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A six-part series with Conan O’Brien, Sonom of Sessian and Matt Gourley. Let's get started. Here we are with Summer S’mores 2024. This has become quite the tradition now. How did it all start Summer S’mores? I forget. We were doing the first year in studio at the Irwolf Studios but I think it was just based off a joke where we were trying to get you be more chill like Sonah and me. Right? It all started on Ravel.
I've been thinking about it. Then it became, we got into a big argument about s'mores. Yes. And I took the position which scandalized Sonah at the time that s'mores are a treat that people think they're supposed to enjoy but a lot of people really don't. I didn't know people didn't like them. I know. You were, you made a fool of yourself. No, and there are people that liked them but I was surprised. There's one of the first times Matt that you agreed with
me. It really was when I think we grew a lot closer. It's a very dry treat. That's when we moved in together. Yeah. We shared an apartment without driving each other crazy. But it's a very dry treat. It's not particularly, I think people think they're supposed to like it. Yes, s'mores but a lot of people don't. So anyway, we took down s'mores and then a lot of fans called in and agreed with me and I felt empowered.
And I felt seen for the first time. Oh, did you? Yeah. I'm so happy for you that you felt seen. I finally felt seen. So anyway, we started joy and you don't like things that bring joy. There you go. That's very good. So we started doing these this series and started taking them outside, which was fun. And then we thought every year we want to elevate it because the fans seem to really enjoy this. Yeah.
It's a summer treat. They just do. And we've got to do. This is what Adam Sacks calls fan service. He's like, well, we should do some fans service. And I'm like, hey, Mr. corporate ladder. Can't you just say, why don't we try to make people that like our show happy? And he's like, it's called fan service.
Business school. That's what they taught us. Reservicing the fans. Yeah. Okay. Digitally. Huh? Reservicing them. Get it? I'm trying not to. We're blowing everyone digitally. I see. Oh, it's a it's a it's a sexual thing. We're servicing the fans. Got it. Yeah. Yeah. Blown them. Okay. So we wanted to elevate it. We just failed to do. It'd be nice to break even again. Be nice. But we thought we thought we'd go someplace.
We're trying to think of where to go. And then someone that kind of threw down the gauntlet because I remember sometimes about how far away she lives, which is in Altadena. Yes. Altadena. Yeah. And I'm still it's not on a lot of maps. Like if you go on Google maps, they don't show Altadena. There's just a blurred area.
Even if you just Google Altadena, it doesn't come up. Yeah. No, but I looked at a map. I know I live. I looked at a map of the greater Los Angeles area. And as it got over towards Altadena, it got blurry. And then there were just drawings of sea monsters. Because a lot of early sailors just didn't know what was over there. So they drew sea monsters. A lot of people just think now it's in Westoros.
It is featured. Altadena is featured in the last season of Game of Thrones. There's different kind of cool castles that come folding out and come rising up. Those cool meat. And then there's Altadena, which is just one gear, spinning on its own.
Broken, broken. But anyway, you said let's go to Altadena. So I thought, you know what? I'm going to shut up enough of my jokes about, you know, Cam over on the west side. And I have to go to Altadena. That's not cool. How about embrace this? This is a fun thing. So I got my shots. Can I ask a question? When you get to Altadena, you're not going to make any jokes then. I don't think so. You know what? I'm going to say something. I'm going to say something. I know me. Yeah.
And I'm not the kind of guy to take a bit and just drive it into the ground. Not only will you not make any jokes, they won't probably be the same ones you're making right now. Probably not. Because we definitely have not recorded. No, no, you won't make me. I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I have no intention of doing those cheap. I got my passport. You know, I changed my currency. Like, that's stuff. That's stuff. Any a sixth, a sixth year old could make those jokes.
A child. A child. And so no, I won't do that. And also I'll embrace that it's a rich, vibrant community. It is. Is there like a playhouse or a museum there? What? What do you mean? Like a for yes? Is there a couple of things? There's things. There's things. There's things. Everybody. There are other things that other places have. When did you become a guy in a David Mammoth play? There's things. This thing.
We had to normal community. It's got everything. And also say one thing that it has. You can't keep saying normal community. We have a store. We have a store. Do you have a driver? Do we have a place where you can get food? We have a place. You can. You can go there and you can get things that you can go. Yes.
Okay, well, you just answered all my questions. There's a cultural center. There are museums. Is there a library? There has to be. There's definitely a library. The out to Dino library is actually a pretty cool library. Have you been there? Oh, yeah, I've been there. Do you know your pony express writer? Did anybody get that? I don't know. Okay. Yeah, he did. What do you mean like mail? Yeah. Oh, God. Well, listen, I really. Why have I joined in on this?
I know. You live like 15 minutes away from me, Matt. I know. But it has a point. You're 15 minutes out there. Oh, my God. I'm just, you know what? It's a lovely community. There's horses. There's a lot of like people who have. Have you seen the original Wonder Woman? The first movie? You know that way and her. I haven't on her island. Yeah. You can't see it. And then you go through some fog. And then you just pier it. And then suddenly there's this amazing island.
It's like literally like six miles off of New Jersey. Oh, the recent one. Yeah, the one that came out. There was like a movie that came out of like the first 73. The first gal. Oh, yeah. What I'm talking about is I think that's a little bit Altadino, which is it's close to Pasadena, but very far away in other ways.
Like Brigadune or Atlantis or something. It's a little bit mythical. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'll take it. It's a lovely town. It's a great place to live. And yeah, you guys are just jealous. No, I'm anyway. Well, listen, we're going to go. We're going to go to Altadino. Yeah. And I am looking forward to it. Is there anything that you would advise me to bring along in preparation for this track?
Bear spray. What? No. Do you have bears in the area? There are bears. Okay. But they don't like. No, they do. They'll come if you're there. There's a lot of coyotes. Fans. Yeah. You said they'll come if you're there. Yeah, they're online. They'll probably hear about this. No, they don't get. I mean, they're not like scared of people really. They like go through people's trash a lot. We have a lot of coyotes. I wonder if we'll see.
I'm going to buy a lot of peacocks. You know what I'm going to say? I am. I do fear a bear. I don't. I just don't know why I don't fear a coyote. Even just a bunch of them. I think I would just charge them and start swinging. I think like they're just dogs. I'd start swinging away at them. I say like I can fight a pack of coyotes. I think I could. I'm a man to just save the dogs life from two coyotes.
They were running down the street. Oh, I thought they were blackmailing the dog. She intervened and called the authorities. She called elder abuse. They were the coyotes were in engagement and online scam. They were calling a little dog and saying, you don't buy your cousin. The coyotes talk, but the dog doesn't talk. Little dog doesn't talk in this reality. And the coyotes can't talk. The coyotes can't kind of talk. And those things like just send a check to
the coyotes. I love the idea of the coyotes. They're just calling. It's this shitty scam. They're working. It's kind of. Yeah. That's good. Good bit. It's a good bit. It's pretty good. He's so pleased with you. I want to actually hear how she just chased them down and got them away from the dog. They were starting to circle. She went into like,
talk about Amazon warrior woman. She just went ballistic and screamed and ran down the street, flailing her arms. And my daughter started freaking out and it was crazy. Who's dog? We don't know. It's just someone. Some they did. Now, so they left where they they were full on attacking the dog. You know what they do? Coyotes. They have one coyote that kind of lures a dog. They hadn't attacked it physically yet. They were circling.
Yeah. I've always heard that there's a coyote that comes out and maybe sort of puts on a wig and some lipstick. And it's just like, you know, have like my, some pretty broad shoulders and a fluffy tail. And the dog is like, I don't want to come with me. And then they lead to one of the woods and the dog is like, are you sure there's a bar here? I don't know. I'm sure. Honey trap. Just keep on and this way. And then suddenly you realize there's like, you know, 30 coyotes around.
Maybe not. So honey trap or honey pot. Is it a honey pot? Honey trap implies more. There's a you're snared. You know. Yeah, but what a way to go. Ripped apart by dogs. Oh, forget I said that. It's a guy who always says, but what a way to go and hopes that it's applicable. Anyway, they burned up on reentry. Yeah, but what a way to go.
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I will say this I am excited to go to your home. I am to. Yeah and I know that listen I've been to your house before in daylight. I have not been to Altadena in the in the nighttime. Yeah and I don't think many people have. No it's just one of those things that they tell you that like when you land at the airport don't go to Altadena late at night.
Is there electricity? Yes it's a normal town if there's stuff. Okay. Stop saying there's stuff. Well you keep calling it normal which makes me think it's not normal because we're joking but then when you say that I think maybe there's something to do. You want a burger? There's a burger. There's a burger. There's a burger in a field. There's a burger in a field and even the coyotes won't touch it. There's a park. There's the town burger.
Yeah. You want a sheet of burger? It's out here. I'll show you. Why are you wearing a wig coyote? Why are you want a sheet of burger? Then you get to the burger. My burger looks kind of old. Why are you taking your wig off? So I think we're going to have a good time. I think so too. You know what I'm going to say this and I know this sounds a little corny but when I'm with you guys I have a good time. So I think wherever we go we'll make it a good time even if it's Altadena.
Come on you are so close. You're so close to being nice. Altadena is a really cool place. Stop shouting. It is. It's a cool place. Would you ever run for a city council and come part of the Cano community service? You're a famous person that lives in Altadena. There's no city council. It's not incorporated. It's an unincorporated part of Los Angeles County. Wait, there's no city council. As far as I know. No, it's part of the greater Los Angeles. When you turn your faucet. What comes out?
Hasadena has incorporated Altadena. We're. I will live someplace. It isn't incorporated. I need to be part of an incorporation where you currently live is an unincorporated part of Los Angeles. Don't say where I live. I'm just saying. Listen, people just need to remember that I live in Catalina. No, but where you live is not incorporated. You don't have like, you know, your own stuff. You don't have like a fire department. You have LA or a party department. No, that's insane.
Well, you guys just have a bucket for good. You have so close to me. I really live close by within the corporate realm. Yeah, fastino. Right. And you know, we have like, I don't have anything, but there's some celebrities that live in the area. I know they all have like robot drones that will take care of. If shit goes down. There's robots that will get a robot drone. No, no, no, Altadena. The robot would be like, thanks, but no, I'm good. I heard it down.
Wait, is it I'm checking Google sea monsters. I think you're a robot. You have to do what I tell you to do. I have to do most things, but that's a little sketchy. Outside of my directive. I'll just hang out in Pasadena. It's incorporated a legal tax entity. Are we going to drink? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, you make it a cocktail. I worked up something. Yeah. I don't know. It's called the smore sesian. Hey, in honor of you. That's nice. Yeah.
That'll come along later in the batch of episodes though. That's cool. Yeah. It's you. This man Matt Gourley makes a mean cocktail. Sure does. You really are an artist. I don't know what I'm doing, but thank you. Quite good. You know, as long as we, you know, within reason, you know, as long as we just sip lightly and we don't go ahead to a waiting for later in the episodes.
We're not going to get to it right away. That's good. That's good because they can obliterate an episode. Yeah. I've seen it happen in the past. I think it's fun. I know you do. I know you do. But I'm not taking you home in a wheelbarrow again. It helps me tolerate. These Aladina jokes actually. So, uh, I think it is our best interest. It's a whole kind of joke now, Aladina. The city.
She said these Aladina jokes. Oh, yeah. She's become like a whole kind of like mother-in-law jokes. Yeah. Yeah. Aladina. I think I want to ask the people of Aladina to rise up. It's all right. I don't know. Well, you can do something. Speaking of, and this isn't, uh, no pun intended, but it is very high. You're a very high altitude. It is a high altitude. Yeah. How to altitude. Al to do. Al to do. Al to do. It is. It's a high altitude. It's nice. It's in the fire zone.
But it's a, it's really pretty up there. There's so much hiking. It is beautiful. There's, you know, waterfalls nearby. There's, uh, it's just cool. I think that I think you, you got to give it a chance. You sold me. I'm going to. I'm coming. All right. I'm going to get. Yeah. I'm going to go and, uh, and experience Al to do.
Are you doing anything to the house to prepare for the onslaught of crew and cameras and stuff? You know, I want to make that clear to people that I know we have a very casual vibe here, but this is a professional organization. We are, I'm just going to say we're a big podcast. And when we move, an army moves with us. Yeah. I mean, really dedicated people come and, uh, they set it all up.
It take care of everything. It's, it's very impressive. Yeah. I mean, to see probably at least 20 people coming to something like this. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm going to get food because I have to give people some food. Yeah. You're, and what will you get? Oh, we're parents, be run. Yeah. They're going to watch the boys. Okay. We get the burger. The burger. Yeah. Well, you can get the burger. We could do the pizza. We hit. I don't know. I was going to just get some like, you know, but eggs from.
What? Sorry. What? It's a cheese filled puff pastry. What? I don't know what that is. I don't see. I don't know what a poor egg is. You wouldn't. No, no, and I wouldn't know. What is it? It's a cheese filled puff pastry. Like filling it. There's like different, but there's a lot of different cultures. Is there a minion or Greek? Um, I think that there's versions in many cultures. Okay.
But in our culture, it's, yeah, it's just like puff pastry. And then there's cheese. And then you bake it where you can fry it. There's so many different ways to make it. And then, you know, I'll probably just get some other stuff.
I have people coming to my house and not feed them. My mom would be furious. Are you good about that? I'm very good at when people come over. I want to feed them. I want to. I want there to be bounty when people come over to my house. Yeah. Yeah. And I, my wife, that wasn't her culture so much.
And I, we, you know, we, we worked that out over time. Okay. You brought her over to your side. I did. And the early days should say, oh, and I, I purchased a, there are three people coming and I purchased three thin wafer. That surprises me. No, she's so sweet. She's very nice. She just didn't know. And I come from these, just a giant crazy pirate ship of, of insane people who just buy tons of corn, beef and rolls and just lots of everything.
If two people, whatever food you would need by 10 times that much is what, how I was raised. Yeah, same. Yeah. Okay. Well, I think we did it. Is it done? Sure sounds like it. It'd be done. Hey, a quick question. Yeah. What should I be wearing? Are there, are there mosquitoes? Does it get super cold? Yeah, there's a lot of random insects. But you should just, just, just dress kind of, kind of warm and then we'll have a fire. And so it'll be fine.
Would it be off putting if I came in a very, very fancy trailer and I was inside and I would just like starwagon. Yeah. And I would just peek out the window occasionally. You guys, but I was inside and I was, you know, watching Lawrence of Arabia and HD and eating like an incredible view Parmesan and wearing a silk, a silk lounging road. And then every now and then I lean out my head and go to some of us. There's nothing like it. And then I closed my little window and you'd hear.
So the rest of the episode is just me and Sonah hanging out. No, but I occasionally lean my head out. Yeah. I'm there for the entire episode. Right. But I only occasionally lean out. That's that's pretty good. I actually wouldn't mind that. I want the cocktail early. But then you then you keep noticing that incredible foods and masseuses are going in. All kinds of there's just a constant stream of people going in to take care of my various. But we still need. Yeah, just to do it.
That's fine. You mentioned that I have a generator. That's fine. It's very loud and shoot out a lot of toxic smoke. But it's there. It's there to power. How do you think your mouth already runs? It's there to power my massage chair. I think that sounds like a good time. We should definitely do a summer smores one time where it's just me and Matt. Yeah, I'll be fine. You know what? I'm okay with that. Okay. You know what? I don't think the fans will miss me at all.
Oh my god. I'm so full of myself. All right. Well, guys, let's head out to Sonah's place right now for episode two to Al Tadina to see the wonders of a new world. Okay, it's just a normal place. Al Tadina. What a normal things. Tom my wife. I loved her. Okay. I drive there. We already sent out the scouts. They didn't come back.
The horse came back without them. He sent a horse. They came out. They went on a horseback and then the horse just comes back without him. And old Westerns, that's how you know there's trouble. Okay. Yeah. That's good. Right.
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