:03:18.210
Old hags wearing tattered wedding dresses.
81
00:03:18.229 --> 00:03:18.310
Yeah.
82
00:03:19.509 --> 00:03:20.409
Do you know what I mean?
83
00:03:20.729 --> 00:03:20.969
Yeah.
84
00:03:21.050 --> 00:03:25.430
I just, you know, that kind of thing.
85
00:03:25.550 --> 00:03:27.460
Just bowls of porridge and gruel.
86
00:03:27.659 --> 00:03:29.439
Yeah, may I have some? Please, sir, may I have
87
00:03:29.460 --> 00:03:32.479
some more? More porridge, more gruel. No, I don't think
88
00:03:32.500 --> 00:03:36.120
he even says he just may have some more. Sorry. Sorry, sir.
89
00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:39.460
Are you guys doing the same person? You're both doing Oliver?
90
00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:40.639
My guy's Australian.
91
00:03:41.099 --> 00:03:41.680
Oh, okay.
92
00:03:41.780 --> 00:03:43.879
Yeah, I'm doing Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.
93
00:03:44.710 --> 00:03:45.439
Okay.
94
00:03:45.469 --> 00:03:50.439
Yeah. I'll claw you with me claws. It's all fucked
95
00:03:50.500 --> 00:03:53.300
up what I'm doing right now. It doesn't make any sense. Hello, Deadpool.
96
00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:54.620
And I'm doing Schwarzenegger.
97
00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:57.150
Get to the chopper. Get to the chopper.
98
00:03:57.439 --> 00:03:58.150
I'll be right back.
99
00:03:58.310 --> 00:04:02.169
Uzi 9mm. Okay. I'll be back.
100
00:04:02.189 --> 00:04:05.169
It's like a Dickens-Wolverine crossover.
101
00:04:05.189 --> 00:04:05.270
Yeah.
102
00:04:05.509 --> 00:04:06.289
Okay.
103
00:04:06.569 --> 00:04:06.849
Good.
104
00:04:07.229 --> 00:04:07.509
Yeah.
105
00:04:07.969 --> 00:04:09.810
Man, that Deadpool movie, I really did enjoy it. I'm
106
00:04:09.830 --> 00:04:11.590
going to just say that. We're not getting paid to
107
00:04:11.629 --> 00:04:13.550
say that. Saw that with my son Beckett. We had
108
00:04:13.569 --> 00:04:16.600
a blast. It was really fun. And, uh, it brought
109
00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:18.839
me back to the time. I know I've mentioned this before,
110
00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:20.319
but I always think about it when I was in
111
00:04:20.339 --> 00:04:22.399
a gym and I was really proud of myself. I've
112
00:04:22.420 --> 00:04:24.459
told you this, right? And I was working out in
113
00:04:24.500 --> 00:04:27.370
a hotel gym in Atlanta and I, and I was
114
00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:29.889
really like, Hey, I think I'm working out really hard.
115
00:04:29.930 --> 00:04:32.389
I'm this is, and then I, on my peripheral vision,
116
00:04:32.430 --> 00:04:36.250
I saw someone without a shirt doing an insane workout
117
00:04:36.269 --> 00:04:39.329
where they were pulling up their whole body effortlessly. And
118
00:04:39.350 --> 00:04:41.769
I looked over Hugh Jackman. And he looks at me
119
00:04:41.790 --> 00:04:44.410
and like winked and was like, you know, hey, mate, whatever.
120
00:04:44.430 --> 00:04:47.769
And I just thought, Jesus, my penis went up inside
121
00:04:47.810 --> 00:04:52.699
my body. It crawled up into my lung. It's never
122
00:04:52.740 --> 00:04:54.360
come out. I keep trying to lure it out with
123
00:04:54.379 --> 00:04:55.899
a little bit of cheese. Yeah.
124
00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:57.939
Your penis eats cheese.
125
00:04:58.779 --> 00:04:59.000
Yeah.
126
00:04:59.920 --> 00:05:04.120
I'm sorry. Some penises are lactose intolerant. Mine's a real
127
00:05:04.339 --> 00:05:06.740
cheese eater. A real cheese eater. Every time when I
128
00:05:06.779 --> 00:05:08.519
was dating, I'd drop my pants and one would say, oh,
129
00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:11.459
a cheese eater, eh? That's very Dickens.
130
00:05:11.490 --> 00:05:11.699
Yeah.
131
00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:15.110
Oh, a cheese eater, eh? And my penis would be
132
00:05:15.149 --> 00:05:18.029
holding a piece of Gouda with its tiny little hand.
133
00:05:19.209 --> 00:05:22.050
Well, I've never more emphatically put up a rap sign.
134
00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:24.180
So let's go ahead.
135
00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:27.050
To review, a Dickensian woman would see me drop my
136
00:05:27.110 --> 00:05:32.110
pants and go, cheese eater, eh? Cook likes its gouda, eh?
137
00:05:32.589 --> 00:05:36.060
You got a real milk sipper.
138
00:05:36.389 --> 00:05:46.139
Right? You got a cream guzzler. Well, I'm so glad.
139
00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:50.209
This is why PBS won't underwrite our podcast. I always
140
00:05:50.230 --> 00:05:53.779
wanted to say supported by Foundation for the Arts. But no,
141
00:05:54.139 --> 00:05:59.040
they listen to my, you know, cock-eating cheese bits. And
142
00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:01.660
then we don't get the funding that I think we deserve.
143
00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:02.660
Yeah, public funding.
144
00:06:02.779 --> 00:06:05.120
Yes, from the Angela Lansbury Foundation.
145
00:06:05.860 --> 00:06:07.199
The country should pay for this.
146
00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:07.920
I think.
147
00:06:08.050 --> 00:06:10.329
Oh, they're paying for it. Listen, yeah, they are paying.
148
00:06:11.250 --> 00:06:15.529
in their own way, people are paying. Man, I really
149
00:06:15.569 --> 00:06:16.990
want to keep applying for grants.
150
00:06:17.009 --> 00:06:17.209
We should.
151
00:06:17.230 --> 00:06:18.389
Let's start applying for grants.
152
00:06:18.410 --> 00:06:18.850
Yeah.
153
00:06:18.930 --> 00:06:19.189
Okay.
154
00:06:19.290 --> 00:06:21.750
So that the money would come, would be taken away
155
00:06:21.810 --> 00:06:23.949
from programs in schools.
156
00:06:23.970 --> 00:06:24.889
Like Nova.
157
00:06:25.009 --> 00:06:27.810
And programs like Nova. And I would get it. And
158
00:06:27.850 --> 00:06:29.629
then people would be outraged and they would listen to
159
00:06:29.649 --> 00:06:30.129
the podcast.
160
00:06:30.149 --> 00:06:30.670
Like, why is he?
161
00:06:30.889 --> 00:06:33.620
Well, let's check it out. Maybe it's educational. You got
162
00:06:33.660 --> 00:06:35.839
a real good at eating kookaroo.
163
00:06:36.220 --> 00:06:37.759
Brought to you by a generous grant from the WM
164
00:06:37.779 --> 00:06:38.480
Keck Foundation.
165
00:06:41.050 --> 00:06:44.629
Oh, 50 Senate hearings. Sir, are you aware?
166
00:06:44.649 --> 00:06:49.170
Brought to you by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
167
00:06:49.189 --> 00:06:51.250
They're not together. There's no transition here.
168
00:06:51.269 --> 00:06:53.689
Is it just the Gates Foundation?
169
00:06:53.870 --> 00:06:54.100
Is it?
170
00:06:54.389 --> 00:06:58.009
Well, good cul-de-sac there, Sona. Good instinct, just as I
171
00:06:58.029 --> 00:06:58.870
get into the intro.
172
00:06:59.430 --> 00:07:00.129
Really good.
173
00:07:00.589 --> 00:07:02.980
Well, time to get into the intro. But are Bill
174
00:07:03.019 --> 00:07:06.579
and Melinda still together? My guest today doesn't give a
175
00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.439
shit about Bill and Melinda Gates. He's a hilarious comedian
176
00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:12.759
whose Emmy-nominated comedy special, Just For Us, is now streaming
177
00:07:12.819 --> 00:07:23.810
on Max. I'm excited to talk to him today. Alex Edelman, welcome.
178
00:07:24.209 --> 00:07:26.189
I've come in hot today. I don't know what it is,
179
00:07:27.290 --> 00:07:30.480
but I feel like I have scores to settle. And
180
00:07:30.500 --> 00:07:32.399
then you just happen to be here when I'm in
181
00:07:32.420 --> 00:07:32.920
this mood.
182
00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:37.079
I'm excited. I'm like, I'm a fellow Brooklynian, so it's like.
183
00:07:37.610 --> 00:07:39.649
We should explain what that is, because people probably think
184
00:07:39.689 --> 00:07:41.389
it's a weird cult.
185
00:07:41.490 --> 00:07:45.980
We both sleep on Brooklyn and sheets. I'm sorry if
186
00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:50.160
that's a competitor to one of your sponsors. It doesn't matter.
187
00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:52.779
We lose sponsors left and right.
188
00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:56.689
I'll explain. First of all, much to talk about, and
189
00:07:56.699 --> 00:08:00.529
I want to start by saying, before anything else, that
190
00:08:01.389 --> 00:08:06.350
I saw your special of your show, Just For Us, Spectacular.
191
00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:11.079
Absolutely amazing. I know that it is Emmy nominated, and
192
00:08:11.379 --> 00:08:13.839
that's why I wanted to get you in here to talk.
193
00:08:14.220 --> 00:08:16.170
We're going to talk about this special because I have
194
00:08:16.189 --> 00:08:18.290
a lot of questions for you. But I think before
195
00:08:18.350 --> 00:08:22.930
we begin to move on to, I think, more important areas,
196
00:08:23.269 --> 00:08:24.649
we should discuss the fact that you and I have
197
00:08:24.689 --> 00:08:26.750
a lot in common, which I found out the first
198
00:08:26.790 --> 00:08:27.750
time you were on my show.
199
00:08:27.769 --> 00:08:28.230
Yeah.
200
00:08:28.389 --> 00:08:31.209
You leaned over and you was like, I'm from Brookline, Massachusetts,
201
00:08:31.290 --> 00:08:33.769
and my dad's a doctor and knows your dad. And
202
00:08:34.029 --> 00:08:34.960
I'm from Brookline, Mass.
203
00:08:35.129 --> 00:08:39.309
My dad's a doctor. And we both fled that legitimate profession.
204
00:08:40.409 --> 00:08:43.460
My father called me the next day and he went, oh,
205
00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:44.059
you were on Dr.
206
00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:49.789
O'Brien's son show the other day. What? And he went, yeah, Dr.
207
00:08:49.809 --> 00:08:52.779
O'Brien's son's also a comedian. I went... this is a
208
00:08:52.860 --> 00:08:58.080
criminal misuse of the word also. I was like, yeah.
209
00:08:58.139 --> 00:09:00.500
And he went, you know, he's a good doctor. And
210
00:09:00.580 --> 00:09:03.139
I was like, well, his son's a good comic. And
211
00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:05.029
he went, yeah, I would expect that. Cause the dad's
212
00:09:05.049 --> 00:09:07.429
such a good doctor.
213
00:09:07.669 --> 00:09:11.509
I love this struggle over what our true identities are.
214
00:09:11.649 --> 00:09:13.870
It was truly that though. He was like, you know,
215
00:09:13.909 --> 00:09:15.509
he still practices. It really comes in.
216
00:09:15.549 --> 00:09:18.029
It's a different, my dad was as if it was,
217
00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:20.899
he's part, he's in a different grade at the school.
218
00:09:20.940 --> 00:09:22.879
He was like, You know, it's a different department, but
219
00:09:22.899 --> 00:09:24.299
he's got a lot of respect. I'm like, my dad's
220
00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:25.100
a cardiologist.
221
00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:28.059
And my dad is a microbiologist.
222
00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:28.620
Yeah.
223
00:09:28.820 --> 00:09:31.419
So I think my dad, the way I've heard it,
224
00:09:31.539 --> 00:09:35.210
my dad's first day kind of working at Brigham Women's
225
00:09:35.250 --> 00:09:40.549
Hospital in Boston was, I think, 1954.
226
00:09:40.549 --> 00:09:41.590
Wow.
227
00:09:42.049 --> 00:09:44.830
And my dad is, I just saw him two days ago.
228
00:09:44.850 --> 00:09:47.289
I hear that was two days before they let the
229
00:09:47.350 --> 00:09:50.980
women in. It was just Brigham's. It was just Brigham's
230
00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:52.639
before that. Exactly, yeah.
231
00:09:52.899 --> 00:09:54.850
It was the Peter Bent Brigham then. Then they changed
232
00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:57.190
it to Brigham and Women's. And the whole world went
233
00:09:57.230 --> 00:09:57.649
to hell!
234
00:09:57.669 --> 00:09:57.840
But....
235
00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:03.039
Yeah, he worked there from like, I think he worked
236
00:10:03.059 --> 00:10:08.090
there for something like 65 years, something crazy. But it's
237
00:10:08.230 --> 00:10:10.169
cool because every now and then I bump into people
238
00:10:10.230 --> 00:10:13.649
who sort of, obviously they know my father and they
239
00:10:13.669 --> 00:10:17.769
respect my father. And they're not that interested in talking
240
00:10:17.789 --> 00:10:18.250
to me.
241
00:10:18.289 --> 00:10:18.570
Yeah.
242
00:10:19.230 --> 00:10:20.850
I get the same thing where people come up to
243
00:10:20.909 --> 00:10:23.029
me on the street with a crazed look in their eyes.
244
00:10:23.309 --> 00:10:25.070
And I'll be like, hi. And they're like, your father
245
00:10:25.110 --> 00:10:29.169
saved my life. And I'm like, oh, cool. Check out
246
00:10:29.210 --> 00:10:34.210
my special. Yeah. How'd you like the show? My father,
247
00:10:34.250 --> 00:10:37.929
by the way, if I ever referred to it growing up,
248
00:10:37.970 --> 00:10:38.850
I would say Brigham's.
249
00:10:38.870 --> 00:10:41.500
And my father would go, and women's. And I'm like, well,
250
00:10:41.509 --> 00:10:44.340
it's a different scene. Well, Brigham's is an ice cream parlor.
251
00:10:45.139 --> 00:10:48.220
In terms of women's, is the finest medical institution in
252
00:10:48.250 --> 00:10:50.710
the United States. He was very serious about it. But
253
00:10:50.750 --> 00:10:53.789
my dad's been practicing there for a long time, not
254
00:10:53.809 --> 00:10:57.470
nearly as long as your father, but feels great affinity
255
00:10:57.690 --> 00:10:58.009
for it.
256
00:10:58.370 --> 00:11:01.149
It's funny because all my memories are our family. There
257
00:11:01.169 --> 00:11:04.750
were six kids, and my dad drove this really rusting
258
00:11:04.909 --> 00:11:09.669
out Chevrolet Impala four-door with a squeaky steering wheel. And
259
00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:12.919
my childhood memories are my dad getting us in the
260
00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.519
car to run a quick errand. me and a couple
261
00:11:15.539 --> 00:11:17.889
of my brothers maybe. And what he would do is
262
00:11:18.210 --> 00:11:20.330
he'd go to the laundromat, he'd go to this place,
263
00:11:20.370 --> 00:11:23.710
and then he'd say, I'm just gonna, he abbreviated minute.
264
00:11:23.970 --> 00:11:25.740
He'd say, I'm just gonna take a min and pop
265
00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:28.759
into the Brigham. And so he would park the car
266
00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:31.840
and he would go into the Brigham Women's Hospital to
267
00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:35.029
like check on his bacteria, see what they were up to.
268
00:11:35.629 --> 00:11:38.210
And he would leave us in the car and sometimes
269
00:11:38.210 --> 00:11:41.210
45 minutes to an hour would go by and then
270
00:11:41.250 --> 00:11:44.370
he'd come back and we'd be pissed. But you couldn't
271
00:11:44.450 --> 00:11:47.889
complain because he was doing, you know, he was saving lives.
272
00:11:47.970 --> 00:11:49.330
You said it was going to take a min, but
273
00:11:49.389 --> 00:11:50.129
it took an er.
274
00:11:50.289 --> 00:11:50.950
It took an er.
275
00:11:51.009 --> 00:11:52.389
Yeah, it took an er.
276
00:11:52.470 --> 00:11:53.600
That was a full er.
277
00:11:54.750 --> 00:11:57.679
And but that was my memory of it. I was
278
00:11:57.700 --> 00:12:00.740
thinking you wouldn't leave a dog in a car. that
279
00:12:00.779 --> 00:12:01.960
long these days, but.
280
00:12:02.220 --> 00:12:04.980
I have this memory of my father shaving in the
281
00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:07.580
car on the way to work with an electric razor,
282
00:12:07.620 --> 00:12:10.340
but with both hands in the mirror while we're going
283
00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:11.279
down Route 9.
284
00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:14.690
And I was like, Dad, uh, uh, road. He'd be like,
285
00:12:14.769 --> 00:12:17.110
I'm my niece, I got it. But he's, like, shaving, like,
286
00:12:17.529 --> 00:12:18.289
shaving like this.
287
00:12:18.929 --> 00:12:21.129
Always so busy always i think my dad has been
288
00:12:21.169 --> 00:12:22.950
on call for 32 years yeah i.
289
00:12:22.830 --> 00:12:25.509
Don't think my father has never my father had.
290
00:12:25.330 --> 00:12:28.279
A beeper until like my father had a beeper and
291
00:12:28.340 --> 00:12:30.220
i thought i remember as a kid like in the
292
00:12:30.299 --> 00:12:32.120
70s my father had a beeper because he was on
293
00:12:32.179 --> 00:12:35.919
call and i thought technology will never advance any further
294
00:12:36.379 --> 00:12:40.450
than that box on his hip that makes a noise
295
00:12:40.490 --> 00:12:43.309
so he can go to a payphone We were growing
296
00:12:43.350 --> 00:12:44.549
up in synagogue.
297
00:12:44.570 --> 00:12:47.759
I went to an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, and my father's
298
00:12:47.899 --> 00:12:49.820
beeper would go off in synagogue, and you could tell
299
00:12:49.860 --> 00:12:51.460
who was new based on who turned on and be like,
300
00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:55.379
what is that very electronic noise in the no electronic
301
00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:59.539
day time frame? Some people would turn around, and my
302
00:12:59.590 --> 00:12:59.980
brother's be like.
303
00:13:00.139 --> 00:13:03.190
He's a doctor. He's a doctor. Chill.
304
00:13:03.230 --> 00:13:03.669
Just chill.
305
00:13:03.809 --> 00:13:04.429
He's safe in life.
306
00:13:04.509 --> 00:13:04.990
Chill, Rebby.
307
00:13:05.029 --> 00:13:05.990
Shut the fuck up. I had.
308
00:13:10.740 --> 00:13:14.080
I had an interesting experience because I'm obviously super Irish Catholic.
309
00:13:14.139 --> 00:13:18.399
I'm growing up in Brookline, Mass. And the different public schools,
310
00:13:18.820 --> 00:13:20.899
they had real identities. And the one I was supposed
311
00:13:20.940 --> 00:13:23.960
to go to, Heath School, was very kind of Irish Catholic.
312
00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:27.779
All the kids played hockey. It was kind of where
313
00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:30.039
I was supposed to go. I don't know why. I
314
00:13:30.059 --> 00:13:32.610
think my mother had gotten into a fight with someone
315
00:13:32.620 --> 00:13:36.029
at the PTA. Something happened. And it started with my brother, Luke.
316
00:13:36.070 --> 00:13:38.490
He was sent to the Driscoll School. The Driscoll School
317
00:13:38.529 --> 00:13:43.580
in Brookline is surrounded by literally on four sides, there
318
00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:47.539
are like four temples. And so it was predominantly Jewish.
319
00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:51.210
And I was the kind of, oh, look, there's this
320
00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:57.389
orange haired kid named O'Brien. And isn't this funny? He's Catholic.
321
00:13:57.450 --> 00:14:01.169
So I was suddenly, I was invited to, I think
322
00:14:01.190 --> 00:14:04.809
I went to definitely many, many, many more bar mitzvahs
323
00:14:04.870 --> 00:14:09.700
than any other confirmation or anything like that. And the
324
00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:12.179
parents all thought it was hilarious that I was there.
325
00:14:12.820 --> 00:14:14.480
And they would like pinch my cheeks and go.
326
00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:15.159
Look at this.
327
00:14:15.379 --> 00:14:18.139
You know, he's here. This is crazy. Look at his hair.
328
00:14:18.620 --> 00:14:20.039
And I just, I don't know. The whole thing was,
329
00:14:20.580 --> 00:14:23.019
I remember feeling very exotic in a town where there
330
00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:26.549
are plenty of Irish Catholic kids, but all my friends,
331
00:14:26.750 --> 00:14:27.990
all my friends were Jewish kids.
332
00:14:28.009 --> 00:14:29.370
It was so funny because you went to BHS.
333
00:14:29.389 --> 00:14:29.570
Yep.
334
00:14:29.590 --> 00:14:31.870
So we're going to high school. It was like, it
335
00:14:32.090 --> 00:14:34.549
was two minutes and a whole world away from me
336
00:14:34.570 --> 00:14:37.570
because I was raised Orthodox. And so I remember watching
337
00:14:37.610 --> 00:14:40.600
the show when I was like nine, 10 years old
338
00:14:40.620 --> 00:14:43.600
and being like, he went to BHS? And I was
339
00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:45.480
so jealous of the kids who went to BHS because
340
00:14:45.500 --> 00:14:47.200
in my mind, not only did they not have to
341
00:14:47.240 --> 00:14:48.799
pray three times a day, they also let you host
342
00:14:48.860 --> 00:14:51.879
a talk show on national television. Like that was my
343
00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:54.539
conception of everyone who went to BHS. I'm like, eventually
344
00:14:54.580 --> 00:15:00.419
they get to either general manager Red Sox or have their.
345
00:15:00.059 --> 00:15:01.000
Own television show.
346
00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:02.940
Pretty much the entire class. Yeah.
347
00:15:03.100 --> 00:15:04.799
It's like, wait, does everyone take a turn? Because there's
348
00:15:04.820 --> 00:15:06.559
like hundreds of kids in that school, you know?
349
00:15:07.049 --> 00:15:09.389
No, we all got, it was guaranteed if you went
350
00:15:09.429 --> 00:15:13.519
to Brookline High. And so, but that was a great
351
00:15:13.740 --> 00:15:17.919
lucky thing for me because I think very early on
352
00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:24.039
got very comfortable around Jewish kids and really kind of- Which.
353
00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:25.320
Helped with like Jeff Ross and stuff like that.
354
00:15:26.909 --> 00:15:31.289
Exactly, because you knew they run show business with an
355
00:15:31.509 --> 00:15:32.370
iron hand.
356
00:15:32.889 --> 00:15:34.210
I've got to make a phone call real quick.
357
00:15:36.970 --> 00:15:40.480
Our producer, yes, it did. No, but it was a
358
00:15:40.539 --> 00:15:42.940
nice accident for me that I went to Driscoll School,
359
00:15:42.980 --> 00:15:46.860
I think, and then just became sort of more involved
360
00:15:47.379 --> 00:15:51.000
in going to bar mitzvahs, things like that, because, and
361
00:15:51.250 --> 00:15:53.110
this may sound strange to you, but it all felt
362
00:15:53.169 --> 00:15:57.850
so much more relaxed. than Catholicism. It felt a little more,
363
00:15:57.870 --> 00:16:00.289
I don't know what, and you may not feel that way,
364
00:16:00.350 --> 00:16:00.990
but it felt more.
365
00:16:01.009 --> 00:16:01.649
I definitely don't.
366
00:16:01.789 --> 00:16:06.500
But yeah, you're, but like, I totally, it's so funny.
367
00:16:06.539 --> 00:16:09.940
Brookline does feel like, like sometimes people say that New
368
00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:13.879
Yorkers seem Jewish, even if they're not Jewish or something
369
00:16:13.940 --> 00:16:16.120
about the milieu of it. And I always felt sort
370
00:16:16.220 --> 00:16:18.440
of similarly about Brookline, which is that if you were
371
00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:20.840
from Brookline, you were both Jewish and a little bit
372
00:16:20.860 --> 00:16:23.809
sort of Boston Irish Catholic at the same time. Like
373
00:16:23.830 --> 00:16:26.730
you had- Because you go to synagogue and you have
374
00:16:26.769 --> 00:16:31.220
these thick Boston accents. I have a fervent memory of
375
00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:33.559
being in synagogue and there's a part on Friday night
376
00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:35.700
services where you turn around and they open the door
377
00:16:35.740 --> 00:16:37.610
in the back of the synagogue and everyone says a
378
00:16:37.629 --> 00:16:39.190
brief prayer towards the back of the door and.
379
00:16:39.149 --> 00:16:39.750
Then you turn back.
380
00:16:40.129 --> 00:16:42.929
But I just remember someone hesitated getting the door and
381
00:16:42.950 --> 00:16:45.230
someone in the congregation in the middle of very, very
382
00:16:45.330 --> 00:16:49.129
like distinct Hebrew person went, Stephen, get the door. And
383
00:16:52.230 --> 00:16:54.809
I was like, how someone with like the voice of
384
00:16:54.850 --> 00:16:56.210
like a father O'Leary.
385
00:16:57.149 --> 00:16:57.860
Stephen, get the door.
386
00:16:58.629 --> 00:17:00.500
Like six syllables in door.
387
00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:05.140
Out of this guy, get into the temple.
388
00:17:05.220 --> 00:17:08.740
I was like, wait, that's the rabbi.
389
00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:08.839
Yeah.
390
00:17:08.980 --> 00:17:10.359
It's the rabbi.
391
00:17:10.500 --> 00:17:21.029
Sean. Sean. Oh my God. I just love the idea
392
00:17:21.069 --> 00:17:24.009
that the rabbi is going on and on about the Bruins.
393
00:17:24.309 --> 00:17:28.539
It's like, all right, good. so hashem has this problem.
394
00:17:30.900 --> 00:17:33.980
But first he's got to go to duncan what there.
395
00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:36.200
Was a there was a kosher duncan down the street
396
00:17:36.339 --> 00:17:38.660
and when it opened up it was like oh my
397
00:17:38.700 --> 00:17:41.410
god the headline in the synagogue.
398
00:17:41.029 --> 00:17:43.349
Newsletter was like man lands on the moon.
399
00:17:43.109 --> 00:17:45.529
Like kosher duncan opens on route nine there's a kosher
400
00:17:45.549 --> 00:17:47.950
duncan there's a kosher duncan on route nine and we
401
00:17:47.990 --> 00:17:50.589
were just blown up by the way Everyone was excited,
402
00:17:50.630 --> 00:17:51.009
and I was.
403
00:17:50.950 --> 00:17:53.470
Like, wait, what's not kosher about Dunkin' Donuts? I know!
404
00:17:54.549 --> 00:17:57.809
Finally, someone got the shellfish out of the donuts!
405
00:17:57.930 --> 00:18:00.940
It's lard. Apparently it's lard. It's the lard in the donuts.
406
00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:03.019
You know, I've gone to that Dunkin's. I think I
407
00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:05.640
know which one you're talking about. And I've enjoyed the
408
00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:08.619
donuts not knowing that they were kosher.
409
00:18:09.119 --> 00:18:12.000
The first time I was lucky enough to do the show,
410
00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:13.940
the TV show, I did stand up and then I,
411
00:18:14.069 --> 00:18:15.329
and then you were like, come over and sit on
412
00:18:15.349 --> 00:18:16.650
the couch, by the way, blew my mind.
413
00:18:16.690 --> 00:18:18.569
And I remember being like, don't cry. Don't throw up.
414
00:18:18.589 --> 00:18:19.420
Just like do the thing.
415
00:18:19.829 --> 00:18:23.990
And I sit down, and we're sitting there talking about
416
00:18:24.069 --> 00:18:25.869
little Brookline landmarks.
417
00:18:25.490 --> 00:18:26.910
And stuff like that. I'm like, oh, the house with
418
00:18:26.930 --> 00:18:28.470
the yellow roof. He's like, yeah, the house with the
419
00:18:28.490 --> 00:18:28.890
yellow roof.
420
00:18:30.089 --> 00:18:32.950
And afterwards, I came off, and my friend Morgan, who
421
00:18:33.069 --> 00:18:34.849
came with me, was like, what were you guys talking about?
422
00:18:35.130 --> 00:18:37.509
If I told you, you'd either be upset or think
423
00:18:37.549 --> 00:18:39.710
I was lying to you, or it just wouldn't make sense.
424
00:18:39.750 --> 00:18:42.329
Little tiny places in Brookline. There's such a neighborhood. It's
425
00:18:42.390 --> 00:18:43.150
such a thing.
426
00:18:43.490 --> 00:18:46.039
And I still get sentimental. As I said, I was
427
00:18:46.099 --> 00:18:51.140
just there this weekend and still driving around and stopping
428
00:18:51.259 --> 00:18:55.400
off and going to the old spots. It's very powerful.
429
00:18:55.460 --> 00:18:57.029
It's a very, but I don't know if you had
430
00:18:57.069 --> 00:19:00.170
this experience. It's a wonderful place to be from. But
431
00:19:00.210 --> 00:19:01.609
when I was 16 years old.
432
00:19:01.849 --> 00:19:02.490
Couldn't wait to leave.
433
00:19:02.789 --> 00:19:04.789
All I did was, and I actually said to people,
434
00:19:04.809 --> 00:19:08.640
I can't wait to get out of this dump. And
435
00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:11.900
it was because I was very ambitious in 16, 17, like,
436
00:19:11.980 --> 00:19:15.029
I gotta get out of this shithole. You know, like I'm.
437
00:19:15.049 --> 00:19:18.309
From some- Which you immediately accomplished by going to Harvard
438
00:19:18.329 --> 00:19:19.349
six minutes away.
439
00:19:19.369 --> 00:19:22.470
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Yeah, boy, you really fled the coop.
440
00:19:22.779 --> 00:19:24.900
I sure did. You know what I did? I hopped
441
00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:27.200
on a train like a hobo. I got a strength-
442
00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:30.940
And I went six- miles to Cambridge.
443
00:19:30.980 --> 00:19:33.230
I got to spread my wings and take the 60 bucks,
444
00:19:33.289 --> 00:19:39.230
seven subs. Literally, I know how they, do you know,
445
00:19:39.250 --> 00:19:41.190
by the way, Boston, that was a great place for
446
00:19:41.250 --> 00:19:43.009
me to grow up because I think maybe it's a
447
00:19:43.049 --> 00:19:45.049
specific time I grew up in, but people like my
448
00:19:45.069 --> 00:19:47.869
parents genuinely were just like, they gave me a pair
449
00:19:47.910 --> 00:19:49.970
of rollerblades and let me go. And when I was like,
450
00:19:49.980 --> 00:19:52.400
11 years old i would just like rollerblade around and
451
00:19:52.420 --> 00:19:54.660
like take the train and take the bus and like
452
00:19:54.940 --> 00:19:56.640
if i was interested in comedy i would like sneak
453
00:19:56.660 --> 00:20:00.230
into the lampoon archives because those kids were always uh
454
00:20:00.289 --> 00:20:02.990
drunk guarding the door and i would like to like
455
00:20:03.009 --> 00:20:05.230
uh go to the county library and see like sergeant
456
00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:07.940
shriver and doris croons goodwin speaking like it was that
457
00:20:08.059 --> 00:20:09.920
time and i was at the red sox all the
458
00:20:09.980 --> 00:20:11.819
time because i got a job there and that was
459
00:20:11.859 --> 00:20:15.720
the perfect time of the city was just medium sized
460
00:20:15.779 --> 00:20:17.890
enough that you could eat almost all of it if
461
00:20:17.910 --> 00:20:19.930
you were like curious enough and i worry that like
462
00:20:20.190 --> 00:20:23.089
i don't know there aren't many cities where we're like
463
00:20:23.509 --> 00:20:26.130
parents give their 11-year-olds a pair of rollerblades, because nobody
464
00:20:26.190 --> 00:20:27.150
rollerblades anymore anyway.
465
00:20:27.490 --> 00:20:28.799
That one homophobic joke killed it.
466
00:20:29.109 --> 00:20:33.009
And then you just be like, get out of here,
467
00:20:33.049 --> 00:20:34.349
go find something that you're interested in.
468
00:20:34.349 --> 00:20:35.710
I don't think it's the city, though. I think it's
469
00:20:35.730 --> 00:20:40.410
the time, because I was just driving down Route 9 two,
470
00:20:40.450 --> 00:20:42.990
three days ago. My brother Neil's in the car, and
471
00:20:43.049 --> 00:20:46.150
we pass this little shed. And I said, oh, I
472
00:20:46.170 --> 00:20:48.210
used to wait for the bus there when school was
473
00:20:48.309 --> 00:20:53.049
over in third grade. Myself, Virginia Chapman, and Isabel Zimmerman
474
00:20:53.549 --> 00:20:56.430
we were just little tiny third graders would walk down
475
00:20:56.490 --> 00:21:00.359
to this little shed and wait for a city bus
476
00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:03.680
to come by, not a school bus, a regular bus
477
00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:06.380
and get on it and then take it down to our,
478
00:21:06.759 --> 00:21:08.509
to the stop that dropped me off at my house
479
00:21:08.529 --> 00:21:10.880
and then them at their houses. And I thought, My
480
00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:15.200
wife would never let our kids in third grade, like
481
00:21:15.460 --> 00:21:17.940
when your day at third grade is up, wander down
482
00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:20.869
to the highway and get the bus that goes into
483
00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:23.230
Boston and just make sure you get off on your stop.
484
00:21:23.250 --> 00:21:24.869
Yeah, see if you can hitchhike if it doesn't work.
485
00:21:26.549 --> 00:21:29.269
If there's a van, just get in it. Maybe he's
486
00:21:29.309 --> 00:21:33.710
got candy. I hitchhiked home all the time, genuinely. Like
487
00:21:33.769 --> 00:21:35.750
the T would stop at like 12, 15. And if
488
00:21:35.769 --> 00:21:38.049
I want to stay, I'd be like, ah, just hitchhike.
489
00:21:38.390 --> 00:21:40.200
I'm like a 16-year-old, 15-year-old at.
490
00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:41.500
Like a comedy show.
491
00:21:41.740 --> 00:21:44.319
Right. At like a Dick Doherty's comedy vault or something
492
00:21:44.359 --> 00:21:48.400
like that. And be like, hey, the show's going to 1230.
493
00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:50.200
I'll just be like, anyone here want to take me,
494
00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:52.160
a nubile young teen, home?
495
00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:53.160
Sorry.
496
00:21:53.759 --> 00:21:55.480
I'll make it worth your while.
497
00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:56.599
Oh, no.
498
00:21:56.619 --> 00:21:58.819
Well, come on. It's the way to get a ride.
499
00:21:58.839 --> 00:22:01.460
So he was the actual predator in this situation.
500
00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:02.759
Okay. Sorry.
501
00:22:03.539 --> 00:22:05.339
For the people from Brookline listening, this has been a
502
00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:07.579
thoroughly enjoyable chat.
503
00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:10.140
Can we put this at the end and everything else?
504
00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:12.380
This episode is actually just going out regionally.
505
00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:13.160
Yeah.
506
00:22:13.700 --> 00:22:14.720
Now for Newton.
507
00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:17.880
What do you think of Wellesley and Sharon?
508
00:22:17.940 --> 00:22:19.940
Yeah, we're going to work our way slowly out until
509
00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:21.289
we get through the entire United States.
510
00:22:32.269 --> 00:22:33.829
Good nights are about the people.
511
00:22:34.670 --> 00:22:35.150
The laughs.
512
00:22:35.670 --> 00:22:38.430
The real moments you don't want to miss. So, why
513
00:22:38.490 --> 00:22:43.470
step outside? Velo tobacco-free nicotine pouches fit seamlessly into your night.
514
00:22:43.710 --> 00:22:47.049
Convenient and full of flavour. No breaks. No interruptions.
515
00:22:47.589 --> 00:22:47.890
Velo.
516
00:22:48.170 --> 00:22:52.490
Anytime, anywhere nicotine pouches. 18 and over contains tobacco-free nicotine
517
00:22:52.539 --> 00:22:54.859
and addictive substance. If you're new to Velo, start with Mellow.
518
00:22:54.940 --> 00:22:56.480
You should not use this product if you do not
519
00:22:56.579 --> 00:22:57.359
already use nicotine.
520
00:23:00.609 --> 00:23:03.190
Due to the leaves falling in autumn and the challenges
521
00:23:03.230 --> 00:23:06.470
this brings, Eireann Road Airan wishes to advise customers that
522
00:23:06.509 --> 00:23:09.509
a revised timetable will take effect on Dart and Dublin
523
00:23:09.569 --> 00:23:14.509
commuter routes from Monday, September 21st until December 12th. Morning
524
00:23:14.549 --> 00:23:17.529
and evening peak services will be affected with some earlier
525
00:23:17.569 --> 00:23:20.609
departure times. Please check travel times on the Eireann Road
526
00:23:20.710 --> 00:23:24.789
Airan app or irishrail.ie. Eireann Road Airan is part of
527
00:23:24.829 --> 00:23:26.250
the Transport for Ireland network.
528
00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:31.720
You offer them a cuppa when they saw yours. That's
529
00:23:31.859 --> 00:23:35.660
definitely enough for a little treat. Cadbury Delights, with 91
530
00:23:35.660 --> 00:23:39.029
calories of milk chocolate, nougat, and caramel in every bar.
531
00:23:44.549 --> 00:23:46.349
I think you came on the show twice to do
532
00:23:46.390 --> 00:23:50.369
stand-up comedy, and obviously I thought you were terrific. And
533
00:23:50.710 --> 00:23:53.920
you have flourished. And then you do this show just
534
00:23:53.940 --> 00:23:57.859
for us. It is quite spectacular. uh, one man show
535
00:23:57.900 --> 00:24:00.799
where you really tell this amazing story. I encourage everyone
536
00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:04.660
listening to, to watch it. It's quite brilliant. What amazed
537
00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:06.839
me is that the heart of the story without, I
538
00:24:06.839 --> 00:24:08.329
don't think giving too much away.
539
00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:09.430
Okay.
540
00:24:09.910 --> 00:24:14.549
Um, is, uh, you decide to attend a meeting that
541
00:24:14.569 --> 00:24:18.049
you found out about on, on Twitter, I think. Uh,
542
00:24:18.130 --> 00:24:22.940
and it's in, uh, is it, uh, Queens? It's in Queens. And, uh,
543
00:24:22.990 --> 00:24:25.730
it's a, it's a group of people who were trying
544
00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:26.359
to preserve.
545
00:24:26.380 --> 00:24:30.369
Uh, Yeah, pride in white identity. White identity, yeah.
546
00:24:30.450 --> 00:24:33.430
And so, you know, you.
547
00:24:33.769 --> 00:24:37.119
They're not crazy about Jews, not to spoil too much.
548
00:24:37.140 --> 00:24:40.460
You guys preserve white identity. You're being so kind about it.
549
00:24:40.779 --> 00:24:42.079
They're white nationalists.
550
00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:43.420
Nazi sons of bitches.
551
00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:45.240
Well, I know, but listen. We have a lot of
552
00:24:45.259 --> 00:24:47.759
people listening right now, and I don't want to offend anyone.
553
00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:50.000
We've got to keep everybody under the tent.
554
00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:53.529
You know what Michael Jordan said? White nationalists buy sneakers, too.
555
00:24:53.670 --> 00:24:53.809
Yeah.
556
00:24:56.769 --> 00:24:58.809
You know, some of our response. Who knows? You know,
557
00:24:58.869 --> 00:24:59.730
I just got to be careful.
558
00:24:59.750 --> 00:25:02.829
White nationalists sleep on Brooklinen, too.
559
00:25:02.869 --> 00:25:03.269
Yeah.
560
00:25:03.470 --> 00:25:06.400
They wear it over their heads. They say, you know.
561
00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:08.859
I'm sure white nationalists are eating up the better help.
562
00:25:08.980 --> 00:25:12.000
If you're a white nationalist and you're listening, you're welcome to.
563
00:25:12.380 --> 00:25:19.029
If you want sheets to cut holes in Brooklinen.
564
00:25:19.529 --> 00:25:23.710
Here's what's amazing to me. You go to this. It's
565
00:25:23.769 --> 00:25:27.630
a true story of you in 2018, I think, going
566
00:25:27.690 --> 00:25:31.119
to this meeting. You don't really announce your full identity
567
00:25:31.380 --> 00:25:33.980
and you're accepted into the group, although one guy has
568
00:25:34.019 --> 00:25:36.839
his eye on you. But you act this whole thing
569
00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:41.059
out and there's lots of terrific, wonderful asides and cul-de-sacs.
570
00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:45.470
It's not all just about this one night. But to me,
571
00:25:45.549 --> 00:25:49.109
the feat, which really blew my mind, is that the
572
00:25:49.190 --> 00:25:55.500
show is very funny and... It is not angry. You
573
00:25:55.779 --> 00:25:57.829
know what I mean? There's something about it, which is
574
00:25:58.190 --> 00:26:02.569
you go and you experience these people and you bring
575
00:26:02.609 --> 00:26:07.549
them to life. I disagree with their beliefs violently, but
576
00:26:07.769 --> 00:26:11.710
you give them their humanity and you're not ranting and
577
00:26:11.769 --> 00:26:16.339
raving about them. You're experiencing them as human beings. And it's,
578
00:26:16.900 --> 00:26:20.299
it's very funny and delightful and not toxic.
579
00:26:20.339 --> 00:26:21.599
Empathetic. Empathetic.
580
00:26:21.700 --> 00:26:21.880
Yeah.
581
00:26:22.099 --> 00:26:24.069
So what I did when I started, I wrote, I
582
00:26:24.089 --> 00:26:26.730
started writing the show and I had help, um, my
583
00:26:26.769 --> 00:26:29.829
director and lovely man named Adam brace. We were talking
584
00:26:29.970 --> 00:26:32.890
once my best friend for a long time, Adam and, uh,
585
00:26:33.309 --> 00:26:36.970
and Adam would always reference what the worst version of
586
00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:39.180
the joke would be. And so one day I was
587
00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:41.940
bored on a train to like a tour stop for
588
00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:45.279
this show early on, like literally February of 2020, like
589
00:26:45.500 --> 00:26:48.990
right before the pandemic. And I started writing. the worst
590
00:26:49.069 --> 00:26:51.569
version of the show I was already doing. And I
591
00:26:51.569 --> 00:26:53.539
was like, what would be the worst and dumbest version
592
00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:56.920
of these jokes? One that was like desirous of victimhood
593
00:26:57.059 --> 00:27:00.259
and really angry and really tacky and really earnest or
594
00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:02.700
really cynical. And I wrote this like shitty version of
595
00:27:02.740 --> 00:27:05.970
the show, like the sort of dark side crap version
596
00:27:06.009 --> 00:27:08.529
of it. And every so often when the show would change,
597
00:27:08.549 --> 00:27:11.069
because the show would change every day, I would compare
598
00:27:11.130 --> 00:27:12.819
against The shit version?
599
00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:15.660
Sorry to curse. No, no, no.
600
00:27:15.700 --> 00:27:17.029
We lost our deal with Nickelodeon.
601
00:27:17.109 --> 00:27:17.390
I know.
602
00:27:18.910 --> 00:27:20.849
You know who doesn't like cursing is the white nationalists.
603
00:27:20.950 --> 00:27:21.309
Yeah, yeah.
604
00:27:21.769 --> 00:27:22.839
Well, fuck you guys.
605
00:27:23.140 --> 00:27:29.329
Hey, phone line's lighting up! Said Conan, not understanding podcasts. Wait,
606
00:27:29.369 --> 00:27:30.970
don't you have a podcast where you talk to the
607
00:27:31.009 --> 00:27:32.970
fans on the phone? Like, that's another one.
608
00:27:33.069 --> 00:27:33.589
Okay, fine.
609
00:27:33.609 --> 00:27:33.829
Yeah.
610
00:27:34.289 --> 00:27:34.509
Okay.
611
00:27:35.029 --> 00:27:38.509
But so I, so I would compare this thing, but yeah,
612
00:27:38.589 --> 00:27:41.029
I always, I wanted to show that wasn't going to
613
00:27:41.049 --> 00:27:42.390
be about like.
614
00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:45.740
Do you know Pauline Kael? Yes. Pauline Kael, for anyone listening.
615
00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:47.700
One of the great film critics of all time.
616
00:27:47.740 --> 00:27:47.940
Yeah.
617
00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:50.240
I was reading a book of her reviews, and there
618
00:27:50.279 --> 00:27:52.299
was little snippets of things she had only done a
619
00:27:52.339 --> 00:27:54.349
paragraph on. And she gave a review to this movie
620
00:27:54.369 --> 00:27:54.690
about the.
621
00:27:54.680 --> 00:27:58.230
Nuremberg trials called... Judgment at Nuremberg? Yes, Judgment at Nuremberg.
622
00:27:58.569 --> 00:28:01.309
And she says, I hate this movie because it takes
623
00:28:01.349 --> 00:28:03.289
a brave stance against being a Nazi.
624
00:28:03.309 --> 00:28:03.410
Yeah.
625
00:28:03.690 --> 00:28:03.869
Yeah.
626
00:28:04.180 --> 00:28:06.380
And I wanted to make sure that I never did
627
00:28:06.420 --> 00:28:09.339
a show about neo-Nazis that took a brave stance against
628
00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:12.940
being a neo-Nazi. Because I assume that most people watching
629
00:28:12.980 --> 00:28:15.440
my show are aware that it's not amazing to be
630
00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:18.869
a neo-Nazi. So instead of being like, what does a
631
00:28:18.910 --> 00:28:22.009
version of this look like where instead of being like
632
00:28:22.049 --> 00:28:24.950
an early, like the Daily Show when I was in
633
00:28:25.009 --> 00:28:27.769
high school and college did this tremendous job of being
634
00:28:27.930 --> 00:28:31.880
sort of like gotcha comedy with like exposing the hypocrisy
635
00:28:31.890 --> 00:28:33.099
of of, you know, like people.
636
00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:34.960
Powerful figures. Yeah. Politicians, yeah.
637
00:28:34.980 --> 00:28:38.460
Exactly, and folks, and even regular people who were supporting
638
00:28:38.500 --> 00:28:42.059
the folks sycophantically. And I was watching some of those clips,
639
00:28:42.779 --> 00:28:44.859
and I was, and wow, they really lost their zing
640
00:28:44.900 --> 00:28:46.920
because we know it now. Like, we know, there's no
641
00:28:46.980 --> 00:28:49.880
surprise in being like, oh, a Trump supporter has double
642
00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:51.200
standards on morality?
643
00:28:51.220 --> 00:28:53.799
Hell's shock, you know? Like, it's really, yeah.
644
00:28:53.839 --> 00:28:57.220
And so I wanted to ask more interesting questions with that, like,
645
00:28:57.509 --> 00:29:00.210
you know, that unique opportunity, and also want to reckon
646
00:29:00.230 --> 00:29:03.210
with the difficult, which is that I am in some
647
00:29:03.230 --> 00:29:07.049
ways like some of those people or share a point
648
00:29:07.089 --> 00:29:09.369
of view on one or two of the things that
649
00:29:09.410 --> 00:29:12.410
they're saying or think that... And so I thought that
650
00:29:12.430 --> 00:29:14.809
would be a more interesting show and a more humane show,
651
00:29:15.150 --> 00:29:17.589
especially given the rancorous present.
652
00:29:17.220 --> 00:29:19.500
That we live in. I think it's also.
653
00:29:19.900 --> 00:29:22.920
That kind of comedy to me is more durable. That's,
654
00:29:22.940 --> 00:29:26.000
I always think, is the prize to be shooting for.
655
00:29:26.380 --> 00:29:29.759
So I thought this was really nicely done There was
656
00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:32.490
a bunch of things that I noticed, which is your
657
00:29:32.490 --> 00:29:36.019
physicality on stage. You have a lot of energy and
658
00:29:36.019 --> 00:29:38.660
you're uh running around and you have sort of a
659
00:29:38.779 --> 00:29:41.940
comedic way of moving around the stage that uh was
660
00:29:41.980 --> 00:29:43.660
really making me laugh do you know what i mean
661
00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:46.119
do you know what i'm talking about it's kind of
662
00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:48.089
this i mean i don't even know what uh it's
663
00:29:48.109 --> 00:29:49.130
called adhd.
664
00:29:48.930 --> 00:29:50.930
Conan but uh.
665
00:29:52.250 --> 00:29:54.150
But yeah you know there it is yeah but you
666
00:29:54.170 --> 00:29:58.480
know the funny thing is that i realized um I,
667
00:29:58.680 --> 00:30:00.500
some of that's a bad hat. Some of that's intentional
668
00:30:00.539 --> 00:30:02.779
and some of that's a bad habit. And I don't
669
00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:05.059
know any other way to, to, to bring this up,
670
00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:06.579
but Adam brace who is, who was.
671
00:30:07.140 --> 00:30:09.539
Who, and I know it's coming. Cause he, he, he,
672
00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:11.220
he helped you bring this to life.
673
00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:14.829
Yeah. He's my director. And, and, and, uh, and like
674
00:30:14.849 --> 00:30:15.900
I said, my closest.
675
00:30:15.609 --> 00:30:17.440
Pal, we worked together on three solo shows and he
676
00:30:17.460 --> 00:30:19.069
passed away right before we started on Broadway.
677
00:30:19.170 --> 00:30:24.269
And so, you know, um, and so that sucked. Yeah.
678
00:30:24.369 --> 00:30:26.430
And he passed away very suddenly.
679
00:30:26.450 --> 00:30:26.970
It was a shock.
680
00:30:27.259 --> 00:30:31.829
Yeah, it was very surprising. And I think actually very
681
00:30:31.910 --> 00:30:34.190
inconsiderate of him, given that he had work to do.
682
00:30:34.289 --> 00:30:36.750
But it's okay.
683
00:30:36.769 --> 00:30:42.150
Really not commensurate with his theatrical responsibilities. But Brace, he
684
00:30:42.210 --> 00:30:43.769
told me when it was okay to move and when
685
00:30:43.809 --> 00:30:45.769
it was okay not to move. Like, there are moments
686
00:30:45.809 --> 00:30:48.920
in the show that are very anchored and still. And
687
00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:51.019
then there are moments where you... run around and it's
688
00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:53.140
good because it puts a contrast on the moments where
689
00:30:53.160 --> 00:30:55.000
you're still. Cause they're like, Oh wow, that guy sure
690
00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:55.579
moves a lot.
691
00:30:55.619 --> 00:30:57.539
And then like, Oh wait, he's really standing still for this.
692
00:30:57.579 --> 00:31:00.200
I guess, I guess this part's important, but like, I've
693
00:31:00.259 --> 00:31:03.029
always had help from other people and I've always like wanted.
694
00:31:02.980 --> 00:31:04.809
Also, that's the other thing. The show was socialized with
695
00:31:04.829 --> 00:31:06.170
like a million comedians.
696
00:31:06.210 --> 00:31:09.690
Like every comedian who came, I would, I would interrogate
697
00:31:09.730 --> 00:31:12.009
them for notes. Like Seinfeld came and I was like,
698
00:31:12.329 --> 00:31:12.950
Give me a note.
699
00:31:13.170 --> 00:31:13.829
All of these things.
700
00:31:13.849 --> 00:31:16.170
Was Seinfeld's note bass notes in between scenes?
701
00:31:16.230 --> 00:31:18.910
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
702
00:31:18.950 --> 00:31:20.599
Because I found that to be off-putting.
703
00:31:21.019 --> 00:31:21.299
Yeah.
704
00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:27.559
Yeah, the Michael Richards cameo doesn't really fit, but.
705
00:31:27.619 --> 00:31:29.140
We did have to cut around it.
706
00:31:31.900 --> 00:31:37.910
And I realized they were all anti-Semites. They're all anti-Semites.
707
00:31:41.750 --> 00:31:44.329
Although, I remember when Seinfeld came, I remember thinking, how
708
00:31:44.349 --> 00:31:46.890
did anyone ever kill Abe Lincoln? Because the whole time
709
00:31:46.930 --> 00:31:49.849
the crowd wasn't watching me, they were watching Seinfeld. And
710
00:31:49.910 --> 00:31:52.829
I was like, are you Wasn't there like most of
711
00:31:52.849 --> 00:31:54.849
the people at the play were like, is Lincoln enjoying
712
00:31:55.150 --> 00:31:55.670
the show?
713
00:31:55.730 --> 00:31:58.559
Yeah.
714
00:31:58.579 --> 00:32:00.960
What does Lincoln think of our American cousin? Oh no,
715
00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:01.940
but look out.
716
00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:07.119
The weird thing is most of them would have known
717
00:32:07.180 --> 00:32:09.019
John Wilkes Booth. So they would have just been like.
718
00:32:09.180 --> 00:32:10.000
I think about that all the time.
719
00:32:10.019 --> 00:32:12.619
They would have literally thought like, oh, there's the president. And,
720
00:32:13.299 --> 00:32:16.299
you know, there's George Clooney behind him. hey, what did
721
00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:17.420
George Clooney just do?
722
00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:20.140
That's genuinely, I think about it constantly, but the thing is,
723
00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:23.440
it's like, it's his brother. It was like, his brother
724
00:32:23.509 --> 00:32:24.369
was Edwin Booth.
725
00:32:24.410 --> 00:32:25.910
Yeah. And Edwin Booth. He was a huge star.
726
00:32:25.930 --> 00:32:28.890
And there was a theater on Broadway still named after
727
00:32:28.970 --> 00:32:30.869
Edwin Booth, which is like, how talented.
728
00:32:30.509 --> 00:32:34.690
Does that guy have to be? It's like, ooh, you know.
729
00:32:36.049 --> 00:32:39.819
Welcome to the Mark Bin Laden Theater.
730
00:32:41.900 --> 00:32:54.869
And afterwards, well, Afterwards, we'll all hit Oswald's for a steak. Damn,
731
00:32:54.930 --> 00:32:57.930
I hate what his brother did, but this is fantastic.
732
00:32:58.190 --> 00:33:01.150
And so funny you say that about physicality because like
733
00:33:02.029 --> 00:33:04.289
other people, Morgan, the person who came with me to
734
00:33:04.329 --> 00:33:07.470
Conan said, are you worried that if you move around
735
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:09.500
on stage, Conan will see that you're just doing him?
736
00:33:11.410 --> 00:33:13.490
That's a different friendship I have with Morgan. I was, like,
737
00:33:13.509 --> 00:33:14.150
stood right there.
738
00:33:14.210 --> 00:33:17.529
Because, like, I also think you are, your influences, you're like,
739
00:33:17.670 --> 00:33:19.859
I'm a little bit like Brian Regan. I'm a little
740
00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:22.079
bit like, not to give, a little bit like you,
741
00:33:22.099 --> 00:33:24.920
a little bit like Gary Goleman, who's another great comic. Like,
742
00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:27.160
I have stolen from the diffuse.
743
00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:29.740
But the thing is, it's like, I just think it's,
744
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:35.980
you know, I grew up watching Bob Newhart and Johnny Carson.
745
00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:38.420
And both of them were so good at this kind
746
00:33:38.460 --> 00:33:45.529
of deadpan comedy. And they, got it directly from Jack Benny.
747
00:33:45.910 --> 00:33:47.329
And they were like, oh no, it was Jack. What
748
00:33:47.369 --> 00:33:50.319
we're doing is Jack Benny. Jack Benny was doing someone
749
00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:52.779
that he saw when, you know, his, when he was
750
00:33:52.819 --> 00:33:55.920
a kid, probably on the vaudeville circuit, he saw someone
751
00:33:55.940 --> 00:33:58.039
else do that. And that person saw someone do it
752
00:33:58.180 --> 00:34:01.720
in the civil war. So we're all riffing off of
753
00:34:02.059 --> 00:34:05.500
each other. And we even think we're doing that person,
754
00:34:05.539 --> 00:34:08.019
but we're not because I keep saying it's her failure
755
00:34:08.050 --> 00:34:10.309
to be our idols that makes us come up with
756
00:34:10.389 --> 00:34:10.949
our own thing.
757
00:34:11.429 --> 00:34:12.329
You know, Tom Lehrer?
758
00:34:12.789 --> 00:34:13.010
Yeah.
759
00:34:13.510 --> 00:34:15.650
So like Tom Lehrer is 90. Please, if you're listening
760
00:34:15.670 --> 00:34:17.670
to this, don't drop in on Tom Lehrer, but he
761
00:34:17.710 --> 00:34:20.989
lives in Boston. And like a couple of months ago,
762
00:34:21.030 --> 00:34:22.550
I was in Boston, I guess a year ago now,
763
00:34:22.570 --> 00:34:24.829
I was in Boston and I drove by his house
764
00:34:24.989 --> 00:34:25.269
and I was like.
765
00:34:25.289 --> 00:34:27.630
You know what? I'll knock on Tom Lehrer's door. And he's,
766
00:34:27.650 --> 00:34:28.639
do you know who he is?
767
00:34:28.780 --> 00:34:31.320
No, but it's such a, do you know him?
768
00:34:31.579 --> 00:34:34.139
No. And he's in his nineties.
769
00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:34.900
Did you have a weapon?
770
00:34:36.420 --> 00:34:37.260
Come with me, Tom.
771
00:34:38.170 --> 00:34:40.989
He was like, it's the 1920s and you're insane. And
772
00:34:41.010 --> 00:34:44.519
we're allowed to use butterfly nets to take people away.
773
00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:48.360
He was Kennedy's favorite comedian. It's like I knocked on
774
00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:48.860
his door.
775
00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:51.719
He didn't answer. And I came back a couple days later.
776
00:34:51.739 --> 00:34:52.929
That's when you got to really lean into it with
777
00:34:52.969 --> 00:34:57.090
your shoulder. Give it a kick. If the door won't go, hey, listen,
778
00:34:57.670 --> 00:34:59.949
if Tom Lehrer's door won't give right away, just really
779
00:34:59.969 --> 00:35:00.650
give it a kick. Yeah.
780
00:35:01.630 --> 00:35:05.949
Got him in a cage in the back. I'm 92.
781
00:35:05.949 --> 00:35:08.349
Next to the last mother's brother.
782
00:35:08.369 --> 00:35:11.329
You know, it's just like, Tom, you were.
783
00:35:11.230 --> 00:35:11.750
Right for me.
784
00:35:11.769 --> 00:35:16.820
But yeah, I mean, like, eventually he was at home
785
00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:20.900
and he's a curmudgeon, but he's nice in his way.
786
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:23.300
And we sat and talked. And next time I was
787
00:35:23.340 --> 00:35:25.599
in town, I was like, email if you feel like
788
00:35:25.619 --> 00:35:26.099
coming by.
789
00:35:27.230 --> 00:35:29.010
He's saying prior notice.
790
00:35:29.050 --> 00:35:31.849
Yeah, prior notice is key. He thought it was the mailman,
791
00:35:31.889 --> 00:35:35.510
which is why he opened the door. Of course, the
792
00:35:35.570 --> 00:35:39.750
mailman outfit you were wearing helped with that illusion.
793
00:35:39.849 --> 00:35:42.670
I know how to get in. Packaged for you, Lara.
794
00:35:42.690 --> 00:35:47.429
It's chloroform. You need to smell it to make sure
795
00:35:47.469 --> 00:35:50.739
it's yours. Go to sleep, Tom Lara.
796
00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:51.400
Sleep.
797
00:35:53.289 --> 00:35:56.070
I mean, what's more irritating than just like some millennial
798
00:35:56.090 --> 00:35:59.539
being like, hi, I've got some questions about your songs.
799
00:35:59.260 --> 00:36:00.360
About Wernher von Braun.
800
00:36:00.420 --> 00:36:03.900
But like, but it was really, but he, but like,
801
00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:06.480
also comedy's such a young art form. Like, and it's so,
802
00:36:06.820 --> 00:36:09.400
it's amazing when you think about it. Like, Carol Burnett
803
00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:12.829
knew Lucille Ball, and Lucille Ball knew Mark Twain. Like,
804
00:36:12.849 --> 00:36:13.969
it's fucking crazy.
805
00:36:14.030 --> 00:36:14.989
They all knew each other.
806
00:36:15.030 --> 00:36:17.570
It's like if all of painting's history was in, it
807
00:36:18.150 --> 00:36:19.070
was in a hundred years.
808
00:36:19.369 --> 00:36:20.829
It's like if you showed up at the studio and
809
00:36:20.869 --> 00:36:22.489
someone's like, Van Gogh wants to try some new pieces.
810
00:36:22.989 --> 00:36:25.860
Is that okay? Van Gogh's gonna try some new pieces.
811
00:36:25.909 --> 00:36:27.599
And you're like, wait, do you know Picasso? Like, no, no,
812
00:36:27.619 --> 00:36:29.139
but I worked a couple months ago with this guy.
813
00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:33.500
He knows Picasso. He used to paint with Picasso back
814
00:36:33.539 --> 00:36:34.659
in the 70s of the improv.
815
00:36:34.679 --> 00:36:36.639
And now, like, it's crazy. It's really cool.
816
00:36:36.659 --> 00:36:39.860
They're all still around. Or they're, in the case of, like,
817
00:36:39.900 --> 00:36:42.219
Bob Newhart, who I never met but always revered. Like,
818
00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:44.159
they just passed away. We get to breathe the same.
819
00:36:44.030 --> 00:36:44.659
Air as these folks.
820
00:36:44.739 --> 00:36:47.989
Yeah, Bob was... bob was everything you would want him
821
00:36:48.010 --> 00:36:51.610
to be times 10 every like literally just uh you'd
822
00:36:51.630 --> 00:36:56.269
want someone that brilliant uh and that thoughtful and disciplined
823
00:36:56.300 --> 00:36:59.440
about comedy to be an amazing person and he was
824
00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:02.400
that a thousand times over it's so cool to still
825
00:37:02.579 --> 00:37:04.480
i wonder what the right balance of like fan and
826
00:37:04.539 --> 00:37:06.940
professional is but now i don't try i try not
827
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:09.860
to pathologize it anymore i'm not like asking for autographs
828
00:37:09.929 --> 00:37:12.130
and stuff like that but like i'd be lying if
829
00:37:12.150 --> 00:37:15.030
i said it's like i met elaine may yeah elaine
830
00:37:15.070 --> 00:37:19.000
may is Still, Elaine May didn't just perform for Candy.
831
00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:22.699
She and Mike Nichols went on before Marilyn Monroe at
832
00:37:22.739 --> 00:37:23.659
his birthday party.
833
00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:26.539
Yeah, where she sang Happy Birthday, Mr. President. They were
834
00:37:27.300 --> 00:37:29.260
on before that at Madison Square Garden.
835
00:37:29.300 --> 00:37:30.980
Yes. By the way, I didn't realize that was at
836
00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:31.880
Madison Square.
837
00:37:31.900 --> 00:37:34.039
I thought that was in private and got out as
838
00:37:34.059 --> 00:37:34.420
a rumor.
839
00:37:34.460 --> 00:37:36.119
I didn't realize it was on national TV.
840
00:37:36.570 --> 00:37:39.769
No, he sang that in front of JFK and JFK's wife.
841
00:37:39.849 --> 00:37:41.349
And JFK the entire time was like.
842
00:37:41.369 --> 00:37:41.670
No, dude.
843
00:37:42.630 --> 00:37:45.670
Please. She's right. She's sitting right.
844
00:37:45.690 --> 00:37:46.610
Tone it down.
845
00:37:46.630 --> 00:37:48.550
She's right. Tone it down.
846
00:37:48.570 --> 00:37:54.659
Maybe a little less with the cleavage. If we could, eh,
847
00:37:54.739 --> 00:37:57.300
tone it down. She was actually not there.
848
00:37:57.500 --> 00:37:57.619
What?
849
00:37:57.639 --> 00:37:59.880
That ruins the joke. Is that true? Yeah, she wasn't there.
850
00:38:00.179 --> 00:38:00.400
What?
851
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:02.880
I was always convinced that that was the thing. No, no,
852
00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:05.239
she was not there. Was it a special for NBC, though?
853
00:38:05.260 --> 00:38:05.920
Wasn't it a special?
854
00:38:06.099 --> 00:38:08.219
I don't know that if it was a special. I mean,
855
00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:10.300
I've seen the footage a million times, but it was
856
00:38:10.340 --> 00:38:11.059
actually a tour.
857
00:38:11.079 --> 00:38:13.119
A million times?
858
00:38:13.139 --> 00:38:13.579
Yes.
859
00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:15.719
It's Marilyn Monroe in a tight dress going.
860
00:38:15.739 --> 00:38:18.489
Starting when I was 13 and ending when I was 17.
861
00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:20.420
I saw it a million times.
862
00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:23.840
No, not ending when I was 17. By the way,
863
00:38:23.860 --> 00:38:28.400
can you imagine the organizers? I orgasmed to that this morning. Well,
864
00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:31.179
I'm sorry. It does seem very.
865
00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:32.380
On brand for you, though.
866
00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:33.099
It does.
867
00:38:33.179 --> 00:38:35.840
You would. That is my porn. Yes. Well, time to
868
00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:38.260
watch Marilyn again sing Happy Birthday to the President.
869
00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:47.179
Poster of Hedy Lamarr is behind.
870
00:38:45.510 --> 00:38:49.219
Me. I have a question, which is... You've done this show.
871
00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:53.559
This was years in the making. Huge stage success. Then
872
00:38:53.579 --> 00:38:58.159
you bring it to television and it's nominated for an Emmy.
873
00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:00.840
And then there's got to be this feeling of, well,
874
00:39:01.309 --> 00:39:04.730
I'm saying goodbye to this now because I'm moving on.
875
00:39:04.750 --> 00:39:07.190
It's such a titanic piece of work. Do you have
876
00:39:07.210 --> 00:39:08.570
an idea of what the next thing is?
877
00:39:08.590 --> 00:39:10.219
Do you know what it is? I mean, I'm doing it.
878
00:39:10.469 --> 00:39:12.630
I'm storing. It's not got a title yet.
879
00:39:12.650 --> 00:39:15.889
You know, the funny thing is that I sort of
880
00:39:15.929 --> 00:39:19.159
decided that it was going to end because... 11 months
881
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:21.840
after Adam died. That's when that, cause that's all you
882
00:39:21.860 --> 00:39:23.360
said Shiva in Judaism.
883
00:39:23.389 --> 00:39:26.070
And also it was the weirdest thing.
884
00:39:26.090 --> 00:39:27.869
Cause it's the best thing that's ever happened to me,
885
00:39:27.929 --> 00:39:29.969
but it was braided with the saddest thing.
886
00:39:29.989 --> 00:39:30.820
That's ever happened to me.
887
00:39:31.219 --> 00:39:33.000
Cause like, I can't stress how close I was with
888
00:39:33.019 --> 00:39:36.480
this guy. He was the, my only significant collaborator for
889
00:39:36.500 --> 00:39:37.300
a decade.
890
00:39:37.619 --> 00:39:40.219
And, uh, and he understood me. It was like, um,
891
00:39:40.739 --> 00:39:42.440
very personal relationship.
892
00:39:42.820 --> 00:39:44.679
And so the funny thing is like, I just couldn't
893
00:39:44.739 --> 00:39:48.360
do it anymore, but now I'm in this weird position of.
894
00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:52.000
I'm doing my, I'm doing this new show. I'm doing
895
00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:53.619
an hour and a half, new hour and a half
896
00:39:53.659 --> 00:39:54.219
of standup.
897
00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:56.440
And I feel his.
898
00:39:56.360 --> 00:39:59.119
Loss even more keenly because this is the part of
899
00:39:59.139 --> 00:40:01.769
the creative process where he'd be involved every single day,
900
00:40:01.829 --> 00:40:06.769
listening to sets, giving notes, offering provocations. And so I
901
00:40:06.789 --> 00:40:09.789
don't really have that anymore. So the short answer to
902
00:40:09.809 --> 00:40:12.590
your question is I'm doing the new show. So it's
903
00:40:12.630 --> 00:40:15.190
got to do with Israel and Palestine, very easy topics.
904
00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:18.440
And I also like hard comedy.
905
00:40:18.460 --> 00:40:20.940
You've sold out. Now you're just going for big laughs.
906
00:40:20.980 --> 00:40:22.179
Yeah, absolutely.
907
00:40:22.780 --> 00:40:24.519
I told my agent, he's like, are you really going
908
00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:26.320
to do that Israel Palson thing?
909
00:40:26.340 --> 00:40:28.760
Keep threatening. He used the phrase threatening. He's like, keep
910
00:40:28.780 --> 00:40:30.179
threatening and do the show. Are you going to do it?
911
00:40:30.219 --> 00:40:31.900
I was like, oh yeah, I'm doing it. He's like, great.
912
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:33.699
Do you want to call it like career suicide? He's like,
913
00:40:33.719 --> 00:40:34.619
that's a really good title.
914
00:40:35.900 --> 00:40:40.239
This could be at the risk of sounding, whatever, not superficial,
915
00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:44.190
but Pollyanna. There's one way to look at it, which
916
00:40:44.289 --> 00:40:47.829
is that Adam brace is going to be with you.
917
00:40:47.989 --> 00:40:50.500
I think he was such a part of your collaboration.
918
00:40:50.539 --> 00:40:52.199
It sounds to me like he's going to be part
919
00:40:52.340 --> 00:40:54.860
of everything you do in the way that all these
920
00:40:54.900 --> 00:40:55.960
other people are as well.
921
00:40:56.039 --> 00:40:58.360
But I don't know if that's true. Like, I hope
922
00:40:58.400 --> 00:40:58.940
that's true.
923
00:40:59.920 --> 00:41:04.469
And, um, I think about that all the time because like,
924
00:41:04.650 --> 00:41:08.369
he's not AI, like the thing, the thing that made
925
00:41:08.409 --> 00:41:11.150
him special to me beyond the fact that he was deep,
926
00:41:11.269 --> 00:41:13.780
but you know, we were in sync and, in our,
927
00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:17.920
in our sort of, uh, performance morals and, um, had
928
00:41:18.059 --> 00:41:22.199
lots of different, but beyond the thing that particulars that
929
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:25.929
made us such good friends and collaborators, he surprised me constantly.
930
00:41:26.230 --> 00:41:30.030
And so, and so anything that, um, that comes now
931
00:41:30.170 --> 00:41:32.769
from Adam, even if I have it will be entirely
932
00:41:32.789 --> 00:41:36.070
within the realm of my own understanding, but also you're,
933
00:41:36.329 --> 00:41:38.199
you know, it is comforting to think that, that I,
934
00:41:38.630 --> 00:41:40.980
but I also wish I'd listened more. I wish I'd
935
00:41:41.039 --> 00:41:43.420
paid close. I never thought it was running out of time.
936
00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:46.840
He was 42. It's like if two people made an
937
00:41:46.940 --> 00:41:49.440
album together and then the album went, one of them
938
00:41:49.539 --> 00:41:51.719
died and the album went bananas and the person who's
939
00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:54.150
left over kept, kept having to do it.
940
00:41:54.230 --> 00:41:56.650
And it was changing their life completely. Yep.
941
00:41:56.710 --> 00:42:00.829
Like what a weird crazed experience to have. And, um,
942
00:42:01.190 --> 00:42:04.079
someone called me. like three days after he died, and
943
00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:05.760
was like, are you looking for a new director? And
944
00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:09.880
I was like, buddy. And he was like, I'd love
945
00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:14.079
to throw my hat in the ring. And it was
946
00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:16.360
such a nice thing to feel. I said, you're so
947
00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:18.099
wrong for it. I said, it'd be like hiring a
948
00:42:18.179 --> 00:42:19.320
pig to fly an airplane.
949
00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:22.019
You can't do it. Like, there's no way.
950
00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:22.960
This was Seinfeld.
951
00:42:23.380 --> 00:42:27.980
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Jerry was like, we got to put
952
00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:29.119
the bass.
953
00:42:30.619 --> 00:42:30.800
In.
954
00:42:30.820 --> 00:42:35.530
Newman. You know what I wanted to ask you?
955
00:42:35.570 --> 00:42:38.909
Yeah, Newman shows up halfway through. Newman shows up as
956
00:42:38.989 --> 00:42:41.050
one of the white supremacists.
957
00:42:41.510 --> 00:42:43.369
Newman. Yeah.
958
00:42:44.250 --> 00:42:46.369
I did want to ask you about, you say it
959
00:42:46.389 --> 00:42:48.840
in the special, and I believe you actually do it,
960
00:42:48.889 --> 00:42:50.969
which is you say in the special, I'm available to
961
00:42:51.010 --> 00:42:52.849
talk to everybody in the lobby after the show.
962
00:42:52.909 --> 00:42:53.190
Yeah.
963
00:42:53.530 --> 00:42:56.469
And no one does that. And the reason I brought
964
00:42:56.510 --> 00:42:58.949
it up, why it struck me, is that it seemed
965
00:42:58.989 --> 00:43:03.150
like an impulse I would have, which is I would
966
00:43:03.250 --> 00:43:07.960
want to talk to everybody afterwards. I don't know where
967
00:43:08.019 --> 00:43:10.280
my thing comes from. Where does yours come from?
968
00:43:10.300 --> 00:43:12.599
I think it comes from you. No, I'm serious. I
969
00:43:12.619 --> 00:43:15.039
think it comes from the comics that I love.
970
00:43:15.260 --> 00:43:19.090
It felt like there was a person-to-person aspect to it.
971
00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:23.369
The comedy voices that I... There was a sort of
972
00:43:23.409 --> 00:43:27.969
mystique in their... utter accessibility as if sort of getting
973
00:43:28.070 --> 00:43:32.800
to where their consciousness lay was a collective responsibility where
974
00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:35.179
like everyone's job is to figure out what's wrong with me.
975
00:43:35.360 --> 00:43:38.320
And so like, I, I always liked that. And also
976
00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:42.860
by the way, I, this show is truly something I believe, like,
977
00:43:42.940 --> 00:43:47.940
I really believe that we need to have less rancorous conversations.
978
00:43:48.389 --> 00:43:52.789
I do think that we live in this really toxic time.
979
00:43:53.429 --> 00:43:58.570
where people with profound and fundamental differences have like, like
980
00:43:58.670 --> 00:44:00.489
aren't speaking to each other. Like there are members of
981
00:44:00.530 --> 00:44:03.349
my family who will not talk to me over Israel
982
00:44:03.369 --> 00:44:06.159
and Palestine. Like they just won't like, it's a really,
983
00:44:06.579 --> 00:44:10.079
and I think that like there is something to being
984
00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:13.139
able to have a conversation with anyone, no matter what
985
00:44:13.179 --> 00:44:16.309
they believe. And like, I thought that, well, if I
986
00:44:16.349 --> 00:44:18.289
believe that, then I should talk to anyone in the
987
00:44:18.349 --> 00:44:20.530
crowd who, when I started doing the show, was actually
988
00:44:20.570 --> 00:44:21.250
very charged.
989
00:44:21.349 --> 00:44:22.030
Like, people were.
990
00:44:21.969 --> 00:44:24.460
Fascinated with one of the questions at the center of
991
00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:25.960
the show, which is whether or not Jews are white.
992
00:44:26.559 --> 00:44:29.019
People have very strong opinions about it. Jews have strong
993
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:30.940
opinions about it. Non-Jews have strong opinions about it. White
994
00:44:30.980 --> 00:44:32.789
people have strong opinions about it. People of color have
995
00:44:32.809 --> 00:44:36.260
strong opinions about it. And for a while people wanted
996
00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:39.369
to talk to me about it afterwards or couldn't front
997
00:44:39.409 --> 00:44:41.250
me until, by the way, I figured out things in
998
00:44:41.289 --> 00:44:43.769
the show where I totally explained myself and that, and
999
00:44:43.809 --> 00:44:46.469
those questions died down somewhat, but like I made myself
1000
00:44:46.510 --> 00:44:49.840
available to like, you know, stand by or argue with,
1001
00:44:50.010 --> 00:44:53.179
you know, anything that like, and also it was, it
1002
00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:56.519
was informing things in the show, which is so crazy,
1003
00:44:56.599 --> 00:44:58.119
which is such a gift that you don't get in
1004
00:44:58.699 --> 00:45:02.510
like narrative. Usually it's like, if you're watching Titanic. And
1005
00:45:02.730 --> 00:45:04.750
at some point, Leonardo DiCaprio looks into the camera and
1006
00:45:04.789 --> 00:45:06.050
is like, people get really sad here.
1007
00:45:05.989 --> 00:45:06.929
Where we hit the iceberg.
1008
00:45:07.179 --> 00:45:11.139
When we hit the iceberg, people are like, oh my God.
1009
00:45:11.159 --> 00:45:14.940
Or he looks and he's like, look, I know the
1010
00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:18.920
door is big enough. I know you think the door
1011
00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:20.639
is big enough, but this is more powerful. Yeah, this
1012
00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:26.320
is more powerful. Getting that live feedback is really good.
1013
00:45:26.340 --> 00:45:28.659
What are you laughing at?
1014
00:45:28.699 --> 00:45:30.679
The door is big enough.
1015
00:45:30.699 --> 00:45:33.719
Yeah, but I think part of him knew this relationship
1016
00:45:34.059 --> 00:45:37.889
We hit a high. We're going to move into a
1017
00:45:37.949 --> 00:45:39.110
walk-up in New York.
1018
00:45:39.150 --> 00:45:40.429
He wanted to die?
1019
00:45:40.449 --> 00:45:42.530
I just think he knew. Get out on a high note.
1020
00:45:42.949 --> 00:45:45.159
That's a high take. I don't know about that. We
1021
00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:46.699
just did it in an antique car.
1022
00:45:47.039 --> 00:45:50.500
Rose. Rose. Where are my shoes, Rose?
1023
00:45:50.539 --> 00:45:50.900
Yeah.
1024
00:45:52.059 --> 00:45:54.719
Where are my shoes? I got to go to the office.
1025
00:45:54.739 --> 00:45:56.519
You're right, but you lost them.
1026
00:45:57.280 --> 00:45:58.820
Oh, I should have stayed the same.
1027
00:45:58.900 --> 00:46:00.179
Yeah, that's right.
1028
00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:01.659
Yeah.
1029
00:46:01.739 --> 00:46:04.199
I could have lived a life of luxury. Yeah.
1030
00:46:04.489 --> 00:46:13.039
You could have held on to the necklace too. His
1031
00:46:13.139 --> 00:46:17.460
drawings aren't selling. You want to go, hey, there's an
1032
00:46:17.539 --> 00:46:19.559
antique car. We could go in the back and we could.
1033
00:46:19.619 --> 00:46:20.809
Nah, nah.
1034
00:46:21.489 --> 00:46:22.210
I don't want to.
1035
00:46:22.650 --> 00:46:24.849
She made him give up the art to go into insurance.
1036
00:46:28.210 --> 00:46:29.449
I could have been Picasso.
1037
00:46:29.469 --> 00:46:33.380
Picasso my ass. We live in New Rochelle.
1038
00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:38.119
Oh, man. But it was an amazing thing.
1039
00:46:38.139 --> 00:46:40.599
And also, you know, I had never done anything where
1040
00:46:40.639 --> 00:46:42.920
people were coming up to me afterwards. And after a while,
1041
00:46:42.940 --> 00:46:44.929
it got a little intense where people were like, they
1042
00:46:44.969 --> 00:46:47.349
really want to talk about this thing that I couldn't
1043
00:46:47.610 --> 00:46:48.329
find people to.
1044
00:46:48.309 --> 00:46:50.590
Talk about with. Like, talk about.
1045
00:46:50.389 --> 00:46:55.829
Identity and the vicissitudes of whiteness and what does identity
1046
00:46:55.849 --> 00:46:58.679
look like if you take victimhood completely out of the equation.
1047
00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:01.719
And so, like, People would have really good conversations with
1048
00:47:01.780 --> 00:47:03.800
me and they would factor into the show. And by
1049
00:47:03.820 --> 00:47:06.230
the way, people said to me they were upset about something.
1050
00:47:06.550 --> 00:47:10.010
I always found negative feedback really helpful too, because I'm like, well,
1051
00:47:10.030 --> 00:47:12.230
I'm not quite connecting something there. I need to explain
1052
00:47:12.250 --> 00:47:13.710
it a little bit. And Adam and I would have
1053
00:47:13.730 --> 00:47:17.429
these big discussions, huge discussions. about what goes into the show,
1054
00:47:17.449 --> 00:47:18.789
what doesn't go on the show. And like, it was
1055
00:47:18.809 --> 00:47:21.610
a really, um, I, I thought the, all the Q
1056
00:47:21.719 --> 00:47:23.800
and a, sometimes I would do Q and a's if
1057
00:47:23.980 --> 00:47:26.360
people asked and they were insane.
1058
00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:29.300
Like people would, especially after October 7th. Yeah.
1059
00:47:29.460 --> 00:47:29.639
Yeah.
1060
00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:33.000
We were on tour when October 7th happened. And my,
1061
00:47:33.079 --> 00:47:35.400
my next shows were in San Francisco, like October 25th.
1062
00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:38.510
And people were just crazy on the internet after that.
1063
00:47:38.530 --> 00:47:41.619
And so like, someone was like, I'm going to, uh,
1064
00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:45.039
Someone sent me an Instagram DM or left a comment
1065
00:47:45.059 --> 00:47:46.639
that was like, I'm going to come to San Francisco
1066
00:47:47.179 --> 00:47:50.099
on October 26th and behead you in front of your
1067
00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:52.929
Zionist buddies. And I was like, well, we have shows
1068
00:47:52.949 --> 00:47:56.150
on the 25th and the 27th. And so, like, I'm
1069
00:47:56.170 --> 00:47:58.630
not going to show up just for the beheading, you know? Also,
1070
00:47:59.250 --> 00:48:01.489
it's like a teenager in Tunisia. Like, he's fucking not
1071
00:48:01.510 --> 00:48:03.539
going to get his freaking fire miles together and come
1072
00:48:03.579 --> 00:48:03.920
and do it.
1073
00:48:04.960 --> 00:48:05.480
Yeah, sure.
1074
00:48:05.920 --> 00:48:07.699
But it was just, and by the way, that's not
1075
00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:11.280
a real threat, but like, I'm just saying the volume
1076
00:48:11.300 --> 00:48:14.159
was so high. And so like, and then it was
1077
00:48:14.300 --> 00:48:16.800
a little bit cathartic to do that show. It was
1078
00:48:16.820 --> 00:48:20.260
a little bit cathartic to do a show about the
1079
00:48:20.550 --> 00:48:24.409
requirement for, you know, the need for empathy in like a,
1080
00:48:25.250 --> 00:48:26.710
although it did make me shut down comments on that
1081
00:48:26.929 --> 00:48:31.789
specific post. But like the need for empathy in that time.
1082
00:48:31.809 --> 00:48:32.150
Yeah.
1083
00:48:32.349 --> 00:48:34.739
Like I don't, I'm doing standup now, but I don't
1084
00:48:34.760 --> 00:48:36.119
know if it's a solo show yet. Cause I don't
1085
00:48:36.159 --> 00:48:37.800
know if there's like a thing that I feel this
1086
00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:41.460
like desperate need to say that is both timely and timeless.
1087
00:48:41.539 --> 00:48:43.239
Like I've been doing this show for five years. Everyone's
1088
00:48:43.260 --> 00:48:46.409
always like, what a timely show. I'm like, well, I guess,
1089
00:48:46.469 --> 00:48:48.650
you know, I guess like how we speak to each
1090
00:48:48.710 --> 00:48:51.010
other is something that we're always going to be concerned with.
1091
00:48:51.190 --> 00:48:53.869
And like, it really, and sorry, the point of like,
1092
00:48:53.889 --> 00:48:55.849
I don't know, I feel like it would be nice
1093
00:48:55.869 --> 00:48:59.349
to figure out another way to talk about how we
1094
00:48:59.389 --> 00:49:01.409
speak to each other and how we like listen to
1095
00:49:01.449 --> 00:49:05.340
each other without being like very po-faced and like idealistic
1096
00:49:05.380 --> 00:49:08.840
in a way that's not pragmatic. So like, it's a really, um, also, uh,
1097
00:49:08.980 --> 00:49:10.980
as we think we use this word before this term
1098
00:49:11.019 --> 00:49:14.409
self-righteous that I think that's the part is when. is
1099
00:49:14.449 --> 00:49:16.539
when in our anger, especially, and I see it a
1100
00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:19.730
lot in comedy, people are like, I inhabit the right,
1101
00:49:20.389 --> 00:49:24.570
I don't mean politically right. I inhabit the true vision.
1102
00:49:24.769 --> 00:49:29.760
I see it. And if you don't, then damn you.
1103
00:49:29.889 --> 00:49:32.920
And I think now that's not what we're here to do.
1104
00:49:32.940 --> 00:49:37.320
It also is boring. I think we're there politically. I
1105
00:49:37.500 --> 00:49:41.260
think we're there where no one Um, we're like things
1106
00:49:41.280 --> 00:49:43.610
that are brave and things that are right might not be.
1107
00:49:43.570 --> 00:49:45.389
The same thing, which is interesting, right?
1108
00:49:45.409 --> 00:49:48.650
Like I have this joke that I've been working on about, uh,
1109
00:49:49.050 --> 00:49:51.309
and the jokes nowhere near ready. And, but it's about
1110
00:49:51.349 --> 00:49:53.409
sort of how, like the only brave people left in
1111
00:49:53.829 --> 00:49:56.449
New York city are Republicans because so easy to be liberal.
1112
00:49:56.510 --> 00:49:56.949
We're correct.
1113
00:49:57.860 --> 00:50:01.809
So it takes balls to say all the stuff that
1114
00:50:01.829 --> 00:50:03.969
a normal person would say. It takes balls to look
1115
00:50:04.030 --> 00:50:08.429
at all the easy stuff to believe.
1116
00:50:08.329 --> 00:50:10.909
And be like, no, I hate homeless people, let them die.
1117
00:50:11.030 --> 00:50:13.429
And you're like, why? Taxes.
1118
00:50:14.210 --> 00:50:17.840
It's a really interesting... I know. But I think that's
1119
00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:18.579
a Jewish upbringing.
1120
00:50:18.599 --> 00:50:18.960
By the way.
1121
00:50:19.119 --> 00:50:22.400
It's like a love of gray areas, a love of
1122
00:50:22.519 --> 00:50:24.440
nuance past the point where it's useful.
1123
00:50:24.659 --> 00:50:26.440
And dialogue, and yeah.
1124
00:50:26.820 --> 00:50:27.579
Dialogue is a whole thing.
1125
00:50:27.639 --> 00:50:28.199
You talk about this too.
1126
00:50:28.360 --> 00:50:32.690
Arguing. Arguing. Yeah. Benj calls it productive overlapping.
1127
00:50:34.489 --> 00:50:36.530
Like I brought a girlfriend home once and she was like,
1128
00:50:36.550 --> 00:50:38.110
oh my God, are you guys going to be okay
1129
00:50:38.150 --> 00:50:38.769
after that fight?
1130
00:50:38.809 --> 00:50:40.829
I was like, what? That was dinner. And she was like,
1131
00:50:41.269 --> 00:50:43.340
but wait, do you, are you guys still, do you
1132
00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:44.780
need to like apologize? I was like, no.
1133
00:50:44.840 --> 00:50:46.679
I was like, that's how we figure out how we feel.
1134
00:50:46.719 --> 00:50:48.260
Like we scream at each other and someone make a
1135
00:50:48.280 --> 00:50:48.599
good point.
1136
00:50:48.619 --> 00:50:50.260
We're like, good point. You know, like it's a really,
1137
00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:50.670
really fun.
1138
00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:54.320
Well, that's where you and I part. Because in my house,
1139
00:50:54.800 --> 00:50:59.190
No one ever openly disagreed with someone else. You swallow
1140
00:50:59.289 --> 00:51:01.929
it and you turn it into a cancer inside your body.
1141
00:51:01.969 --> 00:51:03.429
Yeah, yeah, that's Irish Catholicism right there.
1142
00:51:03.449 --> 00:51:05.809
And then you eat a lot of ham and the
1143
00:51:05.889 --> 00:51:07.570
ham neutralizes the cancer.
1144
00:51:07.789 --> 00:51:10.010
That's the IC stuff. So that's what we did.
1145
00:51:10.030 --> 00:51:12.780
I think we got to call this one because we've
1146
00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:13.719
been going for a while.
1147
00:51:13.739 --> 00:51:15.539
Oh my God, I'm so sorry. We've been talking about.
1148
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:19.659
It's called a podcast. This is great. Yeah, you're being
1149
00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:23.769
an insane person. This has been a fantastic conversation. uh,
1150
00:51:23.949 --> 00:51:28.070
conversation and, um, I've said it before, but just for
1151
00:51:28.170 --> 00:51:31.250
us is really special and it's on max.
1152
00:51:31.329 --> 00:51:33.530
It's on max, which I should familiar with.
1153
00:51:34.110 --> 00:51:38.500
Oh, I'm familiar with max just for us, uh, is, uh, is,
1154
00:51:38.739 --> 00:51:42.059
is really a must see and it's on max and
1155
00:51:42.460 --> 00:51:46.519
best of luck, uh, at the Emmys. And this is
1156
00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:49.280
all the gravy part, like the Emmys. It, those award
1157
00:51:49.300 --> 00:51:51.340
shows they work out they don't work out but you
1158
00:51:51.380 --> 00:51:54.300
did the work and it's really brilliant and then and
1159
00:51:54.340 --> 00:51:58.019
then the next you know i i 1000 confident you'll
1160
00:51:58.059 --> 00:52:00.199
find the next thing and you'll figure that out because
1161
00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:03.219
uh good lord you have the goods and it's really
1162
00:52:03.260 --> 00:52:04.840
been a pleasure getting to know you a.
1163
00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:07.340
Little better can i say one thing which is that
1164
00:52:07.400 --> 00:52:09.360
the first time i got to do stand-up on television
1165
00:52:09.389 --> 00:52:11.929
was your show and it was it still is like
1166
00:52:12.010 --> 00:52:15.030
one of the best moments of my in you know
1167
00:52:15.429 --> 00:52:18.449
entire life, and it was such a confidence boost in
1168
00:52:18.469 --> 00:52:18.949
a time when.
1169
00:52:18.869 --> 00:52:22.320
I really needed it, and you were so nice about it.
1170
00:52:22.710 --> 00:52:26.909
And this is really, this was really, even though I'm
1171
00:52:26.929 --> 00:52:29.730
apprehensive about being your friend, I really do. This is
1172
00:52:29.769 --> 00:52:33.610
really cool for me, and that was, I've got a
1173
00:52:33.639 --> 00:52:37.289
cue card framed. It just, it meant the world to me.
1174
00:52:37.340 --> 00:52:39.139
I'd like that back. No, no, no.
1175
00:52:39.159 --> 00:52:39.960
We don't give those away.
1176
00:52:39.980 --> 00:52:43.650
No, it's mine. Guys, thanks so much for having me.
1177
00:52:43.710 --> 00:52:47.769
Hey, Alex, a real pleasure and best of luck to you.
1178
00:52:59.010 --> 00:53:00.590
Good nights are about the people.
1179
00:53:01.429 --> 00:53:01.889
The laughs.
1180
00:53:02.409 --> 00:53:05.170
The real moments you don't want to miss. So why
1181
00:53:05.230 --> 00:53:10.210
step outside? Velo tobacco-free nicotine pouches fit seamlessly into your night.
1182
00:53:10.449 --> 00:53:12.010
Convenient and full of flavour.
1183
00:53:12.309 --> 00:53:12.789
No breaks.
1184
00:53:13.139 --> 00:53:13.800
No interruptions.
1185
00:53:14.340 --> 00:53:14.639
Velo.
1186
00:53:14.920 --> 00:53:19.239
Anytime, anywhere nicotine pouches. 18 and over contains tobacco-free nicotine
1187
00:53:19.280 --> 00:53:21.619
and addictive substance. If you're new to Velo, start with Mellow.
1188
00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:23.219
You should not use this product if you do not
1189
00:53:23.320 --> 00:53:24.099
already use nicotine.
1190
00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:29.920
Due to the leaves falling in autumn and the challenges
1191
00:53:29.980 --> 00:53:33.039
this brings, Eireann Road Air in wishes to advise customers
1192
00:53:33.079 --> 00:53:35.860
that a revised timetable will take effect on Dart and
1193
00:53:35.900 --> 00:53:40.679
Dublin commuter routes from Monday, September 21st until December 12th.
1194
00:53:40.920 --> 00:53:43.780
Morning and evening peak services will be affected with some
1195
00:53:43.960 --> 00:53:47.159
earlier departure times. Please check travel times on the Eireann
1196
00:53:47.179 --> 00:53:50.909
Road Air in app or irishrail.ie. Eireann Road Air in
1197
00:53:51.010 --> 00:53:52.989
is part of the Transport for Ireland network.
1198
00:53:55.829 --> 00:53:58.469
You offer them a cuppa when they saw yours. That's
1199
00:53:58.590 --> 00:54:02.389
definitely enough for a little treat. Cadbury Delights. With 91
1200
00:54:02.389 --> 00:54:05.769
calories of milk chocolate, nougat, and caramel in every bar.
1201
00:54:05.929 --> 00:54:14.789
Hey, we haven't done Review the Reviewers in quite some time.
1202
00:54:15.309 --> 00:54:18.130
This is where I comb through the Apple Podcast reviews
1203
00:54:18.489 --> 00:54:20.969
and we comment on the comments that they've made about
1204
00:54:20.989 --> 00:54:21.380
this show.
1205
00:54:21.409 --> 00:54:23.739
Yeah, it's payback time. Right. Is that what you're saying?
1206
00:54:24.059 --> 00:54:26.340
And by the way, You have to rate five stars
1207
00:54:26.400 --> 00:54:28.079
for us to even consider these things.
1208
00:54:28.280 --> 00:54:29.219
Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
1209
00:54:29.440 --> 00:54:32.920
I think that's a very good way to keep me
1210
00:54:32.980 --> 00:54:35.659
in my bubble so that I think it's only five stars.
1211
00:54:35.760 --> 00:54:37.309
It is. It's only five stars.
1212
00:54:37.389 --> 00:54:41.269
As far as you know, it's only five stars.
1213
00:54:41.289 --> 00:54:43.989
Out of 100. Okay.
1214
00:54:44.309 --> 00:54:46.570
This one, I just feel like we need to discuss.
1215
00:54:47.590 --> 00:54:55.210
It's submitted by Bimkehugadilidigil. B-M-K-L-H-K-D-N-L-D-G.
1216
00:54:55.230 --> 00:54:59.110
I think a cat walked across the keyboard. The subject
1217
00:54:59.190 --> 00:54:59.989
is yippee.
1218
00:55:00.349 --> 00:55:03.190
And the body of the comment is simply this. Yo,
1219
00:55:03.469 --> 00:55:04.510
get moist on.
1220
00:55:04.829 --> 00:55:05.190
Yeah.
1221
00:55:05.690 --> 00:55:06.489
Fuck to us.
1222
00:55:07.489 --> 00:55:07.949
What does it mean?
1223
00:55:08.969 --> 00:55:10.170
That was my initial reaction.
1224
00:55:10.190 --> 00:55:12.030
They're saying like this is something to get moist to.
1225
00:55:12.110 --> 00:55:14.329
This is background music for fuck it.
1226
00:55:14.739 --> 00:55:15.420
Is that.
1227
00:55:15.619 --> 00:55:16.099
The thing.
1228
00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:20.300
We make... We do... We do fucking stuff.
1229
00:55:20.699 --> 00:55:24.030
What is happening with you? I feel like someone just
1230
00:55:24.070 --> 00:55:31.469
hit you with nine Novocaine blow darts. You're saying that...
1231
00:55:31.510 --> 00:55:32.349
Get moist on.
1232
00:55:32.369 --> 00:55:32.670
What are you.
1233
00:55:32.829 --> 00:55:33.409
Moist is sexual.
1234
00:55:33.429 --> 00:55:36.050
I can't think of... I think we are an... I
1235
00:55:36.110 --> 00:55:39.409
think that we are a prophylactic. I think that the
1236
00:55:39.449 --> 00:55:42.219
birth rate drops when my voice is heard.
1237
00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:42.920
I don't know.
1238
00:55:42.940 --> 00:55:43.659
I go back and forth.
1239
00:55:43.940 --> 00:55:44.159
I think.
1240
00:55:44.760 --> 00:55:46.280
It goes up when my voice is heard.
1241
00:55:46.519 --> 00:55:47.809
You think so? Yeah.
1242
00:55:47.849 --> 00:55:48.469
People are out there.
1243
00:55:49.800 --> 00:55:50.599
Fucking do your voice.
1244
00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:51.059
Yeah.
1245
00:55:51.219 --> 00:55:52.110
They're cutting you two out.
1246
00:55:52.139 --> 00:55:54.559
So what happens is they start going at it, and
1247
00:55:54.599 --> 00:55:56.679
then I cut in and go, well, another thing, and
1248
00:55:56.699 --> 00:55:59.690
they go, bleh, and they stop immediately.
1249
00:55:59.909 --> 00:56:04.429
It's constantly getting erect and getting flaccid during the conversation.
1250
00:56:04.750 --> 00:56:07.750
Well, you do that fast enough, that's pleasurable for certain people.
1251
00:56:07.929 --> 00:56:09.550
The way you acted it out with your finger acts
1252
00:56:09.570 --> 00:56:12.559
like the penis goes out and then retracts. Yeah, you also,
1253
00:56:12.619 --> 00:56:13.599
what's with the red rum?
1254
00:56:13.619 --> 00:56:15.219
Bling, bling, bling, bling. Shining boy.
1255
00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:16.880
This is, you know, the penis.
1256
00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:17.099
Bling.
1257
00:56:17.780 --> 00:56:19.780
It comes out and then it goes back inside.
1258
00:56:20.440 --> 00:56:21.420
Another day of winter.
1259
00:56:21.440 --> 00:56:22.590
Okay.
1260
00:56:22.650 --> 00:56:24.010
I'm done.
1261
00:56:24.469 --> 00:56:26.349
Well, okay. So that was the comment.
1262
00:56:26.409 --> 00:56:26.869
That's all.
1263
00:56:26.929 --> 00:56:27.829
That's all we got from that.
1264
00:56:27.949 --> 00:56:29.210
What a horrible country we live in.
1265
00:56:29.469 --> 00:56:30.550
I can give you another one if you'd like.
1266
00:56:30.570 --> 00:56:32.929
Yeah, give me another one because that person's perverted.
1267
00:56:32.949 --> 00:56:35.320
That comment's not a comment to get moist on.
1268
00:56:35.539 --> 00:56:35.679
No.
1269
00:56:36.119 --> 00:56:36.380
Okay.
1270
00:56:36.639 --> 00:56:41.380
This is from KER San Fran. The subject is peeing
1271
00:56:41.519 --> 00:56:42.280
is in my future.
1272
00:56:42.300 --> 00:56:42.360
No.
1273
00:56:43.210 --> 00:56:45.690
Thanks, Conan and team, for being too funny, so much
1274
00:56:45.750 --> 00:56:48.440
so that sometimes I'm laughing so hard I pee a little.
1275
00:56:48.780 --> 00:56:49.539
This is your fault.
1276
00:56:49.679 --> 00:56:52.400
It was never something that happened before and only is
1277
00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:54.840
an issue when listening to your pod. I hope it
1278
00:56:54.900 --> 00:56:58.000
happens to you all someday soon. Great show, by the way.
1279
00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:00.739
That's really nice. First of all, I don't think it's
1280
00:57:00.780 --> 00:57:04.429
our fault. This person may have a problem with their urethra.
1281
00:57:05.170 --> 00:57:08.070
And it's important that whoever you are, you get checked
1282
00:57:08.190 --> 00:57:12.159
out because our show, I think, is funny. But it's
1283
00:57:12.219 --> 00:57:14.539
not pee your pants funny. So I want to say
1284
00:57:14.599 --> 00:57:17.280
right now, if you've peed your pants while listening to
1285
00:57:17.300 --> 00:57:20.050
this podcast, you need to see a urologist immediately.
1286
00:57:20.070 --> 00:57:22.349
What if you've peed your pants while recording this podcast?
1287
00:57:22.469 --> 00:57:25.690
Well, that is something maybe you and I should talk
1288
00:57:25.730 --> 00:57:28.510
about a little more.
1289
00:57:28.869 --> 00:57:31.320
Do you think he's a woman or she's a girl?
1290
00:57:31.340 --> 00:57:33.880
Because if she's a woman, then maybe it's.
1291
00:57:33.780 --> 00:57:34.500
Her pelvic floor.
1292
00:57:35.170 --> 00:57:37.130
Oh, a weak pelvic floor. Can a man have a
1293
00:57:37.150 --> 00:57:37.889
weak pelvic floor?
1294
00:57:38.090 --> 00:57:40.170
I don't know enough about men's stuff.
1295
00:57:40.389 --> 00:57:44.360
Well, all the better. Then hold forth. Keep talking. I
1296
00:57:44.400 --> 00:57:47.519
love it when most of the media is people talking
1297
00:57:47.559 --> 00:57:49.719
who have no idea what they're talking about.
1298
00:57:49.739 --> 00:57:51.199
All I know is from a woman's perspective.
1299
00:57:51.320 --> 00:57:51.800
I don't know.
1300
00:57:52.090 --> 00:57:55.710
Do you know? I know about the pelvic floor when
1301
00:57:55.750 --> 00:57:56.670
it comes to a woman's.
1302
00:57:56.889 --> 00:57:59.630
I think for a man, it's the prostate or the bladder,
1303
00:57:59.670 --> 00:58:01.269
and it's nothing to do with floors or ceilings.
1304
00:58:01.289 --> 00:58:02.829
But you know, when people say this was pee your
1305
00:58:02.869 --> 00:58:06.909
pants funny, I've laughed very hard in my life. Never
1306
00:58:06.989 --> 00:58:09.519
come close to that. So I always thought it was
1307
00:58:09.559 --> 00:58:12.179
just a phrase, but not something anyone could actually do.
1308
00:58:12.179 --> 00:58:13.099
I think it can be done.
1309
00:58:13.239 --> 00:58:13.960
It can happen.
1310
00:58:14.019 --> 00:58:16.880
Oh, I have definitely almost peed and sometimes even peed.
1311
00:58:16.659 --> 00:58:17.860
A little when I laugh a lot. And that would
1312
00:58:17.880 --> 00:58:20.320
be around me because I'm the funniest person you know.
1313
00:58:21.079 --> 00:58:23.579
No, she's marking her territory as like, stay away.
1314
00:58:23.599 --> 00:58:23.980
Yeah.
1315
00:58:24.619 --> 00:58:26.539
I don't think I've ever even come close to peeing
1316
00:58:26.559 --> 00:58:27.159
with you around.
1317
00:58:29.340 --> 00:58:32.159
So you've laughed really hard, hard enough to pee. Yeah.
1318
00:58:32.280 --> 00:58:34.059
But not around me. Yeah, probably.
1319
00:58:34.119 --> 00:58:34.699
Oh, come on.
1320
00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:40.360
I'm like in the history books of funny. And what
1321
00:58:40.380 --> 00:58:41.539
made you laugh so hard?
1322
00:58:41.619 --> 00:58:44.159
I actually think I remember a time when I peed.
1323
00:58:44.519 --> 00:58:48.039
And obviously I was a little high. And then this
1324
00:58:48.059 --> 00:58:49.360
was years and years ago.
1325
00:58:49.679 --> 00:58:53.260
This was before I even had kids. My friend Christina
1326
00:58:53.280 --> 00:58:56.250
and I were watching something and we were playing with
1327
00:58:56.269 --> 00:58:59.710
the DVD player and I pressed eject and then the
1328
00:58:59.789 --> 00:59:02.510
DVD player thing ejected. And then I walked up and
1329
00:59:02.530 --> 00:59:03.969
the whole time I was like, why is there even
1330
00:59:04.010 --> 00:59:05.570
an eject button on the remote?
1331
00:59:05.829 --> 00:59:07.659
And we laugh so hard.
1332
00:59:07.719 --> 00:59:08.920
I peed my pants.
1333
00:59:09.179 --> 00:59:09.659
Wait a minute.
1334
00:59:09.800 --> 00:59:11.539
That's what made you laugh so hard?
1335
00:59:11.760 --> 00:59:12.550
Oh my God.
1336
00:59:12.570 --> 00:59:14.329
So she's saying you're not as funny as that.
1337
00:59:15.210 --> 00:59:20.050
So I've never risen to that level. I've never risen to,
1338
00:59:20.510 --> 00:59:22.550
why isn't there an eject button on the remote? Why
1339
00:59:22.739 --> 00:59:23.880
is there an eject button?
1340
00:59:23.900 --> 00:59:27.019
You have to get up and go to the machine anyway.
1341
00:59:27.139 --> 00:59:28.840
What's the point of the eject button?
1342
00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:32.420
But that's not funny. That's more just a question of like, huh,
1343
00:59:32.500 --> 00:59:37.300
I wonder. I think you're confusing humor with, gee, how
1344
00:59:37.340 --> 00:59:38.920
does the moon affect tides?
1345
00:59:38.960 --> 00:59:39.579
I'm just curious.
1346
00:59:39.940 --> 00:59:42.420
Oh no, I peed myself.
1347
00:59:45.420 --> 00:59:47.280
Maybe it was the tide.
1348
00:59:47.320 --> 00:59:48.980
But why is there an eject button?
1349
00:59:49.079 --> 00:59:50.699
It's just, you have to go to the machine.
1350
00:59:50.719 --> 00:59:51.989
It's like, what's the point?
1351
00:59:52.010 --> 00:59:54.409
Please don't ask one more kind of interesting question because
1352
00:59:54.449 --> 01:00:01.610
I might shit myself. How can, do you think science
1353
01:00:01.650 --> 01:00:06.099
will ever be able to maybe register when a tectonic
1354
01:00:06.139 --> 01:00:09.739
plate shift is going to happen? Oh no! I just
1355
01:00:09.940 --> 01:00:16.000
filled my jeans. That wasn't comedy. Those are questions.
1356
01:00:16.019 --> 01:00:16.639
No, you don't have to be there.
1357
01:00:16.659 --> 01:00:18.539
You know what I would love? If she was one
1358
01:00:18.559 --> 01:00:22.989
of Socrates' students. Because Socrates used to just ask questions.
1359
01:00:23.789 --> 01:00:26.349
You know, what is it? Is the soul given to
1360
01:00:26.429 --> 01:00:27.110
us at birth?
1361
01:00:27.150 --> 01:00:32.909
Or is it, Socrates, I gotta leave! Why is that, Theodolus?
1362
01:00:34.730 --> 01:00:39.420
I just filled my toga! Stop asking questions. You know,
1363
01:00:39.500 --> 01:00:40.719
it just, that's insane.
1364
01:00:40.840 --> 01:00:42.619
What a great garment to pee in though.
1365
01:00:42.820 --> 01:00:43.300
A toga?
1366
01:00:43.340 --> 01:00:44.380
You can't fill a toga.
1367
01:00:44.420 --> 01:00:45.820
No, it's just, it's out there.
1368
01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:47.519
It's like everywhere's a toilet.
1369
01:00:47.539 --> 01:00:49.179
You ring it out and then you just shift it
1370
01:00:49.219 --> 01:00:50.800
around a little bit.
1371
01:00:50.820 --> 01:00:51.340
Come on.
1372
01:00:51.360 --> 01:00:53.619
You do. So that the wet spot moves up the back.
1373
01:00:53.820 --> 01:00:54.480
That's what I'd do.
1374
01:00:55.670 --> 01:00:58.710
I'm not saying anything that's... Listen, what I just said
1375
01:00:58.750 --> 01:01:01.329
is probably what a lot of Romans and Greeks were thinking. Oh,
1376
01:01:01.550 --> 01:01:02.860
were they... And probably doing.
1377
01:01:03.039 --> 01:01:03.860
I think they were changing.
1378
01:01:03.960 --> 01:01:10.219
Oops, just had a little accident. Ring, ring, slide, slide. Ew. Hey,
1379
01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:11.650
your shoulder looks moist.
1380
01:01:11.769 --> 01:01:12.389
Yeah.
1381
01:01:12.610 --> 01:01:16.789
Couldn't have been pee. What are we talking about?
1382
01:01:16.809 --> 01:01:17.610
I don't know.
1383
01:01:17.679 --> 01:01:20.780
Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Don't enable this. Why
1384
01:01:20.820 --> 01:01:23.599
are we talking about this? I know. It's beneath us.
1385
01:01:23.960 --> 01:01:24.659
No, it's not.
1386
01:01:24.679 --> 01:01:27.159
Although if you move the tog, it won't be beneath you.
1387
01:01:28.320 --> 01:01:28.679
Oh, boo!
1388
01:01:28.920 --> 01:01:29.739
Yay!
1389
01:01:29.760 --> 01:01:32.030
Oh, what's that say?
1390
01:01:32.090 --> 01:01:32.800
Oh, it says rap.
1391
01:01:34.329 --> 01:01:36.789
Sometimes I rap for time. Sometimes I rap for content.
1392
01:01:38.170 --> 01:01:40.630
I can't believe that German Oompa Pa band just came
1393
01:01:40.710 --> 01:01:46.610
in and played to celebrate my great quip. about urine-soaked
1394
01:01:46.639 --> 01:01:50.050
toga shifting. Okay, let's get into it.
1395
01:01:50.280 --> 01:01:52.420
No, this is a segment where we're just ending.
1396
01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:54.380
Oh, there is no getting into it.
1397
01:01:54.380 --> 01:01:56.019
We're ending the episode.
1398
01:01:56.659 --> 01:01:59.880
You know, someone recently asked me, they say I really
1399
01:01:59.920 --> 01:02:03.980
love the podcast. They said they really love the podcast
1400
01:02:04.039 --> 01:02:05.159
and they're telling me how much they like it. And
1401
01:02:05.179 --> 01:02:08.079
they said, one question, are you really that confused all
1402
01:02:08.119 --> 01:02:14.719
the time? Stop, I'm going to pee. Well, God bless
1403
01:02:14.739 --> 01:02:15.119
you all.
1404
01:02:16.380 --> 01:02:17.699
There, that's the ending.
1405
01:02:18.500 --> 01:02:20.980
We were all waiting for a peace out Tupac.
1406
01:02:21.260 --> 01:02:22.139
Good, good, good.
1407
01:02:24.760 --> 01:02:28.519
Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend with Conan O'Brien, Sonam Ovsessian,
1408
01:02:28.780 --> 01:02:32.900
and Matt Gourley. Produced by me, Matt Gourley. Executive produced
1409
01:02:32.960 --> 01:02:36.659
by Adam Sachs, Jeff Ross, and Nick Liao. Theme song
1410
01:02:36.699 --> 01:02:40.010
by The White Stripes. Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino.
1411
01:02:40.570 --> 01:02:41.449
Take it away, Jimmy.
1412
01:02:45.070 --> 01:02:48.250
Our supervising producer is Aaron Blair. And our associate talent
1413
01:02:48.269 --> 01:02:51.989
producer is Jennifer Samples. Engineering and mixing by Eduardo Perez
1414
01:02:52.070 --> 01:02:56.030
and Brendan Burns. Additional production support by Mars Melnick. Talent
1415
01:02:56.050 --> 01:02:59.250
booking by Paula Davis, Gina Batista, and Brit Kahn. You
1416
01:02:59.269 --> 01:03:01.829
can rate and review this show on Apple Podcasts, and
1417
01:03:01.849 --> 01:03:04.409
you might find your review read on a future episode.
1418
01:03:04.769 --> 01:03:07.510
Got a question for Conan? Call the Team Coco hotline
1419
01:03:07.550 --> 01:03:12.170
at 669-587-2847 and leave a message. It, too, could be
1420
01:03:12.210 --> 01:03:14.730
featured on a future episode. You can also get three
1421
01:03:14.789 --> 01:03:18.940
free months of SiriusXM when you sign up at SiriusXM.com
1422
01:03:19.019 --> 01:03:22.139
slash Conan. And if you haven't already, please subscribe to
1423
01:03:22.199 --> 01:03:24.610
Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend wherever fine.
1424
01:03:24.409 --> 01:03:25.750
Podcasts are downloaded.
1425
01:03:39.309 --> 01:03:43.070
Good nights are about the people, the laughs, the real
1426
01:03:43.110 --> 01:03:46.289
moments you don't want to miss. So why step outside?
1427
01:03:47.190 --> 01:03:51.230
Velo tobacco-free nicotine pouches fits seamlessly into your night. Convenient
1428
01:03:51.429 --> 01:03:55.650
and full of flavor. No breaks, no interruptions. Velo anytime,
1429
01:03:55.769 --> 01:03:59.650
anywhere nicotine pouches. 18 and over contains tobacco-free nicotine and
1430
01:03:59.690 --> 01:04:01.889
addictive substance. If you're new to Velo, start with Mellow.
1431
01:04:01.969 --> 01:04:03.500
You should not use this product if you do not
1432
01:04:03.599 --> 01:04:04.400
already use nicotine.
1433
01:04:05.989 --> 01:04:08.639
You offer them a cuppa when they saw yours. That's
1434
01:04:08.760 --> 01:04:12.559
definitely enough for a little treat. Cadbury Delights. With 91
1435
01:04:12.559 --> 01:04:15.820
calories of milk chocolate, nougat and caramel in every bar.