Sona Was Named Mt. SAC’s Alumnus Of The Year | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

Sona this is big news you're giving the. commencement speech for the Mount San. Antonio informally known as Mount Sac. College commencement I am not giving the. commencement address it's a two-minute. speech okay wait I thought you were. giving the commencement address no I'm. I'm alumna of the year for hey. congratulations congratulations I don't. like the way you said that did they. didn't it that was I was congratulating. sincerely I think that was delivered.

sincerely with the understanding that an. insult was to follow yes yeah but later. like in 20 minutes okay all right okay. and unrelated to this no oh Sona I. really am honestly proud of you thank. you I'm very proud of uh you've you've. accomplished a lot and I'm I was saying. a nice thing that's nice I honestly was. it's I the way you said it was just very. I'm sorry thank you sorry sorry but it. was you had a tone. that's my nasal voice I can't help it. you're like you had a tone and your lips.

were thin and your eyes were beating. yeah that's me I can't help that no but. I they they named me alumna of the year. I went to a community college before I. transferred to USC I'm very proud of my. time there and then they named me alumna. and of the year and you did a an. interview for the video they're gonna. show a commencement and I found out. recently there's gonna be like 12 000. people there 12 000 that's a big crowd. yeah that's a big crowd I know but wait. a minute you're always talking about how.

you're you were speech Champion. yes yeah you bring that up all the time. every you bring that up when they pull. you over for a DUI you're like no it's. not so stupid all right you're free to. go there's some more alcohol. Hair of the Dog yeah we didn't realize. you were a national speech Champion. here's much more vodka thank you. Professor well it's officer not the.

officer but I still refuse to give you a. blood alcohol test so I think you're. going to be fine do you know what you're. going to talk about yeah give us the. first line give us a little preview uh. well I'm doing it in a they built a. brand new stadium that we're gonna have. the graduation in did you say I was I. thought you were gonna say I'm doing it. in an accent no no no they built this. brand new stadium at the school so my. first line is thanks for building this. stuff. I like that that's great it's stupid but. there's not like a lot of jokes it's not. like oh you gotta have jokes will you.

write it for me well you've done you've. done I won't write them for you all. right because there's a writer's Guild. strike so I refuse to help you with this. well I thought and I hope you bomb go. wga yeah you producer you ruthless. I thought you couldn't write shows and. stuff you could write a commencement. address I think I can it's a you know. you're real it's not Union at all it's. me it's just a two-minute speech you're. the man you're the man now you know what. you are I'm sick of your boot on my.

throat yeah you've written two why don't. you get AI to write it yeah I. know I should you should get AI you've. written two of like really well-known. commencement addresses that were like. longer than two minutes can I borrow. from your from your Harvard class Day. speech or Dartmouth address no you. cannot hey Sona think of all the amazing. things in life that are expressions of. just you yeah I mean like the chocolate. that you had on your face when you came. in because you just ate that what was it. you were eating I was eating a giant.

cookie giant cookie yeah and that's so. Sona okay or that song you stream over. and over again it's just so you what's. that song For You Twinkle Twinkle Little. Star yeah but it's for my boys I know. still it's nice okay or you know that. podcast that comedy podcast you just. gotta listen to yeah Conan O'Brien needs. a friend exactly is that what you listen. to in your spare time yeah love it. everything that makes you you makes all. the difference State Farm believes. Insurance should work the same way your. plan your coverage selections can be.

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you say you have two minutes you don't. there's no such thing as a speech that's. two minutes long that's that's uh are. you sure they're being square with you. you're not just introducing someone no. but there's there's a three minute video. and then there's a two minute I get five. minutes I'm I'm just first of all a. little blip can I say something they say. two minutes but you're gonna take more. than two minutes because there's no such. thing as a two minutes speech oh why I. wrote it that's called ordering a pizza. okay you know not a bad idea yeah but. still that's why. I just take stuff that you wrote.

um well it won't match okay uh you know. tourism well but also it just won't. match your personal experience you come. from you have such a different. background than me and you have a great. story to tell coming to this country oh. come on. um uh a boat that you made out of brillo. pads sewn together with beeswax that had. been dried and turned into twine. you forged a path across a Mighty Sea. you have a great story to tell and also. what I think is very cool and I'm being.

sincere here is you know this you. started this community college and look. what you've achieved I think that's. that's very cool it is and I'm shocked. because there's a lot of really. impressive alumni that have come out of. there so when they first said I was the. alumn of the year I was like I was like. why who are they are there anyone we'd. know no oh. honest with you though though I think. it's I think it'll be an inspiration for. all of them yeah to see you because you. do have a lot of fans and you are an.

impressive person and I think I I and. I'll tell you I think it's also. you know. um good for these people to see your I. think you're still able to connect to. young people I think you're a very. youthful person so it's not that's not. you're not a stodgy old person saying. now let me tell you something when I was. a boy you know yeah first of all you. shouldn't say when you were a boy. because because you weren't but uh but I. think it's gonna go really well I've got. thank you I've gone back to Mount Sac a. few times to talk to the students and I.

can't tell you how many people uh love. you which I was surprised I'd say that. these are educated people well. she says people no she means some of the. farm animals hanging out they're young. in the agricultural lab they're super. young and they're like not that you know. I I know I'm like saying I just I always. think that they're just like into like. Taylor Swift and like Billy eilish and. like yeah they cross over between my. fans and Billy eilish fans and uh Taylor.

Swift fans I'm convinced of that no yeah. yeah just because you convinced yourself. doesn't mean that it's true on her. current tour Taylor often starts the. show by saying how many Conan fans we. got in the crowd and the place erupts oh. okay I've not seen any footage of that I. haven't seen it either. um and I haven't even heard about it but. I'm pretty sure it's happening because. of my power to deceive myself is. absolutely incredible that's impressive. co-nifties yeah.

how Nifty excuse me what's that a Taylor. Swift fan who's often who's also a Conan. O'Brien fan okay how many uh are there I. said. I'm the co-nifty yeah that's what it. should be yeah are you vegan you know. what it's like this rare bird that no. one's seen in a thousand years are you. the. someone who loves. that Fringe weirdo. they photoshopped a picture of the two.

of you like just together hanging out. yeah so cool uh well I'm when is it. happening it's happening very soon well. it by the time the audience hears this. it will have already happened on June. 9th so do you get to wear a gown and a. Mortar Board yeah that's nice I know. that's gonna be cool you get a special. like scarf of some kind of like a Nexium. I have no idea are they gonna give you. any kind of. doctorate you can get a doctorate come. on I don't know you got an honorary. doctorate I'm not sure I think from. Dartmouth they said something I don't.

know I don't know I'm not being koi I. honestly don't know they put something. around my we got to look up what I got. I'm pretty sure he got a doctorate yeah. but I know that it was I wanted it to be. an oral surgeon. I wanted to actually be a doctor. afterwards and then be able to open up. [Laughter]. author of Arts. I'm. a doctor of art come on.

is there a doctor I wish next time I'm. in an airplane and something happens is. there a doctor here hello. I am a doctor of Arts. from Dartmouth and I'm gonna push my way. to the front well this person should be. having a heart attack have you got a. book. maybe Factory. or one of the Bronte sisters care to. talk about the contrapposto of the. statue David. because on those matters I'm good to go.

he's dead he's dead he died while you. were talking about the brontes well I. did what I could I suppose that makes me. some kind of hero excuse me I'm an. actual doctor and I couldn't get up here. because this was blocking the. aisle I'm actually a pulmonary. specialist I could have saved this man. by doing chest compressions that's all. well and good. but I got here first because I'm a.

doctor of the Arts well all right let's. wrap it up gang congratulations. congratulations to those students and. you know what my advice to you is enjoy. it that's a moment. when you're up there take it in and. don't you have a tendency to go oh no uh. take it in that's a really nice moment. be they'll be thrilled that you're there. and enjoy it and we're really proud of. you oh that's very cool thanks guys.