Conan Isn’t A Gearhead (Feat. Nicholas Hoult) | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

you got very seriously into motorcycles. at some point yeah that was for a roll I. learned to ride bikes for for a rle um. the the first thing I did with L called. young ones that Jake palro directed um. with me and L and Cody Smith MC and and. Michael Shannon great a great group but. yeah my character to ride motorcycles in. that um so I learned to ride for that. and then got into it for a little while. and was riding a lot and getting on. track and all that sort of stuff but. I've kind of stopped it started to feel. a little bit well I fell off a few times. so that started to feel a little bit. dangerous and then I got more into car.

racing so I've been doing more of that. because it feels a little bit safer yes. you got just some you're in a cage yeah. you got a A whole roll cage helmet I. mean you wear a helmet obviously on the. bikes but you've also got this this. hands device have you heard of this the. hands hand I think it stands for head. and neck saver so it's like underneath. your harness is this thing that then. connects to your helmet to stop your. head if you do crash from moving too far. so it saved loads of lives so you have. seriously first of all as a kid you were. interested in cars yeah I grew up. watching it with my dad and racing him. with my dad and stuff and he he would.

like build cars as one of his Hobbies um. so I was always kind of interested and. excited by them so now lucky where I got. the opportunity to kind of go and go and. race around the track a little you just. took I mean a serious course what's the. course that you just took oh the course. of belotta the Ferrari yeah so now I'm. kind of waiting hopefully I've I've done. some of their track attacks at the. Ferrari Challenge and those have gone. well and then next will be the actual. race but the track attacks like when. everyone's out there trying to set the. fastest this lap sort of thing time now.

explain to me the appeal cuz I've never. I I'm not a gear Head I I enjoy a nice. car but um when I first made money and. could buy any car I wanted just so you. know who you're talking to yeah and I'm. a writer on The Simpsons and I I go out. and I buy a a Ford tourist Sho that's. the Ford tourist that has the stick. shift yeah stick shift's great yeah but. it looks exactly like a you miss the. Ford part of all I had was stick shift.

and I was like okay having. fun got a sweet Yamaha 6 in. there uh and um but yeah I remembered. thinking this is so cool and people. would say you're driving around in a. Ford tourist and you're 28 years old and. you told us you were going to get this. really cool car and I went yeah but if. you look inside it's got a stick shift. and the common reaction was uh who it's.

a for T you look like you're going to or. Whole Foods to buy some some Pro not. even Whole Foods like Big Lots okay. let's not get Dicky about grocery stores. but anyway that's the degree to which. I'm probably not a Gearhead but um you. participated in and won a race recently. didn't you yeah yeah I got the fastest. time. so I don't know how to describe the the. feeling of it is something where it's it. makes you very present you have to be. you have to be right and it's a weird.

it's a weird mix between having a lot of. adrenaline but then having to kind of. counteract that and calm yourself and be. extremely focused for periods of time. where you're doing things that are. against human instinct because like for. instance at the track where uh um you. you're kind of coming up through turns. two and three and it's blind and so you. can't see where you're going and you. have to keep your foot pin the floor and. you're going about 130 40 mil. accelerating into the into the C so you. got yeah so and you're going up you're. turning left but you can't see exactly.

where you're aiming to come out and then. there's walls on either side so you're. going through there at like 140 um and. it all goes well luckily for me this. time and everything was fine but it's a. weird feeling where you're you're like. half of the muscles in your leg are. trying to pull up and stop you from. doing it and the other half are like. overriding it oh my God to be like no. you have to do that to get quick and. then and then it's so there's but then. once you've done it once you can do it. again and then you keep on building up. and you start to get just muscle memory. muscle memory and you start to just you. start to feel the car and it become you.

don't become one with the car that's. such a stupid thing to say but you. started I did with the. Taurus I had sex my Taurus God was that. not clear wait a minute never mind car. was not on when I became one when my car. was not even on and I was not in it when. I stick shift I thought it was I thought. it was fairly clear by the way you're. talking about it I'm going to keep. explaining what. happened uh well okay but I was going go.

so far with it and I've red myself just. like to take this time to apologize to. you it's fine yeah don't worry Nicholas. this never has to air um the it. interesting I'm gonna sound like I'm. taking making a joke but I'm not I kind. of understand what you're saying because. if I'm in front of a large group of. people yeah I am there is an adrenaline. rush and I am sometimes doing things. that are against my better nature right. but I also so think this is going to be.

really funny if I do this thing that's. potentially quite embarrassing or. foolish so there's this push me pull you. but I also like to be in control but I. also like the potential chaotic loss of. control and it's all at the same time. that's the closest I've come to that. yeah no it's exactly slow State and it's. kind of and very meditative and it. becomes but let me ask you something. then so when you're about to make a joke. or take a. risk how often do you.

doubt it before you do it and if you. doubt it do you just abort or do you you. override this is one thing I found is. that if I'm thinking about it beforehand. it's not going to be as good right and. if you do it then it's not as satisfying. it's not as good and for some reason the. audience knows it too I don't know what. that's all about no no no I I get I yeah. I get what you're what you're saying. because when you were first talking. about the Ford Taurus I was in my head I. was going to make I was reaching for. some sort of joke about there being a. condom on the on the gear.

and it was there somewhere and then I. was like oh and then and then I thought. about it too much and I was like this. isn't the time of play let just bu but. then but then I went there yeah so you. showed uh a much younger man than I you. showed uh a lot of restraint and caution. yeah um and you held your tongue and. then me the older man who should know. better well just cuz I couldn't. formulate what the idea was no I didn't. formulate it well either I have me. a Taurus and uh you just said I.

my car there's some there's some sort of. SAR sign joke in here too there was no. yeah better than a Capricorn Aries yeah. my point is what's that what's that joke. of what's the one where it's like uh oh. I don't know uh I broke up with my I. broke up with my ex and someone says why. and they said oh because I'm a. Sagittarius and they're a sorry. sorry everybody can't say that beep that. one out no you can say it that used to. be my favorite for a while I think. you're allowed to say it in in in the UK.

yeah so I say apologies to anyone who's. offended by that yeah you can change. that word for other words they were they. were it's funny so unexpected I just. want to make sure people know Sona said. that okay there you go now um you know. what's. funny why is it you have better material. than I do uh this is frustrating.