Conan Has Fond Memories Of Howard Johnson’s | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

ladies and gentlemen we are attempting. to do a segment in a way we never or. rarely ever do and that is without a net. we don't know what we're going to talk. about that's every single time we've. never known what we were going to talk. about but there's always a general idea. for the segments oh this time we have no. subject we couldn't think of anything. Sona was talking about Circuit City just. a second ago we are in real dire I. really thought she was hitting gold when. she was talk by Circuit City we're free. ball let me understand something Circuit.

City no longer exists no no what are you. do you think it exists you don't think. it exists I'm in a bubble I you know. what no hey is Radio Shack gone no Radio. Shack is not gone what yeah wait I. dreamt about Radio Shack the other night. do you think it's not gone cuz you. dreamed about it just realizing it was a. dream I think it's gone is it so many. things from my childhood are just gone. yeah and it's it's crazy and uh and and. then if you ever accidentally mention it.

people think you're just this insane out. of touch fool but it was a real strong. memory in my youth Radio Shack Radio. Shack I remember Radio Shacks were a big. deal which one hurt do you remember. anything closing we like oh man I. remember Howard Johnson's when I was a. little little kid like be you know. really young was a big deal and my. grandfather would take us I mean these. are my earliest memories would take us. to a Howard Johnson's a ho joo's a. hojo's and then uh I remember when I was. working at SNL in the late ' 80s one of.

the last Hojo was in Time Square and I. used to go there occasionally just. because it was this connection to my. youth and it was when Time Square was a. very different Time Square now it's all. been disi oh you know and there were. robots walking around saying be happy. but um but back then it was that other. Time Square that you see in the in the. 1970s movies SE workers yeah sex workers. I was a sex worker in Time Square um all. right or you're just standing there.

that's how I got the SNL job I was yeah. you were the main reason they disi it. yeah they're like we got to we got to. disy this fast get the mouse in here um. he's a bad jiggalo and so but I would go. to that I would go to the Time Square. Hojo and get a the thing that we would. get when we were little kids was was a. chocolate ice cream soda with chocolate. ice cream oh and sit at the counter and. sort of chat up the waitress you know. what I'm saying no I don't get what. you're like just have a conversation.

with yeah basically just say how much is. this and I'll pay you um that's wait was. this a sex worker I'm confused no no. this was a waitress um I was the sex. worker I see anyway but then that I. think when that went away was so iconic. and you can see it in old movies oh you. can see it in sweet smell of success I. think when that went away I remembered. that was a bit of a blow it was like. that's over that's over it's time to. embrace that big Arby's on is it. Hollywood Boulevard with the big hat. just close they just closed that yeah.

but the the pizza place is taken over. and keeping the Hat I think um uh if I'm. not mistaken Once Upon a Time in. Hollywood has a great sequence yeah I. think so where uh I think in the third. act where Tarantino shows all the neon. signs coming on in La that would have. been around in 1969 when the Tate. murders happened and uh one of them I. think is that ARB sign coming out and a. Circuit City okay okay that's the. Circuit City well I just don't know. what's do they still have uh.

uh. froo what con concept of frozen yogurt. oh I thought froz I thought froo was a. St looking for something that rhymes. with Hojo and so no like hey is there. still a Mojo. magazine hey is it still do they still. have slow-mo. technology hey is there still uh you. know people that ride the rails uh hobos. is there still bros before host yeah and. what about that group The. Goos what how about Han.

Solo is the dodo still alive yeah oh God. what about that caramel treat the Rolo. remember the Rollo I love were good man. they're still around they hey what about. chunky remember the the chocolate uh. candy bar chunk it was a brick I love. that candy I love that candy I can't. find that candy anymore what I'm telling. you life used to be better yeah well I. think one thing we can agree on is that. we should agree to talk about something. before doing a seg.

well I'm always and guess what I'm. always in favor of that and you're the. two hippies that are saying no man you. it's you're preparing and I'm like yeah. preparing is what you do whether you. know if you're in in in comedy as you. think about what you're going to do and. then you guys are like no man it's. podcast just say it for a segment we. always have an idea for the intro we. don't need an idea because we're kind of. whenever by the time you introduce Sona. something's already happened that's true.

yeah I do like your Howard Johnson's I. can't believe you had like a treat like. you would never eat that treat now. probably not no right you would just. that's that's a time in your life that's. special yeah now i' my life has changed. since I met my wife and yeah she's very. healthy and now I would take some. spinach and some pea protein God and uh. a little bit of banana. and whip it up in the blender and I. that's the sound of your blender yeah. and then I drink it and my dog looks at.

me and looks sad for me yeah you know. the way a dog usually if you're eating. something the dog's really interested in. having it man when I eat pea protein and. lettuce. shake my dog just goes in the corner and. starts making a noose and dogs can lick. their barf yeah yeah their standards are. so low no if I was making bar a dog barf. in a blender the dog would be really. interested but pea protein yeah and oh. Whole Food spinning.

all. organic I'll just put a little banana in. there just to be. [Laughter]. naughty hey dog do you want some I would. rather. die you sure you can Le out the a I'm. okay girl. rof I'll go eat a rock. instead that's my dog my dog.

feeling sorry for me see we always find. it you did I you got there just him yeah. just me okay um I feel like I did a bit. of an assist nope you've been listening. to con Brian and two load. Stones also my favorite part when he. tries to figure out whether this is a. segment or it is no it's a segment. you're looking at the list of in you. look down I'm not confused at all it's. actually it's a segment well it's con. and the two albatrosses uh uh hope you.

had fun see you later stay in school be. good to your waitress.