Conan O'Brien

You go out, you're touching a lot of the fans and you get scratches on your hands.

Yeah.

from your fans just because they're so excited to lay hands on you and you're willing to do that.

And I'm thinking it's not great that you're getting scratched up, but at the same time, you're letting them know it's real.

Like, this isn't an act.

I'm not...

a hologram image that's been projected.

I really, this is who I am.

This is what I care about.

You guys are part of my crew and we're in on this together.

Which is, I mean, I've always felt that's the way it has to be.

Even though I work in a completely different world, I think I look for any opportunity to let people out in the world know that like it or not, for good or ill, this is who I am.

Yeah.

But I mean, that's, I think, really, really key.

I don't know.

You know, there might come a day where you're like enough with the scratching of the hands, you know, but.

Well, it's also it's staying true that that's a real connection.

It doesn't have to be recorded.

No one has to see it.

You know, it's real.