Conan Is Disappointed There Aren’t Flying Cars In 2025 | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I feel like we're already rocketing. through 2025. Really? Yeah. Just. rocketing through it. What do you mean? Just rocketing through. Could you. explain what the hell you're talking. about? Time accelerates is what I'm. telling you. The more experience you've. had in life, the uh the less each single. moment registers in your brain. So, time. actually accelerates. By the time I'm. done speaking, we'll all be dead. I don't want to die with you. No.

offense. It's the worst thing anyone's. ever said to me. What a terrible thing. to say. Sorry. Just my wife, my. daughter. Oh, come on. They've seen. enough of you. You may be the death of. me. There you go. No, I just think uh. 2025, man. Yeah, man. Love it. Yeah, we. did it. We did it. We're just starting. We just beginning. Oh. Oh, okay. 20 25. Yeah, we're a quarter of the way into. this century. That's crazy. That's. madness. We're in like a sci-fi year.

2025 sounds like a future year, doesn't. it? Yeah. I used to think that the year. 2000 sounded like a long time. This when. I was a kid, people would talk about the. year 2000 and then um we did uh a bit uh. Robert Smeiggel um he he came up with. this idea for a bit called year 2000. which we did in. 1988 at the Victory Gardens Theater in. Chicago and then a couple years later. when I got the late night show we did it.

on the Late Night Show in the year 2000. and still in. 1993 it's getting a little squirly then. But the year 2000 did feel like this. kind of funny distant future. And then. I'll never forget it was 1999 and we. were getting close to the year 2000 and. we're doing the bit in the year 2000 and. we didn't know what to do. I remember. this. We didn't know what to do and we. were thinking what do we do? And we were. thinking maybe laba could sing in the. distant future. Oh weird. And we were.

like no. And then we said, "We're just. gonna stick with in the year 2000." You. talked about this on the show, right? Because I remember watching this. Yeah. And then sure. enough, you know, Sting would be on the. show and it would be. 2005 and I'd say, you know, hey, maybe. we should look to the future and Andy. had left at that point. So Sting, I'd do. it with like whoever the celebrity was. and Sting would come through the through.

the curtain, go the future, Conan. and. I'd say yes, Sting all the way to the. year 2000 and it's. 2005. Talk about we just didn't deal. with it. And so, um, but I remember when. I was a kid, there was a show on. starring Martin Landau and I think his. co-star was Barbara Bane. I think it was. a show that was made in England and it. was called Space 1999. And it was the same thing where it was.

the '7s and this syndicated show would. come on and this is back when nothing. was on television and so whenever. something came on you watched it and I. remember thinking oh wow space 1999 and. everyone on that show wore what looked. to be like what they'd give you to wear. in on first class if you were going on a. transatlantic flight. Everybody and I. thought somehow mixed with tennis tennis. leisure. Yes. Yes. Exactly. So, I just. thought in the future we're all going to. be very comfortable and we're going to.

live on the moon. And the future, of. course, came along and cars kind of. looked pretty much the same. They didn't. rust, but they kind of operated the. same. There's still a steering wheel. You're still driving on the same roads. You're not up in the air like they told. us they would be. The real difference is. that radio just turned to podcasting. Yes. Exactly. The only thing that really. changed, all this stuff they told us, ray guns, we're going to be living on. different planets. None of that. happened. No one talked about you'll.

have a personal computer in your pocket. And it will and it will also be Yes, but. who? No one none of us thought of. And. if you were kind of did they had their. little like Oh, Spock had a triquarter. Well, I'm famously I'm a Star Wars guy. Okay. Well, I'm a Star I'm a Star Trek. guy. Okay. And what I love is that Spock. had either one guy. Spock Spock had I'm a not nerd guy. Spock had what looked like a um like.

maybe a an AMFM radio, but it had a. little screen on it. And whenever they. would go on the planet, it was a device. that just did everything called a. triquarter or something. And he would. just be like they'd be like, "Spock, what's up?" up and you go like, "Well, according to this my triquarter, uh, we're going to have a conflict with. a major character in about 8 minutes, you know, or I mean it basically it. could tell you what you're having for. lunch. It could it could supply whatever.

the writers needed it to supply." Have. you ever heard about in the Phantom. Menace, you know, the first Star Wars. prequel, uh, Qui-Gon Jim played by Liam. Niss has this little First of all, I. could have finished this whole sentence. for you. But yeah, Qui-Gon Jim played by Liam N. Qui-Gon Jim. What Jim? Yes, even I know. that, isn't it? There's no normal names. in any of the names. Quon Jim. It's. Quigon Jim. Who's popping the cores? Meet Meet Meet Glimor Henry.

and Scully Bal. Sally. Anyway, he has this little. machine to test Anakin's medicloran. count. Don't get into it. And it's made. from a woman's like leg razor, shaving. razor. Wait a minute. So, George Lucas. just said, "We need a device and they. just I just took this from my wife's. shower basically." Yeah. Wow. Oh, no. Yeah. Okay. That's pretty great, huh?

Um, what year was Back to the Future? The future. What year was that? That. just happened recently. Bla, you've got. to know. Wasn't it? You've got to know. Uh, I do think it's. 2023 maybe. But I wanted to bring up. there's another thing. The sonic. screwdriver. Nobody here is a Doctor Who. fan, right? Cuz I'm a Doctor Who fan. I. wish Harrison Ford was here right now to. tell you to shut the up. You just. took us down. That's also a thing that. does everything. Uh, Eduardo, it was it. was 2015. 2015. That was 15 when we were.

supposed to 10 years ago. 10 years ago. Come on. We really dropped the ball. I. think there should be a Senate. investigation into why we're not flying. around because Blade Runners also. happened timewise too, right? Cuz they. had flying cars in that. No, every. future sci-fi movie. I mean, now they're. smart enough to say in the year. 4572, they've picked they've picked a. time when clearly humans will no longer. be on the planet. Alien was always good. about that. They were far far into the.

future. Early sci-fi, if you listen to. old radio shows, they're like that were. made in the 1930s, they'll say by 1948. Yeah. And my favorite is I listened to. one once where they called robot was. still a new word and they called it. rubbit. Robot. Yeah. Rubet. There will. be a robot and the robot will be a. mechanical man who will Qui-Gon Jim. named Qui-Gon Jim who will open the. mayonnaise can for you. It was all very. pedestrian. I will say Eduardo just.

looked up uh the movie her which is. everybody has an AI girlfriend takes. place this year 2025. And we kind of do. all have AI girls. Finally getting a. mistress there. Really? Oh what? Wow. Huh? What are you talking about? Don't. talk to her about her that way. It's a. victimless crime. Yeah. What do you. mean? What are you talking about? He had. a really special relationship. Yeah, but. he didn't cheat on any but not with. another person. And that's allowed. The.

Bible allows an exception if it's an AI. girlfriend. Oh god. The Bible doesn't. say thou shalt not thou shalt not covet. thy neighbors AI image. The Bible. We got around the Bible. finally. I can cover it all I want as. long as it's made of pixels and hexels. Oh god. What did I get something wrong? Yeah, hexels. Does that cover it? Hexels. Pixels and gl. Uh let me just uh refer you to this rap.

sign. Oh, look at that. It's. handwritten. How quaint. Clearly you've. not visited the year 2000. Oh, no.