Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend - Introducing Literally! with Rob Lowe

Episode Date: June 25, 2020

Rob Lowe takes over Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend to share a clip from his new podcast, Literally! with Rob Lowe. Check out the first episode with special guest Chris Pratt now on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/literally

This is Rob Lowe, and welcome to one of my bucket lists. A lot of people want to climb Mount Everest before they die. A lot of people want to play in Wimbledon before they die. I've wanted to strangle Conan O'Brien, throw him behind his desk and take over his goddamn show. Since the day I met that redheaded, pasty, hilarious Harvard nerd. And guess what? Today is the day. I am hijacking this podcast to preview my own podcast that, okay, Conan and I are partners on it.

I don't really hate him. It's more for laughs. Well, I kind of do hate him. But anyway, here's a quick preview of my new podcast, literally with Rob Lowe. With my very first guest, the amazing Chris Pratt. What was your favorite movie and TV show growing up? Were you like a six million dollar man guy like me? I wasn't a six million dollar man guy for TV.

I mean, I kind of grew up for television. A lot of after school specials. Oh, stop there. Have you seen my after school specials? Wait, I don't, maybe. Which ones? It's been a while. How about school boy father?

If I did, it's been a while. All I remember is learning some good. It was back in the day when I was very young, like I said, you know, low bar for criticism. And I remember it was back when television really cared about instilling values in kids. And so the after school special would be about your conscience or doing the right thing or making sure, you know, if a stranger talks to you that you tell somebody these kind of things. So I remember like getting like, I feel like a lot of my moral compass in life came from those types of. Yeah, my mind was don't be don't become a school boy father.

Don't like like a kid who's in school who becomes a father. Yes. Wow, how old? How old am a father? Fifth, 15. Oh, I think you're gonna say fifth grade. I was gonna be like, what? Oh my God, that's so great. 15. Yeah.

Hey, listen, don't do that. If you can, if you can avoid. Man, baby had to be given up. Is that true? I could not care for it. No, no. Dana Plato from different strokes. Is that was that who it was?

Yeah, she was the mother of the school boy father. It was called school boy father. Well, that was the best because the titles were always exactly what the plot was. They just like put it right out there. Yeah, you know, one's gonna be like, what's that about? No, no. And they're always way ahead of their time. It was like, you know, my mother's bulimia.

Yeah. Like, oh, this is going to be a story about a girl whose mother has bulimia. Exactly. Yeah, they don't leave anything to question. My mom loves those, still loves those. She'll call me and tell me the plot of one of those movies. Oh boy. As if it like legit happened to someone.

Yeah, for sure. That's really close to her. She's like, and you're not going to believe it. The guy next door was actually spying on her the whole time. I'm like, what, what, you can't even write this kind of fiction. You know, like, yeah, mom, that's, but she loves them. So those are those are my, those are my, I like the episode specials, but, you know, then I grew up in like that, that strange time of TV where I don't know if this stuff

was good or if it was just good because it was all that was available, which I feel like happens, I feel like that was the, you know, you see it in these emerging markets. I saw it when I was in China, when we were doing Jurassic World press in China, they had just opened up the country to, you know, entertainment beyond just state sponsored television. So like they only had a handful of channels. It feels like what America must have been in the fifties or something, you know, like the fifties and sixties where you had like news, you had NBC and ABC or something

like that. You're like two networks and a news channel. And it was like in China, it was the same thing. They had like a government, a state sponsored weather news kind of channel. And then there was one channel that had some kind of entertainment, but it was the only entertainment channel they had. And you look and it's like really low production quality because there's just not that much competition, you know, but people really like it.

And I think I lived through that era. It was maybe in the nineties with shows like Full House and Family Matters and, you know, like, like the one where the little girls are robot with small wonder. Oh, that was amazing. You know, these kind of shows where if you watch them now, you're like, this is it just we've come so far. Yeah. You look back and they're not good.

They're not good. How could you, how could I have loved them so much? And it's because there just wasn't a lot of competition, you know? But then it was small wonder. But small one. And then, but then like, yeah, like, there was the one about Butler, Mr. Belvedere, Mr. Belvedere, you know, like, well, Mr. Belvedere was that that was like, you know, magnificent Ambersons compared to, you know, by the way, that's another movie people always talk about

the magnificent Ambersons. It's Orson Welles Finest Uvra. That one I've never seen. I've never seen that one. People go on and on about that one. I use it only as a punchline for very obscure reference jokes. Oh, the Miss, yeah, the the small wonder guy. I can't believe that you brought that up.

That was amazing. The girl who made a little girl robot and no one at the time ever questioned whether he was a pervert. Like if we made that now, you know, that would be the question. Be like, why did he make a little girl robot? He could have like, first of all, he fucking cracked the code on artificial intelligence. Like like like our AI sentient being intelligence and he and he wants to just make. I mean, it's kind of cute.

He makes himself a daughter. Actually, it'd be a pretty good movie now. I'm going to go out to Dakota Fanning's people and see if she's available. Oh, see, now look at how quickly you've turned. You're like, wait a minute. So this is what happens when you get a big production company like you have now. You're like just mining hit movies out of fucking everything. See, that was fun.

That wasn't too bad. Was it? You didn't miss Conan O'Brien all that much, did you? That's a taste of what you're going to get on my new podcast literally with Rob Lowe, which you can find on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify or wherever else you download your podcasts. And if you tune in, I've got some really good Parks and Rec stuff that Chris and I talked about. So see you there.

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