Chapter 1: What anniversary is Conan celebrating in this episode?
Well, we have come up on a very nice anniversary. Hard to believe, but five years ago this month, we did our very first fan episode. And it's been five years. I can't believe it. And I really love these segments. And the very first one featured a fan of mine named Dan Housen. Now, Dan Housen is a wrestler.
And he explained to me when we did this very first fan episode that he had loosely based his character, his wrestling character, on me. if I was an interdimensional demon, which seems redundant to me. And Dan Housen and I had a great conversation. We talked about comedy, performance, the love of entertaining people.
And what struck me, and still I remember this to this day, Dan Housen told me that he had been grinding away for the past eight years, driving 12 hours every weekend just to be able to get up in front of people and wrestle.
Mm-hmm.
And this is a guy who just applied an incredible work ethic to his passion. And I was so impressed with this fellow. Well, now it's five years later and I am thrilled to report that Dan Housen has recently made his WWE debut to rave reviews. And this is proof again.
Yep.
that if you can marry hard work to your passion, you can go places. So on behalf of myself and all of us here at Team Coco, massive congratulations and mad respect to Dan Housen.
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Chapter 2: Who is Dan Housen and what is his connection to Conan?
And I'm so proud of you, happy for you. And I just should mention, because your character's based on me, I'm getting 20%.
Oh, are you getting 20%?
Well, I will once I unleash my interdimensional demons, Rick Rosen. from William Morris Endeavor and the blackest, blackest heart of all, Gavin Pallone. I mean, when they're done with Dan Housen, he's just gonna be some flesh clinging to a battered vertebrae.
Yes.
Yep. Anyway, I'm just thrilled for him. So here, this is unusual for us, we're gonna revisit my chat from five years ago with the one, the only Dan Housen. Enjoy.
Conan O'Brien needs a fan. Wanna talk to Conan? Visit teamcoco.com slash callconan. Okay, let's get started.
Hey everybody, Conan O'Brien here, and we're gonna try something a little different. In the short time that I've been doing Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, I've just been delighted. I'm having an absolute blast, and it's working. I'm actually making some nice bonds and friendships with a lot of different people.
But what occurred to me is all these people have one thing in common, they're celebrities. And I thought it might be nice to try making friends with average folk, people out there in the world, civilians, not celebrities. Just talk to the people who make this great country we call the United States of America, or even people from other countries, it doesn't matter.
Let's just talk to some regular folk and then hope, hope desperately that they become celebrities.
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Chapter 3: What lessons did Conan learn from Dan Housen's work ethic?
Oh my God.
That's the concept. What do you guys think, Matt? Yeah, I'm all in. Why is that horrible? It's very important to me that eventually they become celebrities.
So you don't have time for anybody that would live their whole life as a regular Joe. As a folk.
Who would do that? What kind of monster would choose that life? No, seriously, I really do. I do want to, and especially, I have to say, a lot of this comes out of this last year. Let's get outside this bubble, this celebrity bubble that we're trapped in.
I'm not trapped in a celebrity bubble. No, I'm not even adjacent to it.
Oh, God, no. I didn't mean either of you. Oh, God, no. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, please. Oh, how embarrassing. Oh, I'm covering my mouth. I'm laughing.
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Chapter 4: What recent achievement did Dan Housen accomplish?
Because, I mean, we don't even do a podcast with a celebrity, so how would we do it?
Oh, snap. Snappity-dappity. Ouchie-wouchie.
I'm looking it up. I'm looking it up. I am looking it up. Yes, I am a celebrity. I just looked it up.
You Googled it?
Yeah, I am a B-lister, but I am a celebrity. So, fuck, I am. I am a solid B. I'm a solid B-list celebrity and I'm proud of it. And if Love Boat were still on the air, I could potentially be a guest. Not the first guest, but like the third guest who's the comic relief guest who stowed away.
I would kill to see you on Love Boat.
Yes. But anyway, this is something I want to do and I'm really looking forward to it. And I don't know. We're just going to give it a try and see how it goes.
Yeah, this is Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan, and it'll be out weekly in addition to the regular episodes, so just an extra special treat. And we might as well get to our first guest. Are you guys ready?
Yeah.
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Chapter 5: How does Dan Housen describe his wrestling character?
That's fantastic. Describe, then, a demonic Conan O'Brien as a wrestling character. Are you using some of my moves? Is it my attitude? Does your character have, you know, sort of little beady eyes and thin lips and sharp cheekbones?
Yes, yeah, I don't have the height, but I have, I utilize, so I pour teeth in my opponents' mouths. To disorient them. Pour what in their mouth?
Human teeth. You pour human teeth into the mouth?
That's amazing.
I love how that's, people see that and go, oh, that is so Conan.
It is. No, no, no. It's just, I think it's the presentation. Cause I include, I take a lot of like Simpsons references and references from you and just 80s horror movies. And I, Pull it all together, because these are the things that I like. So I included it into the character because wrestling should be fun. Yes, wrestling- Are you saying- It shouldn't be work.
No, no. So, okay, one of your standard moves is to pour loose teeth into the mouth of your opponent to confuse and disorient them. What are some of your other moves?
Kick him right in the mouth. I have the go to sleep, which I call the good night housing. I add Housen. My wrestling name is Dan Housen, and I add Housen to everything to make it all about me.
That's very Conan. Okay, that's very nice, Matt. I love that. You just add Housen to things, so goodnight Housen is like a goodnight move.
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