Conan & Sona Celebrate 15 Years Of Working Together | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

hey there welcome to con O'Brien needs a. friend joined by my two friends I. consider you friends oh that's nice no. it took a while um five years uh yes. 15 is that how Sona how long have you. been with me you know I I actually just. messaged you recently because I found 15. years ago on December 3rd I found out I. got my job because it's my best friend. Christina's birthday and and I I emailed. you I was like she emailed me it was. very sweet and she said it was 15 years. ago that she met she was going to be my.

brand new assistant cuz I was moving out. to Los Angeles uh to host a Tonight Show. for 40. years the plan went off without a hitch. um but uh I'll never forget you met me. we had the interview and then I you were. told that you were hired and then we met. at a coffee shop yeah on San Vicente in. Brentwood I remembered in the meeting. that that for some some reason you were.

sitting on a couch that I think was a. very low couch and had a soft cushion so. people were asking me who' you end up. hiring I said oh it's this woman Sona. she seems really bright and I she's. highly. recommended um and so I hired her and. they're like well what what she like I. said she's got dark hair she's really. short cuz I just remember thinking you. were really short cuz you sunk into the. couch so then I meet you at this coffee. shop and you are tall yeah pretty tall I. mean but with your hair was was up you. had your hair bun up so made you over 8.

and uh uh but you came in and I. remembered it Sona had a notebook and. she was writing everything I said down. very seriously and we had a professional. exchange it was for the last time it was. so. hilarious because and I will say I did. more to corrupt things immediately than. anyone you did all of it I did all my. con and stick and very quickly you said. I'm not going to listen to anything this. guy says nothing serious he's fool but I.

always go back to that first time Sona. walks in um taller than I had remembered. that's the first thing it struck me. notebook writing everything down and. then on our own initiative because I was. moving my whole family uh out from New. York she made a book for me like a. professional. book that she had bound that said here's. what helpful things to know about LA and. it included uh when it first rains in La.

there's a lot of sediment because it. doesn't rain regularly so drive more. carefully um the secret menu for In and. Out yeah no seriously no no seriously it. was filled and it was a book that you. could have published that you just made. on your own and I remembered thinking. this person is fantastic and then I. immediately corrupted you yeah and it. reminds me of on The. Simpsons uh I didn't write this joke but. someone wrote this joke where you know. Barney's really smart and he's studying.

hard for the you know LSAT or something. he's just Barney and and then Homer keep. convinces him to have a drink of beer. and he has it and he immediately turns. into Barney and he's. like and you. see uh I'm. Barney oh well he's Homer I realized I. infected you with the Conan uh stupidity. and then that was all gone and then it. went from hey Sona you know when is my.

car going to be out of my out of the. shop. boohoo con doesn't have his car fancy. talk show host won't have a way to no. Sona I know I'm just curious when it's. going to be out so I know that I don't. have to take an. Uber. Uber Corban needs a friend is brought to. you by the Kia ev9 and Sirius XM Sony. you remember we talked about the Kia ev9.

and um we finally got to see it I went. down and looked at it beautiful uh well. first of all the color was gorgeous it's. just nice blue it's got this very. spacious third row I love a third row. I'm a large fellow as you know I'm 6'4. all muscle okay well that's debatable I. was very comfortable I really enjoyed it. and you know the plan the plan is to. have my assistant who took over for you. because you weren't working out David um. well you know what I mean you're goofing. around a lot David came in and David. you're going to run some errands me in. the Kia ev9 I'm excited it's a good-look.

car and you and I sat in it for a second. it felt very comfortable oh so much. space Here's a little plus I want to add. SiriusXM offers a three-month trial. subscription to all equipped Kia. vehicles SiriusXM provides access to. over 165 plus channels in the vehicle to. listen to AdFree Music Plus sports news. comedy and more including fan favorite. con O'Brien radio on channel 104 I'm. going to send you out right you're going. to go out in the ev9 and uh you're going. to do some errands for me great just.

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which is you uh you melted half my brain. and then they you said well what H what. was wrong with her first half of her. brain and they were like it was already. melted this my kids when they were. little I said something about Sona and. they went you melted half her brain and. these are little kids and I said what. about the first half and they went that. was already melted I'm like I think that. is the best. description of my relationship with Sona. now Gorly came to me more fully formed. as as a human being and tried to damage.

you uh but you seem more resistant oh. I'm pre-damaged you're pre-damaged yeah. I think but you seem like you have it. together oh no no falling apart okay. yeah W you make falling apart look. pretty good you clean up real nice you. know I think so yeah it's it is it is. funny how uh these little memories come. along and you you time travel back to oh. right uh I was an adult who was a TV. host who was meeting a assistant and we.

were a professional yeah seconds before. it all went to cuckoo town you got in. just just in time I I I want someone to. do a deep dive of people before they met. you and after they met you and how how. much you ruined them well you know. what's been amazing is my wife my my. wife is uh just so Liza is so Adept at. parrying my madness and hand you know. handling it and you know that thing I do. where I'm just saying crazy things and.

son will say what'd you say that for and. I'll say don't let him bother you I talk. about myself in the third person and I. managed to get people around me going. what do you mean him and I go he's just. be who and I'll be like Conan Conan's. just in one of those it's just Conan. doing his Conan thing and they're like. no you're it's so great because I do. that around uh Liza and she's like uhhuh. okay so anyway she's completely UNF she. is not having it it's not.

you make all of us. unhirable and you do I think you do it. on purpose like I don't Blake can't work. anywhere else no no I've been ruined yes. nether none of us can work anywhere else. no Eduardo Eduardo uh could still hasn't. been ruined yet Eduardo I think could. still and you will soon work someplace. else because I know you have that look. of someone who's like I'm out of here. but Eduardo I haven't ruined you yet. right no I don't think so yeah but you. are very comfortable giving me tons of. constantly now I am thanks to Sona.

yeah yeah yeah yeah that's my legacy I. think you came in the other day and just. immediately attacked me for something I. flipped off anyone more times than. my no I'll see I'll see Ardo like. walking down the street and I low my. window go like Edo and he flips me off. like wow that guy hates don't talk to me. in public. what's it like to work for. someone you're like scared of I would. never know that I know I learned that. too oh no no one has uh anyone who knows.

me is immediately unafraid to just to. tell me exactly what they think of me I. think it's it's not that I don't want to. speak for you two but it's not that you. feel like powerful it's more a defense. mechanism of like I you have to put up. your walls with this guy you have to. defend yourself at this guy by the way. is out of control this guy is well this. guy Conan uh and I've noticed t with him. I think he's I think he's I think he's. insanely talented this is mad no no he's. ins look I'm saying this as a I've.

watched him for a while he's crazy off. the charts um wrap it up dick. face probably means Conan that's the but. you know what to Matt's credit that's. how you have to deal with Conan because. he's he he's what he's what he's a once. in a hundred-year talent but then he. gets off the rails and this is how he. has to be dealt with so I what you guys. are doing is. perfect say you are a once in a 100. years. something.