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[4] Hey, Trey, meet Conan and Sona.
[5] Hi there.
[6] Hey, Trey, how you doing?
[7] Good.
[8] How are you doing?
[9] I'm great.
[10] You sound like kind of a cool DJ.
[11] He's got a good voice, doesn't it?
[12] Yeah, he does.
[13] Yeah, thank you.
[14] I do a little bit of voiceover here and there.
[15] Yeah, you also have kind of a swagger to your voice.
[16] Like, hey, which I like.
[17] Yeah, yeah, thank you.
[18] Thank you.
[19] I appreciate that.
[20] I've heard it a few times before.
[21] Yeah.
[22] Yeah.
[23] Well, I envy anyone that you called to order a pizza.
[24] Must be nice.
[25] Can I hear you ordering it?
[26] I used to deliver pizzas.
[27] Can I hear you ordering a pizza right now?
[28] Pretend I just picked up.
[29] I'm at Domino's.
[30] Hello?
[31] Hi there.
[32] I'd like to deliver medium pepperoni.
[33] Nicely done.
[34] Nicely died.
[35] That pizza will be free, sir.
[36] Well, I'll take it.
[37] I'll take it.
[38] I like it.
[39] Slightly pervy, which we'll get into that later.
[40] But Trey, where are you calling from?
[41] Where are you right now?
[42] I'm in Los Angeles, California.
[43] Okay, you're probably not too far from us.
[44] Yeah, like North Culver City, probably.
[45] Very nice.
[46] Is that, is there a, is that either a, oh, that's a cat.
[47] Okay, good.
[48] Oh, yeah.
[49] It's so funny, I thought a ninja was creeping up on you because I just saw this, this sort of dark figure undulating in the background on the floor, and it looked like kind of shoulders, and then suddenly it leapt up and I saw it was a cat.
[50] Instead of an animal, you just thought it was a ninja?
[51] Nine times out of ten, it is a ninja.
[52] Nine times out of ten, I refer to her as a demon, so that makes sense.
[53] She's just a shadow.
[54] Trey, you live in Los Angeles, probably not too far from us, and you seem like a nice fellow.
[55] You've got fantastic pipes on you.
[56] Tell me what you do for living.
[57] So, yeah, I studied acting and film studies in school for a few years, and then I moved out to Los Angeles and more so I've been working as a game master at an escape room.
[58] Oh, wait a minute.
[59] So do you invent the games in the escape room?
[60] Is that what you do?
[61] Are you the one that writes out the stories and figure out what the theme is and all that?
[62] Not necessarily.
[63] I've worked at a couple different escape rooms.
[64] I worked at one place for a year and the current place I work at, I'm more so I'm just a game master.
[65] So I deliver the rules.
[66] I get the people in the room and then I'm kind the voice on the intercom, the person helping them, the person keeping the story maintained.
[67] Okay, tell me what are the themes of the games in this game room that you work?
[68] The one I work at, there's one called Secrets of the Pharaoh, which is like going back in time to ancient Egypt, and there's actual sand inside of the room.
[69] There's another one called Murder in London, where you're going back to 1890 solving a like Jack the Ripper -style murder.
[70] And then very good.
[71] Yeah, yeah, and there's one called the Demented Doctor, which is just, you know, crazy doctor goes on killing spree.
[72] Oh, I thought it was just an escape room where you're filling out forms.
[73] Your insurance keeps getting denied.
[74] You're like, no, I have to fill all of this out?
[75] I filled this out.
[76] No, we need to fill it out again.
[77] Yeah.
[78] I think that sounds fascinating.
[79] I live in an escape room.
[80] Did you know that?
[81] It's called a marriage.
[82] Hello.
[83] Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
[84] Oh, listen.
[85] Everyone loves your wife.
[86] Yeah.
[87] Oh, she's terrific.
[88] But I'm, you know, I must escape.
[89] Listen, that was a very funny joke in 1952.
[90] Were you born then?
[91] Oh, no. Long before I was born.
[92] Trey, would you just stop muttering?
[93] Your job is not to mutter here.
[94] No, I don't know why I am.
[95] I don't know why I am.
[96] I've done escape rooms.
[97] I did them with.
[98] my kids when they were younger and they loved them and then i did one with jordan slanski who's someone who i shoot remotes with uh yeah and um we shot an escape room remote that was kind of a private eye and uh i got very frustrated very quickly i i hate reading through papers trying to figure out what's relevant what's not i just kept wanting clues do most people want clues or do most people not want clues you know it's kind of complicated like i'm a lot better at running escape rooms than I am at playing them.
[99] And when they have you start, you have to try all the rooms.
[100] But if you don't have friends available to try the rooms with you, you just have to do the rooms by yourself.
[101] And it's impossible.
[102] So, you know, I had to learn the hard way.
[103] And then later running other people's rooms, you notice that there's different dynamics.
[104] Like men are, men are more prideful.
[105] And they know, especially on like a first date, you know, the dude is like, this is going to be fun.
[106] And then they end up ruining the relationship before it could ever start.
[107] So can you watch all of this unfold of their cameras?
[108] Yeah, yeah.
[109] It's interesting, you know, like at an old.
[110] What's some of the weirdest stuff you've seen happen in an escape room?
[111] Yep, exactly.
[112] This guy and his wife were a bit liquored up, I guess.
[113] And he was like, I hope you guys aren't watching the whole time because my wife is all over me. And I was like, oh, yep, we're watching the whole time.
[114] Did they do anything?
[115] No, no, they didn't do anything.
[116] Oh, okay.
[117] Did they escape?
[118] That's what you're wondering?
[119] Yeah, I don't, something tells me they didn't escape.
[120] Something tells me they spent very little time.
[121] Hey, look what's in this typewriter.
[122] Hey, I'm trying to fuck you.
[123] Well, I know.
[124] We'll get to that.
[125] But it says here, look out for Algernon.
[126] Who do you think Algernon is?
[127] In due time.
[128] We'll get there.
[129] Why are they talking like that?
[130] Why are they're in like a, it's like a 1920s escape room.
[131] It's like a detective story.
[132] And they're in character.
[133] Hey, you, take your pants off.
[134] Let's do, let's do the nasty.
[135] Hold on, we'll get to that, married one.
[136] Married one.
[137] This file here says Algernon's missing.
[138] So there is something about Algernon.
[139] It says the key is in the onion.
[140] Is that sex talk?
[141] Oh my God.
[142] So, okay, well, that sounds like a really, I mean, I think it sounds like fun.
[143] It sounds like you'd, and also, you are getting to use some of your performance jobs, you know?
[144] Yeah, yeah, exactly.
[145] You're, I think sometimes you seem like a young person.
[146] I think sometimes when you're in the business, it's kind of good to be sort of show business adjacent.
[147] If you're not in show business yet or you're not acting yet, these things can actually be kind of helpful.
[148] You know, you pay the rent and you also get to take part in fiction.
[149] play a role which i think is fun exactly exactly and i also you know i also uh have a small production company and we make like short films and cool and commercials and podcasts and stuff like that we just raised six thousand dollars to make a short film uh that we're going to be shooting in may and uh and yeah and we also played d and d every week so you know i'm always trying to use my creativity who when you say we who is we yeah so i have a i have like a team of three other guys and then me. It's my production company, Smoking Bandit Productions.
[150] Nice plug.
[151] You work it in.
[152] I like it.
[153] Thank you.
[154] They're also my close friends.
[155] Who are they?
[156] Let's hear their names.
[157] Seamus Curley, Anzin Kennedy, and Kyle Gill.
[158] That is one kooky law firm.
[159] I love it.
[160] I know.
[161] And you guys play, you guys played Dungeons and Dragons or is...
[162] Absolutely.
[163] David Hopping likes to refer to it, D &D.
[164] Yeah.
[165] A lot of people do.
[166] Please, it seems to be your own nickname for it.
[167] So you guys play D &D, and what's your role when you play Dungeons and Dragons?
[168] Which role do you take on?
[169] The role that I take on, my character is a three -foot -tall frog humanoid named a...
[170] What's a frog?
[171] No, he's a grung, so he's like a frog.
[172] Oh, I'm sorry.
[173] Okay, I should have seen that coming.
[174] Of course.
[175] He's a throng, he's a grung who's a throg, right?
[176] He's a, who's a frog, like a frog, not a frog.
[177] I thought he was a throg, but his name is grung.
[178] It's a frog whose name is grung.
[179] You misheard it.
[180] He's a frog, he's a frog.
[181] Oh, yeah, oh, I'm sorry, that's totally on me. The species is called a grung.
[182] And the character's name is screlonious stump.
[183] Yes, yes.
[184] See, this is what I was driving at, and I think I was right.
[185] He's a frog humanoid.
[186] Humanoid.
[187] Human -eyed.
[188] Human -eyed.
[189] Oh, my God.
[190] I'm from Massachusetts.
[191] He's a human -eyed.
[192] We need to call the hospital.
[193] And he's a throng, yes?
[194] He's a grung, yeah.
[195] And his name is scrylonious.
[196] I love that.
[197] Yes, screlonious jub -jub.
[198] You're getting everything wrong.
[199] Nothing's been right.
[200] But he lives.
[201] You're getting every part of it.
[202] No, no, let's just get it right.
[203] He's a frog.
[204] Yes.
[205] He's half human.
[206] His name is bling.
[207] Oh.
[208] You're so close.
[209] He's a groth.
[210] and he lives in Trubjug, his name's Philonius Stumpleton.
[211] I've been following everything, and you know what, this is, it's really good that I'm taking notes.
[212] I wrote everything down.
[213] Your page is blank.
[214] Your name is Bloop, yep.
[215] And your roommates are Shard, Gyg, and Sebdor.
[216] And you have a production company called Dibble -Dibbly -Dibbley -Doo.
[217] You just made a 90 -minute film called Guam -Gwam -Wabodad -Dee.
[218] Oh no That's an obscure one I didn't think he picked that one up His yes and skills are incredible I gotta update my resume I want to hang with you guys I think first of all I like the idea of hanging with your crew I think yeah I think you'd fit in with my crew You think I would?
[219] It's three Irishmen in me so And what is your nationality so to speak?
[220] I'm like Italian -Slovenian Oh cool It's always good to be a mix I think a mix is good.
[221] Yeah, right?
[222] Yeah.
[223] Pure Irish is just madness.
[224] I know.
[225] Yeah, nothing good there.
[226] Wait, you would want him to play D &D with you and your friends after what you just heard him do?
[227] I would know about D &D.
[228] Let's not go out.
[229] No, no, no, not D &D, but to hang out.
[230] Oh, to hang out.
[231] Yeah, we all put on our leather jackets and we walk around.
[232] And then, you know, whatever.
[233] If no one makes way for us on the sidewalk, we shove him around a little bit.
[234] He said yes.
[235] So don't keep going.
[236] Well, this guy, listen to him.
[237] He'd like, Hey, get out of our way.
[238] Scooch on over.
[239] That's what tough guys say, Trey.
[240] Scooch on over.
[241] Hey, scooch on over.
[242] Or I'll sick my frog humanoid on you.
[243] Habit -dabid a day.
[244] An notorious gang of three guys in Conan O 'Brien have been seen wandering around.
[245] Look out for them.
[246] They're wearing matching leather jackets.
[247] And they're warning people to scooch on They're very polite.
[248] They're very polite.
[249] When threatened, they'll run away and claim they'll be back with their frog humanoid friend.
[250] Man, isn't Trey a lot of fun?
[251] He is.
[252] This is fun.
[253] I liked him since I saw this stepbrothers poster on your wall.
[254] The Spider -Man.
[255] Oh, yeah.
[256] I got it all.
[257] The whole wall was covered.
[258] You just can't see it all.
[259] Yep.
[260] You sure got it all.
[261] Wait, that's a different cat behind you now.
[262] Oh, yeah.
[263] the other one.
[264] And it's attacking the poster for her.
[265] She hates the stepbrothers poster.
[266] She takes it down at least once a day.
[267] The rest she leaves up.
[268] Oh, there's an arm.
[269] Hands just came up.
[270] Someone just stole your cat and you don't even care.
[271] That was Seamus.
[272] Oh, Seamus.
[273] My God, Seamus does exist.
[274] I was certain that Seamus was.
[275] You thought he made him up?
[276] Well, when someone asks me, who was with you, I go, I always go, uh, Seamus Curley.
[277] Yep.
[278] It's my go -to fake name.
[279] Yep.
[280] It's my go -to fake name, too.
[281] Actually, my lover.
[282] Bukia.
[283] Well, who's going to co -sign this loan?
[284] Seamus Heaney.
[285] Or Seamus...
[286] What's it?
[287] James Coe?
[288] Sheimus He's a famous Irish poet.
[289] Yeah.
[290] I don't know.
[291] A lot of gin at breakfast.
[292] Hey, Trey, I like you.
[293] I like the cut of your jib.
[294] You're a very funny guy, and I think good things are in store for you.
[295] I really do.
[296] Oh, thank you.
[297] I don't know if you have...
[298] Do you have a question for me?
[299] possibly that's okay David I'll do it if you don't want to jump in that's okay okay hey Trey do you have a question for Conan there you got nice job thanks well you know I've been noticing you pop up in more like acting roles like in the weird out Yankovic movie and in the please don't destroy movie I was wondering like do you have any interest in like pursuing more acting and characters and stuff I don't I don't I'm not interested in pursuing it because I kind of love what I do but if the right, if, you know, like when the police don't destroy guys contacted me, I'm huge fan of theirs and I was flattered.
[300] And then when I saw that the role was just yelling at them, I said, oh, this is fantastic because that's my favorite thing to do.
[301] And so that was a yes.
[302] And of course, when weird Al calls, you know, you just say yes because it's weird Al. And so, yeah, when things like that come along and it feels like the right fit, I'm happy to do it, but it's not something where I've said, get the word out there, you know.
[303] Yeah.
[304] And I think there are plenty of really good actors out there that I don't think that my efforts are necessarily required.
[305] So if the right thing comes along, I'll do it.
[306] Well, you're always a delightful presence when you come across my screen.
[307] I'm always happy to see you pop up and things.
[308] Oh, that's so nice, Trey.
[309] Personally, there's always a role in anything I do for you.
[310] so oh really thank you for all the inspiration a little maybe a little cameo or something yeah man absolutely i i have a role in mind for you currently uh how much time commitment are we talking about i could give you like 11 minutes oh boy and no makeup probably that much that much max you know what i'm actually not kidding uh we'll get your information and if there's something i could do quickly to show up in one of your movies i would do it just for the sheer what the fuckery of it all you know And also, you seem like a nice guy.
[311] Awesome.
[312] Now, we haven't talked Price yet.
[313] Yeah, yeah.
[314] That's when it gets here.
[315] $800 ,000 a minute.
[316] Ooh.
[317] I'm going to have to get a loan, but I think we can make this work.
[318] Don't worry.
[319] I know who's going to co -sign it.
[320] I know you're a co -signor.
[321] Yeah, it's going to be.
[322] Shamus Curley.
[323] No, no, no. Please, please.
[324] It'll be my pleasure to do it for nothing.
[325] Oh, awesome.
[326] And you have that, you have that an audio record of that.
[327] Oh, perfect.
[328] I can use it in court.
[329] Oh, we're going to end up in court.
[330] Oh, yeah.
[331] You're going to edit it out of the episode.
[332] You know, it's funny.
[333] I'll do this thing for you, and I'll be so bad.
[334] It'll be an 11 -minute film, and you've got Conan O 'Brien, and you will cut me out of it.
[335] Like, it just didn't work in the final edit.
[336] Yeah, no one bought you as a comic, as an aging comic.
[337] What?
[338] Hey, Trey, really nice talking to you.
[339] You're a cool person, and maybe, yeah, maybe we'll be working together.
[340] That's great.
[341] would love nothing more.
[342] All right, my best to your roommates, even though they're clearly make -believe.
[343] And maybe I'll talk to you soon.
[344] Take care.
[345] Sounds good.
[346] Bye.
[347] Thank you very much.
[348] Bye now, guys.
[349] Nice to meet you, all.
[350] Nice to meet you, too.
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