Conan’s Dad Planted Their Christmas Trees In The Backyard | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

you have a nice yard Sona thanks I think. I want to do some stuff to it but you. know I like it how long have you lived. here now at this house years we moved. here right before Co right before the. lockdown remember you said should I buy. a house and I said I think you should. there's going to be a pandemic remember. yeah you said those exact words and it. wasn't it was like two years before it. even happened I'm always looking ahead I. had my ear to the ground I knew stuff. was brewing and so uh yeah I remember. coming over here and you've done some.

very nice the place looks great it's. nice it still needs a lot of stuff your. house is beautiful it's wonderful oh I. appreciate that but I need new bathrooms. can you just do it what do you mean I'll. just pay for it if you want yeah that's. what I'm asking can you just give me. money so I could I want to redo my. bathrooms I want a bathroom I want. what's wrong with the bucket I gave you. it's full you're supposed to empty it. occasionally you idiot I don't need a. bathroom I get it okay you didn't. understand how the bucket works it's.

full well I guess I'll. neverr anything again tremendous stomach. ache it is nice it is nice too also I. don't know this area as well I don't. know it's a very different area of Los. Angeles so it's nice to get here Alena. next to Pasadena where you live. Christmas Tree Lane is here why do they. call it Christmas Tree Lane it's amazing. there's these big deodar trees I don't. know if I'm pronouncing it right and. they put lights on all of them and it's. this long Street and you're driving down.

it's like you're driving by a bunch of. really tall Christmas trees it's. beautiful okay this just just like. therapy it just sparked a memory so when. I was a kid we used to have uh just. regular Christmas trees you know saw off. Christmas tree and you put a little. water at the base just to keep the. needles green for whatever 15 days 20. days until it would start to die and. then you'd toss it out after New Year's. so then I remember sometime in the mid. 70s my dad who was always trying new.

things found out that you could get a. Christmas tree that had the root ball. intact and that way and he said this is. amazing it's fantastic we're going to. have our Christmas tree have its root. we're going to bring in a live tree with. its root ball listen to this we're going. to bring in a live tree with its root. ball into our living room and then we're. going to plant it in the sidey yard. after we're done and it will live with. us forever and over the years the.

different trees that we have will create. a forest now I need to explain to The. Listener that we have really no sidey. yard our sidey yard is like a 40 it's a. 45 degree angle drop and before you get. to the stm's house who are next door. it's a 45 degree it's like a cliff and. it's very narrow I mean maybe maybe it's. 15 ft across if that and so what Lush.

forest and so my dad sure enough. Christmas is over and we all had to haul. this tree out to the even the Birds are. laughing at this. story we had to haul this it's true it's. true he's he's like he's off to tell the. other bird you won't believe it this. guy's dad was an idiot um we would then. have to like dig a hole and you actually. did it you yeah we we would have to dig. a hole and it was really hard ground and. my dad was like come on hurry up and be. like I just want to play with my.

Christmas toys hurry up so we' dig it. and we' put the tree in the ground we. did this for like five Christmases in a. row they would always leave um soil all. over the place and my mom was always. Furious and saying Tom Tom there's soil. all over the place like the tree it'll. shelter us there'll be a forest and. finally my mother said no more of this. cuz I think one year the root ball. completely exploded and there was just. soil all over the first floor of the. house so that killed that but anyway. those trees they never did no like.

they died pretty quickly I think there's. one or two that are still there but they. look like the Charlie Brown Christmas. tree and it's been it's been like 35. years so you go back home and you see. the trees that you planted long time ago. and they're still kind of there I try. here's what's funny I go back to visit. my parents still live there my brother. Neil is there and I try to go and every. the other last time I was there I tried. to go into the sidey yard and first of. all it's like descending a mountain in. Switzerland I you need to tie a rope.

around your belt to go down and I go. down and I'm just looking at these. little a hi there like it's not the. mighty tree my dad thought it was going. to be oh it's not a forest no it's not a. forest but that's a nice idea because. otherwise you you cut it first of all. did you guys go get the trees yourselves. yeah it was uh 1720 okay and we would. get in a slay we would go out and get. the trees ourselves no we went to a lot. like everybody else I didn't know that. they did that with the root what is it's.

a root bulb a root ball root ball I. didn't even know that existed but I also. well any tree that's transplanted has a. root ball you know and each I did not. know that or a plant Matt you understand. these things right I suppose I do okay. wait you know what a root ball is you've. heard root ball before I feel like. you're going to be mad at me if I say. yes have you heard the word you heard. the term root ball when she's this out. of control and this wrong you have to. stand up this out of control I'm not. wrong I've just never heard of the word.

the words root ball I don't know what. that is but okay I'll just anyway I'll. take your word for it yes uh basically. the roots are still intact and they sit. in a a ball of soil a burlap sack if you. will okay yeah I do know what that is I. was trying to pict you didn't know what. it was though I don't think I did but. then when I the burlap sack thing you're. the you're the weird one who knew what a. root ball was everybody here did. everyone here okay yeah a lot of people. are saying yes stop no nobody knows you. invited your neighbors to come listen.

and your neighbors just showed up and. they all gave the thumbs up thank you. for showing up I love that you guys. should go now probably I'm so glad that. root ball yeah my it's my neighbors that. live on Common Sense. Lane anyway isn't it funny how all I. heard was Christmas Tree Lane and it. took me on this Memory Lane Memory Lane. of my dad saying I've got an idea our. Christmas trees will create a magical. forest he was wrong he was just wrong do. you think he'd ever be like I was wrong.

about the trees oh my father admit he. was wrong yeah uh no oh anyway where'd. you. get did that passed down at all sounds. like it was passed down from your dad. sounds like someone got a tra from his. you. can't can't admit you're wrong genius. passed on from the mother that's any. geneticist will tell you that that's. just common science do they still get. Christmas trees do I I.

real one your do your dad and mom still. get Christmas trees yeah there's still a. Christmas tree there a real one I I went. fake a couple years ago oh no no no no. we would never do fake yeah I wouldn't. either I would never do fake do you do. fake yeah I do fake that's gross that's. blasphemy that's a sin that's uh you. guys have a fire hazard in your house. and you have to go buy one from a out. what do mean you mean get to go buy and. you put it on your car and then you have. to drive home with it do you what do you.

have you have something that inflates it. is in a it is in a box in our it could. be Christmas at any time in this house. it's in a box in our garage that's sad. and you know what I think everyone here. thinks you're sad that's just sadell. another pole nobody else here does a. fake tree thanks Sam hey my neighbor is. coming through for me this time it's one. to one nice who else yeah David too we. win no you don't win because you lose. because you don't get the fragrance. that's fake if you have a fake tree F. the fragrance no no if you have a fake.

tree it's just you might you're just. saying I I don't want to live life I. choose not to live life I age you know I. hate that I agree but I agree and this. is like the s'mores thing when you're. right you're right it's just it's just. I'm not right a lot but and I mean like. I'm in the upper 90s but but when I am. right which is 98 99% of the time I am. so right it's crazy it's off the charts. right and you have to have a real tree. that just it's you don't have to have a. real tree that's part of the spirit buy. this thing what happen tree after where.

where did you buy the tree Target Home. Depot oh my that's a nice tradition I. tradition you buy it once that's the. good thing about it you buy it one time. and then you have I grew up with a fake. tree we're fake tree people that. explains a what is what you guys have a. tree in your house it dies and then you. just toss it waste of a tree you know. what makes me sad the Armenians are the. oldest Christians they are we we're the. oldest Christian nation1 Nation you guys. should be representing real trees you. shouldn't be going to Home Depot and.

getting something that by the way I'm. going to check it out I bet you what you. got is a bicycle rack and you think it's. a tree you're putting lights on a. bicycle rack how do you know it's a tree. I cuz it's a tree I don't know I can't. it's a tripod with a couple of things. coming off a tree with a a bike rack. it's a hat rack here's bik rack you. brought up Christianity where in the. Bible does it say you have to get a real. tree for Christmas page one does. Christmas even exist in the Bible what. are you talking about what are you. talking about of course it does it's a. talks about oh Santa CL Testament says.

yes and ye shall get the tree the tree. shall be of the earth of God made the. tree shall smell a fragrant green I'm. going to tell your mom up for the. Bible you shall be smen and. smitten and God chased Abel because Abel. had a tree that was made from Home Depot. I don't care out of rubber and steel. Don't You Remember Have you ever read. the Bible no okay all right I love. someone who's shouting about show me in. the Bible where it says you proved. uh wrong sorry I didn't know that wrong.

soft. G I didn't know that the Bible mentioned. Home Depot where' you got the hard G. Home Depot the important thing is that. we're all here together and it's not. Christmas.