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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Josh Groban

22 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What makes Josh Groban excited about being Conan O'Brien's friend?

3.406 - 13.799 Josh Groban

Hi, my name is Josh Groban, and I feel downright giddy about being Conan O'Brien's friend. Now, that's the right attitude. That is. It's an honor. No, it's not.

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14.32 - 29.019 Conan O'Brien

But giddy is appropriate. It's a giddy honor. Fall is here. Hear the yell. Back to school. Ring the bell. Brand new shoes. Walking blues. Climb the fence. Books and pens.

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Chapter 2: How did Josh Groban's career begin with Celine Dion at the Grammys?

29.54 - 50.787 Conan O'Brien

I can tell that we are gonna be friends. I can tell that we are going to be friends. Hey there. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. Sitting here with Sona Momsassian, Matt Gourley. Hi. And Sona and I are just back from Morocco. Oh, that's funny. I didn't see you guys there. Oh.

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51.087 - 54.13 Sona Movsesian

Oh, really? Were you there? Yeah. I'm just there on my own.

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55.051 - 55.232 Conan O'Brien

Yeah.

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Chapter 3: What experiences does Josh Groban share about his travels with Conan?

55.252 - 77.22 Conan O'Brien

Walking around. Yeah. That makes sense. Um, no, we, uh, we were shooting an episode of, uh, the travel series, Colonel Brian must go. And, um, we, Sonny, you were kind enough to come with me. Yeah. Uh, because, um, actually something came up on this podcast. You, uh, expressed a desire to get a certain product, a certain product.

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77.2 - 100.103 Conan O'Brien

argan oil yeah and um and so i decided i'm gonna get you that argan oil by taking you to morocco yeah is it a spoiler to say if you got we can't say anything okay we can't say anything what we can tell you we're gonna tune in for that it wasn't like the ark of the covenant i mean you could probably get this pretty it's very readily available there apparently it's also readily available here

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102.26 - 125.244 Conan O'Brien

I got scammed. I got scammed. We, as we were like in the market, hunting down the Argon oil, someone said, you know, yeah, you can, yeah, you can get this, you know, on Amazon and it will come from the same store that you found. But anyway, that ruins the magic of travel. So, but we had, well, tell me what you thought, Sona.

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125.284 - 132.582 Sona Movsesian

Oh, I had so much fun. I hadn't, you know, I used to travel when you do the travel shows and I forgot how it's a lot of work.

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132.622 - 133.484 Conan O'Brien

It's a lot of work.

133.504 - 138.156 Sona Movsesian

It is a lot of work. You guys seem a little tired. Are you tired? I woke up at 2.30 this morning.

138.136 - 146.827 Conan O'Brien

Yeah, because I was east for a while for other things. So I was on that time and then we went to to Morocco.

147.067 - 147.508

Yeah.

147.528 - 164.67 Conan O'Brien

And so I haven't been on L.A. time in in quite a while. Yeah. So, yeah, I've been waking up at like three in the morning and like cleaning out cupboards. Yeah, I'll do when I wake up and it's pitch black outside and I know I'm up. I just start doing tasks that I would never do otherwise.

Chapter 4: How does Josh Groban incorporate humor into his music and performances?

164.73 - 188.505 Conan O'Brien

Like I'll build a urinal, you know. Yeah. First, I'll fire the porcelain. I mean, I'll do all these crazy things because I think you have that you're you're revving. You want to be useful. You want to get something done. So, yeah, I've been actually mostly what I've been doing is organizing things that I haven't organized in a long time. I mean, just and my wife was away, so I was alone.

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188.805 - 193.893 Conan O'Brien

It's me, the dogs and the cats. And I'm just they hear me in the garage banging away. Oh, my God.

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193.933 - 195.757 Sona Movsesian

You're productive? I'm not productive.

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195.937 - 196.398 Conan O'Brien

What did you do?

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196.418 - 198.461 Sona Movsesian

I just watch clips of shows I like.

198.622 - 199.183 Conan O'Brien

Oh, no.

199.203 - 203.05 Sona Movsesian

And I just scroll on my phone in the bed. It's nice.

203.21 - 204.272 Conan O'Brien

It's called doom scrolling.

204.512 - 222.851 Sona Movsesian

It's not doom because my algorithm is really fun. What's your algorithm? My algorithm is a lot of just silly. It's like, you know, silly humor. It's a lot of really funny stuff. I don't know how to describe it. And then every once in a while, it's like takes me to a really dark kind of place on Instagram.

Chapter 5: What was the significance of Josh Groban's father playing trumpet on his album?

228.772 - 240.386 Sona Movsesian

I can't... I don't know. Sometimes I'm just like, how did this end up here? I can't... I can't think of... This would be a real good example if you had an example. It would be so good if I had an example for you. Is it like street fights?

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240.426 - 241.027 Conan O'Brien

That kind of thing?

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241.307 - 258.287 Sona Movsesian

I get a lot of fights. I do get a lot of fights. A lot of brawls and fights. And I love them. That's your love language. I love them. I know. And they make me... They fire me up. Like, they get me really intense. Like, I don't know if you guys get that same... Nope. Nope. Just me. Okay. You like watching fights? I love it.

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258.708 - 259.97 Sona Movsesian

Sometimes I revisit.

260.09 - 280.615 Conan O'Brien

I saw a clip recently that's been going around. This clip's been going around, which is sort of tangential to this, but this clip's been going around that they unveiled this robot and the robot comes out. It's one of these really impressive, you know, latest model robots and it's coming out and it's doing all these cool moves and spinning and stuff like that. And then it's,

280.595 - 291.829 Conan O'Brien

And all these families are around watching it, like applauding. And then it spins around and it kicks this little kid really hard in the stomach. And the kid doubles over and then kind of collapses.

Chapter 6: How does Josh Groban feel about his comedic inclinations?

292.089 - 293.891 Conan O'Brien

And I think the kid's okay. I hope the kid's okay.

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293.911 - 294.512 Sona Movsesian

Is this real?

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294.752 - 315.382 Conan O'Brien

Yeah, it's real, I think. I'm pretty sure it's real. And then the robot sort of stands up and then just starts to step back, retreat. And I've thought, does that robot feel shame? Oh. Is it possible it feels shame? And I was, because I'm a human, I was reading in, oh, that robot just must feel so much shame right now. And then I realized it doesn't. No, it doesn't.

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315.562 - 318.387 Conan O'Brien

There's no way the robot's like, that's darker than the street fights.

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318.407 - 320.45 Sona Movsesian

I know, but we don't want it to feel shame.

320.731 - 323.215 Conan O'Brien

Robot kicks boy in the stomach. It came up.

323.235 - 323.856 Sona Movsesian

Yeah. Is it real?

323.876 - 331.972 Conan O'Brien

See this? Yeah. Yeah. No, it's not. The kid's okay. And I think the kid might have needed kicking. You never know. I don't want to bum people out, but I think it's okay.

332.032 - 334.378 Sona Movsesian

I know, it's not funny, right? Is this it?

Chapter 7: What insights does Josh Groban share about the music industry?

335.921 - 340.613 Conan O'Brien

Look, so here's the guy. He's like, ha, ha, ha, ha, boink.

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340.633 - 341.254 Sona Movsesian

Oh, no. Jesus.

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341.274 - 341.555 Conan O'Brien

Yeah.

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341.755 - 343.48 Sona Movsesian

Oh, no, that's awful.

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343.961 - 347.147 Conan O'Brien

Okay, and look at the robot. It's like... Oh, no.

347.327 - 363.555 Sona Movsesian

Must destroy to save oneself. Yeah. Oh, my God. So anyway. Oh, my God. That kid is standing out a little too far. What's that? That kid asked for it. Yeah, he asked for it. Well, you said he had it coming. You're victim blaming. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys' algorithm is turning you guys into monsters.

363.535 - 368.884 Conan O'Brien

I, yeah, I said, go robot. That was my comment that I wrote in.

368.904 - 379.884 Sona Movsesian

Oh, no, you shouldn't be standing. Do you remember when we were, I don't know if we should mention this, when we were in Armenia and there was a guy doing donuts and there was a perimeter of people around.

380.144 - 395.101 Conan O'Brien

We're in Yerevan, capital of Armenia. Yes. We're there for five minutes when we hear all this noise and excitement and we go to this big square where all these people are packed around watching. And there's a guy in the middle who's accelerating really fast in a car doing donuts and everyone's just, it doesn't seem like an official performance.

Chapter 8: What is Josh Groban's character in Toy Story 5 and what does it represent?

395.522 - 413.109 Conan O'Brien

I think a guy was just doing donuts and everyone came to watch the guy do donuts. Yeah. Because it's one o'clock and it's time for donuts. But there's no barrier between the people and the car. And the guy doesn't really, he's not a professional. He doesn't know what he's doing. And then at one point he swings around and I think he hit a bunch of people.

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413.129 - 415.292 Sona Movsesian

He hit people with his car.

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415.312 - 424.445 Conan O'Brien

I think they were okay. Yeah. And I don't think people, you know, here everyone would be like, okay, get everyone's number and everyone's going to sue everyone. There they're just like. ah, that's what happens. Shake it off.

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424.545 - 426.69 Sona Movsesian

We're good. Get back around the perimeter.

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426.951 - 427.131 Conan O'Brien

Yeah.

427.151 - 433.405 Sona Movsesian

Get back to donuts. It was crazy. Yeah. It didn't make the show that we were shooting, but it was... Oh, no.

434.447 - 434.628 Conan O'Brien

No.

434.728 - 435.69 Sona Movsesian

You didn't open it with that?

436.211 - 452.093 Conan O'Brien

We are opening with the robot kicking the Chinese boy. I'm going to put that at the top of the show. Well, what was your reaction to that? I mean, I don't know. First of all, I saw that thing. It got sent to me. Instagram thought Kona's going to love a Chinese robot kicking a kid in the stomach, which I don't endorse.

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