Lizzy Caplan Feels A Groundswell Of Love For Los Angeles | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

going through what you're going through. with the loss of your dad I found um and. I know that sona's been through so much. lately lost lost her home in the and uh. but I remember talking to you right. after you lost your house in the fire. and you were saying like I've got these. Mikey and Charlie and they need me. present they were kind of saving your. ass because definit you can't say to. them mama's going to just be depressed. and weirded out for 2 years I'll see you.

then yeah yeah yeah I'm not going to be. like I'm in a bed just crying all day so. you know and then you they they're ready. to continue on and so you're ready to. continue on like the best medicine it. really is and it like gets you out of it. totally they're like little proac sweet. sweet Pro X but yeah they it it it it's. amazing even if you're in a bad mood. like a normal bad mood and you go in and. see your kids like unless you want to. have them you know when they're talking.

to their therapist or writing their. Memoir later like mother was sad all the. time she took she took it all out on me. she would kick the dishwasher and then. ignore me for two days like we're not. going to do that we're like not those. people my my best friend lives in. Alena I'm so sorry you lost that's like. unbelievable and watching her she has a. six-year-old and their house did not. burn down uh but they're totally. displaced and they have to live in the.

back House of a friend from schools how. and like it's actually turning out to be. kind of a great situation for now but I. what if she didn't have this little girl. to like get to school and not be a husk. of a human like I don't I don't know. yeah you I realize now CU I I mean I had. my kid kind of late like how much time. you just spend like wallowing your own. and then you don't get to do that. anymore and it like rips you out of it. it's a it's a wonderful thing is this.

the funniest um episode of I am I wrong. that I love this episode yeah me too I. mean I Eduardo is the line you're the. line judge on these things but this is. right at my alley I know cuz like this. is you know excuse us for having a. conversation shuckles over. here Life of the Party these days no no. but what I'm this is uh I don't know. it's making me feel a lot better so is.

kind of therapeutic it's really. therapeutic I think everything feels. very heavy right now even if you're not. going through something things just feel. really heavy it's it's okay to talk. about it you know agreed I think you I. think you have to and it is like. absorbing the because I'm from La I just. moved like we sold our house in December. and gave the keys to the new owners on. January 24th so like right after the. fires and we were supposed to come back. and pack up the house that we've lived.

in for 11 years and say goodbye to the. house and have all these people over. where you moving to just New York baby. all right all right yeah that just. happened and like take Alfie to. Disneyland and do all the and we. couldn't come back because of the fires. and being in New York and watching it I. have this is my hometown but I've like. talked so much about LA and what it. means and how it's changed and how it's. gotten worse and s ing a theme in My.

overall personality um but you have more. proac right I got to up. forrs also Prozac is new and will'll. recommend really like we can do an ad. for them I would I mean I'm like. obviously loud and proud about it maybe. I'll regret this part of it no no so. watching it from afar was really strange. and seeing like my hometown go through. this and feeling really SE.

and I felt like this ground swell of. love for La which hasn't gone away and I. think this city is amazing I think. Altadena specifically is amazing like. what they're doing and that was like the. LA I didn't grow up in Altadena but I. grew up like in the Miracle Mile and it. was much more that Vibe than let's say. the Palisades Vibe which is its own. unimaginable like I don't even know. tragedy but there's something about like. the angelinos who are from here who. aren't in the business business who just.

like have regular jobs regular families. and like you're just doing it in LA like. that was my upbringing and I have so. much love for this city and it was. really horrible to be away because all. of us like in New York who are from La. kind of huddled together um because. you'd go into you know when it was like. actively happening or just kind of. starting I like went to get my haircut. gu like how you doing like well not. great like LA's on fire like oh yeah you.

know when you're not from La when you. don't live there it's just like La has. fires it's just like another thing. that's happening somewhere else and when. it's your. home it's it's crazy and so like like my. dad. obviously passing away was brutal and. then I've stuck around for these couple. weeks and feeling the sadness of La has. been really intense but also everybody. in New York's like it reminds us of 911. like people are really coming together. and building each other up and like the.

community that was the main kind of. complaint I had about La like there's no. community and there so is and feel like. an for saying that I uh lived in. New York. when during 9/11 and one of my clearest. memories is going out to dinner and you. the the waitress would come over the. weight person would come over and say. you know um would you guys like to start. off with some drinks or you know and. we'd saywell how are you and then the.

person would end up sitting down at the. table and we would all chat and I. remember thinking this is this weird um. Eden that we're all living in where all. the. old uh societal Norms have gone out the. window and people are really talking to. each other and if the bartend you ask. the bartender you ask whoever's uh you. ask the person in the store how are you. uh where do you live how are you doing. and that happened in New York City and. then I remembered it going way like it's.

like that's Humanity just has this way. of if you hit a human being over the. head with a big stick he behaves himself. for like 6 hours and then goes back to. being whatever he was before and I know. that this. too shall pass but it is you do it's. lovely while it's happening and I'm. noticing I just keep having these great. conversations with um had to go to. Sundance for something and I there was a. woman who was driving me to the event in.

Utah uh from Salt Lake to to Sundance. and started chatting with her and it. turned out she lived in LA and I said. well how's your place she said well my. place burned to the ground and she's. driving me and we just had this intense. conversation and I thought well this is. kind of what it's supposed to be all the. time which is how are you what's going. on in your life not drive me driver yeah. where are the Tic Tacs um which is what. I reverted to by the end of the drive oh. you got back there enough of your.

whining yeah yeah yeah yeah oh your. house where am I Tic Tac yeah he's a. spearmint I wanted the fruity kind sorry. they burned in the fire sir that's no. excuse oh my God a burnt tic tac's the. best. one um yeah I so it's it's just. perspective and empathy and all that. kind of stuff isn't something you attain. it is a practice and it goes away and we. all find ourselves drifting away from it.

and then something happens and we get. pulled back into it yeah I wonder I mean. I have you felt cuz I'm nervous about. that just like how everybody was like. showing up and flooding the gofundmes or. whatever and I like like you're saying. like everything people move on to the. next thing eventually this is going to. be a long recovery yeah do you feel that. it's still as intense no no no I don't I. I mean I even asked if I would still get. a discount somewhere and they're like oh. we stopped doing that a week ago that.

was really the sign because when it. first happened you would walk into a. store and and and tell people that you. had lost your home and they would give. you this discount a 20% discount how. long did that last was that three weeks. that was like a few weeks and then uh I. went into a store I'm not going to say. which one but I was like hey I I lost my. home in the fire do you guys have a. discount and they're like oh we stop. doing that a week ago if anything. there's a SE charge yeah I know I know. the sad thing is when it was a 99 cent. store I know.

oh I want this scrunchie do you have a. discount ma'am I know it's 50 cents I I. think that there's still people I mean. there's still the empathy there it's. still there there's still some feeling. of it but it is waning a lot it is very. quick how quickly people kind of just. move on to be fair I would often go to a. McDonald's and tell them or a Cheesecake. Factory and tell them i' had lost my. home in a fire even when I hadn't but. you didn't you're taking my discounts I. know and they would be like that sounds.

terrible and I'd say so this. McFlurry what are we talking about here. can I get 80 cent on the. dollar and I sometimes I'd put a little. Ash on my cheek I did what I'm just. telling you the real me I kept always. keep a little Ash in your pocket god you. can get a discount it's not like I had. Ash ever on my face well you up. you'd be having a you'd be having a. discount McFlurry right now. she had a little Ash in your pocket why.

didn't you work up your orphan angle in. fire one there seems to be this. consensus that I'm too old okay which I. don't get cuz I think I'm very well. preserved for a man my age ah gee I lost. my. parents do you have any soup sir I saw. you drive up in a. Porsche yeah but I cash poor cashet Rich. what I do I have a lot of land in.

Montana in vast Holdings but I can't. access can I have some suit all my. money's tied up in Holdings it takes 24. hours to get the bank in Sweden open. up all right what's your name Billy. you're changing your name yeah Billy. does work better it's a better name for. me or what's the name you were thinking. of naming your son but didn't cuz Tom. Mickey that's a good. Mickey yeah Mickey the orphan Mickey the.

61y Old Orphan it counts who's done. quite well it. count it's so dark it really is. sorry but my parents would laugh at it I. can say that now cuz they're not here um. they would laugh at that like them in. the afterlife no we wouldn't you. we never liked you.