Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend XX
[0] This is Rob Lo, and welcome to one of my bucket lists.
[1] A lot of people want to climb Mount Everest before they die.
[2] A lot of people want to play in Wimbledon before they die.
[3] I've wanted to strangle Conan O 'Brien, throw him behind his desk, and take over his goddamn show.
[4] Since the day I met that red -headed, pasty, hilarious Harvard nerd.
[5] And guess what?
[6] Today is the day.
[7] I am hijacking this podcast to preview my own podcast.
[8] that, okay, Conan and I are partners on it.
[9] I don't really hate him.
[10] It's more for laughs.
[11] Well, I kind of do hate him.
[12] But anyway, here's a quick preview of my new podcast, literally with Rob Lowe, with my very first guest, the amazing Chris Pratt.
[13] What was your favorite movie and TV show growing up?
[14] Were you like a $6 million man guy like me?
[15] I wasn't a $6 million man guy for TV.
[16] I mean, I kind of grew up for television.
[17] a lot of after -school specials.
[18] Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop there.
[19] Have you seen my after -school specials?
[20] Wait, I don't, maybe.
[21] Which ones?
[22] It's been a while.
[23] How about schoolboy father?
[24] I don't know.
[25] If I did, it's been a while.
[26] All I remember is learning some good, it was back in the day when I was very young, like I said, you know, low bar for criticism.
[27] And I remember it was back when television.
[28] really cared about instilling values in kids.
[29] And so their after -school special would be about your conscience or doing the right thing or making sure, you know, if a stranger talks to you that you tell somebody, these kind of things.
[30] So I remember, like, getting like, I feel like a lot of my moral compass in life came from those types of movies.
[31] Yeah, my, my, my, my, my, don't become a schoolboy father.
[32] Don't do like, like a kid who's in school who becomes a father.
[33] Yes.
[34] Wow.
[35] How old?
[36] How old of a father?
[37] Fifth?
[38] Fifteen.
[39] Oh, I think you're going to say fifth grade.
[40] I was going to be like, what?
[41] Oh, my God.
[42] That's so great.
[43] 15, yeah.
[44] Hey, listen, don't do that.
[45] If you can, if you can avoid it.
[46] That baby had to be given up.
[47] Is that true?
[48] I could not care for it.
[49] No, no. Dana Plato from different strokes.
[50] Was that who it was?
[51] Yeah, she was the mother of the schoolboy father.
[52] It was called schoolboy father?
[53] Well, that was the best because the titles were always exactly what the plot was.
[54] they just like put it right out there yeah you know one's going to be like what's that about no no and but they're always way ahead of their time it was like you know my mother's bulimia yeah like oh this is going to be a story about a girl whose mother has bulimia yeah exactly all right yeah they don't leave anything to question my mom loves those still loves those she'll call me and tell me the plot of one of those movies oh boy as if it like legit happened to someone yeah for sure yeah that's really close to her she's like and you're not going to believe it the guy next door was actually spying on her the whole time i'm like what what you can you can't even write this kind of fiction you know like uh yeah mom that's but she loved them so those those were my those were my i like the after school specials but you know then i grew up in like that that strange time of tea where I don't know if the stuff was good or if it was just good because it was all that was available, which I feel like happens, I feel like that was the case, you know, you see it in these emerging markets.
[55] I saw it when I was in China.
[56] When we were doing Jurassic World Press in China, they had just opened up the country to, you know, entertainment beyond just state -sponsored television.
[57] So like they only had a handful of channels.
[58] It feels like what America must have been in the 50s or something, you know, like the 50s and 60s, where you had, like, news, you had NBC and ABC or something like that.
[59] You're like two networks and a news channel.
[60] And it was like in China, it was the same thing.
[61] They had like a government, a state -sponsored weather news kind of channel.
[62] And then there was one channel that had some kind of entertainment, but it was the only entertainment channel they had.
[63] And you look and it's like really low production quality because there's just not that much competition, you know, but people really like it.
[64] And I think I lived through that era.
[65] It was maybe in the 90s, which shows like full house and family matters and, you know, like the one where the little girls are robot with Small Wonder.
[66] Oh, that was amazing.
[67] You know, these kind of shows where if you watch them now, you're like, this is, it just, we've come so far.
[68] Yeah.
[69] You look back.
[70] No, no, you can say it.
[71] They're not good.
[72] They're not good.
[73] How could I have loved them so much?
[74] And it's because there just wasn't a lot of competition, you know.
[75] But then it's small wonder.
[76] But small one But then like Yeah Like So good There was the one about Butler Mr. Belvedere Mr. Belvedere You know Like Well there's a Mr. Belvedere Was that That was like You know Magnificent Ambersons Compared to You know By the way That's another movie People always talk about The Magnificent Ambersons It's Orson Well's Finest Uvra That one I've never seen I've never seen that one People go on and on About that one I use it only as a punchline For very obscure reference jokes Oh The Yeah the small one or, God, I can't believe that you brought that up.
[77] That was amazing.
[78] The girl played a robot.
[79] Yeah, like a guy who made a little girl robot, and no one at the time ever questioned whether he was a pervert.
[80] Like, if we made that now, you know that would be the question.
[81] Be like, why did he make a little girl robot?
[82] He could have, like, first of all, he fucking cracked the code on artificial intelligence.
[83] Like, like, like, our AI sentient being intelligence.
[84] And he, and he wants to just make, I mean, it's kind of cute.
[85] He makes himself a daughter, actually.
[86] It'd be a pretty good movie now.
[87] I'm going to go out to Dakota Fanning's people and see if she's available.
[88] Oh, see, now, look at how quickly you've turned.
[89] You're like, wait a minute.
[90] So this is what happens when you get a big production company like you have now.
[91] You're like just mining hit movies out of fucking everything.
[92] See, that was fun.
[93] That wasn't too bad, was it?
[94] You didn't miss Conan O 'Brien all that much, did you?
[95] That's a taste of what you're going to get on my new podcast, literally with Rob Lo, which you can find on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever else you download your podcasts.
[96] And if you tune in, I've got some really good Parks and Rec stuff that Chris and I talked about.
[97] So, see you there.
[98] New episodes every Thursday.
[99] This has been a team cocoa production in association with Stitcher.