Q&A: Conan, Sona, & Matt’s Childhood Dream Jobs | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

hi my name is Megan hey Megan how are. you good how are you good but nervous um. oh don't be nervous we as you can tell. we're just uh we're just hanging out. we're fools hanging out we're idiots. well yeah kind of yeah um my questions. for whoever wants to answer but um when. you were a kid and somebody would ask. you what you wanted to be when you grew. up what would you say oh podcast. sidekick.

you were in the. sandbox you made yourself a third chair. yeah had a sand nailed it little pine. cone for a microphone spoke once every. 14. minutes you're I have to say on these. ones you're a little quieter when we're. in the studio you are a you are a a your. lips are a fla I know I need to walk. that back and well I just think you know.

I'm just getting too big for my britches. you know oh no I think you're just. getting if you're saying that phrase. you're just getting too. old what about you son what did you want. to be I know this might be shocking I. didn't have very many. Ambitions you were blazing up at four. years old right I honestly like looking. back on I don't think I was ever like oh. I can't wait to be a doctor um thank God. I.

well Sona you lost another one what are. you going to do he had a full life he. was. 26 he came in for a hernia operation you. killed him. well who's up for some. Margies Mar posttop. Margies um no I don't I really didn't. have any like I know it's sad but I was. just kind of like that sounds cool I'll. try that I know I wanted to work in TV.

that that's the only thing I really. loved so I knew that but I didn't know. what right so I did it yeah I. um check yeah did do. it I wanted to when I was a kid I really. did want to be an Entertainer and I. thought and but and I've said this. before but back then um pre- streaming. and just three television stations and. not great reception you just watched. what was on and mostly what was on.

channel 38 or Channel 56 were old movies. cuz that's what they ran cuz they didn't. have enough content and so I grew up. watching old movies and old musicals and. I thought that's what entertainment was. so in like the 19 late 1970s I was. thinking I need to know how to tap. dance I need to learn how to talk real. fast in an oldtime voice you know I need. to get like one of those straw hats and. say Hey you let's get over here there's. a fire at mcc's Barn let's go you know. and then like.

up I better know a few Tunes you know. and uh button up your over coat when the. wind blows free take care of yourself. you belong to me OD oio and then I'd go. to school and do this and the. beatings would. commence here's this kid with a bll. haircut hey everybody my name's Conan. that's a cool name ladies line up and. I'll have kiss you later but up your. over kiss you then all these kids you. know from Somerville and stuff would.

just be oh I'll beat him first you beat. him second they had me I didn't know I. wanted to be a bully when I grew up till. I saw this guy they had conversation he. inspired me to be a bu yeah they were. very organized bullies here's how we're. going to do. it Jason you're first Christy you're. second yeah exactly I'll hit him. primarily in the throat soft. tissue bullies having a convers bullies.

really organized bullies they have a. flowchart how it's going to work they. prepared visual yeah everybody look at. your hand. out and I'm in the corner fellas hurry. it. up you're just standing there I've got. tap dancing lessons to get. to these toes are ready to. twinkle.