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Chapter 1: How does Tom Hanks feel about being Conan O'Brien's friend?
My name is Tom Hanks. And I feel blank about being Conan O'Brien. You feel blank. I love it. You don't even like give hint words. Could you just put adjective in there in parentheses or something like that? What's wrong with that?
I feel blessed to be Conan O'Brien's friend. I feel old.
Fall is here, hear the yell Back to school, ring the bell Brand new shoes, walkin' loose Climb the fence, books and pens I can tell that we are gonna be friends Yes, I can tell that we are gonna be friends
Hey there, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. I am, of course, the aforementioned Conan O'Brien, famed in song and story. I just threw that in. Sonam of Session, good to have you here.
Yeah, it's good.
Okay, great. You know what I love? The burst of energy you supply. I can't ever... It pushes us. Yes, it's good. And Matt Gourley, nice to see you too. That's good. Okay, you're clearly on life support. Like someone... They've decided just double up on the morphine and get him out. Let's slide him out of this realm. I come from Boston, Massachusetts. I've made that clear many times.
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Chapter 2: What does Tom Hanks think about sports loyalty?
And Boston, from the second you're born, it's all about your sports team, you know, and you're assigned your sport teams at birth in Boston. You don't get to decide them. Now, Eduardo, I know in different, like I've talked to people like with soccer who their father might root for one team, but their son roots for a different team. That's exactly my case. Yes, right? That's not the case in Boston.
In Boston, it's all the minute you're born, they like brand your forehead. Hockey, Bruins, you know, baseball, Red Sox, basketball, Celtics, football, Patriots. I mean, it's just like across the board. These are your teams and it's not open for discussion, which is fine. I accept that. Here's the thing. I've been living in L.A.
for a long time and I feel disconnected because you can't you can't switch even if you move. No, no, I would never. I can't switch. Those are my teams are Boston teams. You you you can't switch. You can't switch. That is just you can. No, it's just sports. No, no, you can't because I'm from, you don't understand. I'm from Boston and you can't switch.
And anyone who's from the Boston area will understand that that's just the way it is. Those are my teams for life. But I'm here in Los Angeles and my team's out of it right now. It's baseball. And I don't know what the etiquette is. I would like to be part. Oh. Or take part in the Los Angeles sports scene.
So you think you can, even if your team's out of it, you can't do a substitute second favorite team? It doesn't feel right to me.
I think because you're Boston.
Eduardo understands. You can't. That's like kind of frontrunner-ish. Yes. You can root against the Yankees.
That's what you should be doing.
No, no, no, no, no. That's okay. But rooting against the Yankees, you can't participate in. I can't go to a Dodgers game and be shouting, Yankees suck, if they're not even playing the Dodgers game.
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Chapter 3: What unique sports tradition is discussed?
Let's just call it soccer.
We just don't want to piss people off. Yeah, exactly. So they have an opening ceremony every game where they have their mascot is like a falcon. This is the coolest thing I've ever heard of. Keep going. It's really cool. And they have an honorary falconeer. Is it falconeer? Is that the person that usually... Falconista. There you go. Falconista. That kind of kicks off the whole game.
And there's a falcon that starts on your arm and gets released and then comes back to your arm. It does like this whole hoopla thing. And oftentimes there's notable figures who are invited to be... I think Kony would make the perfect- Wait, do you think they would let me do it? Absolutely.
What kind of, what notable figures are we talking? Am I in their league? I mean, if it's a bunch of A-listers and I wouldn't be in their league, that's just teasing me and that's mean.
So like somebody like Elizabeth Banks. Oh, I know Elizabeth Banks. Yeah, she's been called upon to do it.
Wait, so I would be in the middle of a stadium and I would hold on my arm and a falcon would come and land on it? See, I just, here's the thing. maybe soccer is okay because I don't, I don't really, you know, Boston soccer.
To be fair, like the new England revolution, which would, was technically the team that you should have been rooting for. They didn't exist by the time you moved over.
So that's why I don't think so. Maybe I'm allowed to get involved in soccer.
Yes.
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Chapter 4: How do Tom Hanks and Conan O'Brien relate to their neighborhoods?
Yeah.
This is insane. Listen to you people. OJ, great football player. I'm going to go support him in his trial. It doesn't work that way.
This is insane. I am so happy that I'm not a sports person because I don't have to.
I like that you're just saying sports person.
I'm glad I don't indulge. In this folder all of sports history. My dad was a big sports person. And he took me to all these USC games. And as soon as we get there, I would turn around, get on my knees, and play with my G.I. Joes with my back to the game the entire time. And my dad had his head in his hands.
You know what's funny? You fucking loser. You know what I imagine?
USC games?
Yeah.
Duh. Boring.
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Chapter 5: What are the challenges of being a Boston sports fan in LA?
Everyone knows you're from Boston. I know.
I've seen other people throw up on a cab. No, that doesn't make it cool. I'm not going to do it.
Not going to happen. I went to a game five recently against the Padres. That shit was fun.
I turned my back on the USC Trojans at three years old. Oh, you
You'd probably do that now.
Those games are fun.
You know what I love is you now going to a game and turning your back and getting out your little Dungeons and Dragons figures and laying them out.
I hope people beat you.
I hope you are beaten.
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Chapter 6: What memorable experiences does Tom Hanks share from his career?
I know where you live.
Hey, bud. Yeah. By the way, have you been to Conan's house? Yes. We have competitions in the neighborhood. Who has the longest house? You mean as you're driving up the street, which house takes the longest to drive past the start of the property line and the end of the property line?
And you guys each think it's your own?
I think you've got like two and a half miles of property. I do.
A Cessna can land. And a Cessna has landed.
Now, it used to be, you know, Jerry Lewis used to live on the block. Did he really? Yes, yeah. Are we on yet? So I won't say what the address is. But at one point, because I saw this old thing and I ran, you meet Jerry Lewis and you think, first of all, that's a surreal experience. Yeah. All into it. It's a hang time. You know, my God, Jerry knows my name. Isn't that crazy?
And I saw the bosom buds, you know.
Why can't we use this? You can. Go ahead.
Go ahead.
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Chapter 7: What insights does Tom Hanks provide about the podcasting industry?
There were people who were sympathetic to that cause in the late 30s before America was in the war. And they purchased a piece of land. Am I correct? You are correct, sir. That they thought would be a place that the Fuhrer would like to hang forever. When and if he comes to America, maybe because he conquered it. I don't know the whole story. Do you know the story? It was owned by the German Bund.
And there was a period of time a German Bund. The Bund was essentially, hey, we're all Germans. We all live America. Let's form a fraternal organizations like other nationalities. Yeah. You know, and I'm going to hope that before that. Before they found out just how bad Hitler was, you know, but they're there.
I swear I have seen photographs of like a 4th of July in the 1930s up there with a fireworks thing. And they would have no lie, a picture of the founding fathers and a picture of Adolf Hitler, an American flag and a Nazi flag. the German Nazi flag. And they were saying, our country is coming back, et cetera, et cetera.
And I just hope that maybe you can get away with that in 1930, you know, but it continued along. And in fact, it is now a scout camp, or it had been for a while. I have gone there to scout a location. And there was like the main lodge, you know, there's tents and stuff like that. But there is a main lodge that honestly looks like, you know, a German Alpine chalet. Yeah.
that all you have to do is paint it red, put a couple of Hawken cruisers on there, and you are right back in Nazi-ville, USA.
So this is a place that, in our neighborhood, you go up this, there's this big hill, and... Did I say Jerry Lewis also lived in this neighborhood? And why did you choose to live here, sir? Listen, we have these meetings that are none of your business. No, but... This is my story, which is that they that was something I've always heard.
And then occasionally you'll you'll find that it mentioned that this piece of land lives and that maybe and some people get the story, get they get it wrong. And they think that Hitler spent time there, like in his board shorts, looking out at the Pacific. He did come out for pilot season one. And he needed a place to stay. Six pilots didn't get one of them. Not a one.
It was almost a seventh friend. But anyway. But I'm with... I'm with my friend once, my same friend, Brad, that you saw. I'm riding, grinding up that hill on our bikes to just try and get to this. It's very steep in parts. We're grinding along. These two women, like blonde, 22-year-old, I swear to God, wearing like bikini tops. And they just looked like they were just come from a sorority party.
They flag us down like they were in trouble. And I said, what is it? And they went...
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Chapter 8: How did Tom Hanks and Conan O'Brien's paths cross in the entertainment industry?
And I want to talk about the Japanese and Jerry Lewis and 1944.
What year did we, the first year I was on SNL and you were back in, we called you, I called you the boiler room boys. Yes. It was you and Odenkirk and Smigel in the back.
The guy back in the day when I was working at SNL who was money in the bank and still is to this day was Mr. Tom Hanks because he would show up and- Caffeinated. There were the caffeinated, ready to go. Hey, everybody, what have you got? And he, I remember coming out once and I swear to God, I think it was maybe two in the morning.
Most hosts, they hang around a little bit, they sense the sadness, the desperation, they smell the odors, and they leave, and then they come refreshed at read-through.
I came out, and there's this giant, in the conference room, there's this big table, and you were sitting there, and you had been working on your own idea, and you were lying on, they had shoved all the tables together, you were lying on the tables like Christ with...
Some pages over your eyes because you were trying to catch a couple of winks before you woke up and got back to writing at three in the morning.
I'd always heard that that was the that was a great power of the hang that you got there and all night Monday and all night Tuesday. You're going from now they kind of like take the hosts around. But, you know, I want to get in there and get in there and mix it up, because here's one thing I learned about maybe the third time I did the show. You say, hey, you're the host.
I say, hey, I have some ideas for some sketches. And every writer goes, well, that's just great.
Oh, my God.
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