Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend - The Conan and Jordan Show – Painting The Barn
Episode Date: July 11, 2025On this episode of “The Conan and Jordan Show”, a spirited discussion about walking posture turns into an unexpected debate about water connoisseurship, with a dash of Austrian travel memories thr...own in. 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.
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Yes!
A Monday where you mean, mean stride.
Today's time saw you mean, mean pride.
Oh, don't, don't.
Okay, if you've heard that annoying song, it means that you're listening to the Conan and Jordan show.
I'm Conan O'Brien. I'm joined by Jordan Schlansky. We chose that song, Jordan,
because it's your favorite group
and maybe your favorite song by that group.
Not necessarily, but it is an excellent song.
Maybe their archetypal song.
Yeah.
Why did you have to glance at the logo
that said the Conan O'Jordan show
when you said the name of the show?
Do you forget the name?
You didn't know it either.
If you play that back,
you just said Conan O'Jordan show.
So you don't know it either. If you play that back, you just said Conan O'Jordan show.
So you don't know it either.
Maybe you should look at the screen next time.
All right, all right.
If you're gonna call me on the title of the show,
you better have it right.
Right.
I looked at it because sometimes I need confirmation
that I agreed to do this.
I see.
And there it is.
Okay.
And it's got a lot of your favorite things, a Vespa.
I can't even identify some of them.
I understand the pizza, the wine, the grapes, the Vespa.
Is that a lemon behind the meatballs?
What's the yellow thing?
Oh, those are meat, I didn't know what those were.
I thought orange chicken.
That looks like General Chow's chicken.
That's what I thought it was.
And I thought, I didn't know you love General Chow's chicken.
I think Frank told me it was meatballs,
but I still don't know,
is that a lemon coming from behind the meatball?
I honestly don't know what that is.
Okay.
And I never had the
graphic expression correct. I think it's a tumor.
Jordan. Yes.
People, I don't wanna say they enjoy our chemistry.
Okay.
There's no proof that that's the case.
Right.
But we do have a chemical reaction between us,
which is quite unusual. I've never had a relationship with anyone in my entire life.
I've met kings, queens, courtesans. I've never met anybody quite like you. You're an unusual fellow.
We fight, we bicker, but I think beneath it all, we really do hate each other.
I think beneath it all, we really do hate each other. And there's no other show like this.
Okay.
People love our interactions.
Whenever I walk around in the world, people say,
hey, where's Jordan?
How's he doing?
Is he for real?
That's one I get a lot, is he for real?
And I'm not sure.
You might be a hallucination.
This could be like the end of Fight Club,
where I realized you never existed.
Or maybe I don't exist and you're imagining me.
It's one of those things, it's a real mind blower.
One of us is imagining the other
or maybe neither of us is imagining no one.
Anyway, that was a lot of what we call filler
in the business.
He has a clip.
Jordan brought a clip with him today.
Okay, you brought a clip.
I did.
Okay.
Yeah, I spotted a paparazzo video of you.
You are in fact an A-list celebrity.
And from time to time. You think I'm an A-list?
Yeah, from time to time you're confronted by paparazzi
out in the world.
And I saw this one a while ago and you're in New York City
walking by what I assume might be Central
Park South somewhere in the vicinity of Central Park.
That is Central Park South.
Central Park South 59th Street for those that are unfamiliar.
You see this paparazzo standing there.
Paparazzi.
Yeah.
And, you know, in that moment, he's not even asking you a question.
The question becomes in your mind, what do you do?
How do you handle, how do you react?
And the way I interpret it is you make a conscious decision.
Okay, I see this paparazzo there, nothing new.
Must happen frequently.
I'm just gonna continue walking, going about my day.
Right, but your brain is very conscious of the fact
that now you're deliberately walking with purpose.
Now listen, you're a man with good posture. I myself am not, and I've always appreciated that about you're deliberately walking with purpose. Now, listen, you're a man with good posture.
I myself am not, and I've always appreciated that about you.
You stand very erect, okay?
Now, a lot of taller people have a problem with good posture
because they feel insecure about their height
and they're even subconsciously trying to shrink down a bit,
but you own it, I've always appreciated that.
Now, in this particular moment,
and I've seen you walk many times over many years,
in this particular moment,
I'm convinced that your mind is so deliberate about, I'm going to walk confidently,
you pass the camera, you start, you're coming at him and you pass and then there's a shot
of your ass walking away and your ass cheeks are gyrating from side to side because you're
walking with such purpose.
Now listen, you have a high rider.
You always have.
Your ass, if one were to categorize different asses,
they do fall into, everyone has a unique ass.
I'm not trying to diminish anybody's uniqueness,
but what I'm saying is there are general categories
and yours is, you'll call your ass flat,
but to me the flatness is not
the most significant characteristic.
You have a high rider.
It rides high up on your legs
and that has a very specific look.
And when you're walking away from this man's camera
with such confidence, such deliberate confidence,
your ass cheeks are gyrating from side to side.
It's a saunter.
It is the perfect representation of a saunter.
And in that moment, I don't know if you were feeling
a sexuality in you, in your confidence,
but I'm telling you, your ass and your pants are very form-fitting as well.
I remember the days when as a tall man, you found it hard to buy jeans that were long enough,
and then you found a guy to start custom-making your jeans, and your pants are so well-fitted now,
they're really hugging those ass cheeks, And I just think it's remarkable. I think we should acknowledge the behavior of your ass
as you're walking away from camera in this paparazzo video.
Would you like that to go on any longer
before I interrupt you or are you done?
I said what I needed to say.
Okay.
I don't recall this.
In general, it looks like it's springtime, maybe fall, who can say.
Maybe about 49 weeks ago,
somewhere around May 17th, 2024.
Okay, I'm guessing there's a date on this.
Yeah. Yeah.
And we live in an era now
where people have cameras out all the time.
They have, there's paparazzo cameras,
but there's also just people with iPhones, whatever.
So you get less self-conscious about it over time.
I think, I don't think I'm that much affected
by this person.
You're saying you would be walking like,
again, you haven't seen this footage.
Oh, but I know how I walk.
You lived it.
Here's what I'm gonna tell you.
You've walked with me.
I walk very quickly.
I walk with purpose.
I do have very good posture.
None other than Steve Martin once in a note to me,
talked to me about my posture.
Fascinating.
And said, pointed out that my posture was so good
that it distracted him from whatever I was saying.
Meaning that he thought my posture was much more impressive
than my comedy.
And I do think it's possible that I'm trying to,
this is my way of coming on to whoever's photographing me,
that maybe I'm putting a little English on the ass.
I think you were.
I've never seen your ass move like this.
And I've seen your ass move many times.
And you keep an eye on my ass.
It presents itself to me.
I'm not looking for it and I'm not looking away from it.
My ass presents itself to you.
Yes, it presents itself to me in certain situations.
I never expect it to, but sometimes there it is.
Like I say, I don't turn toward or away.
If it falls into my field of vision,
if I'm looking this way and your ass moves there,
I'm not gonna look away from it.
You're saying much like a baboon.
I use my ass to attract you.
You know what?
A baboon is a perfect analogy.
And a baboon, when a baboon's ass becomes quite red,
they present it.
And presenting the ass is maybe the most primordial And a baboon, when a baboon's ass becomes quite red, they present it.
And presenting the ass is maybe the most primordial form
of a sexual come on.
Yeah.
I honestly don't think you meant to be sexual,
but I've never seen your ass move like this.
And I know you were walking
with a determined sense of confidence
and manifested in your ass cheeks
gyrating from left to right.
Should we look at it?
Roll the tape. Sure.
How's it going? Good to see you.
Yeah, good to see you too.
I don't see a lot of gyrating going on there.
Do you see how like there is a,
see there are two diagonal creases,
primary diagonal creases in the pants.
Eduardo, do you wanna jump in?
Do you see a lot of undulation of ass?
I don't know what to say.
You can say whatever.
I mean, if you feel-
I just see a normal person walking.
Yeah, I don't see what you see.
Okay, so there are two diagonal creases,
primary diagonal creases in the pants.
And as you walk-
You know what this is?
This is the Zapruder film.
I would have to see the opposite of that
to be able to compare.
You can't identify the variable without the control.
This is the Zapruder film,
meaning a lone assassin theorist, like myself,
looks at it and goes,
yeah, that's Oswald getting off three shots
and two of them hit.
Yeah.
But you show the exact same footage
to a conspiracy theorist and they see 15 gunshots
and people with arrows and parachutists
and all kinds of stuff.
I don't know how not to walk like that.
You know, I don't know how to,
for that not to happen.
Right.
For one buttock not to be moving independently of the other,
you would have to sew my buttocks shut
and I would have to be on some kind of electric scooter
where my legs are immobile.
That's the only way you could achieve the non undulation.
Yeah.
That's the only way that could happen.
I have confidence in my observational skills
and I'm familiar with your ass.
I don't.
Okay.
You say you're familiar with my ass.
Obviously something jumped out at me
about this particular way your ass was moving.
I immediately sent it to Frank.
Okay.
I'm gonna stand.
Okay.
You can take the headphones off.
Well, I wanna keep them on just so I can hear.
All right.
This is me wearing.
So yeah, all right.
So I'm walking.
Yeah.
Now you have me. Yeah, Mike, That's what I'm walking. Yeah
Yeah, like that's what I'm talking about
I didn't see that you see these two diagonal creases right here I and they have a I didn't see that until you started sticking your ass out right now
When you first started doing it, I just saw a big blob of fabric. Was this an excuse to touch me?
You didn't need to touch me. You just touched my- With the back of my hands.
That's how they do it at the TSA.
That's not, that doesn't count.
The front of the hands counts.
The back of the hands doesn't count.
Look at him, look at his maniacal push.
No, that's how they do it at the TSA.
Look at his maniacal push.
Whenever you start to lose it,
you get crazy eyes.
You get crazy eyes.
Oh, so you go on a subway
and you take the backs of your hands
and you touch women's asses and then say,
Hey, TSA, TSA, TSA in the USA, that's what you do?
I am telling you, it is very asexual
to touch anything with the back of your hand.
That's not true.
I think some of the most erotic moments of my life
have been with the back of my hands.
What are you talking about?
How would you ever in a sexual situation
use the back of your hand? What are you talking about? I use you ever in a sexual situation use the back of your hand?
What are you talking about?
I use the back of my hands all the time in a sexual way.
You haven't done that?
No, there's nothing you can do to anything.
It's called painting the house.
What you do is you brush the woman,
or I'm gonna say, listen, we live in a culture
where it could be a woman, a guy on guy, whatever.
It doesn't matter to be woman on woman.
What I'm saying is I have often used that motion.
I've often used the back of my hands.
The difference between the front of the hand
and the back of the hand is immense.
Not true.
It's not subtle.
It is not subtle.
Old wives tale, there's more nerve endings
on the back of your hand.
No, that's ridiculous.
And guess what?
Just the psychological.
The most erogenous zone, and this is a true fact,
it was in men's health three months ago, look it up.
Ryan Reynolds is on the cover,
is the back of the hand and the knuckles
are the most erogenous zone on the body.
More so than any other part of the body.
True story.
Can you imagine if you were gifted a sexual experience
with someone you were incredibly attracted to?
Bridgette Bardot, Bridgette Bardot, 1958.
1958, but the rule was you could only use the back of it.
That would be my request.
You could only use the back.
That would be my request.
You cannot do anything you want with the back of your hands.
My request.
What a horrible, frustrating way to leave somebody hanging.
That's not true.
What are you talking about?
You've never even tried it.
No, you haven't tried it.
Of course I haven't tried it.
Well, if you haven't tried it,
how do you know what you're talking about?
You're missing out on the- Because some things you just it. Well, if you haven't tried it, how do you know what you're talking about?
You're missing out on the greatest sexual high
is using the erogenous zone.
The primary erogenous zones of the body
are the left and right back of hands.
And do you know that the knuckles,
the knuckles were thought of by the Greeks
as the center of eroticism.
Do you know what ruined orgasms are?
Do you know this sexual genre?
What's it called? Ruined orgasms. Do you know what ruined orgasms are? Do you know this sexual genre? What's it called?
Ruined? Ruined orgasms.
You mean ruined?
Yeah, ruined.
You just said ruined.
That's the same thing.
Are you losing your mind?
Look at your eyebrows.
Forget about ruined-
Hey, Riddler, your eyebrows are going off the charts.
Listen to me.
Do you know what ruined orgasms?
It's a sexual fetish.
Do you understand?
It's when you, it's when,
I wanna say this in a tasteful way,
when someone is going to have an orgasm,
but at the critical moment, the sexual stimulation stops.
Now it's too late to stop the orgasm,
but you're not enjoying the orgasm, but people love that.
To me, back in the day-
What do you mean they love it?
Who loves it?
I'm saying people are into it, you know, deviant.
Can I say it the correct way? Ruin?
Ruined orgasm.
Is that a New York thing when you say ruined?
I don't know. That's the way I say it. Ruined.
I've never said ruined. I'm from New York.
I have a problem.
But what I'm saying is, what I'm saying is that to me is another untapped sexual
genre of you can be with anyone you want,
you can do anything you want.
Like a woman says, take me, do whatever you want,
but only use the back of your hand.
That's incredibly frustrating.
That's like you ruined the experience.
Well, I'd say I more think you ruined it,
but I disagree with you.
And I think you're berating something you haven't tried.
And I suggest that you go home tonight,
talk about it with your wife
and say that you wanna paint the barn.
And that's using the back of the hands and just try it.
But I don't see, you've read into this Conan paparazzi
footage of me walking and it's nonsense.
It's nonsensical.
And I think I'm glad that Eduardo spoke up.
There's no there there.
You're lost in a mystical world of my ass.
And you can't find your way out.
Like any great piece of media or art,
we're all allowed our own interpretations.
Eduardo, I appreciate the way he sees it.
I appreciate the way I see it.
If you ever touch me again, front or back of hands,
I'll pound you. Okay, yes.
I'll pound your face to clay.
Understood.
Okay?
Yeah.
Never do that.
Or you ask first, with the TSA,
it's understood that this is gonna happen.
How would I have asked?
You would have said, may I now touch you?
Okay.
And I've said no.
I should have said that.
Yeah.
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People love, the fans love it when you come along
and make an appearance.
We went to Austria together.
This is gonna be seen by people.
I don't know exactly when this drops,
but I'm assuming it's out,
because it's coming out very soon.
And people can watch it.
It was a lot of fun.
Did you enjoy Austria?
I, yes, I love- Do you call it Austria or do you call it Austro-
Austria.
Pardon me?
Austria.
You okay?
Yeah.
Gesundheit.
Thank you. I did. I had a great time. You and I had many moments even off camera. I do believe
that these experiences bring two human souls closer together.
They give us, they put us in a situation
where we flourish long after the trip has ended.
Yeah.
It's funny how you always need to point out
that we are human beings.
It's completely, that's just wasted verbiage.
That's packing peanuts.
Well, it's perspective.
I like to give perspective.
And I speak the way I speak.
You may not understand all my motivations, but they are very deliberate. I like to give perspective. And I speak the way I speak. You may not understand all my motivations,
but they are very deliberate.
I like to paint a picture.
We are looking down on ourselves in that moment.
We are human beings.
Trust me, I am looking down on you right now.
Okay.
Jordan, we went to Vienna.
I had not been to Vienna before.
What a beautiful city.
Incredible.
And you're a man of many tastes.
You appreciate different cultures.
And Vienna, I saw you really come alive in Vienna.
Oh yeah.
And I wish I hadn't, but I did.
You were, you love your Wiener Schnitzel.
Yes, I do.
And you had Wiener Schnitzel every night.
I did, yeah.
And you wanted to try the Wiener Schnitzel
in every restaurant.
That's right. It is a, I don't know how else try the Wiener Schnitzel in every restaurant. That's right.
It is a, I don't know how else to say it, it's a Chicken McNugget.
It's a Chicken McNugget
that's been pounded a little flatter.
It's neither chicken nor a nugget.
It is basically a breaded
piece of white meat.
Whether it's veal or chicken.
They make both.
Fine, I'll allow it.
But thank you, your honor, appreciate it.
But it was quite good.
But I found that by like night three,
I was yearning for anything else.
You were, this is no exaggeration.
And you kept saying, the waiter would come
and you would say, I'll have your Wiener Schnitzel, sir.
And they would say, yeah, hold.
They'd click their heels.
And I was just like, give me anything else at this point.
You are 100% correct.
And I would have thought that fried meat
is right up your alley.
It is.
It was for a day or two.
No, for three days in a row.
And like by the fourth day.
I wanted someone to use that device
that's in No Country for Old Men that Javier Bardem has,
it puts a bolt in your brain.
I was done, I was done with it.
They also, not a lot of vegetables, is that how to say?
Yeah, that's correct, yeah.
What happened with the vegetables?
Did the vegetables flee Germany at some point?
What happened?
Yeah, well, what they consider to be vegetables are potatoes,
which of course is a starchy vegetable.
Doesn't give me the fiber I'm looking for.
I'm deliberately looking for fiber.
You talk about this a lot.
Fiber is important to you.
It's incredibly important.
Food to me, the secret to eating healthy is combining foods.
It's not what you eat, it's what you eat together.
Ah.
So for me, there are three components
of every meal and every snack.
I'm gonna pretend to find this interesting.
Yes, go ahead, please.
Protein, carbohydrates, and fiber.
Wow, this is some new theory you've come up with.
This is the way I live my life.
Protein, carbohydrates, and fiber.
Yeah, that's the way I live my life.
No, that's absolutely not everything.
That means you're gonna have a meat,
you're gonna have a starch, a meat or a fish,
a starch, and then a vegetable.
And the vegetable is where I found it challenged in- That means you're gonna have a meat, you're gonna have a starch, a meat or a fish, a starch, and then a vegetable.
And the vegetable is where I found challenged in-
Yeah. Ustereich.
I think we get a little spoiled here in Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles, we have an abundanza, if you will,
fruits, oranges, I mean, anything you want,
it's at your nearest Whole Foods.
There, am I correct? Well, I've traveled the world. And you have to understand too that- That didn't sound pompous at all nearest Whole Foods. There, am I correct?
Well, I've traveled the world.
And you have to understand too that-
That didn't sound pompous at all by the way.
No, no, I have traveled the world
and I'm not only coming from a frame of reference
of Los Angeles.
I realized that there are many cultures,
they all eat differently.
But you have to remember Austria,
while Vienna is not in the mountains per se,
Austria is a mountainous culture
and food of the mountains is typically meat and potatoes.
That doesn't surprise me.
So you get your fiber.
So things are regular, things move along.
The trains move on time with you.
One of many reasons to include fiber, not the only reason.
Okay, you said something interesting to me.
You watched me when we were getting on the plane,
I think maybe coming back from Austria.
And you said to me, this is true everybody,
you walked up to me and you said, I watch you.
Do you remember this?
I am surprised you remember it, but I-
You said, I watch you.
I just, I put my stuff in the overhead compartment.
Yes.
Click it shut.
I take my book out and my laptop and my journal
and put it down and then sit down.
And you came up to me and you said, I watch you, I watch your, you said,
your motions and your movements.
Yes.
And then you had a point.
What was the point?
The point was, well, there's even a larger point,
which I've never expressed to you, but-
You said that I move with great-
With great, you grew with grace and dignity.
He said this to me.
He walked up to me and literally people around me are opening little bags
of peanuts or asking for that.
And everyone, people were listening
to see this guy come up to me.
And, you know, obviously I was, I hate to say obviously,
but kindly HBO Max had flown me first class.
I believe you were down where the wheel well
of the plane was and you climbed up through a hatch.
They wouldn't even let you in economy.
Sure.
But you've been just clinging to the wheel well
because when they retract the wheel,
sometimes you fall out into the ocean.
But you've been rescued.
But anyway, you came up to me and you said, I watch you.
So you had been watching me and you thought
that my movements were beautiful.
Yeah, I admire you.
I go through phases in my life
where I get really into something and then it kind of passes
and then maybe a few years later, rushes like that.
Sometimes like I'm listening to rush all the time
and I'm obsessed and I start watching a little bit
and then a few years go by and I don't listen.
Same thing with my feelings about you.
Sometimes I'm indifferent and there'll be a year or two
where I'm completely indifferent.
And then there are some times where I really feel
a deep, intense admiration for you.
And I don't know if it's saying more about you
in that moment or me in that moment,
but this is one of those moments
and I'm in the midst of it right now
where I just admire you for so many reasons.
You've had many career-based successes
even in the past year especially,
but through it all, you've maintained this grace
and dignity and approachability
that is just astounding to see.
And I watch you when we get separated a bit,
I watch you interact with other people
and it's just stunning to me.
And I'm proud to know you.
I'm very-
This is very sweet.
I find myself inspired and I feel like I can learn a lot,
not from necessarily what you say,
but just how you conduct yourself.
It's great to have someone like that in your life.
First of all, I do appreciate you saying that,
but I remembered you specifically honing in on the-
Is this boring you?
You wanna get to something you're honing in on?
No, no, no, no, no, first of all-
I just exposed myself and you're like,
okay, that's great, but tell me what I wanna know.
I took in what you said and I appreciate it,
but what I wanna hone in on is it almost felt
like you had watched me just, you said humility.
Yes.
And that you had just watched me put my stuff
in the overhead compartment.
Yes, that's it.
And I thought, I just put some stuff
in an overhead compartment.
Yeah.
And you were talking like you had seen Gandhi,
you know, bathe the feet of a leper.
And I thought, I appreciate all of this.
I really do, Jordan.
And we've been together a long time
and I appreciate you saying that.
And I do take it in, but I thought it was,
I'm sitting down in this nice airplane seat
and I just put myself in the overhead compartment
and you talked to me as if Christ had just raised Lazarus.
Yeah.
And that felt, I have to say, a little out of place.
Okay.
I understand you think like that,
but what I'm saying is, yes,
you put your bag in the overhead compartment,
you sat, you had a window seat,
you had your glasses on,
and your hair was all messy and frazzled,
and you leaned your head against the window.
I think someone said something to you,
and you responded very politely.
And I remember just thinking,
I have thoughts, I have deep thoughts in my head,
chaotic thoughts.
Anyone who says I have deep thoughts
doesn't have deep thoughts.
So what I'm saying is-
Einstein didn't go around saying, I have deep thoughts.
Yeah.
People, real thinkers don't tell people, I'm thinking.
Well, guess what?
I'm a thinker and I'm telling you that I'm a thinker, okay?
So there, I broke the mold.
But listen, what I'm saying is-
Look at the eyes.
What I'm saying is-
What I'm saying is, you can see the video, when you lose it, your eyebrows become those of a madman. I listen, what I'm saying is- Look at the eyes. What I'm saying is- If you're watching this, you can see the video.
When you lose it, your eyebrows become those of a madman.
I found it, I found it, okay?
Maybe you have it backwards.
When I find it, my eyebrows react accordingly.
So I witnessed you and I admired you in that moment
and I felt that I needed to tell you,
even though I understand that to a normal human being,
these kinds of-
Don't say normal human being and gesture to me.
These kinds of sentiments in foreign-
I'm off the charts, I'm not a normal,
Eduardo, am I a normal human being in any way?
No.
No!
There's never been anybody like me!
No, you're a guy-
Where's your grace and humility now?
You're a guy that would,
do you know how I know you're a normal human being?
Cause you would do well in,
do you know what the Jennifer Hudson Spirit Tunnel is?
I don't know what's happening.
Do you know that Jennifer Hudson, she has a show.
And when the guests go to the show,
the entire staff is like cheering and dancing
as they walk through the hallway and they dance too.
And it shows what kind of person,
what kind of brain you're dealing with.
Because some people flourish in those environments.
They're dancing and they're moving and they're so natural.
And then some people walk through completely awkwardly
and that would be, I would be the second,
but you would be the first.
You would like embrace it.
I don't know that I'm ready for the Jennifer Hudson spirit tunnel. The would like embrace it. I don't know that I'm ready for the Jennifer Hudson
spirit tunnel.
No, I don't know that I'm ready for that.
I'm saying you would do well.
And some people it's a little cringe-worthy to watch.
And look.
So this is the, the guests have to walk through this.
The guests to get to the studio
and they put it on social media.
It's a whole thing.
I've not been asked to be on Jennifer Hudson's show
and I like Jennifer Hudson.
I admire her, but I don't think I could ever walk
through a tunnel of people cheering me on.
It's a barometer for what kind of brains does this person
have, how comfortable are they in their own skin?
You are very comfortable in your own skin.
But I think I don't think I'd be comfortable
in the Jennifer Hudson spirit tunnel.
Yeah, show me the, Eduardo, thank you.
It was Kevin Hart.
Here's Kevin Hart.
He'll be a good one.
Well, if anyone was built for the Jennifer Hudson
spirit tunnel, it's Kevin Hart.
This is what I want. I like Hart. This is what you want.
I like it.
This is what you want.
I like it.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
We're gonna hurt.
Hey.
Party about to start.
Hey.
We're gonna hurt.
Oh, oh, I see.
We're gonna hurt.
Hey.
Party about to start.
We're gonna hurt.
Now, you can handle it however you want.
People do different things.
We're gonna show some love. Hey. We're gonna want. People do different things.
So you would do well.
You were probably already envisioning how you'd handle it.
And I would do horribly.
This is the staff?
Yeah, this is the staff.
And they write a song that I think has significance to that particular person.
Hey, you know what's interesting?
Is there, how does she have any time to interview people?
This is incredible.
This is 45 minutes and it's still going.
Wow, that is incredible.
I saw Kevin Hart age during that.
He had a beard when it was over
that he did not have at the beginning.
Yeah, I can handle that. Yeah, I can handle that.
Yeah.
I can handle that.
Let's see what it looks like.
Conan O'Brien.
Yeah, see, that's it.
That's it.
Conan O'Brien.
Conan O'Brien.
Conan O'Brien.
Conan O'Brien.
Conan O'Brien.
Conan O'Brien.
Conan O'Brien.
Yeah, I do that for a while.
Yeah, yeah, and I do some pushups.
That's it, you got it, you got it.
That's how I guess.
I would-
You take it to the next level.
You know what I would do?
I would not leave the Spirit Tunnel.
Right.
You see how long Kevin Hart did?
I would stay in for at least 20 minutes.
Yeah.
And they'd be out there.
If you don't leave, the staff has to keep going.
So they would go to a commercial break, come back.
And I'm still going.
And then they'd go to another commercial break.
Other guests would be on the runway.
They never, you know, there'd be people there
to talk about real things.
They'd have like the secretary of the interior.
They'd have, no, nobody gets on because,
and they would keep coming back
and trying to get my attention, say, Conan,
you've got to just stop now because, you know,
Tina Fey is gonna come, nope, I'm just keep,
I just keep going.
Right.
I just keep moving and grooving.
Right.
I would use the spirit tunnel
and turn it into an eternal hell for the viewer.
An eternal hell.
Well, Jordan, I do take what you say seriously
and I take it to heart
and you're a nice guy to say those nice things about me.
And I think there's room for us to grow in our relationship
and I hope you'll allow that growth to happen.
Yeah, yeah.
Thank you, what a warm response.
Yeah, I would like to grow with you as well.
Okay.
Can I bring up something about us, Ostr?
Yeah.
I understand that you were a huge fan of the water.
Oh. True story.
Oh, yes.
You requested certain waters.
Oh, yes, Vosslauer, Vosslauer.
So, you know, some people drink water
and they think all water is the same.
Okay, fools.
I, when I, when I,
when I encounter water. Fools.
Yeah. Okay.
Okay, when I encounter water,
every type of water is different.
Obviously the biggest difference
would be sparkling versus flat,
but even within that, what are the size of the bubbles?
You can taste differences in-
100%, mouth, feel, taste.
And I argue you can taste them too,
if I gave them to you side by side.
In a vacuum, maybe you can't tell the difference.
I have to say I might be a little bit of a dummy
when it comes to water.
So you think.
I know bad water, meaning, oh, this is water out of a tap
and they put too much chlorine or the pipes are rusty.
I know that, but I don't think I know one water
from another water.
Yeah.
You know your waters?
Well, I know what waters I like.
So one of the most defining characteristics about water
is how many total dissolved solids are in them,
expressed in parts per million, also known as TDS.
So you've got your average maybe avion has 150 parts per million TDS.
And that's a very comfortable, it doesn't leach your minerals nor does it really enhance
your body.
And then you have very waters like Voss, the Norwegian water, which has great packaging
and everything like that, but it's got a very low TDS.
And then you've got a Gerolste it's got like a very low TDS. And then you've got like a Gerlsteiner from Germany
with a very high TDS.
You drink a liter of this and you have like
a quarter of your day's requirement of calcium.
So there's a water in Austria called Wurzlauer.
And unfortunately it's not imported into the United States,
but whenever I go to Austria, to me,
that's a huge draw to be able to order a Wurzlauer.
And you had Wurzlauer too,
because that's what people drink there.
I don't know, I had some water.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what it tastes like to me.
I had water and I don't,
I did not drop the glass and go,
oh, gotten himu.
Yes, that's right.
What is this?
I didn't do that.
You know, I watch you drinking it
and I think to myself-
Why are you always watching me?
All of your stories are,
you in a corner with your hands in your pants watching me.
Yeah, that's right.
What the hell are you doing?
You're watching me on the paparazzi.
I have my hands running in my pants,
but the rest is correct.
Yeah, I watch you drinking that Voslauer
and I'm thinking that jackass.
He doesn't even realize what he's drinking.
He's just shoveling it down.
You just saw a donkey at the trough, didn't you?
Yeah, that's exactly what I saw.
All right, well, let's do it.
Let's get this going.
We're gonna do a little blind taste test.
Oh, I've got things to do and places to go.
Oh, I'm sorry if I was keeping you.
No, no, no, not at all, not at all.
All right.
Would you put this blindfold on
and let's see if you can tell your Wurstlauer
from your schludenheiden.
Would you like, yeah.
Oh my God, what a kooky.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
You cackling chimp, what are you doing to him?
Just put his.
I probably don't need the headphones
because again, we're in very close proximity.
Yeah, why do we need the headphones?
Oh, it doesn't matter, keep them on.
You're sure you can't see through that.
And it's a, do the honor system.
Keep your eyes closed anyway.
And why don't you give that a little sip-a-roo.
Okay, is it?
Each out, there's a glass there.
Oh, there it is, okay.
Okay, and why don't you give that a little sip.
Yeah, perfectly fine.
I put it at a TDS of around...
You realize we don't know what TDS is, you explained it.
I just explained it, yeah, total dissolved salt,
expressed in parts per million, calcium, magnesium, phosphoric acid.
Yeah, I put that at like a 234 TDS parts per million.
Fine, perfectly fine water, I'd be happy to drink that.
Wapner.
Okay.
Can you identify the water?
Oh.
Try and identify it.
I can't identify it.
It just tastes like water to you, right?
It's somewhere, I'd express what it tastes like.
I can't, I'm not-
Yeah, it's fine.
You said it's fine.
Yeah, it's fine.
Well, that was your favorite water.
That was your favorite water.
No, no, take off your blindfold.
Okay.
That was the much-vaunted Vosslauer.
Yeah, but that's the ONA.
I wanted the Prickland. That's, I wanted the Prickland. You got the much-vaunted Voslauer. Yeah, but that's the ONA. I wanted the Prickland.
I wanted the Prickland. What?
You got the ONA variety.
I don't understand what you're talking about.
What's the difference? You fools.
You bungled the operation. I like the Prickland.
I like the Prickland.
You thought you were so clever. Of course you like the Prickland.
You thought you were so clever you had half information and you didn't get the right one.
The Prickland.
So this is the Prickland.
No, that's the ONA. What's the difference between the
owner and the prickly? The prickly is the sparkling and the owner is the flat.
So you wanted... I wanted the sparkling. I wanted the prickly. You know what? You're
an asshole. Yeah. You're just a terrible person. Right. This... I didn't ask for
this. I didn't ask for this but if you're gonna do it, do it right. I didn't do any of this. I didn't set any of this up. Don't do it all or do it right.
It's Frank who set this up.
Don't half-ass it.
But for you to say, you fools, you fools.
You're part of the operation.
You're the figurehead of this operation.
Can I say something?
Don't you appreciate that we got this for most of you.
I appreciate, yeah, but you're trying to ridicule me
for not detecting that this is my favorite water,
whereas you shouldn't have got the prickling.
Down, down, down, Rex, down.
What's fascinating to me is that the term,
you fools, you fools, you fools, you've bungled it,
that is reserved for the D-Day invasion.
That is reserved for Operation Desert Storm going wrong.
That is reserved for a major operation,
for the 1066 invasion of England by the Normans,
that's what that's reserved for.
You fools, you fools, you bungled it.
Not getting you the incorrect type of Vosslauer water.
That's not where you say, you fools, you fools.
Do you understand?
This is my 1066 invasion of England, okay?
You went on and on about Vosslauer.
We gave you a blind taste test. You shrugged and said Vosslauer. Yeah. We gave you a blind taste test.
You shrugged and said, it's fine.
Yeah.
So, and then you, and this is after you had described it
as the water that Christ walked upon.
So you understand that now I'm a little, yes,
it may not be the exact subset of the types of water
that you like, but I'm a little suspicious
that water means that much to you
and that you can tell the difference.
Okay.
So I guess I'm the fool now.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. You're the chimp. Yeah. You're the chump. Yeah. and that you can tell the difference. Okay, so I guess I'm the fool now. Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're the chimp.
You're the chump.
You're the orang.
You see things superficially to you all, water's the same,
but I'm the fool because I understand
the chemical composition of water
and how it affects the overall experience.
You just had Voslauer and shrugged, okay?
Acted like you just drank it out of a Chicago YMCA.
Sure.
Okay?
Sure. And so I don't understand why you're supposed to be the superior one here.
Yeah.
Apologize.
Yeah, if you're trying to make me look like a fool, I think you failed.
I don't think I made you look like anything.
Okay.
I showed you as who you really are.
Right.
I showed you who you'd be and what you'd be.
I'm impressed that you found the Voslaver, though.
I have never seen it in the United States.
Oh, now you're impressed.
Yeah, I mean, I'm impressed that the mechanics of the operation,
if the sentiment of the operation failed,
at least the mechanics were there.
It was well executed, poorly conceived, well executed.
Look at his eyes.
Yeah.
Look at his eyes, you have the eyes of a madman.
You know that, don't you?
The eyes of a predator.
These are my eyes.
These are the eyes.
Why is it okay to poke fun at somebody's physical appearance?
These are my eyes.
It's true that the eyes are not often lumped in with the common
slights that people are sensitive about physically.
Usually it's things like weight.
I'm not saying they're not...
Hide in some cases.
I'm not saying you're unattractive or anything like that.
But eyes is usually...
You think that's safe territory?
You think it's okay to poke fun at someone physically as long as it's just the eyes?
Your eyebrows get actually high and your eyes...
Why is that? Do you see it? Do you guys see it?
Why is this not inappropriate?
Be fair, you talked about his ass earlier.
Yeah, but I enjoyed your ass.
I wasn't criticizing your ass.
I didn't say your ass was aesthetically displeasing.
You threw it on my ass
and I'm not allowed to talk about your eyes?
You could talk about my eyes complimentary.
You're insulting my eyes.
I'm not insulting them.
I'm just saying why are our eyes exempt
from the normal rules of physical courtesy?
Okay, I need a, I'm so upset now,
I need a glass of this Wurzlauer to calm down.
Ah, hmm, Wurzlauer.
I don't know that this is valuable to anybody.
I don't know if anyone's still listening at this point.
If people are listening in a rental car,
they've probably veered it sharply to the right
and hit an oak tree.
They've gone to a better place.
I just want to say that once again,
this was the Conan and Jordan show,
and we did our best to bring you
my relationship with Jordan Schlansky.
It's a strange one.
I can't quantify it.
I can't qualify it.
Those are two Qs. And shout out to Questlove. It's a strange one. I can't quantify it. I can't qualify it.
Those are two Q's.
And shout out to Questlove.
But we're taking off now and Jordan, happy journeys to you.
Thank you.
In all you do here.
And to you.
Have a drink.
Got out of LA from Italy, naturally carbonated.
Go ahead, have a sip.
Sure doesn't have the bubble size of a Gerol Steiner, but.
A sip. Excellent. Have a sip. Elegant. If sip. Sure, it doesn't have the bubble size of a Gerold Steiner, but... Have a sip.
Excellent.
Have a sip.
It's elegant.
If you can sip, you can't talk.
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