Conan Is Using Willpower To Avoid Vaccine Side Effects – "Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend"

Well, I have some exciting news, which is. this is all happening in real time. It is now 12:30 in the afternoon. At 7:30 this morning, I got my second Moderna shot. My body is now pulsating with, with the second Moderna shot. It is coursing through my veins as I speak. And so this is kind of an experiment in real time. The shot didn't hurt at all. Got the, my first shot a month ago, today was the day Sona.

You were kind enough to come with me. Yep. You took it like a champ. Thank you. And they told me you might not feel well later today. or maybe tomorrow, that's common, but I'm deciding. that my mind is going to defeat this. It's mind over matter. I'm just deciding right now that I have a very powerful mind. and a correspondingly weak body. So what I'm going to do is my mind is going to say no, no I'm not getting anything. Nothing's, I will have no side effects.

I'm just not interested, not going to happen. Do you feel anything yet? Like even a pain in the arm. No, no, I don't feel, I mean, there's a slight. slight pain at the site, but I'm going to will that away. That's not happening. Have you ever done this mind over matter thing before. or is this the first time? No. Oh, okay. This is the first time. That's not true. That's not true. I was, once I have a pretty strong will. would you say that's true Sona. You do, yeah. And I, when I'm, there've been times where I'd been sick. and I had to perform and I just decide I'm not sick.

And then I have a pretty good time performing. And then I get even sicker when I'm, when I'm off stage. Yeah, that's true. And once I was visiting my wife's family in Seattle. this is like eight years ago. And a car filled with her friends backed over my left foot. My God, And like her friends are big adult males. and they were in a car and it backed over my left foot. And I felt a horrible pain.

and looked down and my foot didn't look right. And it was, it turned crazy black and blue. And my wife was like, I think you broke your foot. And I just said, no, no, let's not talk about it. (all laughing). And then I never went and got it checked out, and, What happened? My mind, Sona. I just decided I'm not going down that road. We're not going to the hospital. I'm not getting an x-ray.

I'm not having them set the bone. It's not going to happen. There's no time for this shit is what I said. No, but that's not how science works. Like if your foot is broken, I know, and my father is a scientist. I know it doesn't make any sense. but I remembered I don't want this to have happened. Why did you even get the vaccine then? Why not just willpower away COVID. Well I think that's spreading an irresponsible message. Okay. Okay, Matt, I'm sorry but I'm a believer in vaccinations,

And I'm fully Vaxxed. Look, that's, you've just raised a really good question. Why didn't I just will myself not to get COVID. Yeah. Well, that that you just completely took apart. my whole riff, I guess. Yeah. Sorry. No, no, that was, that was, That was sick. You know what that was? That was strategic. I had a whole cocky riff going. and then now you're like, yeah, you're right. I'm probably now I'm going to get really sick. really big side effects from the second Moderna. Is your foot permanently damaged? No, there's no damage. to my foot because the accident didn't happen.

That's how mind over matter works. But it did. No, it didn't. It didn't happen. You know, when, Wile E. Coyote is chasing the Road Runner. and the Road Runner stops and Wile E. Coyote keeps running. off the cliff and then he stands there for a long time. When does he fall? When he looks down. When he looks down. [Sona] Yeah. He's a great role model, I see where this is going. Yes, he is a great role model because he is, I mean first of all, people say, Oh, poor Coyote, I see a guy who's joyous. I love the Coyote because,

Me too. he is always knows what his purpose is, always. Think of all the calories that there. that the coyote is burning chasing, Yeah, he's yoked. The Roadrunner. My point isn't that he's yoked. My point is that it's so calorie inefficient. to chase the Roadrunner. (laughing). But that's one of those things that I, you know, I, I don't understand. I just fundamentally don't understand, as a kid that bothered me. [Sona] Yeah, I get it. [Conan] Where's he getting the money?