Sona Was An Awful Grandchild | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

on an episode not too long ago we talked. about your grandma mod mody right yes. this would be my mother's mother um Ruth. Reen and yet uh for reasons we didn't. know when we were kids everyone we all. called her motti and then I asked her. once why do we call you motty and she. said that there was a cartoon strip back. maybe even before the turn of the. century or at the turn of the century I.

believe she was born in 1890 and she was. on a on a playground and some kids were. harassing her you know teasing her and. so she kicked at them and they started. calling her motty. motty uh because there was a well-known. cartoon at the time about a I don't know. if it's a mule or a horse that kicked. people oh my God here it is and this is. the mule or the horse kicking someone. right there and her name was mod and her. name was mod this is it oh my God I'm.

trying to see what the date is on this. that would be cool to know I can't see I. can't make out the date I thought it. said 1904 somewhere but that'd be too. late I don't think so you can still kick. people when you're. 14 uh this is really cool this is her. classmates sound like dicks well they I. mean kids don't change um I know but she. they were bugging her so much that she. needed to kick them and then they. started calling her a a kicking mule. well yeah but it's it's not like the.

name stuck and her grandchildren ended. up using it oh no this is so cool this. is a good uh there's a guy who gets. kicked by a mule he's angry so he takes. the mule he says I'll fix this pesky. Critter he ties the mule up the mule. kicks some more people it's kicking. automobiles it's kicking everybody and. then the people realize that the owner's. the one that caused all this problems so. they go and they kick him mhm and the. mule then gets to laugh at the owner who. just got kicked M heha my question is.

okay did they do the same bit every week. I don't know I mean how many how many of. these cartoon strips did they do at. least this is a a a cartoon strip that's. acceptable today if you look at a lot of. cartoon strips from the turn of the. century they would not pass muster. anymore they're incred find out that. mu's. politics wow this this is an American. Amica first.

mule he wants closed this is a closed. border. mule uh this is so cool to see this to. think that my grandmother would have. seen this uh it does say to be continued. next Sunday so I bet there's a whole. story yeah I think this my guess is this. mule just keeps on kicking people I have. a little uh info about it and her name. was mod is the name of the strip is a. comic strip by Frederick Burr oper it. first appeared in the Hurst newspapers. on July 24th.

1904 um that's it the rest of stuff wait. you can I just say Adam you approached. the mic like I've just got some news the. Hindenburg has exploded at Lake K New. Jersey All Souls have been lost even you. seem surprised by your own lack of. information this is less interesting. than I thought yes her name is mod 1904. newspapers although her papers though it. probably does have some politics yeah uh. well this is I I know I love that kind. of connection to first of all this is as.

I've spoken about before I loved my. grandmother and uh after my grandfather. passed she lived with us for a while and. um she uh yeah she was this amazing link. to the late 19th early 20th century and. I remembered her telling me it was once. New Year's Day and she told me she had a. very clear memory of New York City. because she was staying with relatives. in New York City in 1900 on New Year's. Day and she was describing it she was. describing the carriages going by how.

cold it was the snow she said I can see. it right now like perfectly and I. thought I I'm always fascinated by time. travel that concept that you can have a. human connection to somebody I don't. know if you had this with because I know. Sona you lived with oh my yeah your. grandparents Y and de both lived into. their 90s into their 90s and they came. from they came from istan y um and I. mean my my grandpa started he was a. butcher when he was 12 like they just.

put him to work really early right so. it's like the idea that you are trusting. a 12-year-old with slaughtering animals. is just feels like a completely. different world but also just the fact. that then they come to this country and. they're living with you and it's you're. going out to in and out to grab a burger. yeah and whatever else you're up to it's. just this amazing Clash of cultures I I. find that stuff fascinating well my. great grandma also lived with us and she. was old as she was really old you.

don't say old as she was really. really old and I remember she was this. old wrinkly lady and I was really young. I was maybe like 10 and my mom's like. she's going to sleep in your room and I. that it from then on I was terrified of. the dark cuz I thought she was like a. old witch lady and she was just wait. when you say she was what did you say. old as yeah how old is old as. she was I mean when I was 10 she was. like 95 cuz there are young comedians. out there that now see me and go you're. old as so it's all it's all.

relative that's right I was 10 and she. was 60 no no seriously how old do you. think she was she was 95 yeah but she. was like an old wrinkly lady and I was. young and I was like why is this old. person in my room and I I got terrified. at you s like an awful grandchild I was. really bad I love this like old and. wrinkled why is that in my room I have. we did something else I don't want to I. shouldn't well we got her now this is. really bad so she had a son who passed. away that no one told her passed away.

and then my uncle who was still in. Istanbul and we'd hold up two fingers. and' be like Medi you know touch one of. them and we would she would touch them. and be like oh that's you know beo da. who was my um uncle and she'd just. instantly start crying and we thought it. was so. F CU we kept reminding her of these. people she hadn't seen in a long time. and we'd instantly make her cry and. Danny and I were like let's go make meny. cry whoa oh my God you're a you're a. monster you're a.

sociopath how is that we were just. fascinated with her instant like Sadness. the true sociopath but it's you really. was no no no I to be fair I did it to my. grandmother mty. too I used to go remember that that that. loved one that. perished it was fun we used to call it. it was the old fun we called it the. perish game hey let's go play parish and. we go into Monty's room remember the one. you loved who perished.

look at them. Waterworks you're an awful awful person. no no joke that was really bad yeah. you're it was bad we wouldn't make her. laugh just for all right well listen. let's have some good come you need to. clarify no joke her cry just for fun. because we were terrible let's have some. good come out of this if you're. listening right now and you're tempted. to go uh mock a very very old relative. by reminding them of someone they lost. long ago think twice.

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