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[4] Hi, Ellen.
[5] Welcome to Conan O 'Brien needs a fan.
[6] Hi, Alan.
[7] How are you?
[8] I'm good, thanks.
[9] How are you?
[10] We're very good.
[11] So Ellen O 'Brien, and you're coming to us, I'm just going to guess, from Ireland, right?
[12] Yes, I am.
[13] Okay, where are you in Ireland right now?
[14] So I'm in Tullamore, so it's in the middle.
[15] lands.
[16] Oh, how far are you from Dublin?
[17] How far is Tolomor from?
[18] It's about an hour, roughly.
[19] Okay.
[20] Ireland's not huge, so a lot of things are an hour from something else.
[21] Isn't that right?
[22] Yeah, so I'm an hour towards the middle.
[23] Tolomor.
[24] Literally in the middle Ireland.
[25] Tullamore sounds like a magical land, doesn't it?
[26] It's like filled with pixies and lepracons and unicorns.
[27] Tullamore has a very, just a fairy tale kind of feel to it.
[28] There's definitely some strange creatures.
[29] I'm sorry, Ellen, those are called Irish people.
[30] Yes, yes, that would be done.
[31] So, okay, your name is Ellen O 'Brien.
[32] I'm in O 'Brien as well, as you may know.
[33] And so we're probably distantly related in some way.
[34] Yes, we definitely are.
[35] Everybody is related.
[36] I know.
[37] That's the problem.
[38] I found out a few years ago that because I, a DNA test and found out that even though I've been living in this country for my family has at least for about 150 years, I am still 100 % 100 .00 % Irish because it's the skin color and the hair.
[39] Yeah, and all the relatives.
[40] We didn't branch out.
[41] No one, no one got creative with their life partner.
[42] Everybody just married the person who was brushing their teeth next to them in the bathroom and that and that and 150 years after that and look at me so what about you are you are your parents is one of them from Spain or the other one from France no unfortunately not I'm 100 % Irish I was born in England that's my claim to non -Irish fame right right yeah I'm a cent Irish all right so Ellen I'm trying to understand a little bit about your background tell me about your parents.
[43] What are their names?
[44] So my dad, Ray, he was born an O 'Brien, and he met my mom when he was 21, who is Tina O 'Brien.
[45] Wait a minute.
[46] Was she born Tina O 'Brien or she took his last name?
[47] No, she was born, Tina O 'Brien.
[48] Oh, my God.
[49] What?
[50] For God, wait a minute.
[51] Did they brush their teeth next to each other?
[52] Wait a minute.
[53] An O 'Brien met and married an O 'Brien.
[54] this is what I've been talking about this is the problem what are you guys doing not we're not roaming far from the house that's for sure you're not roaming far from the family they're not related of course not they're both from teeny tiny town in Ireland and they're both named O 'Brien but of course there's no feck in relationship sorry about that no they're I'm sure they grew up blocks from each other Yeah, there's five in it today.
[55] Well, I'm one to talk because, as I've said, my family, yeah, lots of O 'Brien's marrying O 'Brien's.
[56] Oh, well, I turned out perfectly normal.
[57] Yes, you did.
[58] Perfectly normal.
[59] Oh, you're a very good lawyer and liar.
[60] You're going to make a great lawyer.
[61] Ellen, this is the point.
[62] Ellen, this is the point I've been trying to make.
[63] to people here in America.
[64] You, so you...
[65] They're not related, though, I should just say...
[66] Oh, sure, they're not related.
[67] You just said you're all related.
[68] Yeah, I mean, at least move on to cousins.
[69] Just get to the extended family.
[70] Here's what I don't understand, Ellen.
[71] You basically just said we both come from this tiny town and one O 'Brien married another, and now you're their daughter.
[72] But don't worry, it's all above board.
[73] No problems.
[74] My mother's side of the family came from Mayo, so the west of Ireland, and they...
[75] My nanny married an O 'Brien and Tullamore, so they're not related.
[76] Okay, yeah, sure.
[77] You're just all from the same tiny green island.
[78] And Jean -Pool.
[79] Yes.
[80] We're not related.
[81] I live on this side of the house.
[82] She lives on that side of the house.
[83] She's 15 feet away from me. So tell us about yourself other than, well, first of all, you and I have a lot in common.
[84] We're both O 'Brien's.
[85] We're both 100%.
[86] We're both terribly imbred.
[87] but you do you find that you suffer sometimes depression do you get depressed sometimes oh wow okay it's the weather oh it's the weather you think I'm telling you it's the genes it's in the genetics it's not the weather I swear to God you can move to Miami and you'll still be wandering around saying I god damn it I can't take it anymore because that's me I live in Los Angeles and I used to think oh it must be the weather the clouds.
[88] No, it's in our mind.
[89] It's in our DNA strand.
[90] Sorry.
[91] Yeah, yeah.
[92] It's because if we stray too far away, we get sunburned.
[93] Exactly.
[94] Yeah, yeah.
[95] That's why.
[96] That's why we're supposed to live under that carpet of clouds.
[97] But let me get back to their...
[98] Tell me a little bit about what you do.
[99] Tell me what you do for a living, Ellen.
[100] So I'm actually a law student in Dublin, but in my spare time or at the weekends, I work in a whiskey distillery in Tullamore.
[101] Of course you do Lucky That's a great job First of all What do you do at the whiskey Distillery So I'm a tour guide So when we get visitors Like yourselves coming over I'm the one that brings them around And tells them all about Tollebord you Our whiskey Oh I've heard of that whiskey Yeah Yeah That's supposed to be a good whiskey It's the best Are you a good tour guide?
[102] Yeah well I like to channel you On my tours a little bit Wait a minute, what do you mean?
[103] I do be doing like bits and sometimes people get the joke.
[104] Usually the Americans do, but sometimes it doesn't go down too well.
[105] Let me tell you something.
[106] The minute you said you channeled me, I knew it didn't go down well.
[107] That's, um, don't, I think it's a big mistake, Ellen.
[108] I think you should channel someone else.
[109] What are some of the bits that you do?
[110] I need to like tone it down a bit because.
[111] You don't really want your lawyer cracking jokes.
[112] So I need to kind of bring it down to maybe a more matte or sona level.
[113] Yeah.
[114] You mean people that actually like themselves are secure in their own skin.
[115] They're not Irish.
[116] They don't understand.
[117] So, okay.
[118] Don't go that far.
[119] Yeah.
[120] Sorry about that.
[121] So, Ellen, so you're channeling me as you give these Irish whiskey tours.
[122] Let me ask you a question.
[123] And you say the tourists like it, but the Irish don't love it so much.
[124] Let me ask you a question.
[125] How would the Irish people feel about me doing my bits?
[126] Would it go over well or would they be disgusted by the whole thing?
[127] Be honest.
[128] They'd never let it show, obviously.
[129] But it would depend.
[130] You'd have the older types that would be nodding along and they'd secretly be thinking, God, it's a bit of an Egypt, isn't it?
[131] I love how Egypt.
[132] I'm an Egypt.
[133] That's idiot.
[134] In case you didn't know.
[135] Yeah, I kind of inferred.
[136] Yeah.
[137] Thanks for translating.
[138] Yeah.
[139] I just have to translate here.
[140] Wow.
[141] Yeah, I could see that.
[142] I could see that.
[143] I was, do you know the comedian Dar O 'Brien?
[144] You've heard of him ever?
[145] Dar O 'Brien, yeah.
[146] Well, I've heard I thought he was O 'Brien, but Dar O 'Brien.
[147] Oh, great, another O 'Brien.
[148] Yeah, another O 'Brien.
[149] He's very funny.
[150] But he performed in the town that I'm from, which is Dungarvin, Waterford.
[151] And he said it was a really tough town.
[152] And he's very funny, and he said he did a, show there once and nobody laughed and then he was trying to go to his car and one of the people from the crowd got between him and his car and he said you're about as funny as a shite in a bed that's waterford for you though that's my people oh my god that's the way and that's the way my family talks to me yeah no waterford is great it's great uh wow i don't believe you yeah yeah sure i'm trying my best sonna i know It's sweet.
[153] So, wow, that's incredible.
[154] So you're just going to, you're studying law, okay?
[155] And you're also giving tours at a distillery where you channel me and you say the bits don't go over well with the Irish, which makes total sense.
[156] Yeah.
[157] What kind of law?
[158] What do you want to do with your law degree?
[159] What kind of, would you like to get into criminal law?
[160] I see our money in first year so we haven't actually covered everything but I am enjoying criminal law and also torch law so kind of the law of personal injury stuff like that but I'd like to do I don't know if you've seen the rookie on Netflix with Noah Centennial kind of like to do something like that we'll see I haven't so you'd like to do a TV show is what you're saying or you want to do the kind of law that the person does in the TV show yeah yeah yeah like with the FBI, something like that.
[161] Oh, you'd like to be an investigator?
[162] Yeah, yeah.
[163] Okay, that's fascinating.
[164] I wonder, I mean, that's curious to me. I wonder if you could ever use anything from your whiskey background when you're investigating a crime.
[165] Do you know what I mean?
[166] Whiskey's actually quite an international conversation starter because like even like with older people, I can just bring up whiskey and that's the conversation started.
[167] but but yeah maybe I don't know yeah it's interesting you should say that because I know what your question is for Conan do you want to ask it yeah so my question Conan is what way do you drink your whiskey and what's your favorite Irish brand oh wow well these are really good questions I'm going to be honest with you I'm not a big whiskey drinker I I hate to say that because it sounds like I'm not judging you no it sounds like I'm I like that I'm being judged for not drinking too much whiskey.
[168] I feel like I'm being disloyal to my heritage.
[169] Can't you just lie?
[170] Yeah.
[171] Just lie so we could get a bottle.
[172] I like Finnegan's.
[173] Yeah.
[174] Finnegan's.
[175] I just made that up.
[176] Say, tell them or do.
[177] Tell them or do.
[178] I love Tellemore do.
[179] Yeah.
[180] That's a sound bite right there.
[181] Yeah.
[182] And what about Jamesons?
[183] It sounds like that's a competitor.
[184] I don't, I don't.
[185] Where is Jameson's from?
[186] Also Ireland.
[187] Who cares, right?
[188] Yeah.
[189] Yeah.
[190] Stuff's shite.
[191] My dad gave me Telemur -Due for my wedding.
[192] He gave me a nice bottle of Telemore -Due.
[193] I thought he hit you with a bottle of Telemore -Du.
[194] But I drank up all the stuff off the floor.
[195] I have to say, I like Tele -Mord -Due.
[196] I've had Telemore -Due and I like it.
[197] It's got a smooth.
[198] It goes down real smooth.
[199] That's important for me because I'm not the manliest of men.
[200] I like my whiskey smooth.
[201] How do you drink it?
[202] Do you drink it neat or do you put anything in there?
[203] Usually neat, but we have whiskey sours in Ireland.
[204] so it's quite like a cocktail.
[205] Yes.
[206] I love a whiskey sour.
[207] Man, that sounds good.
[208] Yeah.
[209] This is dry January for me, so this sounds good.
[210] Yeah.
[211] I like a whiskey sour that has like three starbursts in it, just dissolving slowly.
[212] I like, uh, I like some sugar in my drink.
[213] Yeah, you two are real men.
[214] Put an umbrella in there and I'm quite happy.
[215] We're man enough to know we're not men.
[216] An Irish coffee.
[217] An Irish coffee?
[218] Yeah, yeah, you got to love an Irish coffee.
[219] And, uh, I was watching, I was watching your tour of Guinness.
[220] And I just wanted to say that we start with the whiskey.
[221] So you don't need to be like waiting until the end.
[222] So we start in Irish coffee to get you warmed up.
[223] That sounds fantastic.
[224] That's very good.
[225] They should do that at more tours.
[226] Like if you go and you, I think basically if you go to like the, I don't know, FDR library, they should give you a drink when you get started.
[227] Any historic site should start with a strong.
[228] drink, you know?
[229] Well, we're here at Gettysburg.
[230] What do you have?
[231] Make mine a double.
[232] Welcome to the Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City.
[233] What do you have?
[234] Tell them more.
[235] Wow.
[236] So let me ask you a question.
[237] If I came by, let's say I visited you, what kind of things would we do?
[238] What would you show me?
[239] Oh, well, obviously, the distillery would be first on the list.
[240] you'd have to you a tour I'd probably bring you around Tolamore Town there's quite a lot of popes as is typical in Irish towns How do you think I'd be treated by the local population?
[241] I think you'd fit in Like a shite in a bed Well I know I wasn't going to say that I know I'd fit in visually I know I'd fit in visually but would my sense of humor go over well?
[242] Probably, yeah we've all got a bit of a weird sense of humor in Ireland so yeah you'd fit you'd fit right in okay I'll take that as a compliment I appreciate that and maybe I could and what law school are you going to so I'm in the technological university of Dublin very nice so yeah it's right beside the the president's house in Dublin oh okay who's the president oh it's not who's the president right now Joseph Biden Michael D. Higgins Joseph Biden I wasn't asking for a neurological exam Who's the president now?
[243] What day is it?
[244] Very nice Do you have a lot of brothers and sisters I'm actually an only child How will you marry?
[245] I brush my teeth There's no one for you Oh no Hi, you'll be an old maid Well, I think you're a lovely person.
[246] I like you, Ellen.
[247] Thank you.
[248] Ellen, O 'Brien, my long -lost cousin.
[249] Yes, you'll have to come visit.
[250] Visit all the other cousins.
[251] I will, yeah.
[252] I'm going to come.
[253] I'm going to drink way too much whiskey.
[254] Maybe I'll take over your tour for you.
[255] What if I did your tour?
[256] Yeah, and then I'll give anyone laughing.
[257] Maybe.
[258] Maybe even you will say this isn't working for me. This man's an idiot.
[259] This man's an idget.
[260] Let me ask you a quick question.
[261] When I grew up, my mother used to call me a bold stump.
[262] She said, ah, you're a bold stump, a bold stump.
[263] Is that an Irish saying bold stump?
[264] Have you ever heard it?
[265] I have not.
[266] No. But I'm sure they're different language in water.
[267] first so yeah they're primarily italian down there yes yes all right well really nice talking to you best of luck thanks so much looking forward to our i'll see you in the distillery one of these days oh trust me hang around the distillery long enough and o 'brien will show up yeah nice talking to you take care thanks so much guys thanks a lot bye bye conan o 'brien needs a fan with conan o 'brien sonam of sessian and Matt Gourley.
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