Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend - Conan Must Go: Jarle (Norway)

Episode Date: March 30, 2023

Conan speaks with Jarle from Bergen, Norway about his musical duo and the wide range of regional dialects in Norway.  Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: https://siriusxm.com/conan. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Conan O'Brien needs a fan. Want to talk to Conan? Visit teamco.com slash call Conan. Okay, let's get started. Oh, hey. I was told to not say anything for the first few seconds. We were just trying to get your name right. Welcome to Conan O'Brien needs a fan.

Tell us your name pronunciation. So I often just like I often introduce myself as Charlie when it's to people not from Norway because it's, I guess, Yarlah. Let me say this correctly. And first of all, nice to meet you, Yarlah. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yarlah.

Let's go with your real name. I mean, I don't think we should Americanize it. This is a global, this is a global venture, and we are now in your country, Yarlah. That's fair. So we will say your name correctly. My name is Conan. Oh.

Okay. With six umlauts on it. On one letter? Right, yeah. What? Six umlets on one letter? There's two on the O and there's two on the A. That's four.

And then there's like two that just float around. Oh, I thought you added extra letters and you're just putting oomlots on. No, I'm Koen. Oh. You actually know what in Norwegian, that would be like the O with a dash through, which is done a. So, Kuhnum. Yes. That's how I'd like to be known for this episode.

Keren. It's perfect. So your name, one. one last time, try it. Yalgala. Yeah, you're right. You got it. Yarlah, where are you coming to us from?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Sona had by far the best pronunciation right there. Yeah, I wonder why. I think she, I think that was gas, to be honest with you, Yarlah. I think she burped. Because when she burps, it's always been, Arla. Yarlahla. He says there's like a hugh, right?

Or yarla. Yeah. It's like a general R. Okay, we have five seconds left of time to talk to you. Because we fucking wasted so much time. And we're out of time. And we're out of time. I started giving compliments.

That's the one thing you shouldn't do in this podcast. Hey, so Charlie. Hey, Chuck. Right. Hey, Chuck. Where are you from? Where are you talking to us from? I'm from Bergen in Norway.

So the far western part of the country. Western part. So it's, yeah. I have been to. It's like a coast. City. Okay, I have been to Oslo because I performed several years ago

at the Peace Prize concert. I was the MC, the master of ceremonies. You probably read all about that because I bet it was a big deal. One, yes, Conan. Be honest. Did you have any idea? It was, in the streets,

like people wouldn't shut up. I couldn't go to the store. There were like posters. Conan, I couldn't get you out of my life for like a week. I came to Oslo and gave a major performance and I would think that even in Bergen, which I know is the West, are you pretty snotty about Oslo? Like we're in the West. We don't care if Conan goes to Oslo. He didn't come to Bergen. Yeah, we're just we're just like pissed that you didn't go to Bergen instead of what to like Oslo. Like oh, the biggest city in Norway. Okay. All right. Well, I tried to get out your way, but I couldn't find a reindeer to rent. So

you'll have to excuse. me. Next time. Yeah, next time. Tell us a little bit about yourself. You seem like a nice, cool chap. What are you up to? Tell us about your life.

Who are you? So I'm a developer. So I work for, I just finished my master thesis in like software engineering. And then now I work as a developer. But I also make a ton of music on the side, which you can maybe tell from like the 50,000 instruments. Yes. I see that. Yeah.

So you're a musician. Yeah, I make Norwegian pop, like funk music with my cousin. Yeah. Do you have a group? Yeah, we have a group called the Eder, which is like kind of a jokeish. Like, we make good music, but like the essence of the music is kind of almost like, like lonely island vibes, if you know what I mean? Right. It's kind of satirical, silly.

Yeah, kind of. And what's the group called again? But we do have bangers, though. Yeah, check us out. Okay. Get your name out there. What's it called Eda? EDA.

EDA. What does that mean? So that actually, it actually originated as a joke because that in our dialect, if I were to talk Norwegian and I would say EDA. That would be translated to is it. So our joke was like, if that's the name, every song title is a question. Oh, I see. Is it really?

Some party in here. Right. Well, that's a good question. We came up with that joke before we started making music. Well, first of all, to be honest with you, Arla, most parties I attend, that's one of my first questions is, is it a party in here? Oh. Is it so, yeah.

So I have a question for you, which is tell us about your group. You have this group. It's two of you. What kind of music do you do? Is it high energy? Are you guys kind of like quietly like software developers just playing your MOOG synthesizers? Tell us about your performance. performances.

I will be honest, though. I would love to make that type of music too. But no, that's more, like, way more upbeat, party music. We play a lot of, like, our dialect being from, like, Bergen and stuff, because we do sound like a bunch of, like, if you have the Norwegian stereotype of how we sound, like the hard or yarr, that's how we talk regularly. So, like, we play a lot of that.

I'm like the energetic one while he's the pretty one, I guess. What? Well, you're pretty good looking. Yeah, I mean, he must be a real stuff. Yeah, I want to say, you guys. Yarlah, I've got a thing for you already. I think you're a dreamy fella. I can't imagine how good looking.

What's the other guy's name? Christian. Way easier to pronounce. Yeah. Yeah, I see why he gets all the attention, because you can say his name. That's why I'm trying to go for Charlie, Conan. You see the goddamn problem here?

All right, let's watch the language. This is a children's podcast. Oh, crap, sorry. So basically, this is a nor are you a Norwegian rap duo, is that fair to say? Yeah, that's perfect. Can you give me a sampling of Norwegian rap just so I can hear it? Can you rap in Norwegian

for me? Just anything. It doesn't have to make sense because we won't understand it. Okay, check it. Check it. Don't try to be morning. Good morning. It's time for to lay work sog. New day, how you out of talken.

I'm not sure you're woken. Are you woken? Hey, I heard motherfucker in there. I heard Tolkien and Kavorkian. Yeah. Damn it is a children's podcast. I forgot. No, no, that's okay.

The children left hours ago. Wow, I like that. Do you want me to try it and I'll give you a beat? Want me to give you a beat? No. Oh, no, no, no. You should try it. You got to sing it.

No, I can't say that. You can. You can do it. Grudens, strut, I bet so like Riegen, Gachschilder Tolkien. I ston that, that you boot,

Send a shit like gluck da couta suta, rindir, come on a t'ltapult. Oh my God. Is that it? That's like Dr. Frankenstein's assistant got stuck in the like voltage meter. Also, I went into Falco. Yeah. Remember Falco? Yeah.

Amadeus. Amadeus. I'm already telling you, we're stepping that and playing that off of somebody try Norwegian. Like putting it in our next. I would be honored to, I want to be a hit on the Norwegian pop charts. Is that a possibility? That is an above 0% possibility. I cannot say that it's over 1%,

but it's like definitely like, well, come on. Mid zeros. Listen, okay. Mid zero. You heard him beatboxing too, right? It's tragic when he tries to do anything cool. I think Sumas some kind of like safety future

because it all got muted out on the way over here, luckily. So I was. Spare. Yeah, Zoom does have a function in there, a special program that prevents me from the idiot. Extreme white boy filter. Yeah.

So you're half of, what do you dress like? Okay, I'm trying to visual. I've got a sense of what you sound like. How are you dressed when you're performing in Eta? Well, so we kind of have like a color scheme going where I'm like yellow, just I guess it's an energetic color. And he's purple. So I often have like either like.

completely like one of those colors or like, you know, wear something of that color. But I like a lot of like loose jackets, like a lot of loose clothes. Yeah, yeah. Baggy is more like straight. Yeah, baggy, exactly. Right. So, but I have,

I want to like totally get the like hazmat suits from Breaking Bad. I basically just wear that for performing life. Sure. Yeah. And while you're at it, you might as well make some meth. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, why waste the time.

Okay. It's not a profitable business cone. So, you know, we've got to make some money. Well, I think you said meth wasn't a profitable business, and I was about to correct you. It's plenty. Sona and Garley have done quite well with their Pasadena operation. Love making meth. So I see you consuming a lot of liquid.

Yeah, there's like an energy drink and then some Pepsi clear. What's going on there? Yeah, what are you doing? Different bottles. I'm a thirsty boy. What can I say, guys? I like my water. Speaking of which, there is a.

I have it at the time bubble. I've spent some time, as I said, in Oslo, and I know the word didn't leak out West Bergen, but man, was I a hit. Toast of the town. They gave me my own Peace Prize. Oh, okay. For what?

I thought it was a Peace Prize, and then it turned out it was a mint on my pillow. The minute I didn't do it, and it was delicious. But there's, this, there's this maybe a stereotype that people in your area of the world drink a lot because the days are short and it's cold and you can only take a sauna so many times. Is that true? Is drinking a big part of the culture? 100%. Like even when we, so for example, like a good

example, when I started studying, I started to, you know, I studied like computers, coding. I thought it would just be like, because I'm pretty social. So I thought it would be just me. I'd like, a bunch of nerds and I would have to be like, you do the drinking, like, on my spare time, if you know what I mean. Yeah. But then like I started there. People were amazing. And additionally, because like developers is quite like a sought after profession in Norway,

a ton of businesses would like pay like our faculty to come and essentially party with us. So they would literally pay to come and present themselves as you, you guys should work for us. Also here's like free beer for the rest of the night. So we had. That's incredible. So as an enticement to get young people to work for you, companies there offer you free liquor and you go and you party the night away. Yeah, free liquor and free sushi or pizza, whatever.

It was great coded. Can I come? Yeah. 100%. Like, do they check? What if I just, can I just lie and say that I code stuff? Do they ask questions? Oh, okay.

They don't ask a lot of questions, I bet. And also, you seem Norwegian. You heard her, yeah. Yeah. When I first met Sama, I said, I swear to God, I met the most wonderful Norwegian woman today. I should have done my homework. Yeah. What do you drink there?

I was in Finland once years ago, and they kept offering me Korskenkova. I know I'm pronouncing it incorrectly, but what do you want? And that was like jet fuel. I mean, jet fuel. What do you guys drink? So in Norway, I think a lot of people, well, I myself, I drink a lot of gin and I drink a lot of beer and that's most of what I do. Right. Try to stay away from that hardest.

Straight or how do you take it? No, I'm most of the most of the fan of like gin and tonic. Oh, I love a good gin. Yeah. We do have a lot of like Norwegian like, I think the world, like the world competition or whatever for gin, like a Norwegian one-one. Oh. Oh, haga-hoeven. Harge-hoeven.

Haggohon. Harga-hoon. Oh, haga-hoon. Not Hogan, Hohen, right? Hago. Hogan, yeah. Hago Hogan. Hago Hohan.

Hago hon. Hago Hoh. That's perfect. That's pretty good. Hago Hogan. Hago Hogan. Hager Hohon. The one thing I will give props to Oslo is like their dialect is actually kind of easy to pronounce.

Like I'm from Bergen. So all they are. So like, like, ah, like, like Chubbacca. Yeah. Chubbacca was from Bergen in Norway. Dude, that's a little known fact. You almost call them Chew Butka. I did not.

That's the porn version. I know, I've seen it three times. Here comes Chew Butka. How nice would it be if we did this podcast and we just had a little picture of gin and tonics that we could just take from while we're. Yeah. Or we watched porn. Well, yeah. Wookie porn.

Yeah. Well, it's called Star Horse. Okay. Okay. But my question, well, first of all, we did that. We did camp out and you served a very potent drink. I showed great moderation. You showed less moderation.

And Sona said, screw it. I can get an Uber home and went to town. And you're a babbling. She knows how to live life. Like our friend, Y'u'u'u. Say it one more time for me, please. This sounds like a, this is like a spelling bee. You should never have to clear your throat to say your own name.

It's got a little bit of sadness to it. Yeah, because you guys are not a gurgle. It's a part of an Armenian. The grr-ghr-r-r-r-r-r-r-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-l. It's a lot, you bitch. I can't do that. I can't do that like an intrafical cat-calling, but I can't do that sound like properly. I can do like an...

That's okay. That's okay. You don't need to learn how to do that. This is how your name is really supposed to be pronounced. Yarlah. Oh. That's how it's supposed to really be. There's a whole spectrum of Chewbacca to Predator.

Oh, wow. You can go like from one end to the other. Incredible. You know what I love? What? I talk to people from all over the world to try and make a real meaningful connection. Uh-huh. And Gorley says, fuck that.

We're talking about what I want to talk about. James Bond or Spragans or Predator. You brought up Chubak. Yeah. No. No, I didn't. You brought him up and I said, I repeated his name. And technically you just brought up James Bond, so let's talk about it.

Okay. He's never been to Norway ever in any of the films. That's not true. He's there briefly. I... He was there and no time to die. Oh. Who's the biggest star in Norway?

Oh, actually, the first guy I thought of is the... You know, you guys have seen Game of Thrones. Oh, Nicholas Costa Waldow? Costa Wildow? No, he's from Denmark. That's the right guy. It's a light guy. Toramund.

I think that's his name. Big ass. Who does he play? He's that red-headed action. The red-headed guy. Oh, I love that guy. The red-headed one, the one who was in love with... Egris.

No, Brienne. Brien, yeah. You just, you've... Immediately, here's your thing. You're the guy... First of all. You just immediately shout out wrong information. It's like a game.

Yeah, but it's, you know, what island are you from? Edison, Thomas Edison. What? Caramel. What? Short charts. Eagrit.

Eagret. Yeah. He's your biggest star as, what are you drinking now? This is your fifth. Oh, my God. This is your fifth liquid. How many vessels do you have?

You have had, you have had an energy drink. You're drinking from a large, clear bottle, and you just took what looks like some kind of coffee drink. And they're all in different glasses. How many... I'm like a taco tray over here with, like, just rotating drinks. Like, ooh, what am I trying now? Mm-mm, espresso.

Ooh. I don't. But I just, like, have a lot of stuff in my desk. Let me ask you a question, Yarl. Yeah. How would I fit in in Norway if I came out to Bergen? How would I be... First of all, what would you and I do together?

So, first of all, you would fit in perfectly, Conan. Your complexion is 100%, like, you know, would fit in here. And you wouldn't even need like a, like a, like a, like a safety vest on the roads where, because it's pretty darker, right? You could just like, like, flash your arm and like blind the driver. You know, I love a Norwegian giving me shit for how pale I am. That's pretty good.

That's how pale I am. That's pretty good. A guy from Bergen, Norway is having a laugh at my lack of melanin. But what would we do? Okay, I'm there with you. We're hanging out. What would we do? Sell it.

So we are in Bergen here. I should mention, like, you're not announced. Right, right. Screw Oslo. We have a lot of, so first of all, we have a ton of great musicians from at In Bergen. So I would definitely want to bring you to a live show. And it would also be perfect because, number one, I have like the bodybuild of a cricket so I could like sit on your shoulders and actually be able to see anything. Oh, you're a small gentleman is what you're saying. I am a small gentleman.

Okay. So you basically, the main advantage you see of me coming and visiting you in Norway is that you could sit on my shoulders at a concert. You're a platform. I'm a ladder. I'm a goddamn ladder. I love this. That's my value to you? Your famous person.

And he just wants to use you for eyes. You don't even get to face the stage. I don't even get right. You want me facing the other way. Which would be his lap. Yeah. Which means that my face is in your crotch. And his thighs are covering your ears.

You can't see or hear anything. Right. Right. That's what you want. And by the way, I'm not saying no because I'm realizing, you know,

whatever. Yeah, sure. I'm down with that. He's not even asking if you could swing like VIP tickets. He just wants to use me for height.

You want to use my height and sit on me like an inert object. Yeah. And also do the wrong way too. No, but seriously though, Coden, we have a lot of ton of great beer

over here, which is like native to Norway because she's like native resources and shit. So, oh, God damn it, children's podcast.

Anyways, we'd go grab a goddamn beer, but we would, I guess, hit the local attractions. Right. So I'm a good platform and there's beer to drink. Yeah, and in that's like order. And would I get to come check out one of your shows? Dude, 100%. Yeah. You could also be like, it would also be, there your height would also work as like, you know, come over here.

You know the guys at the airport doing this? I'm not one of those balloons. in front of a used car store that whips around. I'm a human being. So stop saying, oh, it's good because people would see you. Oh, you got all blurry. I thought maybe I've been drinking. I think my camera started crying because it felt upset by me making fun of you.

I'm so sorry, Conan. No one's sorry. You're not sorry. I put my conscience into a camera. How do you think my fake Norwegian rap would, go over in Norway. I think people would absolutely just because we're already,

I'm not sure if you guys could pick that up, I'm already pretty inaudible and I'm even worse when I'm speaking Norwegian. So I think like your like intelligibility would probably match mine when performing live. Oh. People wouldn't understand what neither of us were saying. So no one, they wouldn't get a, they wouldn't get offended. I don't know. Dude, people.

I don't know. Hey, thanks for the reassuring. No, I said no. Like, people, like, in Norway don't love, like, I love people making fun of Norwegians. Every time I see that, I'm like, that's fucking perfect. Right. So if anybody were to come on stage and, like, with, like, gusto and Moxi just perform in Norwegian by with their soul. Yeah.

People will just, like, flip out. Okay. So you think they'd be okay with it. They wouldn't get mad because when I make fun of Norwegians in Minneapolis, they get angry. But I've been struck several times. I don't know. Okay. I don't know.

We love it over here, at least. Okay. I can speak for the Minneapolis. Oh, please. Now I need to make it. Minneapolis? I'm not going to answer anymore because I'm afraid I'm going to get it wrong. Oh, I don't think you're afraid you're going to get it wrong at all.

Okay, then the answer is Minneapolisites. Is that true? No, Minneapolisians. Is that I have no idea? Eagrit. Egrit. Egrit. Joe, no.

New Patro Terris. Hey, that was a good random one. Yeah. Okay. Well, listen, I'm very excited to hear some of the music of ETA. How do I find it? Can I find it online? No, yeah, it's on Spotify.

It's on YouTube. Although, I will warn you that we're, because our name is just three letters. We're like a relatively small group for Norway. You're 100% going to get Ed Sheeran popping up. We still have a problem with that. Wait, God, I'm Ed. E. E.D.A.

Yeah. Oh. Yeah. So they're like, oh, you didn't mean to write A. You meant to write a space. And then Ed Shearren, right? Like, no, god damn it. I think Ed Shearing calls himself Ed Shearant just to fuck with you guys.

Yeah, I honestly did. He was in Game of Thrones, true story. Yeah. People weren't happy. Dude, full circle. Yeah. Got it. Reset.

Great podcast. Yarlah, thank you so much for reaching out to us. Do you listen to the podcast? Is that how you know of us? Yeah, 100%. And I also, also be honest, I completely forgot that I submitted a thing. And then I wrote what I read what I wrote. But I was like, gee, how did you guys say yes to this?

Well, we... But thank you. We actually, yeah. It's been awesome. We only, we didn't... We basically said yes to the band. Yeah. We're big Norwegian rap fans.

We put in Ed Shearren and you came back. Yeah, exactly. He's your nemesis. Right on. One day, I'll hunt him down. Well, you don't have to. He's so easy to spot. He also takes away.

in the Game of Thrones it takes the redhead attention away from the Norwegian guy there too so you gotta see he's just like out of the steel like the Norwegian's attention

Yeah yeah so Are all Norwegians angry at Ed Sheeran Is it just you? I think like 95 give or take 95% are angry at Shearan

Yeah I gotta I'm gonna see if I can fix that problem as well It's my job To bring people together You know I see that

Wait is that my job No no no Your job I'm not sure what your job is Sort of spout stuff And hope something lands Yeah I think that's it

Well, Yarla Yeah, I nailed it No, you didn't Well, you let's hear you do it Yagla Right That is still the best guys I have to say

Yala Yala Yeah la It's like Like a er Like Yarlah Yal

You know what you have to do It helps to imagine Swallowing a clam Yala Or a Yarlah. Yarlah. I also like the Chubakha idea. Yarlah.

That was also a good one. Yeah. Yarlah, I'm going to let you go before I completely lose it on the people in this studio. Who's you talking about? Oh, we're so scared. Yeah. Oh, my God. What do you see these meat hooks?

Oh, my God. But it was nice. It was really nice talking to you. And please give my best to everyone in Bergen, Norway. And tell those snobs in all. so they can suck it. Okay? We do it out every day.

All right. You take care, old friend. Let me know if you guys are over here. You'll find out. The word will get out. And you'll see us a platform. Bye, yarlah. Bye, yarlah.

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