Conan Didn’t Want To Have A Video Podcast | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

we're going to do a state of the podcast. yeah let's remember we haven't done one. of these in a while um this is because. you know me I'm more of an artistic. type uh I paint what I see and uh I'm. removed from of course the Commerce of. it all I'm above that high up in the. clouds so you don't get paid no I I get. I get paid and I'm I mean if I if they. miss my payment by a. day and if it's one penny.

off I'm just a dog with a bone I'm all. over it but again then I go up in the. clouds okay well as always we like to. bring Adam in Adam Adam saxs the uh the. guru the genius the high muckety muck. who makes it all run that I I call you. you pull the strings I'm about a puppet. um you guys are sort of like hand. puppets but I'm more of a marionette oh. and um what I'm just curious how it's. all going it's going really well uh I.

feel like I start every state of the. podcast like that but we've been lucky. and knocking on wood we've been lucky. enough to have a really good run here. six years in um I mean the audience is. as strong as ever and I'll get into in a. second about where we're where we're. expanding our audience prep a whole outl. well I mean mostly I want I wanted to. first of all talk about the big guests. we've had because we've had we've been. on a run with guests that is just like. unbelievable the show has always had. great guests but you know most recently. we've had I just wanted to highlight a. few Tom Hanks alpacino John Stewart.

Goldy Han David O Yello Jeff Bridges. Quinta Brunson Don cheel the Beasty Boys. Ron Howard Ted dansen Woody harlson I. mean this is a crazy list of guests. right and half those people were banned. from the podcast by me oh and we brought. them in anyway yeah you guys uh wisely. and these were very arbitrary bands that. I had I don't know why I I just invented. a feud in my head with Tom Hanks um but. uh no all joking is side an amazing run.

of guests and uh so I mean really fun to. talk to big big names but also I thought. great conversations everyone came to. play yeah totally and these types of. names are not you know even a few years. ago maybe four or five years ago six. years ago these were not people you. would ever even like hear on a podcast. it's pretty amazing alpacino I don't. know he doesn't do a lot of podcasts. it's pretty pretty amazing right either. things are going very well for us or. very badly for alpacino and you'd have. to decide what that means uh and then I.

think the biggest update that I that I. think you know a lot of it is pretty. status quo based on last year but the. biggest update that we've done is we're. experimenting Conan you probably don't. even know this I love that you put in. there that I'm 1987 Reagan you may not. know that we're experimenting with. putting full length video episodes up. and it's only just been an experiment so. far so that like an hour long yeah we've. done two of them so far them well that. was the thing we wanted to see what. people watch them we put Larry David and.

um Harrison Ford we put up those full. episodes and yeah it was an experiment. to see would people watch them also I'm. waited with baited breath for the answer. the answer is yes I mean we were curious. would it be like um would it be. something where it it was a substitute. audience you know where it was like. cannibalizing the podcast audience. people would instead listen or watch it. on video but instead it looks like it's. really incremental like there's more. people we have we know we have a huge. YouTube audience and we had been getting.

tons of fan. requests constantly we put out we've put. out clips now for a few years obviously. video CS I do think I understand. because um Harrison Ford he was he's so. funny in a different way that people. aren't always accustomed to also to be. able to. see when you see Harrison Ford when his. the his expressions and his dead pan. that's true it does add something to it. I'm I'm glad I mean first I I I love.

this medium and I was at first skeptical. because I love the purity of know you. just hear the voices but once I started. seeing some of the video and some of. these people I thought no I I like that. too I was skeptical too I was the same. way I liked the purity of audio and you. know I've been in the space Matt's been. in the space forever and it was always. very pure audio only but the truth is. people want to see the video YouTube is. the number one like media consumption. platform in the world you know more than. any streamer and people are consuming.

podcasts now it's now become the number. one platform for podcast consumption. that's Weir yes so that is part of the. bigger macro trend is that like people. are expecting now that they're going. there's going to be a video component to. podcasts interesting I'm just glad you. said macro Trend. um I knew there was something that I. would say that would just come out that. would uh yeah sure no that's that's what. this podcast is all about bringing. business speak into your ear so we're. gonna be on camera more well that's this. brings up an interesting thing uh none.

of us are well Sony you might be wearing. makeup I do I I wear makeup because of. the YouTube comp I'm not wearing. anything I think that's clear to the. viewers have there been comments about. my Gastly appearance I haven't seen any. visible eye vein no he wouldn't tell you. if there would tell you if there was. yeah so I'm looking at you you're. staring back at me with your Michael. Sarah eyes and I have no idea if you're. lying to me or not I I honestly have not. seen any comments somebody Chi would. have come in and and dusted your vein if. there were comments dusted my vein I.

don't know what you do to a vein I also. love coming in oh my God he would be the. one I love wait wait let's sit with this. for a second dusted my vein chills we. need a vein dusting hey Conan Conan you. seem like you're in a pretty good mood. today let's just say I got my vein. dusted last night uhoh we got a shiny. vein chills that just sounds like a. euphemism yeah oh someone looks. someone's in a good Moon yeah I got my. vein. dusted woo couple of Tequilas got my.

vein dusted oh my God uh yeah I mean. that's um that's a question is a it. starts with just some light makeup which. I'm still not doing uh sorry YouTube um. but then it's going to get into me. having radical Facial Surgery if I want. to stay in the podcast game and that and. I fled to podcast like a vampire fleeing. the sun to get back to his Crypt I fled. to podcast because I knew this Irish. melon was rotting fast in the uh in the.

Autumn heat and here I am now on camera. well you joked that you tried to like. you were it was something different from. the Late Night show and then little by. little it's sort of oh yeah you keep. adding things and soon it's going to be. yeah we're bringing Andy in in a. band you want me to get rid of these. microphones and I'm like what do you. want lav. mics no I like I like the mics I like. the mics when you talk about your face. should we be like oh no you look great. no you don't have to do that because I. get it whenever I talk about my face in. these terms everybody just quietly nods. no I think you look great I really do.

and I think that I do I do get. self-conscious about like should I be. dressing different I mean makeup is a. Thing If how many people watch these. videos like uh 30 hundreds of thousand. hundreds of thousand hundreds of. thousands approaching Millions. approaching Millions but also Sona can I. say something this is and this is a. complement you have beautiful skin you. have skin that has some melanin in it. you have right you have I do you can get.

a tan I am Armenian and Greek both of. those come with some color yeah gorle. and I look like we were just they found. us hey don't take me down with you I'm. sorry no it's fair I'm bringing you with. me but we were trapped in a cave for a. couple of years and then they rescued us. and when we went into the cave we had a. bone marrow. disorder so you are very fortunate that. I don't I you always look very beautiful. you always look like you're wearing.

makeup even when you're not wearing. makeup well that's nice thank you I do. get self-conscious about my hair don't I. mean you have your hair is a mess oh. yeah it is it is but you have Iconic. Hair don't you want to like don't you. worry about your poof I I got over that. couldn't we I got this headset on do. this agree to just give up cuz that's. what I've done that's why I'm always. just wearing a ball cap and no I don't. you I have an idea guy truck I have an. idea let's make a headset that has a. Conan pomidor attached a fake one so. when I put my headset on a Conan pomidor.

so the the iconic swoop that some of the. old fans want to see is there and Qua we. don't have to wear those I think we sell. in the in the merch store what headset. with the poof kind of like the graa. marks and must and if you put it let's. say you're listening to your favorite. Tunes I know how kids talk um you're. putting on listen to your favorite beats. Bund dides uh and uh or whatever nice or. your gaming and you want to put your.

headset on you're playing GP glorp you. put the headset on and the hair comes. right down with it yeah I'll work on the. Prototype seriously those will sell like. hot cakes boss you did it or we could do. one with the Sona too where your hair. comes down on top of it all 90 pounds. okay you know what how about uh so the. state of the podcast state of podcast. good well I have a quick question you. remember last time we did state of the. podcast and you had run a study on all. brand safety yeah brand safety and I. remember ask at that time cuz there was.

like some things that were ticking on. the chart about like profanity and and. sexual conversations and stuff but then. on that episode we ended up using so. much profanity talking about did that up. our profanity what what H what has. happened in the world of brand safety is. the pendulum has swung back swung back. to be a little more sane it was getting. so crazy if you remember some of the we. were not rated well on brand safety and. part of it was like we were talking. about war you remember and it was like. if you talk about if you talk about war.

you get like a you know a red mark um. and then obviously all the sex and. profanity stuff but now the war and of. course the non-stop sex and profanity. not change anything after we got had. that conversation Brands changed I think. Brands realized oh we're we're being too. conservative and we're missing out on it. wasn't even didn't even have to do with. our show but we're missing out on a lot. of good the Church of Latter Day Saints. is back on an advertis absolutely yeah. good just for a trial because you know. one of us always has to use one of the.

products I had to join the Mormon church. just for that had had to had to they saw. you and assumed that you were there to. talk I really can see you in that way. brother yeah you're very Mormon you are. so Mormon really yeah you think. so LS really and you have several wives. that's true one thing I will say though. just in the state of the podcast is this. is I I would say this is open-ended like. we should check back in in in a year and. see what the future looks like with.

video because we are there's a blurring. of lines happening in general where. there's you know YouTube creators have. been out there for years doing their. YouTube shows podcasters have been out. there for years doing just audio shows. and there's a blurring of lines where. now there's there's not as much of a. differentiation between these different. digital content creators I don't want. this to become a TV show I fled. television yeah. it yeah I mean it did did but it's not. in content because it's it's casual.

conversation it's off the cuff and we. don't have a plan but when you say TV. show you're talking about where it's. distributed mostly because it it's a. video show now I mean it's again we're. just experimenting with it when I said I. don't want it to become a TV show um. what I meant was unless there's money in. that oh okay well yeah this is the worst. of Both Worlds because there's not t. money and yet it's on. video all right well I was glad I think. this is mostly good news I think it's. it's all good news it's all good news.

and um and it's fun to still experiment. and see where this all going you know. it's I I'll say again I've done it many. times but I have more fun doing this. than than just about anything I can. think of and and I've had a lot of fun. in my career I've had I thoroughly. enjoyed doing the The Late Night show. but this is uh so fun and so loose so um. let it become what it's going to become. you're welcome oh thanks here we got you. you're welcome yeah don't worry about a.

thing keep doing it and I'll hold your. hand let's hold hands my hands clammy. yeah is like clammy too oil on these. what is that yeah I lotion up a lot. you're warm you're very warm you are. very warm yeah well Talent Burns hot I. said you were warm not. hot I have a lukewarm Talent.