Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend - Summer S’mores with Conan and the Chill Chums Season 5 Episode 6

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

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Let's get started. Welcome to the final installment of the 2020. five chill chums with Conan the Gougu gang. I'm talking summer s'm smores, weekend chores. We had a great time. I mean, looking back on everything that happened, what a panoply of fun, don't you think? Wow.

Okay. I mean, from the moment I started to get very negative about the conduits. Oh, my God. That really, I mean. The hell of way to kick it off. Yeah. I was shocked by the amount of electrical wiring that I saw on the back of our, by the way, very small yard. Yeah, we should talk about it more.

Can I say something? I was envisioning it being much bigger. I thought, because maybe this goes back to my Irish roots, but I thought it's going to be like, ah, it's the old, it's the oldest state. And so imagine my surprise when I'm led back to. Postage stamp No It's tiny back there

It's quaint Yeah It's a little small Small little space But do you feel different About that conduit Now that you see That it's on the other side of that wall

And it's powering all of this majesty Yeah It just makes me wonder Why more amazing stuff Isn't happening in here Because it looks like a nuclear reactor I mean The amount of conduit back there

It looks like something Incredible's happening in here And it's just Three Shlubs talking I mean, I'm sorry, but, you know what I mean? There's no 3D adventure here where we're like floating. Go ahead. So we can tame Sona's voice.

Exactly. Yes. Oh, my God, Eduardo. Well, there you go. What the fuck? Jesus. We need more conduit. There was some real.

It's some good times. There was some real highlights. I mean, first of all, Dr. Arroyo showing up. Oh, man. And, you know. You know, you always hope for a guest star, someone big, and I don't, I can't imagine, first of all, I don't know how we got him to get Dr. Arroyo. I think it's easy to get him, which is lucky to have him.

Yeah, exactly. Wow, God, it's always better. He's such a, he's great, he's great, he's such a terrible doctor. And we learned that he's not actually a doctor, it's just his first name is doctor. Yeah, exactly. Dr. Arroyo. There's, yeah, he's, he's fantastic. And he says a lot about what's happened in the medical profession the last couple of years.

It was great having him. Your cocktail was fantastic. Yeah, it was. I have to say, you've done yourself. And to watch you craft these cocktails, I mean, it is like watching a mad scientist at work on his greatest formula. The Willie Wonka. Yeah, how long ago did you start learning that you could. make a cocktail.

Not too long ago. I think when COVID hit and I was depressed. You know, Jesus Christ. You know, it helps depression. Alcohol. Yeah.

We've all learned that. So, and are you already thinking about what the cocktail will be next year? No. I bet you've had thoughts already. You seem like the kind of guy

that'd be like, hmm, next year, a little more nagroney. The Coney Nogrooney. Oh, well, got it. Right. Pony McGrooney. Yeah, writing it on a piece of paper.

that will soon be thrown away. That's true. No, like you, I've been kind of scaling back my drinking, so I haven't thought about it. In fact, I planned this one the day before, and I had to scramble to do it, and I had two different versions, and I was tasting them, and I truly got drunk the day before, and I couldn't tell if what I had made is good or not, because it tasted good because I was drunk. It was good. I can tell you it was good.

But you were drunk, too. I was. Yes, I was. I got drunk pretty quickly on this one. Chuggy, chuggy, chug. Okay, let's talk cornhole. I mean... No, let's not talk cornhole.

I'd rather talk about conduit. Dick, yeah. Well, Stona, you got really mad. Why? Why are you so competitive? You want to know, first of all, I am naturally competitive. I'm fine losing. I hate losing to you.

Not true. Yes, I do. I hate losing to you. You get smug. You will bring it up. Like, in three years, you'll bring it up. I have forgotten I even won until I brought it up. I can see it on your face.

Nope. You can't see anything. Yes, I can. No, I have no knowledge of who won that game at this moment. I forgot. Oh, okay, then Sona won. You know what? Then I'm happy for you.

No, don't do that. I am. Don't do that. If you won, I'm very happy for you. I don't remember. I honestly don't remember who won. These things aren't important to me. You know exactly what to do to, like, annoy me.

You know exactly what to do. You, I don't want to talk about that game again. If you told me I won, then I'm happy that someone won. Give him a taste of his own medicine. Be me nonchal on about it. Harness your chill. I'm angry. Yeah, I'm so angry

Okay, so what he wants you to do I know. Okay, but what did you go home and relate your lost attack? Of course I did. And what did you tell them? I said, uh, I said, I said, I said, I said you cheated. What?

I didn't cheat. How do you cheat at Cornhole? Do you put a magnet in the bag? I don't know. He did. Psychological warfare. You did. I think that what really was upsetting to me was that I started off very strong.

I know what happened. I shifted the side I was throwing from. I think about it all the time. since it happened. You've really thought about this. I have. I started throwing from where you were throwing and then I shifted to the other side

and that was my undoing. Your mistake was you were throwing. I was tossing is a better way to go. Oh, my God. You know what I think what made my win impressive it's coming back to me now and what a victory it was. What made it so impressive

was and you will back me up on this. I will not, whatever it is. Okay, I called it. I called it in great, Eduardo. You were a fan of this because I was. I announced when I was deep, deep in the hole, way behind, I said, here's what's going to happen. I'm going to get way behind, but then I'm going to come surging back,

and I'm going to win at the last minute, which is exactly what happened. And it reminds me of a tale from baseball that might be one of baseball's greatest moments. No. Babe Ruth, nope, called a shot. You know the old famous called shot? Not the same. Babe Ruth pointed with his bat to center field and then proceeded to hit a home run there. And there's no photograph of it, but there's paintings of it, sketches of it.

People have memorialized this is one of the greatest moments in American sports history. I think I did what Babe Ruth did. I called my shot. It was bean bag. It was cornhole. Maybe not as grand. How, you know what, picks or it didn't happen. If it happened, someone should have taken a picture.

You shut the fuck up, Matt. I'm just trying to help you so you don't dig too deep. I'm just saying, I'm talking about the Babe Ruth moment. Okay. Babe Ruth moment, it's been, like, memorialized in paintings. Conveniently, there's no photo of it. But we have video of me destroying you. It's not destroying.

You didn't destroy me. I think the thing is I lost focus. Helly you're trying to be a hype, man. You didn't. I lost focus. I really do hate losing. Yeah, that's how people lose in sports. That's called losing.

This is why I hate it. This is the thing, though. you you act for you tell you i could have won but i lost focus you where's my last focus medal you know what diminishes your victory is your sportsmanship yeah it's non-existent you act like you don't care but you really want to win yes of course i do okay and also i think i didn't the listener the fan uh when i'm putting on a show with my braggadoosio they they want to see me pull it out Do you know, they want to... I disagree.

No, no. I think at least Sona owns her desire to win and this affectation of you saying, like, I could take it or leave it. I'm just coasting above it all. Yeah. Above the frayed, it's, it's, I'm not buying it. I'm not buying it either because I know,

I know you and I know how, like, happy you were that you won. And it just upsets me that I brought you a level of happiness. You were truly a different person after you won. I... Even after the recording, you were like talking to the trash cans at one point. Don't you see that? see that? I have so much else in my life and my friendship with Timothy Oliphant.

Okay. I have, you know, we're pals. I have my imaginary friendship with Timothy Oliphant. You know, I have my accomplishments. And so I didn't need, that's the great thing is I didn't need that Cornhole win. But when it happened, I felt like I had risen to another level. You know? I hate this. We need a rematch. Yes. I'm down for a rematch.

Yeah. The phrase sore winner comes to mind. Yeah. But also very sore loser. And I think that that's what I'm saying is I'm down for a rematch. And I'm going to, I'm going to train. Yes, train. I'm going to rocky it up.

You're my Apollo Creed. You're Drago? Ivan Drago. Ivan Drago? You're that guy. I'm the good guy. You're the bad guy. Yeah.

You're the Soviet. I'm going to fuck you up Yeah, there you go And I'm your Mickey, Rock I think in a world where Putin is in charge in Russia Maybe there's a yearning

For the old, good old days of Drago Yeah, as a villain Yeah, Drago's now the good guy Because they're like, you know Oh my God Drago you could deal with Do you know what I mean? There's not one scene

Where Drago invades the Ukraine You know, and tries to take territory that isn't his. We have to do this, and there's a training montage where you have all the technology and all the systems. My wrist is being injected with various chemicals. And you're Russian scientists who are monitoring me. Literally have actual dried beans in a sack,

and you're just flexing with them. In a meat locker. Hey, can I go off on a tangent here for a second? He said, knowing he could. Why is it? This always amazed me that if you watch all the Rocky movies, as I have, in the arc, Unlike, you know, the 15th Rocky film, he loses all his money, okay?

And his only choice is to be the greeter in a small Italian restaurant in the old neighborhood. He lives in the apartment that he's in in the first movie. And there's no acknowledgement ever that he is the greatest sports figure. He could be a convention signing autographs. I mean, he could, without even leaving his house, if he just answered his phone, he'd get paid $100. because he single-handedly brought down the Berlin Wall. You know, he's won, he had come from behind victories. He's the most celebrated in that universe.

He's the most celebrated figure. He's done the most incredible things. It would be like saying if, well, geez, you did you hear what happened? No, Michael Jordan, I guess he had a crooked business manager and all the money's gone. Where is he now? He's at a Dave and Busters. He's over by the bin of balls

And he's You know, yeah And he's telling the kids Like, take it easy You can't jump in till that one comes out Yeah, I guess that makes sense No! No, Michael Jordan signs one sneaker

For, you know, The Ghost of Steve Jobs and gets $150 million a pop. So am I wrong? I'm sorry, I'm taking away from some of the magic of what was a wonderful time. I'm shifting the focus

to a new one, which is, I don't understand why Rocky's working in that restaurant. Do you remember he was also living with a robot in one of the movies? Yes. I remember that, but beady, beady, bitty, bitty. No, that's twiggy. Okay.

Is that from Buck Rogers? Yes. Boy spy. Oh, Mel Blanc. There you go. It's just Mel Blanc. I'm so... You went Mel Blanc.

My God. Oh, my God. What pairs well? Oh, do you remember also in the summer sports that pissed off you got about the trivia? What pairs well? What pairs well? the fish. I would try the male

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Today, Smoor, more. Anyway, if you think I'm a monster in this final episode, that's what these chill chums do to me. They wind me out. And now it's our fault. Yeah, it's our fault. And this is what's going to be happening next year. This is the tip of the iceberg of the new Conan.

Because the Conan that comes to the next chill chumps is going to be an absolute monster. Are we going to just do like Olympic games, all these different games? We should. Like Battle of the Network stars? Yes. Yes. Well, I'll run a race against Gabe Kaplan. But now.

Excuse me. It's Gabe Kaplan. Yeah, Gabe Kaplan. I'll have a Gabe Kaplan and I'll have a... Pardon me. Do you have any Gabe Kaplan? Do you have any? Mel Blanc by the glass?

But of course. But of course we do here. It's cafe mispronounce. You know, can I say something? You, of course, you know you can. Way back in the first episode of this series, Blay, you teased something that we also did the year before, and I think it's important that we cover this.

You got a new medieval Renaissance weapon. Yeah, you never brought that out. What happened? Did you bring it to the set and then never use it? I felt like there was a lot of tension between you and Sona. We didn't need any more, like, any actual weapons on set. Did you just forget, though? I mean, it's unusual for you to bring a dorky weapon

and not show it. Jesus Christ, man. Oh, my God. I can't wait for the war crimes trial where we all present our evidence. I just love it. Who drives home? Look at who drives home at the end of the night

and looks in the backseat of their car and sees a broad act and goes, darn it! I forgot to wield it. Why am I catching straight? It's shooting. You said you were going to bring one of your weapons, and you brought it, but never brought it out?

Yeah, well, there's a lot going on. What was that like when you got home and you're unpacking stuff? Did you apologize to it? And you have your cooler and you move it and there it is. That is kind of what happened. The scythe from sort of Gildar. I was unpacking my car. Yes, and I was like, oh, that's right.

Like, yeah, this year... So what was it? Well, I have it here. This year, I... Of course you do. You just have it with you? Well, I left it at the office because just in case we needed... So, well, let's see it.

What is it? Well, so this year, last year I got a big sword. Uh-huh. I was like, you know, I forfeit. And I wanted something smaller because I didn't really use it at all in this past year because it was so big. You didn't use the fantasy sword as much as you thought you were? Why did you think you would use it, though? It's two-handed.

It's, you know, it's a whole thing to get out. It's like very big. So I didn't use it. use it as much as I wanted. What a sad to-do list. To-do, milk, orange, wheeled magical sword. Wheeled fake magical sword. Oh, I'm sad.

You didn't get your bucket list checked off. Anyway, so I wanted something kind of smaller and more useful. So I got a, I got this axe. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. It's really sharp, so be careful of it. It just looks like an Irish musical instrument. Yeah, it's a big.

This looks like a Guinness Harper. It's a big, but yeah, oh, it's great. Now, tell me what this is. Oh, it's a big. I don't really know. It's just a really sharp big... Where did you get it? I got the Renaissance Fair.

I went to the... So you went to a Renaissance Fair. I dressed up. In costume you were wearing? I did. Yeah, I did. And this year, I learned... I don't even know why I'm like... And this time I went.

Why am I telling you this? I brought an empty holster because I... Last year, I had to carry around the sword. It was really awkward. So you brought a holster for a sword you thought you might buy. That's right. That's the worst. I hate that.

I hate that when you have a holster. Yeah. So I had an empty holster. So, and this fit perfect. It's a sheath, I think. Yeah. Well, no, I had a holster because I was like, oh, I'm going to, I don't want to buy another big sword. I want to buy something smaller, like a dagger.

But then I saw this baby, and I was like, oh, this thing is. Yeah. You know, also, I will say, I will say, I will say, uh. No one's interrupting you. Well, you're just, you're, you're pausing because you realize where you're going is sad. Yes, it is kind of sad. Well, I will say, I will. Could someone please let me finish.

We're letting you finish. I don't want to say it. Well, I could, I was thinking after I bought, I could use that to cut a pizza. What? What? Well, I'm just saying, because, you know, the short doesn't have a pizza cutter. Yeah. It doesn't have a lot of practical applications.

And I was just saying, I didn't really use my sword last year. And so I was like, well, I could, I'll be able to use this to cut. If you had a dinner party, you brought a pizza out and you just went out. Yeah. Thank you. There we go. I don't know if badass is the word. I am Zygar.

I shall turn this pie into six slices. You're making my case for me. So, um, yeah, so, all right, so you finally got to show it. That's great. Thanks. Thank you for letting me show it off. Well, I didn't let you. I didn't know you had it in the room.

I thought we were just going to talk about it. Well, yes. Of course you have it. Where do you keep all this shit in your house? I imagine it's not a huge apartment. It's not. Actually, do you want to know the truth? Well, I asked you, so I'm expecting the truth.

I have, this is, oh, man, fuck, this is so sad. Well, I think it's cool. I have a weapon corner that I just lean everything up against. You own it. Go for it. Don't apologize. Okay, yes. I have a weapon corner.

Oh, no. You should apologize. Yes. I have a couple swords. I got this. I got a flamethrower. I got a flamethrower. I do you.

Yeah. You're an asshole. Why do you have, what kind of thing? One of my friends gave it to me. We had a thing where he gave each other weapons. And then I have one of the, I have spiked balls and chain. A mace? A mace?

No, a mace, I think it's like a club. I think that's like a, like a, Morningstar or something. But, but, but that, and then I also have, uh, then, we're losing listeners right now. Knife. We're plummeting. I think it's from Cobra or from another movie. It's like, uh, it's like a big crazy wavy, way to be, that the villain has.

Yeah, wavy knife and then it's got a spiked handle. Yeah. So I got, I got all that stuff. It's just kind of just a corner. Throwback when, uh, Greg Daniels and I were writing together on our first, uh, TV show, not so of the news. We went to our. offices. We were working there for like three days at Sunset Gera Studios. This is

1985 when this package arrived that they sent back to our office. And we used to get like weird promotional things. And I guess for some reason, because we were a TV show, we got a promotional package. They thought maybe we would mention it. And here I am mentioning it 70 years later. It worked. And it was a promotional package from from Cobra, the movie Oh, my God. And it was all these pictures and like a couple of memorabilia little thingies from the movie Cobra. We were just looking at it and it was like, this is going to be Sylvester Stallone's next franchise. He plays what's his name?

Marion Cobretti. Marion Cobretti. You're like, his name's, you know, you have to justify. This is a sting operation. He cuts pizza with scissors. But no, and it was. And then Greg and I went and we decided we got to go see Cobra. Yeah.

And I don't know if you remember, but it's, I know. Do you? He was a producer on it. He was three years old. Do you know the story that? But you know what's crazy? It's Cobra against a cult. Yeah.

And it's people from all walks of life who meet. Yeah, business people. Yeah, business people and bakers and people that sell orthotics all meet in a basement and clang weapons together. In spotlights. In spotlights. In the story of that is that Sylvester Sloan was originally. going to do Beverly Hills cop and he retooled it so much that they eventually went no you can't

you can't do this anymore they gave it to Eddie Murphy and he took his version and that's what Cobra is oh yeah and that's Matt's movie corner I have more fun facts and if you could just open up a corner to your apartment yeah dude but anyway that was my when you mentioned Cobra I thought wait a minute I have a visceral memory of opening a box oh a lot of photographs from the set and up some a press packet of Marion Cobretti was and what his, you know, what his character is. And then I, there might have been like a plastic knife in there or something. I don't know. But I remember Greg and I thinking, wow, I guess this is going to be the new thing.

You know, Cobra. And, uh, nope, it wasn't. No. Too bad, though, huh? We missed that one. Is it too bad? God, I love movies. You do?

Yeah. All right. So anyway, we got off on a tangent and I have to bring it home, which is Chilchums isn't about a place. It's about a state of mind. And it isn't about whether it's in the yard, it isn't about whether it's anywhere in the Los Angeles area or if it's on a private island. It's not about that. It's whenever we get together and we decide to be chill chums and get the old, you know, smores out, it creates a special magic.

It's a special bond. It's a tie-in for various companies who want to advertise. I'm told it's something called fan service by Adam, who says it in a very very important. very cold voice. Fan service. That's true. Yeah. Fan service.

So it was a joy. It was a real joy and I want to thank you both. I had a great experience. Me too. I loved it. It's a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to next year when we do it all again. Who knows where and who knows why. And all the people that helped with this too.

Yeah. And two of the big ones are in this room too because Blay does so much work. Blay does a lot. I mean, Tunisia works hard. El Viro. He engineers the whole thing. Leonardo. Dr. Royo. Thank you. Oh, definitely.

But also, I mean, Ruthie, Sam, Rachel, Rachel. Yeah, I mean, all these people work so hard. They do a great job. We love them. We're a family here. And by family, I mean, everyone's paid. And doesn't like each other. Yeah.

And makes fun of me behind my back. So, and in front of my face. This was really nice. It was really fun. So I hope you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed doing it. I love chill jumps. Wow. You really, you thought for a long time, and you came up with a great ender.

Thank you, Sona. I love that summer s'mores. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Okay, Sona, well, from all of us to all of you, thank you very much. I hope you had a great summer, and we'll see you soon. Rematch, 2026, free Sona. Yeah.

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