W. Kamau Bell Convinces Conan To Watch More Shows On YouTube | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I always bonded with you over TV we just. love to watch a lot of Television we. grew up watching a lot of Television it. infected us early I think it's where. probably we we got a lot of our uh sense. of humor but you watch a lot of YouTube. oh yeah that is something I don't do. nearly as much um how did you find that. out yes I do watch you I did find it out. uh so what is it what do you like to. watch on YouTube that you're not getting. on television like what's YouTube giving. you that and and that's not challenging.

because I just want to know like should. I be watching more YouTube I mean so uh. there's a phenomenon called slow radio. which is like radio where not much is. happening YouTube is like slow TV so it. doesn't have to be a lot happening but. it just keeps sort of happening in front. of you and you sort of it can help you. settle your brain I feel like sometimes. so does not like like in an era where. every TV show you turn on it's like well. the last episode you got to like where. the supren ification of Television where. you you need to know this much yeah yeah. like I'm out I don't I three kids I'm.

busy I can't do all that last night I. watched a guy Dr Connor uh from he's. from the UK and somewhere and he cleaned. out somebody's impacted. ear. oh and he and he's and and okay and he's. got a British accent so it's very like. light and entertaining you missed the. Rave for that yeah I missed the Rave for. that yeah well it was a really impacted. ear really impacted it was really. couldn't come he was uh so I started. with I started with I used to watch I. still do uh uh Dr pimple pop everybody.

knows Dr prle popper and then I sort of. moved to ears uh and then Gateway the. gateway to ear yeah so last so you're an. ear noos and throat man I'm an earns and. throat man yeah but and then there's. just a lot of I'm a breast guy and. you're an ear noos and throat man so and. then there's a lot of people there's a. whole generation of young people growing. up who don't actually even want to be on. TV so they're actually spending time and. effort to make things that are very good. that should be on TV maybe but these. people didn't grow up in a TV generation.

so they're just like like I watched a. 4our video about plagiarism on YouTube. oh really yeah like 4 hours just about. plagarism as it happens on YouTube by a. guy named H bomber guy and I didn't know. I was going to watch all four hours of. it I was like ah let's see what happens. and then it's like 3: in the morning I'm. like holding my phone like I gotta see. how this ends does he solve the case so. there's these they're called a video. essays and so there's like FD signifier. H bomber guy I just discovered Lindsay. Ellis like there's all these people who. are making these basically documentaries. but out of homes on YouTube and all and.

then you could and so it's it's better I. find it to be more entertaining than. what's on TV generally and uh what about. like cooking shows do you ever do. cooking shows yeah who's the guy uh uh. binging with babish is good cuz he takes. sh you would like this he takes food. that has been on television like for. example on The Simpsons they make. something and he makes it in real life. and so you get to see like the food that. has been a part of TV shows that he then. creates I could see that for most any. other TV show but since is a cartoon so.

I don't know how they're recreating I. mean like if someone goes to Moe and. orders something yeah like the like the. like I think like the sandwich the. famous like the big sandwich that that. Homer he he makes what he thinks is his. version of that there's just a variety. of things on YouTube and then like for. example like my daughter wanted to learn. how to ride a bike and I don't know how. to teach a kid how to ride a bike and so. we were at the park and she's like I. would have learned today she's very. insistent right and so I Googled easy. way to teach kid to ride bike on YouTube.

and up tops this video of this guy who's. like here's how you teach your kid how. to ride a bike in five minutes and it. worked in about seven minutes that's. fantastic a font of I feel like it. YouTube gets disrespected because we. think we know we think we know I think. there's a certain thing that's perfect. and that's a perfect application for. YouTube I the ways that I use YouTube. are mostly for guitar like there'll be a. song that I hear and I really want to. hear it and all I have to do is push in. how do I play that song on the guitar. and there are nine people there um um.

two are always from England I don't know. why uh and they're in their basement and. they're showing me how to do it and and. they're being very patient and I really. connect with some of these people and I. think that's a fantastic use of it I. think when people are going on YouTube. to learn how to defend themselves. legally in a court of law or remove a. cornea you know that's where it's a. problem well yeah that's that that. happened to me I shouldn't have remove. that cornea but. uh fair then you went on YouTube how to. put it back how to put a corne.

in 5 minutes cuz I don't have a lot of. time how do I reattach this corne so. yeah but I think there's just a lot of. like there's a lot of things happening. on you like I mean I watched this show. on YouTube like I didn't I don't listen. to the podcast and I just and what. happened this is why I sent you that. email because once you sort of go down a. hole it suddenly takes you down I was. like I didn't know Conan was this good. of an interviewer right thank you. yeah you've been interviewed by him yeah. I know but I didn't know I didn't know. since. 1993 yeah yeah I just like he's really. good at talking to people yeah yeah um.

the problem is it's not just confined to. this studio or it's it's pretty much. where any anywhere I go in the world I. end up talking to people for a really. long time in life that's uh I have I. mean that happens to me too people. you're I can tell that you're you're. like me and that I'm not waiting for the. lights and the cameras or whatever I. will be really having a long. conversation with somebody uh at a gas. station and we will.

I feel like bond in some way and then I. can tell they want to. go so what started with hey aren't you. Conan O'Brien I you know I enjoy your. work ends with them saying I gotta go. yeah and get maybe maybe don't have a. landmine in your house but I will see. you later but I think I agree with your. wife on that but yeah she would know she. would listen to it so uh and life is. good not really what now here's the. thing I overheard I'm coming down the.

stairs because I hear you talking to. Andy RoR who's who's who's out there uh. hanging out yeah uh taking food from the. kitchen um yeah look like a co-working. space selling selling it online and uh. um and he I remember he I think he just. said I was as I as I was coming down the. stairs he said how's it going and you. said I did the thing where you answered. honestly which you're not supposed to do. like I just sort of I forget sometimes. that you're supposed be like ah it's. great and it's not bad but not in that. voice.

well that's how you know not great. everything's fine thanks for asking I. feel really great about all my life. choices in the state of the world it's. really growing great I have no issues. nothing I got three kids that's I'm. perfect number of kids to. have got a 12-year-old a 9-year-old a. 5-year-old those ages are all awesome. yeah everything's everything's great. nothing nothing going wrong mom's 86. things are perfect yes life life and I. picked the right business to be in Show. Business y.

like I've made a lot of good. choices yeah no so things are. good you I get the sense correct me if. I'm wrong you like some chaos oh no no I. no no no you like you like I feel like. because you always have bunch of. projects it always feels to me like you. have a bunch of things too many things. too many things going on at the same. time and you must be drawn to that I get. very phobic you know people want me to. be thinking about more than one thing at. a time and I I.

visibly tense up because I just want to. think about one thing at a time and I I. feel like you like to put yourself in a. position where okay I'm doing this show. for ABC then I'm but I'm doing this. special for CNN but I'm also doing this. and I'm also doing that and then I'm. building a kilm to make some some PS. yeah well and then I I got to finish. that ear impact video uh I mean I think. here my problem is that I'm just curious. about a lot of things so I definitely do. tend to overload myself with like I can. do this and I can do that and then also.

again I you know Show Business you can't. be like I'm going to do one project cuz. that's going to be the one that is going. to pay my bills so you're like I got to. probably should start all four of these. things and see what happens and then I. look up and be like oh my God like. there's there's too many things yeah so. but I I am unfortunately as an only. child curious about a lot of things can. sort of talk myself into any idea and. often attracted to ideas that are like. you know that later I'm like whose idea. was this and my wife's like you're the. one who decided to do a 4-Hour. documentary about Bill C I'm like oh. that's right it wasn't me right I that.

never gets a. laugh it used to. yeah so yeah I could find myself going. down deep holes that I don't realize how. deep and dark they're going to be or how. thick they're going to be until I'm sort. of like halfway through and then yeah. but and then if you if you here's what I. do I get in those situations and halfway. through I throw a hissy fit and no one. says hisy fit enough and I think we need. to bring it back cuz it's a very. masculine way to throw a fit and I throw. a uh a hiso fit to.

make I just a. his I get saying like who's who made. this call who decided and they. invariably say it was you and it's. usually my wife and then I'm I we had. get into a fight and I start assembling. the. crossbow so I can Menace her and two. hours later in more pieces than when you. started she and I even an arrow sticking. out of my head Steve Martin 1977 style. uh yeah I mean I have that same thing. like what was who who agreed to this and.

then somebody will show me an email. where it's like you said I will do this. and like oh yeah no it's just you know I. mean capitalism makes you make funny uh. choices to like you know feed your. children so yeah I it's just I. definitely am like interested in a lot. of things and also happen to be in a. business where you kind of have to be. interested in a lot of things unless you. get you know unless you somehow find the. one job and you know I don't have the. one job so I have to sort of like you. know and I also just grew up in a way. that like you know I was the I was feel. like you as in as being a standup comic.

and and who's doing you have to I have. to make my own gravy like the dog food. commercial like I can't like wait for. somebody else to go you're the guy you. know I know I sort of know where I exist. in this business thankfully so I'm not. going to get the call where it's like we. figured out who the next Marvel hero is. it's you it's not going to happen so I. just know that I have to sort of like do. my own thing yeah also the training. involved and the dieting yeah that's why. I haven't done it oh really that's. that's the reason only reason yeah every. day they call are you ready are you.

ready what are they what are they. offering you what. role let him pick you can have your pick. of yeah well apparently Captain Marvel. had a uh is there a Captain Marvel yeah. but it's a woman it's a woman yeah well. she has a great. grandmother and I could play her grand. with a yeah with a prominent eye vein. and thin lips so uh but also I had to. get in Kick-Ass shape for that oh boy no. I just uh is this Kick-Ass shape oh.

I'm just I know I just didn't know I. just don't know I don't know I don't. know clearly you took your glasses off. you can't see I just you're sitting. opposite an incredible male specimen I'm. sure I just didn't know yeah didn't know. I just was I just making sure that I. could judge what what you think kickass. shape is there's waves of testosterone. coming off my body right now right Sona. no there isn't at. all she's like there's not a wave I. think it's your body deflecting. testosterone that's it it's. testosterone yeah testosterone is.

passing through your body there any. testosterone in the air my body repels. it immediately.