Adam Sachs
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
The Rizzler of the year award. Rizzler.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Without giving anything away, I think that Will Forte also should get a shout out.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Will Forte.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
I sent Robert a photo. I looked up at one point and it was just, all you could see was Triumph like watching the show, sitting next to Will Ferrell, watching the show.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
You mentioned your speech, though. I do think it already has hundreds of thousands of views up on YouTube. An excerpt of the speech, which I will just say I thought was incredible and powerful. And in the moment, I think people got chills. I did. Watching this, hearing the speech in the moment. And I really suggest everyone go check it out. Okay.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Didn't Amy sort of reference that?
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Yes. I told you in the moment, Sweeney, his... He's so funny, and so he has a nonchalance about the way that he hosts, works. But I think it put everybody at ease.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
I wasn't sure if they were going to be there.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Were you nervous, Sweeney, knowing I was in the audience? I was. That's podcast maestro. Adam S-S-S-S-Sacks. I was just going to say that- Or it's Michael Cera. I can't tell which one. That's why Sweeney was nervous. The Kennedy Center put up a highlight clip on YouTube, if people want to watch it, of the night before.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
I think if you look on YouTube the night before Conan Twain, you'll find a highlight reel. And I think they can see Sona and Sweeney.
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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
I think May 4th.
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Nicholas Hoult
I agree with you that it's a waste. It's inefficient for there to be conversation happening off mic. But in Sona's defense. Yes. I think you're often guilty of the same thing, which is telling stories, chatting when we're not actually recording. So I agree with you in theory, but I have to say, I think that it's not just Sona.
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Nicholas Hoult
I just have to be, I just have to be my honest self. I have to be true to myself.
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Nicholas Hoult
But I do think Matt's right, though. I think you are usually thoughtful about if you're going to tell a story that is appropriate for the podcast, you will save it for the podcast.
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Nicholas Hoult
We talked about a lot in about seven minutes before you walked in today.
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2024 Memorable Moments: Conan, Sona, and Matt
Oh, he didn't say it was bad. Oh, great.
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2024 Memorable Moments: Conan, Sona, and Matt
Oh God, you all right, sonny?
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2024 Memorable Moments: Conan, Sona, and Matt
He never took it. He went, she was like, yeah, oh yeah, I took it. Oh, there you go.
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Adam Devine
I have a one-year-old now, and my wife was like, we have to get him baptized. And I know no other way. So I'm like, yeah, he's Catholic. And my wife was like, no, he's not. And I'm like, meh. Might as well just make him Catholic. I don't know. Like, that's what I know how to do. You kneel, you stand, you do this thing. That's the thing. And no, that is not how we're raising our son.
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Adam Devine
I think they were just sort of starting by the time I was like, when I was a kid, I don't think they really existed in the 80s, early 90s, I don't think. Or if they existed, they weren't quite what they've become. Yeah, and then I remember in high school when I'd have to go to church, And then my friends would go to church and they were just Christian.
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Adam Devine
They didn't even like... There wasn't like another thing that you said. It wasn't like, I'm Christian, but I'm Catholic or I'm... Just Christian. Yeah, they're like, we're just Christian. And I'm like, what? And they're like, and we have rock climbing walls. And I'm like... What? And they're like, yeah, and there's a cotton candy machine.
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Adam Devine
You could just dumb it down for the rest of us. I was kablamoed.
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Adam Devine
I was hit by a cement truck as a little boy. You were on your bike? I was on my bike. Are you guys squeamish? Nope. Squeamish? Holy sh... Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. So it looks like uncooked chicken, but it is my leg. And is that with skin grafts then over it?
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Adam Devine
That's skin grafts. So the skin was ripped off and the other legs a little better, but it was half the leg. And I broke everything from the knees down that laid to reconstruct my legs. And then my left femur and then some ribs and I punctured a lung and was bleeding out of my ears. But then they're like, no brain damage.
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Adam Devine
Yeah, it was a couple weeks. It was a medical-induced coma. And then... Yes. So I essentially I lived in the suburbs and three cement trucks were going up the hill as two were coming down or some version of that because new houses were being built everywhere. And my friend was across the street and he yells, come on, as in, let's go. And I took that as coast is clear. And he goes, come on.
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Adam Devine
And I'm like, OK. And I walk out. after the third cement truck passed. And so I couldn't see the other side of the street and was hit. And I flung... I said 500 feet because that's what my mom told me and that's what's in my Wikipedia page. But then I did another podcast and I think Theo Vaughn was like, 500 feet? That's so far. And I'm like...
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Adam Devine
Yeah, I guess it is. He goes, how far is the longest field goal ever kicked? And it was like 162 feet. And I'm like, I wasn't kicked. My mom's a liar.
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Adam Devine
Yeah, it was my mom, like, trying to zhuzh up the numbers of me getting hit by a cement truck. She's like, it was 500 feet, too. It wasn't even a small distance. It was 500 feet.
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Adam Devine
Yeah, and then he had a gun on him. She shot him. He shot him in the leg, so he couldn't tell. So he couldn't tell. He was in the leg, so he couldn't tell. And then the funny, I mean funny, but I was hit in one county and landed in another because the road was the dividing line between the counties. So that was a fun thing that we got to talk about.
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Adam Devine
Yeah, for about two years. Middle school was really cool for me. And it was kind of a cool, cool experience to be the crippled kid. Yeah, so I was in a wheelchair and I would get on crutches and then have another surgery. I had something like... 26 or 28 surgeries during that time. And yeah, and then and then my eighth grade year. So that was the summer going into sixth grade.
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Adam Devine
And by the way, the worst guy on the team, it was the coaches being like, he can play. And then they're like, you're a defensive lineman. Yeah. So it's just me just like going, ah!
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Adam Devine
My doctor, actually. My mom was like, if the doctor says you could play, you could play. And the doctor was like, I don't see what's wrong with it. If he wants to play. And my mom's like, you son of a bitch.
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Adam Devine
And then I and then I played. But, you know, I was I was really, really bad. And then so I thought I was going to be like this athlete as a kid. I was like, that was my whole, you know, I'm like, I'm going to be a professional baseball player. No one in my family is athletic. So this was a pipe dream. But that was my my goal. And then after I was hit, I always my I have a very, very funny family.
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Adam Devine
And I always liked making people laugh. And then I started to call into radio stations and And I would call into the radio station in Omaha, 1067 The Edge or 1019 The Edge. And I would do different voices and different characters. And then that became like a little thing on the radio.
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Adam Devine
You can't be having fun. So this is what you do. Exactly. And this was sixth and seventh grade. And then they were like, come on down. We want you to be part of the drive time hour. And so my mom loads me into the minivan. Takes me down there. My legs can't bend, so they're fully just extended in front of me.
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Adam Devine
It's not aerodynamic. It's long distance to get that popcorn there. But we pulled it off. We did it.
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Adam Devine
She picks me up, she puts me in the wheelchair, wheels me into the radio station, and they're like, oh, we didn't realize you were a crippled child.
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Adam Devine
By the way, a sad, weird adult man who only talks to us in character voices. But we didn't know you were, so we can't pay you and have you be part, you know, we can't have you on staff, but we can pay you in like cranberry CDs. I have all the cranberry.
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Adam Devine
Cranberry, wallflowers. Oh my God. Yeah, all the good, all the hits. And then, and then like free concert tickets. And so then that was sort of my segue into comedy where I was like, oh, it's, you can, being funny, you can do cool things and get cool things.
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Adam Devine
Hey, thanks. You're welcome, pal. There is a reason. That's what my wife calls me. You're just a food catcher. That's all you are.
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Adam Devine
I could not believe it. I was so excited. And the fact that my mom was getting her hair done. She has this beautiful poof, Penny. And so she was poofing this thing up at the salon. And I came on the radio. And someone in the salon said, oh, my God, I love this guy. He calls in all the time. And my mom was like...
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Adam Devine
And I remember once that happened, I was like, oh, I can, my mom, like, I'll put some shine on the family by doing this thing because I'm not going to be the professional athlete that we all thought I was going to be.
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Adam Devine
No. Up until maybe three years ago, I would say, yeah, it's basically behind me. Like I have a creak in the knee or whatever. But in the last three years, it was crazy. I suddenly start to have spasms and my muscles will get super tight and the doctors couldn't explain it. And they told me at one point that I have this autoimmune disease called stiff person syndrome.
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Adam Devine
Which is essentially like a death sentence for the most part. And people die within like six years, usually. And so they told me that I had it. And they told me I had it a month before Beau was born, my son. And I'm like, this isn't a cool thing to say to me. So I'm on the toilet at 4 a.m. looking at videos of people with stiff person syndrome. I'm like, I don't want this to be my life.
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Adam Devine
And then six months goes by or then they tell me, well, maybe you don't have it because I had one of the markers, but not the other marker in my blood. And they're like, maybe you don't have it. And then six months goes by and I'm shooting gemstones. And they're like, we do think you have it.
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Adam Devine
So then I went to Philadelphia and I met with the oldest man alive who coined the phrase stiff person syndrome. He's like the guy. And he told me, I absolutely don't have it. And it's all residual from my accident.
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Adam Devine
That I can't... I mean, I... You know, it's a weird thing because I still want to act and want to do all this stuff, but I have a hard time standing for more than, like, 15 or 20 minutes at a time. And I can't run and move in the same ways that I could just a couple years ago. So I'm doing...
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Adam Devine
a wild amount of physical therapy and yeah and that kind of stuff like now that i'm in between you know jobs uh i'm still writing doing all kinds of other stuff but as far as being on set goes i'm just like physical therapy body work acupuncture chiro chiro therapy like every everything so i'm in the midst of it now
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Adam Devine
I used to work out a lot to look strong and get muscles. And now I'm like, it's just like holding weights, like just isometric holds and just all this stuff that I was like, I'm never going to do this. Now I work out like I'm an 88-year-old grandmother. Wow. Like, who's just, like, doesn't want both of her hips to snap if she misses a stare. You have pool noodles with a bunch of other old ladies.
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Adam Devine
Absolutely. I just have my hair in a hairnet. There's nothing to do with it. Enid's yelling at you. Your noodle's hitting her noodle.
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Adam Devine
Yeah, that is true. I we were shooting workaholics and it was they were like, the producers really like you for this pitch perfect movie. You should go audition. And I'm like, I don't have time. Like, I have my own TV show. I don't have time. And they were like, make time. This is a real movie. It's universal. Go. And so what? We made it so I wasn't shooting the scene after lunch.
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Adam Devine
So I could go during lunch. I could drive my ass down to Santa Monica or I think it was Santa Monica audition and then get back before I had to do the scene later in the day. So I'm like, all right. And I go and I'm looking at the sides as I get there. And I think it's a baseball movie. I swear to you, I think it's pitch perfect. I think it's a baseball movie. I would.
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Adam Devine
That would be my first assumption. I'm like stretching out in the parking lot. Like, all right, maybe I got to. And then I see all these guys singing, and I'm like, that's not going to help you with the baseball movie, pussy.
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Adam Devine
Oh, boy. Someone didn't play baseball in the fifth grade. And then I actually take a look at the sides and I'm like, this isn't baseball at all. There's a lot of singing in this baseball movie. And so I go and I do the scenes and it went well. And they were like, what song did you prepare? You had not prepared anything. I had not prepared anything. And they're just like, well...
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Adam Devine
It's whatever song that you know a lot of the words to. We just want to know you can carry a tune. So weirdly, the first song that popped into my head was, Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, the evening TV. Which is the Full House theme song.
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Adam Devine
And and then somehow I got I have no idea. I walked out of there. I'm like, they all laughed really hard. But I'm like, I didn't prove I could sing. I don't think they wanted like a 80 year old jazz singer to be the lead of.
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Adam Devine
Well, I'm learning the more... Yeah, I feel like I'm definitely way more prepared in the things I do now. But I think there is a special... If you could care less about most things, it goes better. I think when you care too much and you're too wrapped up, you get emotionally tied to a thing and you want it too much. And it comes off as like a weird manic energy when you come in the room.
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Adam Devine
You're like, hey, how's it? Oh, pleasure. Pleasure to meet you. And you're talking to the casting director, the producers. I don't want to hang out with this guy on set.
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Adam Devine
I think so. And I mean, now, as my career has grown and gone on, I'm definitely more prepared with things. But I still try to bring that energy of like, I've been around long enough that if this thing doesn't go, I'll find something else or I'll put another thing. So like, don't put too much pressure on one thing. And I think it I think it helps.
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Adam Devine
You came and, like, you were... slain on the guitar. And then I came and helped you sing this. Like, I don't remember. I don't even remember.
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Adam Devine
Of course. I hosted the MTV Movie Awards in like 2017 or 18 or something like that. And I'm dressed as the... I was shooting a movie, The Game Over Man, with the Workaholics guys, and I didn't have time to do a lot of rehearsals. So I flew down the day of the event, and we just rehearsed the big opening sequence in the morning, just that morning. We only ran through it twice.
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Adam Devine
And I'm dressed as the beast in full beast makeup, and I'm supposed to walk down the stairs, and then hook me up to a rig and fly through the audience, and I tip over...
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Adam Devine
someone into like he's dressed as a candelabra I think it was Blake Anderson and he falls in and the stage starts on fire it's like a whole thing and everything has to be pretty perfect and it's a whole song and dance number and I remember the crowd is behind is the back of the stage but I'm facing them and then I turn around once the curtains open and I'm facing them and I'm like trying to think of the lyrics of like so I'm like sort of mouthing them and I think the audience thought I was really nervous which I was moderately nervous but they're like
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Adam Devine
You can do it. You can do it, Adam. And like girls being like, it's okay. You got this.
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Adam Devine
And I'm like, this is making, that's making it worse. It's making it worse. But it's a weird, it's a weird, weird.
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Adam Devine
What's going on? It's so surreal. I had a surreal moment with you when you called me to do that bit on the movie awards or whatever you were hosting. I was in a hot air balloon.
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Adam Devine
Yeah, I was literally flying in a hot air balloon with my ex-girlfriend at the time. And we're soaring in the sky. And I get a call. My agents told me, hey, expect a call. And I'm like, I'm getting on a hot air balloon. And they're like, someone's going to be calling you. You have to pick up. They're going to be calling you. Pick up if you can. I'm like, I'm currently getting on a hot air balloon.
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Adam Devine
Can they call in a couple hours when they're done? They're like, no, he's going to be calling you. And I'm like, okay. And I didn't know who it was. I could have called you later. I know.
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Adam Devine
Yeah. No, I'm okay. It could be in an hour. Yeah. So I'm like, in a hot air balloon, I get the call from you and you're like, hey, you want to do this thing? And I'm like, yeah, I'm in a hot air balloon. You're like, weird joke, haha. And I'm like, I seriously am. And then we landed and we landed, it was in San Diego.
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Adam Devine
And when we land, we land in these like rich people's backyard and they come out with champagne and they're like, oh my God, this has never happened. You landed in our backyard. do you want to race go-karts? And we're like, as they're like tying, they're like putting the balloon, like deflating it and everything. And we're like, okay, they have a full go-kart track that we just got to like race.
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Adam Devine
I would never. Yeah, we can do it. I just ate all the pieces on my seat.
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Adam Devine
And we raced with their children for like an hour as they, as they put this balloon. And I'm like, this is a surreal, like Conan just called me in a hot air balloon. It was, yeah, it was a surreal.
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Adam Devine
It's like, rock him up. It sounds like a little kid who's just caught in a lie, who just keeps saying stuff. And then, and then.
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Adam Devine
No, no. I think he like knew workaholics a little bit and seen some of my other stuff. And his writing partner, John Karcheri, uh, wrote for us on workaholics for one season. Okay. So I think that might've been a connection, but he, uh, Yeah, he just asked if I wanted to play his brother in something. And he was like, would you mind coming? We've never met.
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Adam Devine
Would you mind coming out and having a dinner? And I went to Charleston and met him and David Gorda Green and Jody Hill. And we had this nice dinner and everything. But actually, the very first time I met Danny, he doesn't remember this really, but it was at the This Is The End premiere.
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Adam Devine
That's a very funny, very funny movie. And so we were at the Seth Rogen and everybody's in it.
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Adam Devine
And and so I'm at this after party and I'm like kind of I was pretty early on at this point in my career. So I'm like really excited just even be in the room. Yeah. oh my God, like all these comedy heroes are here. But Danny, for me, is like on a Mount Rushmore. Like I love the guy. And so I'm trying to, like I smoke weed, but not like Seth Rogen does. And so he's going toe to toe with it.
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Adam Devine
He's like, here, here. And so I'm like, okay, I can keep up. And through the cloud of smoke, Danny appears and I go, You're Danny McBride. And he's like, yeah, man. Hey, nice to meet you. And I go, you're a bright shooting star. I swear to you, dude. I said he was a bright shooting star.
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Adam Devine
And he's like, all right, man. And I went and grabbed my girlfriend and I was like, we have to leave. And she's like, why? I'm having a good time. This is a fun party. And I go, I just called Dana McBride a bright shooting star. And she's like, you're right. We do. We do have to go now. We need to leave immediately. You're not allowed to be here anymore.
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Adam Devine
Well, he had lived here for years, so it's not like he doesn't have a base here, but he... Yeah, they were just shooting, I think, Vice Principals, his series right before Righteous Gemstones. And they just by happenstance couldn't shoot where they in Wilmington, I think, North Carolina. And they had to shoot in Charleston and they really hadn't spent much time there.
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Adam Devine
And they shot there and they fell in love with it because it's one of the prettiest places. It's really gorgeous. And they all live on an island 20 minutes from downtown. And when I was there, I rented a house on the water in and everyone just drives in golf carts. It's idyllic. It is so fantastic.
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Adam Devine
And Danny, to your point of like us being such a great cast and feeling like we know each other, he does such a great job. And I feel like I learned so much from him. about like being a leader. He takes his people out all the time. He does little parties. He does get togethers. He's hey, everybody come over. We're grilling at the house. We're going to go swimming.
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Adam Devine
We're going to go out on a boat, whatever it is. And you really feel like you were jumped into his gang right away. And it was I'm not down with any of this.
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Adam Devine
I mean, I love it more than I even thought I would. Yeah, it's not funny to say that, but it's true. No, it's okay to actually have a human emotion.
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Adam Devine
Yeah, it's great. And every day is so fun. How old now? He's 15 months today.
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Adam Devine
Which is, like, I never thought I'd be the type of person that was, like, after a year to talk about months. But it is important because, like, at a year, if he can't say da-da, that's totally fine. But by 13 months, he's, like, a total idiot. So you really keep tabs on every little thing where I'm like, da-da, da-da, da-da, da-da.
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Adam Devine
Yeah, it's unreal. And I'm, like, learning new things. Like, I can do a great Elmo. Like, he's, like, thrown for a loop. He thinks I'm possessed.
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Adam Devine
I didn't even know I had it. And then all of a sudden, I'm like, I act like I'm possessed.
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Adam Devine
Yeah, Elmo's a maniac, it turns out. And yeah, so it's been a blast. I'm loving it.
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Adam Devine
All the Symentra kids out there. They're like, ah, I can walk!
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Adam Devine
Yeah, I noticed that energy. And I like your work, but I just got this energy of pure evil. Well, it's because I went with the suede jacket. You went with the standard leather. And it was kind of a battle from there on.
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Adam Devine
Hi, I'm Adam Devine. And I feel exuberant about being Conan O'Brien's friend.
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Adam Devine
And there's no way to know. which way Dave Letterman would have gone with that. He could have liked it or he could have really taken it down.
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Adam Devine
Although I do like this part where he's just frozen and you and I can just have a conversation.
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Adam Devine
No, that's true. But we have it now, so let's not waste this talking about him.
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Adam Devine
And maybe you and I could just talk about some nice things.
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Adam Devine
That's the thing is there is that tiny chance where it could have been this stellar, almost pre-viral moment. But there's also this big chance of like, oh, you know, it could have killed you. This is upsetting. It could have killed you. Oh, yeah. Easily. It would have killed me.
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Adam Devine
Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend with Conan O'Brien, Sonam Ovsessian, and Matt Gorley. Produced by me, Matt Gorley. Executive produced by Adam Sachs, Jeff Ross, and Nick Liao. Theme song by The White Stripes. Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino. Take it away, Jimmy. Our supervising producer is Aaron Blair. And our associate talent producer is Jennifer Samples.
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Adam Devine
Well, there's no other real part of the foot. Yeah, it's got to be.
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Adam Devine
No, no, no. You put me on the spot reading. I'm going to make my own. Actually, when I was a kid, they thought I couldn't read because I would like kind of read ahead a little bit and then make my own story up. Right. And then they're like, he's an idiot. He can't read. And then they put me into class like a remedial reading. And they're like, we think you can. He just is making his own shit up.
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Adam Devine
You went to Adam's house. You're outside my house. You're smelling my underwear.
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Adam Devine
I remember how excited we were because you were our favorite. And now not so much. But back then, with the intro, when I walked in, that's when it diminished. And I'm like, Kimmel, you're number one. Kimmel! So we were super excited when we came. And I was just so I had a Hollywood meeting a few minutes ago, right before I came here. And I was telling the story they were talking about.
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Adam Devine
Danny on this show. And I was like, oh, I'm about to go do that. And talking about you and how we used to do... Danny McBride, yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Adam Devine
And we used to come and do the show and how one time we were scheduled to perform, but then a portal to another realm opened up. And instead of us... performing or coming on and being guests, a portal to another realm opened up and the wizards actually performed.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Adam Devine
Gangster rapping wizards from another realm. And they look kind of like us, but I wouldn't say identical. They had beards. Yeah. So, yeah, that was that was pretty cool that you had them on in our stead.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Adam Devine
Yeah, I mean, you and my mother are the same person because she says this all the time. I thought I had a new idea. I do listen to your mom's podcast a lot. Yes, it's good. It's called Skank Talk. Skank Talk with Penny D. Hi, Penny D. Hi, Penny. Yes. So, yeah, we we met there and it was like a kismet thing. I just thought Blake was so funny and so different.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Adam Devine
And he had a cute, tight little afro at the time. He didn't have those. And I was like kind of girls like think he's sexy. But that was not the case. Right. And community college. And he was very funny. And then Kyle. who ended up directing a lot of our stuff and is now a big director. And he we were like, oh, you guys make videos. I make videos.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Adam Devine
I'll show you my videos from high school and you guys show me yours. And then as they were showing me theirs, I like was sinking down in my seat and like there are so much better than. Like the quality of their video, because Kyle's just a talented director. And it was just me going like, I think if the frame just holds on me the whole time, that's a good shot.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Adam Devine
Deliver your lines off camera. So their stuff was so much better. And then and then it was kind of off to the races from there. And then we just sort of clicked. And it also is the type of thing that when you spend when you're in your like, I mean, we are teenagers were 18 years old at that time, when you're that age, you spend 100% of your time. with those people.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Adam Devine
And so we just had so many inside, like the way that we talk and the way that we communicate with each other and is so familiar that I think when we finally got our shot, people were like, oh, I can tell that they're great friends. I want to be part of that.