Tom Hanks & Conan’s Neighborhood Has A Dark History | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

remember this this this thing this thing. in Show Business happened of this thing. of ours when you didn't have to drive to. a studio and work with the segment. producer and put you have your hair have. your bald spot covered and you know wear. free clothes that you know zenya is. giving you and then you had to go and. then you didn't have to do that anymore. because you do a podcast from your house. with a decent microphone and now we're. back on TV without stence so I.

appreciate that we keep talking about. this how I started this five years ago. cuz Adam said do a podcast and I said. why would I do a podcast when I've been. on TV for 30 years we start doing it as. a joke as a joke it becomes big then. they start to say is it okay if we put. cameras in there and I said fine and. then they said is it okay if we. occasionally do five a year in front of. a live audience in in big theaters cuz. people like it and I said okay and then. they said is it okay if we add a banned.

I said you we're right back and. listen we're going to need a warm-up. comic it's going on NBC yeah it's going. to be on NBC at 12:35 it is it is all. right I want to make sure I get you out. of here cuz we have a lot to oh I don't. I got plenty of time I'll give you a. ride home I know where you live I get. hey by yeah by the way you have you. you've been to Conan's house yes uh we. have competitions in the neighborhood. who has the longest house you mean as. you're driving up the street which which. house takes the longest to drive past.

the start of the property property line. and the end of the property line you. guys each think it's your I think you've. got like two and a half miles of. property line I do you do a Cessna can. land and a Cessna has landed now now it. used to it used to be you know Jerry. Lewis used to live on on the Block did. he really yes yeah I I won't say I won't. are we on yet so okay so I won't say. what the address is but at at one point. I we at because I saw this old thing and. I ran you know you meet Jerry Lewis and. you think first of all that's a surreal.

experience all into it hey Tom you know. my God Jerry knows my name you know I. saw the bz and buds you know. and and why can't we use it you can't go. ahead go ahead we're using it okay and I. said is it true or not did you live in. our neighborhood and he said the number. of the of the number of the house and. it's a it's a brick uh white red brick. White House and it is almost as long as.

yours is and I just think cuz I saw this. you know he was really into like making. home movies and stuff like that and he. used to do kooky things and I saw this. one thing Tony Curtis and Janet Lee. drove up and did kooky things on their. lawn as they were coming into a party at. his house so how's that for a. neighborhood he would make films he. would make films I mean start going back. to like the early 50s he would make. films with all of his friends that's. right and uh but I didn't realize he. lived lived in our neighborhood right.

there right there and you know he had a. radio station and he had a I think he. had restaurants and stuff he had a. podcast for a while a true sign very. early version a true sign that it's over. we were I was out once and by the way. you you find this thing I maybe I was at. a I was at like a a thing they were. showing one of his movies and we all. kind of like went in order to vet him. you know celebrate him a little bit and. someone someone got up he had a question. and answer and somebody asked him about. the video tap the world famous video tap.

cuz he was directing movie he was the. first guy one of the first guys to star. in and direct his own movies and he had. to have a vide tap meaning that it he. was the first guy to put a a TV monitor. matching what the camera saw so there. was a cable coming from the Cera camera. and ran into a TV and everybody thought. this is amazing he said it was but I. didn't. tape what do you mean I had no playback. I just had to look when I was doing and. I a thing with a stuff and it looks good. and now let's do it but then I do it and. I couldn't see it until the daily.

and I said actually now if he had. invented videotape that was he would. have gotten the Nobel Prize along with. everything else he would he would have. got it all Jerry Le how did we get. talking about Jerry Le just what mean. how did we you yeah oh because it's the. neighborhood yes we live in this uh. neighborhood uh and I take a hike I. sometimes go buy your property I've. thought about there's a there's a wall I. think I could get over that you know you.

know what you are too you could so tall. you could might be able to crawl through. the razor wire uh if you know how to how. to do that I you scared the hell out of. me I was on a bike with a friend of mine. we won't get into the exact kind but uh. on a taking a bike ride with a good. friend of mine Brad and we're going up. this yeah. maybe and Brad. Paisley uh and uh suddenly this this car.

like a kind of a Jeep SUV thing starts. coming and all of a sudden the the. window comes down yeah and you lean out. the window and start yelling at me and. you start doing some bit which was. really funny doing a bit and uh and then. my friend is like that was Thomas it. happens all the time but you know it was. like laughing like your head just came. out of a yeah knock knock yeah or it was. like Batman when he was climbing up the. side of a building and suddenly a window. would open and it's it's you know it's. Jerry Lewis it's Jerry Lewis Tom H I.

thought I live the most amazing life. where a darkened window can come down. and a goofy Tom Hanks can pop out and. yell at me when I'm on a bike but think. about everybody else cuz on that there's. a lot of people that come there to to. walk that that you know it's a long L. and all kind of like bicycle weeny Geeks. you know guys with $6,000 mountain bikes. saying on your left you know as they're. as they're going up and coming down but. they're going to see you I mean you're. as tall as big bird for crying.

and they're going to say I believe I saw. Conan O'Brien struggling up the. hill have you heard that halfway up that. Ridge there's this place that apparently. in the late 30s you probably know about. absolutely true in the late 30s some. people who were. Pro Hitler and pro what the Nazis were. doing so Nazis yeah okay okay go ahead. uh they as a lay historian I'll come in. and get the record straight.

W members of the party what there were. people who were sympathetic to that. cause in the late 30s before America was. in the war and they purchased a piece of. land am I correct you are correct sir. that they that they thought that they. thought would be um a place that the. furer would like to hang when and if he. comes to America maybe because he. conquered it I don't know the whole. story do you know the story it was owned. by the German boond. uh and there was a period of time a.

German boond the boond was essentially. hey we're all Germans we all live. America let's form a fraternal. organizations like other nationalities. do you know and be be I'm going to hope. that before before they found out just. how bad Hitler was yeah you know but. there there I swear I have seen. photographs of like a Fourth of July uh. in the 1930s up there with the fireworks. thing and they would have no lie a. picture of the founding fathers and a.

picture of Adolf Hitler an American flag. and a Nazi flag uh the German Nazi flag. and they were saying our country is. coming back uh etc etc and I just hope. that maybe you can get away with that in. 1930 you know but it continued along and. in fact it is now a scout camp or it had. been for a while and I have I have gone. there to scout a location and there was. like the main Lodge you know there's. tents and stuff like that but there is a.

main Lodge that honestly looks like you. know a German Alpine chalet yeah that. all you have to do is paint it red put a. couple of hawen cruisers on there and. you are right back in Naz Ville USA so. this is a place that in our neighborhood. you go up this there's this big hill and. and did I say Jerry Lewis also lived in. this neighborhood and why did you choose. to live here sir listen we have these. meetings that are none of your business.

no but this is my story which is that. they the that was something I've always. heard and then occasionally you'll. you'll find that it it mentioned that. this piece of land lives and that maybe. and some people get the. story get they get it wrong and they. think that Hitler spent time there like. in his board shorts looking out at the. Pacific he did come out for pilot season. one and he you know needed a place to. stay six Pilots didn't get one of them. not a one.

uh there was almost a seventh friend but. anyway. um uh but I'm with I'm with my friend. once my my same friend Brad that you saw. I'm riding grinding up that hill on our. bikes to just try and get to this very. steep in Parts we're grinding along and. then we're these two women like blonde. 22y old I swear to God wearing like. bikini. tops very and they just looked like they.

were just come from a sorority party. they flag us down like they were in. trouble and I said what is it and they. went do you know where the Hitler Camp. is there you go where's the Hitler Camp. about that and I went oh ladies well all. right like God still pulling in the trim. that Addie Hitler my God Jesus still. pulling in the trim I know what Jesus. Jesus man wow come on now we we are Mak. we are making light a very very dark.

period uh without a doubt so yeah I mean. you don't want to say yeah yeah come on. up how do you get to how do you get to. cen's house oh well if you you've gone. too far if you hit the Hitler Camp right. make a uturn at the Hitler Camp when you. get to the melini culdesac yeah yeah. take a left. yeah triangle but yeah that's up there. and uh yeah yeah the um I'm going to. switch gears here a little bit let's see. how you do this.

and I want to talk about the. Japanese and Jerry Lewis and 1944.