Olivia Munn

Summary

Podcast Summary: Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend — Olivia Munn

Original Air Date: May 25, 2026
Host: Conan O'Brien (plus Sona Movsesian, Matt Gourley)
Guest: Olivia Munn

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Overview

This lighthearted but deeply candid episode features actress Olivia Munn, touching on her upbringing, parenting with John Mulaney, navigating her early Hollywood years, her recent battle with breast cancer, and advocacy work. Alongside Conan’s signature playful banter and warmth from the co-hosts, Olivia opens up with humor and vulnerability about family, resilience, and finding purpose through adversity.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Matt Gourley’s Return from Paternity Leave

Segment: [02:22–15:17]

• Matt rejoins after an “extended” paternity leave (“Your daughter was born, I believe, eight years ago.” – Conan, [03:08]).
• Reflection on parenting and “sympathy weight” for new dads; Matt jokes about “postpartum glow.”
  • Notable moment:
    • “When my daughter was born, I took 20 minutes. And when my son was born, I took four… Am I saying this is the way to go?” – Conan, ([03:52])
• Friendly roasted each other in typical Team Coco style, Matt’s return celebrated with banter and callbacks (“little bitch,” “big fat fuck with dem titties” jokes).
• Underlying sentimentality about fatherhood and support within the team.

2. Olivia Munn on Parenting Young Children

Segment: [16:06–23:34]

• Olivia admits to being exhausted parenting two young children (“They're 4 and 19 months”), while still loving being in "the mess" of family life ([17:33]).
• Compares parenting styles and childhoods with John Mulaney (Irish Catholic vs. Vietnamese/military upbringing) and how that contrasts in raising their kids:
  • “Every time… Malcolm will do something and then John and I will both have a different reaction based on our childhood.” ([19:25])
• Laughs about making up excuses for their kids, e.g., why they can’t do things (“It’s closed now!”), and Conan claims to have told his kids “Obama canceled it” ([21:17]).
• Talks about “core memories” and how parental fibs can be pivotal in a child’s psyche:
  • “We never know when we're creating a core memory.” – Olivia ([22:24])

3. Childhoods—Survival and Independence

Segment: [23:34–26:35]

• Olivia recalls being left home alone as a small child in the 80s, how different norms were then.
• The hosts riff about lax parenting styles of previous generations, “walkabouts,” and wild independence.

4. Olivia’s Upbringing & Journey to Hollywood

Segment: [29:07–43:22]

• Olivia’s mother is a Vietnamese refugee; her early home life included abuse from a stepfather (“abusive in many ways” [31:32]).
• How she urgently pushed herself to “get out,” fueled by adversity and ambition.
• Details her decision to pursue acting despite her mother’s preference for stable careers.
  • “My mom and her siblings...all have master's degrees and PhDs...My mom is like, we don't have a dentist or lawyer in the family yet...” ([33:31])
• Recalls her tenacious, bumpy drive from Oklahoma to LA in a beat-up Land Rover, rerouting her radiator with roadside debris ([38:01], [39:11]):
  • “You just search and search and you find something. And I carried the screwdriver and...heat resistant duct tape...” – Olivia ([39:44])

5. Breaking In: Extra Work & Early Roles

Segment: [43:22–45:38]

• Olivia’s first jobs as a Hollywood extra on "Gilmore Girls" and near-miss story with “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”
• Tips from seasoned extras, quirky behind-the-scenes moments (“Yoda of background acting” – Matt [43:25]).

6. Career Milestones: The Newsroom & The Daily Show

Segment: [45:38–47:54]

• Moving from “The Daily Show” to “The Newsroom,” facing skepticism from established cast, but Ken Sorkin’s challenging scripts helped her grow as an actor:
  • “I just have to narrow in and think about what I'm doing…nothing has come close to that.” ([46:44])

7. Breast Cancer Diagnosis & Advocacy

Segment: [47:54–55:06]

• Olivia courageously shares her diagnosis of bilateral, multifocal, multi-quadrant aggressive breast cancer.
• Details not having any symptoms, passing standard mammograms/genetic tests, but a “lifetime risk assessment” test flagged her risk, likely saving her life.
  • “Mine was 37.3%...I would not have found it until it was a much later stage if I didn’t take the lifetime risk assessment test.” ([51:04], [53:20])
• The same test led to her mother’s breast cancer diagnosis, and Olivia is now working with Senator Mark Kelly to make this test a medical standard.
  • “This is one of the biggest missions in my life besides being, you know, a mother and a wife and a daughter.” ([54:19])
• Details her struggle with postpartum anxiety and the emotional toll (“I wasn’t prepared for that… I think I need to step away from being in the public eye.” [49:42])

8. Returning to Work & Moving Forward

Segment: [55:06–57:56]

• Olivia stars in “Friends and Neighbors” with Jon Hamm; finds it “therapeutic” to be performing again ([55:26]).
• Conan and Olivia share mutual admiration, reaffirming the “needs a friend” premise as both connection and comfort.

9. Fast Food Tangent and Font Discourse

Segment: [55:37–57:19]

• An extended, goofy side tangent about California Chicken Café, El Pollo Loco, and restaurant fonts (“Sometimes there’s a really good chicken with bad font, and I’m like, I’m not giving a shit.” – Conan [56:05]).

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Memorable Quotes

• On Parenting:

  • “We never know when we’re creating a core memory. My mom knows everything…yet I'll still be like, 'No,' because I remember when it all changed for me.” — Olivia [22:24]
  • “Obama canceled it, that's why we can't do it.” — Conan [21:17]

• On Resilience:

  • “There’s this real fire in you. Like, I am going to get out.” — Conan [32:52]
  • “You just search and search and you find something.” — Olivia, on fixing her car en route to LA [39:44]

• On Hollywood Realism:

  • “My mom…said, 'Only one man can do it. Tom Cruise. You're not Tom Cruise.'” — Olivia [34:02]

• On Health & Advocacy:

  • “The onus shouldn’t be on us to always know about these things…when we go into our doctors, […] they should also say, 'What's your lifetime risk assessment score?'” — Olivia [54:07]

• On Taking a Break from Fame:

  • “You don’t play for the Lakers. No one’s asking, 'Where are they Tuesday night?’” — Olivia [48:09]

• Signature Banter:

  • “Hey, everybody in the country listening to Lil Bitch and Big Fat Fuck With Dem Titties.” — Matt, on podcast unity [11:21]
  • “Sometimes there’s a really good chicken with bad font, and I’m like, I’m not giving a shit.” — Conan [56:05]

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Segment Timestamps (Key Moments)

• Matt's Paternity Leave Banter: [02:22–15:17]
• Olivia’s Parenting Chat: [16:06–23:34]
• Family & Upbringing: [29:07–43:22]
• Hollywood Entry & Extra Work: [43:22–45:38]
• The Newsroom, The Daily Show: [45:38–47:54]
• Cancer Diagnosis and Advocacy: [47:54–55:06]
• Return to Comedy, Friendship: [55:06–57:56]
• Food Tangent: [55:37–57:19]

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Tone, Style & Flow

The episode swings between raucous, irreverent comedy (classic Team Coco) and moments of genuine vulnerability—especially from Olivia, who candidly shares both her struggles and recovered strength. There’s warmth, a sense of old friends trading stories, and constant gentle ribbing, but every deeper topic is given its due respect. Anyone unfamiliar with Olivia Munn or the show will get both laughter and a real sense of her journey and perseverance.

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Final Thoughts

Olivia’s appearance is both entertaining and inspiring—offering laughs, life lessons, and an empowering message about women’s health advocacy. The chemistry between Olivia and the team makes for an episode that feels like friends hanging out—with a dash of wisdom for anyone confronting life’s adversities.

Recommended: For fans interested in honest talk about family, mental health, cancer awareness, and the messiness that makes life meaningful—plus, lots of good-natured Conan chaos.

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For more on the lifetime risk assessment tool for breast cancer, check Olivia Munn’s Instagram bio and the show notes.

Transcript

[Conan O'Brien]

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[Sona Movsesian]

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[Conan O'Brien]

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[Olivia Munn]

Oh, God.

[Conan O'Brien]

They went too far. They went too far.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah. And you read it. You read it all. Didn't even ask any questions.

[Conan O'Brien]

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[Olivia Munn]

Yeah, like all the time.

[Conan O'Brien]

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[Sona Movsesian]

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[Conan O'Brien]

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[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, yeah. All the time.

[Conan O'Brien]

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[Sona Movsesian]

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[Conan O'Brien]

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[Olivia Munn]

Hi, my name is Olivia Munn. Is that how you pronounce it? Yeah. Excited and amazed about being Conan o' Brien's friend.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's so sweet.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Fall is here Hear the yell Back

[Sona Movsesian]

to school Ring the bell Brand new shoes Walking loose Climb the fence Books and pens I can tell that we

[Conan O'Brien]

are gonna be friends

[Sona Movsesian]

I can tell that we are gonna be friends.

[Conan O'Brien]

Hey, everybody. Welcome to Conan o' Brien Needs a Friend. This is a very.

[Sona Movsesian]

Mm.

[Conan O'Brien]

Because I'm joined, of course, by sonam of session.

[Olivia Munn]

Yes.

[Conan O'Brien]

But today marks the return, the heroic return of our good friend and associate, Matt Gorley.

[Matt Gourley]

Come on, guys. I like the heroic part just fine.

[Conan O'Brien]

We've missed you. Seriously, I've missed you guys. We've missed you. And just to update everybody, you've been on a paternity leave for. No, no. I only bring it up because I think it's a world record. It says here. No, no. Your daughter was born, I believe, eight years ago.

[Matt Gourley]

She's a freshman in college.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, how's she doing?

[Matt Gourley]

Oh, she's great.

[Conan O'Brien]

She's great. No, you've been out for a little while. You've been out for a couple of months.

[Sona Movsesian]

I did.

[Matt Gourley]

I took a little extended one and it was the greatest thing. It was fantastic. I mean, I missed you guys.

[Conan O'Brien]

I did.

[Matt Gourley]

But, man.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, how's it going? Bring us up to date.

[Matt Gourley]

It's going really well. I was able to spend a lot of time with my older daughter, which, you know, was kind of magical. And then my youngest daughter has just fit right in. And, you know, not to get too sentimental, but you sometimes when you have those moments in your life that you know to be the best moments, but you only know it after they're done. This was one I could tell when I was in that. It was just amazing, you know.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's really nice. Yeah. It was happy that you had that. And also resentful.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

That you took so much time. Let me tell you something.

[Matt Gourley]

Part of the happiness was I wasn't here.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, exactly. When my daughter was born, I took 20 minutes. And when my son was born, I took four. Now, let me also just add to that. I'm a terrible father and an awful human being. So, yes. Am I saying this is the way to go?

[Olivia Munn]

You could have asked for some time.

[Conan O'Brien]

I could have asked for some time. That was on me. I think it was a commercial break. We were doing the late night show.

[Matt Gourley]

The best part is he didn't even have to ask for time. He could have just told people he was taking time.

[Sona Movsesian]

I know. I want to say something, though, about your paternity leave real quick. It feels like you kept releasing other podcast episodes. It feels like you took a break only from us and you were still doing all your other.

[Matt Gourley]

I recorded those all before the baby was born.

[Conan O'Brien]

Not true.

[Matt Gourley]

True story.

[Conan O'Brien]

You can hear two kids crying in the background. Unless one of them is your wife having a nervous breakdown. And you often refer to the day's news as you were.

[Matt Gourley]

I held up a newspaper during each recording.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. As you were hosting Mall walking. Were, you know, I mean, first of all, walking you.

[Matt Gourley]

We might do baby walking.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, no, listen, I understand. Those are more. Those are priority shows.

[Matt Gourley]

I didn't record them. All I did was watch World War II movies and Dirty hairy movies with my baby while I held her.

[Conan O'Brien]

I think that's the best thing for a little baby girl to be hearing.

[Matt Gourley]

He was into it.

[Conan O'Brien]

Make my day, punk. And lots of people getting blowed up. It is a great thing For a

[Matt Gourley]

little forming brain, it was heaven for me.

[Conan O'Brien]

As that fontanelle is starting to seal.

[Matt Gourley]

It was pulsing.

[Conan O'Brien]

It's pulsing.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah. It's crazy.

[Conan O'Brien]

All right. I have some questions.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

How is your. Your youngest daughter's name? Is you talking about Nell?

[Matt Gourley]

The smell.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh. Oh, I thought it was. I thought you were going to go, so. Nell.

[Matt Gourley]

Nell, yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

How is Nell? Different.

[Matt Gourley]

She is night and day different than my first daughter. My first daughter is this wonderful tempest. Like, just so funny, so crazy. Ne smile every time you see her. Just a big smile and she just sits there. She's a wonderful little lump on the log. So we got one of each, which kind of magnifies their differences in such a wonderful way. I don't know.

[Conan O'Brien]

It's.

[Matt Gourley]

I just feel great. I feel lucky.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

And first of all, you have. You came in. You seem. Seem very happy. You've got that kind of. Doesn't he not have a glow?

[Sona Movsesian]

You do have a glow.

[Matt Gourley]

Well, I birthed the children.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, did you now?

[Matt Gourley]

It's the postpartum glow.

[Sona Movsesian]

Okay, that sounds fun.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's why he had such a long paternity leap. Yes, he.

[Matt Gourley]

Sorry, Matt, you can edit this out

[Conan O'Brien]

if you want to, but he did say when we were sitting around earlier. He did say that.

[Adam Sachs]

How.

[Conan O'Brien]

I forget to rephrase it. This time around, he gained a little more weight than the first time. And we were like, for your pregnancies or.

[Matt Gourley]

I was trying to explain. And now you're going to make me fun of you.

[Sona Movsesian]

I want to hear about how your body changed.

[Conan O'Brien]

I want to hear about that. No, I'm glad Adam brought this in because you're a big fat. Now he. I mean, you're. Listen. You all listen. But when you waddled in today, I

[Matt Gourley]

put on ten pounds. Isn't that crazy?

[Sona Movsesian]

Waddled in ten.

[Conan O'Brien]

Hello? I think. I don't know.

[Matt Gourley]

I read somewhere that you're gonna.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, you're still going down.

[Conan O'Brien]

I want to hear it.

[Matt Gourley]

I hate to do this kind of, because what if this is just right? But that there is this evolutionary sort of process to it. Men in postpartum, that they lose to testosterone temporarily, and it's a kind of thing to keep them historically tied to the mother and child.

[Conan O'Brien]

From straying.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah, from straying.

[Olivia Munn]

And.

[Matt Gourley]

And it's a kind of thing that. That has evolved over time and the survival of those fittest people because the father was there with the child and the mother.

[Conan O'Brien]

So you're so. So I'm so. I'm curious. How does this relate to you?

[Matt Gourley]

Well, that there can be some sympathy weight gained because of the loss of testosterone.

[Conan O'Brien]

Apparently. You also walked in. He's got huge breasts now.

[Olivia Munn]

I do.

[Conan O'Brien]

You have huge lactating breasts. A big fat. And I don't mean either of those in a derogatory way.

[Sona Movsesian]

No, no, no, no.

[Conan O'Brien]

Big fat. What's titties? But when you waddled. When you waddled in. Waddled in here wearing his, his D cup. I was, I did come in.

[Matt Gourley]

I'm ready.

[Conan O'Brien]

The podcast. Yeah.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah,

[Sona Movsesian]

but.

[Conan O'Brien]

So you gained some weight, but you, you still look good.

[Olivia Munn]

Thanks.

[Matt Gourley]

I don't feel good.

[Conan O'Brien]

Do you think. Do you feel like your testosterone levels had dropped?

[Matt Gourley]

You mean, am I out there just hounding it, pounding it? See?

[Sona Movsesian]

Pound. Is it pounding it, though?

[Matt Gourley]

No, I tend to hound.

[Sona Movsesian]

Okay, all right.

[Conan O'Brien]

Pounding it. Pounding his creditors for more time.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah, that's what I mean.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. Oh, I'm hounding it.

[Olivia Munn]

All right.

[Conan O'Brien]

You're doing what?

[Matt Gourley]

I don't. I think so. I mean, I've been certainly been like a sentimental mess in a, In a sort of like, good way. Every single thing knocks me down in a like, kind of sweet way.

[Conan O'Brien]

It's nice.

[Matt Gourley]

Well, I don't think I've ever had. No, I was talking about.

[Conan O'Brien]

No.

[Sona Movsesian]

Do you feel like your testosterone dipped? No.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, first of all, no.

[Sona Movsesian]

After your kids were born.

[Olivia Munn]

I'm not asking.

[Conan O'Brien]

No. But you know, my, my, my mother in law, Pam, God rest her soul, she did say, I remembered once sort of talking about how I think I've grown wiser over the years. I'm not as intense as I used to be. I was very focused and very driven in my 20s and 30s and 40s. And I said, I think I'm maturing. And she just, you know, she was an expert in these matters and she just said, no, no, your testosterone level has dropped. Like, I was trying to credit it all to wisdom. And she was like, no, no, no, you just have less of that, you know, asshole juice running through your body.

[Matt Gourley]

See, I went through a male pregnancy, he went through menopause.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. No, I, Yeah, that's nice. Yeah, I, I don't think that I got the sentimentality. I'm, I'm waiting for that part. You know, I don't get all mushy.

[Matt Gourley]

You don't really ever.

[Conan O'Brien]

I do.

[Sona Movsesian]

When I, when it comes to your kids especially.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, just when I see old clips of late night.

[Sona Movsesian]

Okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

Like, ah, look at him with Al Roker, 1994. No, no, I do, I, I do. I don't know. Yeah, well, I'm just saying stuff, but I think. But yeah, I am very, first of all, very glad you're back because you are a very important voice here on this show, as you know. And I say that with. With no ridicule or jokes attached to it.

[Matt Gourley]

Or seriousness.

[Conan O'Brien]

Or seriousness. Or real honesty. Yeah. No, but we're really happy.

[Matt Gourley]

I'm so glad to be back. I did miss you guys. I edited the show while I was gone, so it was really interesting to hear you guys kind of feel like I was there in a one way sort of way where we were just coming at me.

[Conan O'Brien]

Were you ever coming in with your patented crips, but then realizing that you were just listening to us and you couldn't participate?

[Matt Gourley]

Of course. And I don't have any actual cash with me, but I'm making a hundred dollar bill that I would like to send to Eduardo for his little bitch.

[Conan O'Brien]

Putting you in your place. Yay.

[Sona Movsesian]

That's right.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, that was an iconic moment in the podcast. It was when Eduardo called me little bitch. And you know what? Some people say our country is terribly divided. Unified. The country.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Everyone. I don't care if you're a red state, blue state, you know, Trumper, never Trumper. Everyone said, yes. That guy's a little bitch.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah, Everybody.

[Conan O'Brien]

It was a beautiful moment.

[Sona Movsesian]

It was a really sweet. Definitely sweet.

[Matt Gourley]

Everybody in the country listening to Lil Bitch and Big Fat Fuck With Dem Titties.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah.

[Matt Gourley]

Big fat fucking Drive Time Radio.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

We bring people together with our special brand of the truth.

[Sona Movsesian]

Can we give a very special thank you to David Hopping for having covered for Gorals?

[Matt Gourley]

David was fantastic because I edited and at a time was just like, they don't need me. He's great. You know what I mean?

[Conan O'Brien]

He's very cool. No, we need you because I won't have. I mean, David, I can take in small doses. And you know, I love David.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

But he works Hilary Duff into every conversation. And I listen. I like Hilary Duff. I gladly have her here on the pod.

[Olivia Munn]

Yes.

[Conan O'Brien]

So, yeah, whenever we clear up whatever legal thing we have between us. But yeah. He is so obsessed with Hilary Duff.

[Matt Gourley]

Can I just shout out, in all honesty, my wife, who did all the work, obviously, for all of this, she's been amazing. And so, Amanda, the two girls.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, yeah. Amanda, your wife. Very beautiful, very talented. You're a lucky man. I am, man. You're lucky. Yeah.

[Matt Gourley]

Okay, well, hold on.

[Conan O'Brien]

Jesus Christ. You just lucked out. Well, I'm just saying it's kind of

[Sona Movsesian]

creepy the way you're saying.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'm just saying, when he said, oh, I saw a. When he said, you got to meet my wife, I thought it was going to be like a broom with a face painted on it. Her name's Amanda. Say hi, Amanda. Hello. I mean, come on. Gorly's wife.

[Matt Gourley]

That's fair.

[Conan O'Brien]

Then this total smoke show comes walking around.

[Sona Movsesian]

She's gorgeous. The same could be said for you, too. I mean, you're really punching up.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes.

[Sona Movsesian]

I mean, no offense, but. Oh, my God, are you punching up?

[Conan O'Brien]

No. People think that Liza met. You know, that Liza visited me in the hospital.

[Matt Gourley]

Like, what do you mean?

[Conan O'Brien]

They just think of some total accident happened and that's how I got this woman, you know, like she was there and then accidentally got married.

[Matt Gourley]

She had amnesia and you came in and went, I'm your husband.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, exactly.

[Matt Gourley]

Thank God I found you. Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

And you think I'm handsome now While you were sleeping. We're both very lucky men.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yes, you are.

[Conan O'Brien]

And, you know, so as a lucky fella, your husband.

[Sona Movsesian]

Tak T Keesian.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Sona Movsesian]

I can't believe I'm saying Tak. Takisian.

[Olivia Munn]

Now.

[Sona Movsesian]

Tack. Tack. Tack.

[Conan O'Brien]

You don't even know his last name, do you?

[Sona Movsesian]

No, it's Boron. Yeah, it's tactician. It's not tactician, but yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. Anyway, this is getting really nice and everything, so I just want to get us back to ground zero.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay.

[Matt Gourley]

Please do.

[Conan O'Brien]

You suck. You were way too long. I'm fine.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah.

[Sona Movsesian]

And you're a fat guy.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. You gotta lose the weight.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Your husband's name. Your husband's name's tacticsian. You're way too loud. And you don't help me as much as you should. I think, where did that come from? Why? And I think.

[Matt Gourley]

And you're still a bitch.

[Conan O'Brien]

No.

[Matt Gourley]

One, two, three.

[Conan O'Brien]

Little bitch.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, I can't.

[Olivia Munn]

No, I can't.

[Conan O'Brien]

I honestly feel so right.

[Sona Movsesian]

I can't do it.

[Conan O'Brien]

You can't do it?

[Sona Movsesian]

I honestly could not do it. I don't know.

[Conan O'Brien]

You've called me everything.

[Matt Gourley]

You actually called me a little bitch before.

[Sona Movsesian]

I'm sure I have. I've called you a dick, an asshole, but I can't. I don't know why.

[Matt Gourley]

Little bitch. Job security.

[Sona Movsesian]

No, I think I just. I feel like it's. It's too far.

[Conan O'Brien]

You think Eduardo went too far?

[Sona Movsesian]

No, I don't think he went too far. I think I would go too far. And I think it's because I was your assistant for so long and I wouldn't want to.

[Matt Gourley]

I've never seen.

[Sona Movsesian]

This isn't that weird. I know.

[Olivia Munn]

I don't know.

[Conan O'Brien]

Wait a minute. You have some tiny bit of professional fear of me.

[Sona Movsesian]

I kind of do. That's incredible. I do. I mean, when he said it, everybody else and I, like, was like, oh, my God.

[Olivia Munn]

God.

[Sona Movsesian]

Eduardo.

[Conan O'Brien]

Eduardo was scared. He went home.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

He was really terrified that, like, it was over. Yeah. I feel good about it. And then you remembered. And then you remembered who I am also. You probably went home thinking it could be over for me, but if it is, totally worth it. What a way to go. Anyone in the country would have hired you. Well, super happy to have you back.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yep.

[Conan O'Brien]

And we've reunited as, you know, probably the. There's. Isn't there a movie where they. There's different stones and they got to put them in the glove?

[Matt Gourley]

And then the Shankar stones of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

[Conan O'Brien]

Sure.

[Sona Movsesian]

Are you talking about Thanos in the Avengers?

[Conan O'Brien]

I just knew that.

[Matt Gourley]

No, we're talking about Indiana Jones.

[Olivia Munn]

I know that.

[Conan O'Brien]

When.

[Sona Movsesian]

I don't know.

[Olivia Munn]

There's a lot of stones that need to come together.

[Matt Gourley]

Also, next week, I'm back on paternity leave.

[Conan O'Brien]

All right, you know my guest today from the TV show the newsroom, and the film Apocalypse now. You can see her in the Apple TV series, you, Friends and neighbors. Very delighted to have her here today. Olivia Munn, welcome.

[Olivia Munn]

John and I have talked about this before, like, growing up, it's, like, to even think that you'd become Conan o' Brien's friend, let alone, like, sitting here talking with you is, like, such a. It's a really hard thing to go back and be like, hey, like, one day you're gonna be friends with Conan o'. Brien. It's kind of. It's very surreal.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, that's a very nice thing to say, but spend a little time with him. Yeah. You'll see. Very quickly, I think in 10 minutes, you'll want out. You'll want out very badly. But, you know, I'm so happy you're here. And we were chatting just before we came in here to do the podcast. I call it pod, because there's not time to say podcast.

[Sona Movsesian]

Okay. You saved a lot of time with doing that.

[Conan O'Brien]

I did, and we should stop now. But we were chatting, and you were just talking about how. Which I can relate to. And I think you can relate to Matt, but you're tired. You're tired because you've been taking care of your kids. And you just said, I am so tired. And I said, trust me, this podcast today is going to be Your timeout. But you're going through the same thing. Yeah.

[Matt Gourley]

Newborn. I got a what? Yeah. I mean, she's great. She's one. What do I do? Do I talk? Do I.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's right.

[Matt Gourley]

This is your first.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'm still his first day back since a maternity leave. The children are now in their 30s. He's been gone for a really long time. Yeah, but. And I think too long. But we'll figure that out later. HR Tells me I'm not allowed to bring it up, but. But.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, my God.

[Conan O'Brien]

But you're tired. You're. You are exhausted.

[Olivia Munn]

I am pretty. I'm really tired. I was like. As I was coming in, John was like, have fun on Conan. I was like, I'm so tired, but I'm so excited to be here because I was saying, like. Like, our. They're 4 and 19 months. And this crazy thing is that, like, when everyone's there and, like, we're happy to help and be there to help. My mom is there to help, too, and my stepdad. We want to be in the mess, you know, just be in it with them. And the problem is, is that just leaves us with nothing on the other side. So, like, we're giving to our work, and then we come home and it's like we can do it all ourselves. And it's just. And I just.

[Conan O'Brien]

I don't have that instinct.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh.

[Conan O'Brien]

When I come home, I'm very happy to say, because we have a lot of help. I have eight butlers. That's just me. And I have people that carry me. Oh, yeah. From the toilet to my other toilet.

[Olivia Munn]

And I go to the bathroom a lot.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Olivia Munn]

Oh.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'm clinging like, it's.

[Olivia Munn]

From one to the other.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes.

[Olivia Munn]

There's no stop. And they don't stop anywhere else.

[Matt Gourley]

And there's a toilet on the little chariot they carry.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. I'm constantly. But my.

[Olivia Munn]

By the way, if that's what's happening, I think you need it.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. No, no, trust me.

[Olivia Munn]

I don't think this is, like, vanity at all. I think there's something going on.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's a really good point. And thank you for taking my side on this, because, you know, my wife is always like, this is really necessary. I'm like, you have no idea. And that's what this is. But I think that's your problem, is saying, we want to be part of the. You know, you can meet the children later in life. You know what I mean? You can meet them later.

[Sona Movsesian]

You're saying her problem is that she wants to Be involved with her kids.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. What's that all about? I don't get it.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, ok.

[Olivia Munn]

Okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

People like Winston Churchill, he was raised by people on the estate, and then he was, like, brought to meet his parents at a certain age. I'm serious. They're like, come, it's time to go meet your father. Hello, Pater. You know, it was a weird thing.

[Matt Gourley]

Your children call you by your first name, don't they?

[Conan O'Brien]

Hello, Conan. Yes, it's creepy.

[Olivia Munn]

Mr. Conan.

[Conan O'Brien]

Mr. Conan, exactly.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah. It's casual, but still, like, formal.

[Conan O'Brien]

Super casual.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah. I just think, like, every little moment, just like, I think that John and I connect so much to our own childhoods. Like, we have such distinct memories of what our childhoods were like, and we see our children in ourselves so much. So I think it's like every time we are like. The funny thing is, like, Malcolm will do something and then he and I will both have. John and I will both have a different reaction based on, like, what our childhood is and that sometimes they're very. We're very different. He's Irish Catholic, you know, white collar family. And then I grew up in a military family with, like, my mom.

[Conan O'Brien]

Your mom, a Vietnamese refugee.

[Olivia Munn]

Yes.

[Conan O'Brien]

Right.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Who came here in 1975.

[Olivia Munn]

The day the war ended. Oh, my God. Was out on the last boats out.

[Conan O'Brien]

So you have a completely different frame of reference than John Mulaney. Irish Catholic.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, like, we, like, the other day, Malcolm was like, why can't we do this thing? And. And John was like, oh, well, because it's closed now. Everything is closed. And then I was like. At the same time, I was going, well, because we've decided that we're not going to do that because. And then. And we both looked at each other going, like, which way do we go? Like, what do we do?

[Conan O'Brien]

You didn't have your story straight.

[Olivia Munn]

We did not. And we do that a lot. And then one of us will kind of start to talk slower, and that's the one. That's the cue to be like, we followed that person, whoever. So be like, no, it was, you know, it's closed. So we're not gonna go today, but we're gonna go tomorrow. And then like, oh, okay. I don't.

[Conan O'Brien]

So your kids now think you're just liars.

[Olivia Munn]

That's what we're trying.

[Matt Gourley]

Parenting is. Yeah. She has twins as well.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Olivia Munn]

I think.

[Sona Movsesian]

I think the three of us have kids that are around the same age.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Sona Movsesian]

My boys turn five in July, years in October.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Sona Movsesian]

And I think Malcolm four.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah, yeah, just turned four at the end of November. Okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

I used to tell our kids that Obama canceled it. I'm serious. I used to do that. I used to tell them, you know, Obama canceled it, that's why we can't do it. And they said, what? And I said, yeah, it was on cnn. And my, I think it was my daughter said, what is that the Conan nonsense network?

[Matt Gourley]

Oh my God.

[Conan O'Brien]

And I was like, okay, well this doesn't work anymore.

[Olivia Munn]

They're Republicans now.

[Matt Gourley]

It was a Biden term.

[Conan O'Brien]

She was 2 when she said that.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah, I just said that to John. Just yesterday. I was talking about something that my mom had said to me that was so, like flippant and innocuous. She, like, she wasn't even thinking. I know at that time, she didn't think it was anything. But what she said, I knew was a lie because it was just like when I was a five year old, you know, she was like, oh, whatever it was, was just like a little lie. And I, and it, I know in that moment, of course the, the course changed from being like, I believe everything my mother says to being like, oh, you're just, you're not going to be telling the truth about things.

[Conan O'Brien]

Right, right.

[Olivia Munn]

And then I look at myself as an adult, I'll be like, mom. My mom knows everything. She's so annoying. She knows everything. She's always right. And yet I'll still be like, no, that's my, my default is to be like, no. Because I remember when it all changed for me.

[Conan O'Brien]

You lied one time. And I can never.

[Olivia Munn]

Well, when I think as a kid, like, you know, I said to John, we never know when we're creating a core memory. So like, there's things that my mom said and did that she will never, ever be like. I remember that because there was one time when it's like in the 80s, right? So my mom would. Had us, my sister and I, my stepsister, same age as me, came home from school, puts us to nap. And then I hear the door close and I look outside, I go into the living room and she's in the van pulling out of the driveway. Nobody else is gonna be home. We were like at 4 years old. But this is the 80s when you could like, you know, leave your kid at home. You go run and come back. And I ran out crying and screaming. Well, I thought she was leaving us and she's annoyed now she's gotta go back, like, okay, get back in the house. And then just being like. And then I was so Confused. Like now she's annoyed with me and did I do something wrong? But she was leaving me and it was just. And that became such a core memory for me.

[Matt Gourley]

That's bold, even for the 80s. Yeah, that's pretty good.

[Conan O'Brien]

Not for the 70s, but for the 80s.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Olivia Munn]

Well, we used to also in the pickup trucks, like, you know, sit in the back of the flatbed, but on the hump where the wheel is, we could sit in there, like just, you know, a free ride through the highways. Like no one, no one got in trouble then.

[Conan O'Brien]

It was a different time.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'm amazed at the things that we did in the. When I was growing up in the 70s, just, you know, sometimes I wouldn't see my parents for months at a time.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

I was left with just a map and a gold coin. I know.

[Matt Gourley]

You go on a full walkabout for three days in your hometown and just come back tan and dirty in the outback. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Big news. Sona.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Did you know T Mobile recently partnered with the National Park Foundation?

[Sona Movsesian]

No way.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yep. They're making it easier to stay connected, so you're free to wander.

[Sona Movsesian]

Well, that's really cool.

[Conan O'Brien]

And I love a national park. I really do.

[Olivia Munn]

I do too.

[Conan O'Brien]

Now, there's one thing you have to have if you're doing that good signal, it's a priority. Do you know what I mean? You got your maps, your music, this podcast.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

So take America's best network, plus their off grid satellite coverage with you. Look, we're all a little spoiled, but we like to have access to all our stuff and suddenly you don't have it because of a bad single. That's when I throw my phone into the Grand Canyon.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

Literally filled half the Grand Canyon with phones. Then I got T Mobile. Never had to chuck them again, you know.

[Sona Movsesian]

Good.

[Conan O'Brien]

So wander over to T mobile.com and switch best Based on analysis by OOKLA of Speed test intelligence data for 2H 2025. Wow, that's some sentence. T satellite with cable device. In most outdoor areas in US where you see the sky, that's important. You gotta see the sky.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yep.

[Conan O'Brien]

Service may be limited or unavailable. Included with experience beyond or $10 per month. Auto renews cancel anytime. That was probably meant to be said by a robot really quickly, but I just did it slowly so you could really understand. Please do not throw your phone into the Grand Canyon. I was at the airport. I was waiting in one of those long lines and I kept saying, hey, let me through. I'm Conan o' Brien. And they said, shut up. You'll wait in line. And I went, okay.

[Sona Movsesian]

That's so sad.

[Conan O'Brien]

It's a really good story. But I was hungry. I didn't have a snack with me. You got to keep your. And I didn't want to lose my place in line and go try and find something.

[Olivia Munn]

I know.

[Conan O'Brien]

That's when you got to have nutrigrain on you.

[Sona Movsesian]

You got to always have a snack in your bag. And when it's a Nutrigr, it's perfect.

[Conan O'Brien]

It's perfect because it's the right size. It's handy. It's also nutritious.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yes.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay. You can go anywhere. It's made with 10 grams of whole grains, 10 vitamins and minerals. These guys are obsessed with tens and no high fructose corn syrup. Nutri Grain nourishes, and it hits the spot with delicious flavors. They got strawberry, apple, cinnamon, blueberry flavors. I just had a blueberry back in the snack area.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

With a little bit of a glass of milk.

[Sona Movsesian]

You earned it. Nice job.

[Conan O'Brien]

Nice job. Find nutritious and always delicious nutrigrain bars at your favorite store or online retailer today. And look for new Nutrigrain crunchy bars in stores near you. Oh, I'll get that crunchy. I will. The other day, I did a quick stop by at my friend Rodman's house.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

I've known Rodman for years. I'd like to stop by his house, and I'll be like, hey, Rodman. He's like, hey, Conan. And then I leave immediately. Oh, I go out the window.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

This time it's because it's a stop by. I thought, hey, it's the perfect time to bring a pack of Miller Lite.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

And when things go from low key to legendary, which they always do with Rodman, everyone knows it's Miller time.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

For 50 years, beer lovers have trusted Mirror Lite for a taste they can depend on. It's just a really nice time. And you know What? It's got 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. So I don't feel weighed down. I can keep this. This lean, mean physique I got going on.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah. I mean, you guys like to be legendary, but you also want to watch your bodies work.

[Conan O'Brien]

Calorie counters. Cheers to legendary moments with Miller Lite. Great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com conan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Mirror Light pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Hey, it's Miller Time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. I can relate obviously to John and I have similar, you know, kind of lineage and we're both comedy obsessives. Is he always trying to turn something into a comedic riff? Is that, Is that something he does at. At home or. Not so much?

[Olivia Munn]

No. I can't see him doing it, but it must be happening. Cause I'll be watching. Like I'll. I haven't seen his standup until recently. We were in London. I watched it and I was like, you've been like clocking all of this

[Matt Gourley]

Core memories you're making. Core memories.

[Olivia Munn]

Everything is a core memory.

[Sona Movsesian]

Everything.

[Conan O'Brien]

His latest special is called Core Memories.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah, yeah. No, it's. Yeah. Cause but I have noticed something with him that you might relate to as like a comedian. Cause now I see it now with him. Is that like Malcolm said something the other day too, I think. And when something's really funny, there's not a big reaction. It's just like, oh, yeah, huh. And his brain is already. It's almost like he's like writing it down in a notebook in his head.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yes. You know, you don't immediately laugh.

[Olivia Munn]

Exactly.

[Conan O'Brien]

You just go, oh, that's very funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see. Yes. That can be used later.

[Olivia Munn]

Uh huh.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

I would join.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

But I think sometimes there's not. Sometimes there's really not. There's like, ah, yes, that's very good. That's very good.

[Olivia Munn]

I think it clicks. It just literally it flips a switch instead of like where the rest of us are just like, that's funny. I think it immediately flips this. That's like. That is very funny. Let me log this down. Let me not forget the nuances of whatever this whole little moment was. So that happens a lot more than I recognized. Like, you know, the first year we're together.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. It's not as obvious as John saying, you know, Malcolm falls down and he's like, wait a minute, I can use this. Keep crying. So I get down. What? It's like we were talking just before we got started and I thought, I want to ask you about this because your early life, there is, you know, there's a lot happening. Your mom comes here when she has you. Where are you living? Is it Oklahoma?

[Olivia Munn]

Oklahoma. I was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

[Conan O'Brien]

But then it doesn't work out. Her marriage doesn't work out.

[Olivia Munn]

My father cheats on my mother when I was six months old. Oh, boy. And then she. Yeah, she. My sister was two and a half. I was six months, and my mom was. Had his dry cleaning and was going through his suit dragon and found two movie ticket stubs and went up and asked him, like, did you go to the movies with somebody? And he said, yes. And she goes, was it a girl or a guy? He goes, it was a girl. He goes, is it a date? And he's like, yes. And then. So she leaves. And then.

[Conan O'Brien]

And she goes to Japan.

[Olivia Munn]

No. So she leaves. So. Okay. My mom and my mom, my grandmother and her nine children escaped Vietnam in the fall of Saigon in 75. And they came out to Oklahoma because they. There was a Christian university president that was like, I'll sponsor all 10 of you to come to Oklahoma. And they went there, and then my mom went to university, and everybody still lived there in Oklahoma. And then when she left my father, she went back home to my grandmother's house with my uncles and everybody there to take care of her and us. And my mom would tell stories about my dad coming to get us for visitation. And my uncles would be so mad, and they'd pick us up huge rocks and just throw them at him and, like, throw them at his car. And, like, it was just. They were just. The Saigon came out in them.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. What a ancient way of showing displeasure. Do you know what I mean? I'm a note for the cast. Yeah. I'm passive aggressive with you, Matt, but I don't pick up large boulders and throw them at you.

[Matt Gourley]

But now that we know that's an option.

[Olivia Munn]

It is an option.

[Conan O'Brien]

So then she goes.

[Olivia Munn]

And then eventually she remarries. My. My mom's been married three times. My second stepfather, it's important to note that he is amazing. His name is Sam. But my first stepfather is not a good guy at all for 14 years of my life, from like 2 to 16. And so she married him and he was in the military. And then that brought us to.

[Conan O'Brien]

And he was a bit of a. Like a rageaholic, yelling person. Would you call him that?

[Olivia Munn]

He was very abusive. Abusive in many ways. And it's interesting, like, with abuse, right? Like, there was definitely screaming and yelling, but there wasn't a rage. Like when you see in movies, just somebody comes in. What's going on in here? It was just like that. Your blood runs cold.

[Conan O'Brien]

You just feel it.

[Olivia Munn]

You could just feel it. It's like when you're kids, you're like dogs, right? Where you can feel things before anything is said. It's raining outside. And I would learn later in life, okay, rain. That's actually bad because he might be late for work or somebody might do that, and then he's gonna come home and be really in a bad mood. So you just kind of like clocking. All these things he wore always at home, he was wear, like, flip flops. And so, like, the sound of, like, flip flops on the linoleum. Cause, you know, in a military housing, you have, like, the same kind of concrete floors, the linoleum on top of it, and just like, those kind of things that you just kind of perk up and go, like, okay, someone's coming, or danger's coming.

[Conan O'Brien]

And just before we came in here, you were talking about how you. You seem like someone who obviously went through a great deal and then at some point had the strength and tenacity to say, I'm getting out of here. Cause you talked about getting in your car and driving. This is when you're much older, but you decided, I'm gonna go to Los Angeles. You got in a car and you just started driving. And you said your car broke down at one point and you were looking for a replacement part on the side of the road.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

There's this real fire in you. Like, I am going to get out.

[Olivia Munn]

I always wanted to be an actor. When I was, like, maybe 17 or something, my best friend gave me this book called An Actor's First Year in Hollywood. And I was like, page one, let's go, and we're gonna make it. And so I told my mom that I wanted to be an actor. My mom, being an immigrant, was like, oh, okay, that's not. My mom and her siblings all came to America with nothing. And they all have master's degrees and PhDs and become top engineers. And one has worked for NASA and they're doctors. And so my mom is like, we don't have a dentist or a lawyer in the family yet. And I was like, yeah. I was like, okay. Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

And also, you can understand where they're coming from, that. If they're coming from that reality. And then you just, one generation removed is saying, I'm gonna try improv and I'm gonna throw and I'm gonna play, you know, some theater games. I could understand why they'd be freaked out.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah.

[Olivia Munn]

Especially. Cause she's like, wait, you wanna do what? Like, she did tell me a long time ago, she goes, you wanna be actor? You go, only one man can do it. Tom Cruise. You're not Tom Cruise.

[Sona Movsesian]

I was like, what?

[Olivia Munn]

I go, mom, there's a lot of.

[Conan O'Brien]

She is true. There is only one man that can do it.

[Olivia Munn]

You're not Tom Cruise. I was like, I am not. However, he and I do have the same birthday. So. But. And so it was. I would ask her a lot, and she was like, if you go to college and use your degree for one year, like, then I'll say, okay, you can go. And now I know at this point I'm an adult, but it's an Asian family. So it really mattered that my mom was, you know, there to support me. And also, I didn't have the money to go do that, and I needed a lot of support and permission from my mom.

[Conan O'Brien]

And.

[Olivia Munn]

And so I graduated from University of Oklahoma with journalism degree, and then I worked at the NBC affiliate for one year in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

[Conan O'Brien]

You were sideline?

[Olivia Munn]

No, I was doing the assignment desk. You've been into a newsroom before. So there's the. We go into a newsroom. There's this assignment desk. And it's where you answer the calls from people going, like, I love what Jane was wearing today on the. What color was that suit? And it's also people going, like, there was a, you know, I've got a complaint about, you know, XYZ and what's happening over here on this street. There's also all of these police scanners, paramedic scanners, fire department scanners, and it's constantly. All the time. And your job is to hear it all and then to tell people and to be like, Conan, go to 89th Street. There's a.

[Conan O'Brien]

You know, there's a fire at McCready's barn. Get over there.

[Olivia Munn]

Exactly. And they're right there in front of me, and I hear nothing. And I could hear producers screaming out, what? Like, you know, they're like a school bus turned over on 29th. And you're like. I'm like, really? And they're like, oh, my gosh, there's a house fire on Robertson. I'm like, there is. And I'm like, I'm the worst person at this job ever. It was.

[Conan O'Brien]

Your job is not to go. You don't say, wow, there must be some fire.

[Olivia Munn]

I'd be.

[Matt Gourley]

Literally, we should put it on the news.

[Olivia Munn]

I'd be watching people get up and run. And I'm like, what? They're like. And they'd be like. They'd be into the parking lot screaming, what's happening? And I just couldn't hear it. And so I took that job for a year, and then they asked me, don't ask me why, they're like, do you want to stay on longer? And I was like, well, I told my mom I would only do this for a year before I would go. And I was just determined to just do a year. And then I started thinking, like, oh man, maybe I will. I don't know. I talked to my mom about it. She goes, you know what? Why don't you just wait another year? Just like one more year, and then you should go out to California and give it a try. But just one more year. So I was like, okay. And then one day, speaking of core memories, like not knowing when you're creating them, my sister was getting dressed and she was in the bathroom putting on her makeup. And she said, oh, you know, mom said the funniest thing to me the other day. She said, you know, Olivia keeps wanting to go to California to be an actor. And I just told her like, next year. And if she says anything to you about it, just tell her next year. And we'll just keep saying next year, next year until one day she'll forget about it. And my sister said it of just like, mom is so silly. Isn't that so silly? And I'm pretty sure my sister doesn't even know this story. Cause it probably didn't even clock to her. But in that moment I was like, oh my God. Like, well, why is this working? Like, why? Because it clearly worked on me. And I thought, well, I'm letting it work. Why am I letting it work on me? Well, because what if I don't make it? And if I don't make it, then for the rest of my life I could always say, well, I was gonna be an actor, but my mom wouldn't let me.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, in a way, you have an out.

[Olivia Munn]

I have an out forever. So I had this old beat up Land Rover Discovery that broke down every 20 miles or so. And it was not a good thing for the environment to do. But we took out the catalytic converter. Cause in Oklahoma you could. And the catalytic converter allows a more to have just more like horsepower. And it's really bad for the environment because it doesn't. It lets all the exhaust kind of out. But in Oklahoma you could do it.

[Conan O'Brien]

So thanks, Oklahoma.

[Olivia Munn]

So the mechanic was like, you know, you take this out, you're gonna get like, you're gonna be able to go a lot faster and you're gonna get

[Conan O'Brien]

more shoots gasoline out the back, propelling you forward.

[Olivia Munn]

And then I also had a really. Had a crack in my radiator and I Knew about that, but I couldn't open. Afford to.

[Matt Gourley]

Like, you're driving Chernobyl.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, exactly. And so, I mean, you're low on your. You're kind of low on uranium.

[Olivia Munn]

So I. So then I had to drive, like, got in my. In the car, and I was go from Oklahoma to Texas and then all the way through, you know, New Mexico, Arizona, and then to California. But like, it stopped like every 200 miles and. Cause you have to stop, open the gaskets, put in the radiator fluid, the Freon to keep it going. And then at one point, it just was like steam was coming out. I was in the middle of New Mexico and the steam was just spewing out. And it's like the check engine lights coming on. So I pull over and I'm like, oh, my gosh. And the hose for the radiator had blown. It was a crack in it. I'm like, I just am on the side of the road on the highway, walking for a while, going through the brush, and then I find a hose. I'm looking for something that I could use and I find a hose and. Cause I've already had to do these things.

[Conan O'Brien]

A radiator hose?

[Olivia Munn]

No, no, no. Not a radiator hose.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay.

[Matt Gourley]

No, it was a hose.

[Conan O'Brien]

A hose. That's amazing.

[Olivia Munn]

I don't know what kind of hose. It wasn't a water hose. It was something. But I did it because in college, my best friend Kara, she's very. She taught me a lot of this stuff. And so this had happened once before when we were in Oklahoma during college. And I was like, what are we doing? She's like, we're gonna go find a hose. I was like, what do you mean? She's like, we're gonna find something. And so we. Like, on the side of the road, you just keep looking and looking and you'll find something. And so, you know, I looked. It wasn't easy. It wasn't like I was like an hour. Are you considering treasure hunting?

[Conan O'Brien]

I'm just saying you may have a real talent here.

[Olivia Munn]

Well, you just search and search and you find something. And I carried the screwdriver and I carried like the heat resistant duct tape. I mean, I had the whole thing because this was a situation that I had experienced for like over a year. I've been going through this. So you'd think actually that I would have kept like extra hoses.

[Matt Gourley]

That's the key.

[Conan O'Brien]

Not if your experience is just go outside and look around. It's like shopping at Meineke.

[Olivia Munn]

But we found it. And it got me through. It got me to the very, like, all the way to Altadena, where I was meeting cousins and.

[Conan O'Brien]

So how long before you got work?

[Olivia Munn]

Well, it depends on how you describe work. So in an actress guide, your first year in Hollywood, they tell you.

[Conan O'Brien]

Really? Yeah, they tell you after the chapter on finding a hose. This book is really good.

[Olivia Munn]

You know how, like, they. They do, like, a new edition? Maybe they should do a new edition. They're interviewing me.

[Conan O'Brien]

The new edition?

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Olivia Munn]

So it says to become an actor, you need to join the union. And how do you join the union? You get your SAG card. How do you get your SAG card? Well, you book something that gives you your SAG card. Or you go and be an extra. And you be an extra and you get pink slips. I think it was three pink slips equals one SAG card.

[Matt Gourley]

That's what I got.

[Olivia Munn]

You did. Did you get it?

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah, for being an extra.

[Olivia Munn]

Wait, how many pink slips did you get?

[Matt Gourley]

Three.

[Olivia Munn]

And did you get speaking parts?

[Matt Gourley]

No, I was just high school. No, I was a high school student, even though I looked 38.

[Conan O'Brien]

And I saw. What's the credits? It said, creepy high school students, prematurely aged.

[Olivia Munn]

Did everyone get one or did they just give it to you?

[Matt Gourley]

There was. It was called a show called the Smart Guy on, like. Was it Nickelodeon or something? I can't remember. And one of the actors was someone we knew from an improv group, and so he got three of us as featured extras to get our SAG cards.

[Olivia Munn]

Okay, what was the. What was the featured part?

[Matt Gourley]

Creepy guy in a high school. Like, we weren't. We weren't, like, speaking. It's some kind of. It seemed like a game.

[Olivia Munn]

See, that's the.

[Conan O'Brien]

It's certainly background workground work. Yeah. Yeah.

[Olivia Munn]

And. But I. I thought you just go. And then you're like, every background person gets like a. I didn't know there was, like, a special thing. Like, you have to be, like, you have to have a featured, whatever that means. But so in the book, it says, like, go to central casting and you bring your passport and another identification and you go through your lineup. So I go to central casting out in Burbank, and, like, there is a line that goes, you know, down the block, down the block, around the block. And I'm there, like, passport in hand, the biggest smile on my face. I'm like, we're doing it.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah, we're gonna do it.

[Conan O'Brien]

We're here. Look at us. I'm the new Tom Cruise, just like the book says. Yeah.

[Olivia Munn]

You guys have the book, too?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Olivia Munn]

And I was, like, literally the only person smiling the entire time. I was like this. And I get to the front, and the first one I did was Gilmore Girls, and I couldn't believe it. I got cast on Gilmore Girls, and I get to Warner Brothers. I see all these people there, and no one else is smiling. It's 4am and I'm just like, guys, we're doing it. Here we are.

[Conan O'Brien]

Let's go.

[Olivia Munn]

We made it. And then this one guy brought me over, and he's like, come here. He's like, is this your first time doing this? I'm like, yes, it is. It is. He was like, okay. He's like, what color did you bring? I was like, what do you mean, what color? And he was like, what color did you bring? I said, I don't. I just have, like. Like winter coats and stuff. He goes, hold on. He hands me his red scarf. And he's like, you need this so that they can see you in the background. He's like. And he puts on a red hat, and he goes. And you want to make, like, big gestures. He's like, you know, like, you can say hi to a friend that's way over there. And, like. So he had all these, like, tips and tricks and taught me about, like, bringing Tupperware so that I can, like, take food home and, like, how we want to get into meal penalties. And it was like, this whole thing.

[Matt Gourley]

I learned Yoda of background acting on your first date.

[Conan O'Brien]

Some of the advice, I'm not sure. I have a hard time watching Gilmore Girls because there's a guy in the background who's always flailing like he's on fire. He's dressed like, Where's Waldo? I can't understand Rory, but I only did that.

[Olivia Munn]

I only did one other background job. The very first thing I booked was this was It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, there you go, Sona.

[Sona Movsesian]

That's my jam.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Olivia Munn]

Oh, wait a second.

[Matt Gourley]

Uh.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh.

[Olivia Munn]

So I couldn't believe it. I was. This is so exciting. Then Monday morning rolls around, and I'm waiting. And you're supposed to film on Monday. And I'm waiting. I'm waiting, I'm waiting. And then I try to get a hold of somebody at the agency. No one's answering. Try to get somebody at the management company. No one's answering. Cause it's super early in the morning. I'm like. I feel like I'm supposed to be there already. And then finally, I get a call from Production. And the woman's like, oh, my God. We transposed the last two numbers of your cell phone. My number at the time was 0608. So they were calling 0806, and they're like, I'm so sorry. We had to go audition all of the extras for this role. And I was like, what do you mean? They're like, we told your managers. But my manager at the time was too busy starring and filming his own movie.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, God.

[Olivia Munn]

That weekend.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, come on.

[Olivia Munn]

God. That. He didn't give me any of the.

[Sona Movsesian]

Come on, bro.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, my God. I would give him just a number of more chances if I.

[Matt Gourley]

It's not too much.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'll give him 15 more chances. Yeah.

[Olivia Munn]

I was like. I was like, you guys. I was like, I'll be right there. I'll be right there. Like, I'm sorry we've had to move. Like, but don't worry, we'll remember you for the next time. I thought, of course you're not going to.

[Conan O'Brien]

I look back at my start, and there were things I desperately wanted to happen that didn't happen. And then later on, I realized that if those things had happened, the real great shots wouldn't have come along for me. It would have set me off on a different road. So because you go on this streak of Attack of the show, you get Daily Show. Yeah, Daily Show. You get offered a part on 30 Rock.

[Olivia Munn]

Oh, that one.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. Which you couldn't end up doing. And then you do the Newsroom.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah. That was, like, my first big, like, behemoth to take on. Right. Like, the Daily show with Jon Stewart was a. Those both are, like, kind of simultaneous, like. And they're very different in their own ways.

[Conan O'Brien]

Right.

[Olivia Munn]

I knew that I was, like, just the outlier in that whole cast for the newsroom and that, you know. And actually, after my first day of filming, the very first scene that you see me in episode two, season one, he came to me afterwards. He's like, you know, he's like. Just so you know, we were all watching, being like, what's this girl from the Daily show gonna do? And I was like. And I kind of felt that pressure a little bit, but also, at the same time, felt like I didn't know a lot about the etiquette of filming on sets and how I would ask a lot of questions. I would go to Sorkin and be like, can you explain all these little things to me? Cause I was like, I mean, I didn't write the character. You did. So I would. And so there Was like, a little. And I would ask other actors and be like, how would you say this line? And they'd be like, what? Like, you can't. And I was like, why would I just want to use my brain if I can have everyone's, you know, help and involved in this? And I was looking at. I knew I was going. I had, like, such an amazing, high caliber group of actors around me. And I was like, oh, man, I don't. I just have to, like, kind of narrow in and think about what I'm doing. And I. At that time in entertainment, I feel like a lot of times I'd seen characters like that play really just overly demanding or apologetic. And I just wanted to play it straight. I just was like, there's like, just. Nothing has come close to that. I stopped filming that show in 2014, 1714, something like that, a long time ago. And nothing has come close to that because of the challenges that Sorkin put for me in there to really make things really small but still give it as much impact.

[Conan O'Brien]

It'd be very hard to act in his stuff because he puts so much dialogue in there.

[Sona Movsesian]

It's so dense.

[Conan O'Brien]

It's so dense. And when I watch his stuff, I'm always very. He's obviously a great writer, and he's really a savant at this. He does great work. But I'm always thinking, yeah, I couldn't work for that guy.

[Sona Movsesian]

Memorize all that stuff.

[Conan O'Brien]

And you know me, I'd just be making up gibberish. And he also loves walking and talking. So that business where you know and

[Matt Gourley]

you literally can't walk and talk.

[Conan O'Brien]

I can't walk. I cannot walk. And I cannot.

[Olivia Munn]

I cannot do both if I'm carried on a toilet.

[Conan O'Brien]

If I'm carried on a toilet. That's why all my scenes. But I mean, it's interesting because you've had kids. I know that you then battled breast cancer and you made this decision to just take time off, but I heard you say somewhere, I'm not gonna do some announcement that you won't be seeing me for a while. Which I thought was co. Because when people announce I'll be stepping down from my career momentarily, I always think no one asked.

[Olivia Munn]

You know, I'm like, I always think it's so funny when people do that. I'm like, you don't play for the Lakers. Like, no one's being like, where are they Tuesday night? Where are they? I'm like, you're an actor. Like, everyone wants to make this big announcement, and it's Like, I think if there's somewhere where people are expecting you to be, you know, then okay, you should let us know you're not going to be there. But it was like, it was a, it was a personal decision. And yeah, I just felt I just had gone through. I don't know if your wife dealt with postpartum, but I had the worst postpartum anxiety. Did you have that at all?

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah, I did.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah. I was ready for postpartum depression that I heard about it. I'd never heard of postpartum anxiety. And so it was like about a month after Malcolm was born and all of a sudden I just like I wake up at 4am, my eyes just pop open and I just go. And I just feel it in my chest every day. And it's like that every day for almost a year. And I would just have to hold his arm going from room to room sometimes. And that would just be like cool. The Rhett's, like, sometimes it'd be cool, but it would always be there. And I didn't understand what it was and I didn't really say anything to anybody about it. I just told him, like, I don't really feel good. I'm just kind of feeling anxious. And it wasn't until, it wasn't for like nine months or something until finally I like opened up to think my therapist about it. And I wasn't able to make a lot of breast milk. I really tried and my son was struggling because I was not giving him any nourishment. And it was so frustrating. And so I was like, I'm just stopping. I'm gonna put him on formula, he's gonna be okay. But by stopping cold turkey like that, I didn't know even if I made a little bit, what happens is your hormones drop and everything. Like I was not prepared for that. So then it just dropped me into like the depths of postpartum hell. And I was spiraling and then I ended up getting. People would ask me like, what were your thoughts? Well, the thing is, I didn't have thoughts, thank God. I didn't have any thoughts of self harm or hurting anyone else. And my heart goes out to every woman who's experiencing that. And there's not enough sympathy and empathy and understanding for that. It's absolutely horrifying to feel those things. I can imagine. So that was a big part of the reason why I was like, okay, I need to take some time away. But I wasn't thinking about that yet. Right when I was getting out of that postpartum haze. I was like, I'm feeling good. Then I get diagnosed with breast cancer. And then it was like, it was a very aggressive, fast moving cancer that was like all over both breasts. So I went through many surgeries, five surgeries. And then in that process, I was like, I think I need to step away from being in the public eye.

[Conan O'Brien]

Wow. And it's also just important to point out you had no symptoms. And so you took this lifetime risk assessment test, which told you you had a very high number and that saved your life. I mean, that's huge.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah. Yeah. I had a clear mammogram and a clear ultrasound and I did clear genetic testing as well. Or genetic testing. It came back clear. A lot of people ask about brca, and BRCA is a very well known breast cancer gene, but there are many breast cancer genes. And I tested negative for all cancer genes. Yeah. So there's this. I know the lifetime risk assessment test, and it's a free online test. It takes minutes to take. It's been around for a very long time, but a lot of people don't know about it. Anything above 20% is considered high risk. And it's a score that will tell you how likely you are to get breast cancer in your lifetime. And mine was 37.3%.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, man. Okay.

[Olivia Munn]

So I went to go get the mri and the doctor called me that day and he's like, I think I see something on your right breast. You should go get an ultrasound. Okay, go get the ultrasound. And then doctors taking, you know, some time. And it's never really good when they're quiet. Right? So I'm like, is everything okay? She's like, well, I see the one from the mri, but now I'm finding two more.

[Sona Movsesian]

Oh, fuck.

[Olivia Munn]

I'm like, okay. And then she explains it to me. So with women, our breasts are like circles and then they put a cross through it and then there's quadrants. And so multifocal means there's more than one in one quadrant. Multi quadrant is that there's two different quadrants. It's not. It's not that abnormal to have multifocal in one quadrant, but it's abnormal to have it in two quadrants, multiple quadrants. So they're like, okay, you should go get a biopsy. So I go get a biopsy and they're like, yeah, it's a very aggressive, fast moving cancer. And it's not normal to have multifocal. Multi quadrant at your age. And then they're like, well, let's go Back to your original MRI and look at the other side. And they looked at the left breast. They go, okay, yes, we gotta go an MRI biopsy on this. And they did that one as well. And so they're like, so then I was diagnosed with multifocal, multi quadrant bilateral breast cancer. And then after my double mastectomy, they send it off for pathology and they find a tangerine size section of more breast cancer in my right breast. Because, you know, they look for. It's called clearing the margins. So when they get your tumors, they take the tissue out and you want to make. They want to come back and be like, okay, we were able to clear margins. So whatever tissue sample we got, we're able to say we got the tumor because there's clear tissue all around it. And because they did my whole double mastectomy, they were able to take all the tissue out, but they were like, okay, we weren't able to get clear margins till past, like a tangerine size section of more. So. And that was. And I would never have. I would not have found it until it was a much later stage if I didn't take the lifetime risk assessment test.

[Conan O'Brien]

Jesus Christ.

[Olivia Munn]

And then a year after that, a little less than a year after that, I would have my mom do a mammogram. My mom just turned 70. I had her. This is last year. Yeah, I had her do a mammogram and ultrasound. Clear. Clear. And I did her lifetime risk assessment score and she scored in the high risk. And so then we had her do an MRI and she has. She was diagnosed with HER2 breast cancer. It's a type of breast cancer that can double in size every six weeks.

[Sona Movsesian]

What?

[Olivia Munn]

So when she, when she got. When we found it a few weeks later, she has her double mastectomy and it already become multifocal because it was. I've got to do this to you do. It's a really. I'm actually working with Senator Mark Kelly on legislation that will help make it a lot easier for women to have this done. Just because the onus shouldn't be on us to always know about these things. And I can. I will. You know, this is one of the biggest missions in my life besides being, you know, a mother and a wife and a daughter. I want to help as many women as I can with this. It's so simple. But it shouldn't be on us to know about it. You know, when we go into our doctors, they take our blood pressure, they ask about, like, our cholesterol, and they should also say, what's your lifetime risk assessment score? And so we're working with. I'm working with Senator Kelly on figuring out a way to get every doctor in our country to make that part of their standard of care.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Lifetime risk assessment test. That is huge. I'm writing it down. Yeah, I better write it down for you.

[Olivia Munn]

Well, there's a specific one. The tyre cusic one. I have it in my link in bio in my Instagram. Okay. Because there's one called the Gail something other. It's the tyre cusic one. They're all a little bit different for

[Matt Gourley]

some reason, but we can put it in the show notes.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, put it in the show notes. Well, now you're working on your Friends and neighbors with Mr. Jon Hamm. And I bet it's nice to be. You know, it must be nice to be back in it, I would think. Kind of therapeutic to be working and making that great show. I really do love that show.

[Olivia Munn]

Thanks. I'm so happy you like it.

[Conan O'Brien]

And we gotta do this again sometimes.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah. Oh, my gosh. It just settled in. What else are we gonna talk about?

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, I.

[Matt Gourley]

Finding hoses,

[Conan O'Brien]

I hope.

[Olivia Munn]

My friend Kara, I'm gonna make her listen to this. She was the one who taught me that. She's an architect. Do you know California Chicken Cafe out here?

[Sona Movsesian]

Of course.

[Olivia Munn]

She's like the VP of branding there, and she's the one who redesigned all of the California Chicken cafes out here. They're like all the stuff I've noticed.

[Conan O'Brien]

They've got a new look.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah, they do.

[Conan O'Brien]

They have new font and everything. There's one on there that makes me like the chicken more. It's all about presentation. If a chicken. Sometimes there's a really good chicken with bad font, and I'm like, I'm not giving a shit.

[Sona Movsesian]

You're a big font guy.

[Conan O'Brien]

I'm very big on a font.

[Olivia Munn]

What I learned is they did better during COVID than a lot of places because everybody's looking for, like, just a healthy, easy alternative. So much so that they don't do eating anymore. Yeah, it's literally just. You know a lot about this.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, no, no.

[Sona Movsesian]

I sure do.

[Conan O'Brien]

She knows her fast foods and your food outlets. Right? Isn't that fair to say? That's fair to say.

[Sona Movsesian]

It's not really fat. It's not like Carl's Jr. No, no.

[Conan O'Brien]

You're just lifting off a whole other places. Yeah.

[Sona Movsesian]

Okay. It's. It's. It is.

[Olivia Munn]

It's like that.

[Sona Movsesian]

It's good. And I like. You don't have to walk in. They have, like a window now. And you just go order and.

[Matt Gourley]

Is there one out by us?

[Sona Movsesian]

There's.

[Olivia Munn]

I don't think so.

[Sona Movsesian]

I. If I. If I go to one, it's the one on Melrose.

[Matt Gourley]

Excuse me. We're talking here. Let us talk.

[Conan O'Brien]

Can I just say, the best one of all is Pollo Loco, because that for a while.

[Sona Movsesian]

Pollo Loco, please.

[Olivia Munn]

Okay.

[Conan O'Brien]

I like la pollo loca myself. I like to femin things because women need to be heard and seen. But also, I like a chicken that's gone insane. I like a chicken that's eyes are crossed and it's gone insane. And. And then the chicken is telling you eat chicken, but the chicken's gone insane. And it's this crazy thing where you're like, a chicken's gone so insane. He's telling people to eat more of my kind. Yeah.

[Matt Gourley]

Game recognizes game.

[Conan O'Brien]

Game recognizes foul. All right, well, my best to kooky John. You know, I mean, he loves you. Well, I love him. Listen, be well. I'm so glad that you're healthy. I'm glad that you have these two beautiful children and that you have this great family. I'm just very happy for you.

[Olivia Munn]

Aw, thank you so much. I mean, it really means a lot. I mean, just so happy to be here with you guys. I mean, we love your show. Everybody loves your show, and they have to. It's the law. But it's been so nice. I don't want to leave now.

[Conan O'Brien]

Well, you can stay. This is a nice place to hang.

[Olivia Munn]

What do you do next? What do you guys do next?

[Matt Gourley]

Just go out for a tasty freeze.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Olivia Munn]

A little California chicken cat.

[Conan O'Brien]

CCC is a call it.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah, that's what I call it.

[Olivia Munn]

Do you guys interview somebody else after this, or do you have one a day?

[Sona Movsesian]

We tend to record more stuff, but.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, I don't know if we're doing more. Yeah, we're. Next week we're doing. We do segments separately and all that. I think that's it for today. You know, sometimes we just do local news and weather.

[Matt Gourley]

Yeah.

[Olivia Munn]

How many episodes do we do a year?

[Matt Gourley]

Well, this is interesting. You're going to be the 400th episode.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which means you get a few

[Olivia Munn]

planned that.

[Conan O'Brien]

Right?

[Olivia Munn]

I feel like it should have been.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, it doesn't. No, please. It's like. But you get a pair of socks.

[Olivia Munn]

That's exciting.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay. Olivia, I want to thank you.

[Olivia Munn]

Sorry, hold on.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Adjust your clothing. And here we go. Olivia, thank you very much for being. Oh, hi.

[Olivia Munn]

Start again.

[Conan O'Brien]

Olivia.

[Olivia Munn]

Yes?

[Conan O'Brien]

I just want to tell you that it was lovely having you here on Conan o' Brien needs a friend. I do consider you a friend and I wish you all the best in your future endeavors. And now I say both to you and to people all around America and Emma Heartland listening. Thank you and good night. This is a paid ad by BetterHelp. You've been feeling overwhelmed, stuck, anxious or unsure. That's okay. Those feelings are very common. Much more common than you think. Whatever you're going through, you don't have to go through it alone. Having someone with you to listen and understand can make all the difference in the world. Okay. Whatever it is, it's keeping up at night. Therapy with BetterHelp can provide you with tools to help you check in with yourself and gain support from experienced professionals. BetterHelp is the world's largest online therapy platform. All you do is fill out a short questionnaire, identify your needs and preferences. BetterHelp will handle the initial therapist matching work for you. That's very good. They match you with someone you can also feel confident knowing. BetterHelp therapists work according to a strict code of conduct and are fully qualified. You don't have to be on this journey alone. Find support and have someone with you in your therapy. Sign up and get 10% [e-mail] Kona Conan that's betterhelp.com Conan if you work in university maintenance, Grainger considers you an MVP because your playbook ensures your arena is always ready for tip off. And Grainger is your trusted partner, offering the products you need all in one place, from H Vac and plumbing supplies to lighting and more. And all delivered with plenty of time left on the clock. So your team always gets the win. Call 1-800-GRAINGER visit grainger.com or just stop by Grainger for the ones who get it done.

[Adam Sachs]

All right, now it is time for a segment we call Review the Reviewers where we read and respond to real 5 star reviews.

[Conan O'Brien]

Are you reading a bedtime story to a child?

[Adam Sachs]

I'm trying to be professional.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay. All right.

[Adam Sachs]

I'm getting sleepy.

[Conan O'Brien]

Can I have cocoa? What do you want me to do?

[Adam Sachs]

Go to Apple Podcasts and rate us five stars and you might be featured on a future episode. Today's review comes from Kira8 Kira who says segment idea. Hey, we're doing a segment. Conan and team. I'm a huge fan, love listening to your podcast and it is one of the things that got me through chemo. So thank you for that.

[Conan O'Brien]

Wow. Let's talk. Good for her.

[Adam Sachs]

You guys should do a segment where you guys discuss new words that kids use these days.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, wow, that's a good one. Hey, Kira eight. Kira, I'm so glad that you got through chemo and love the suggestion. Yeah, it was the new. What? The words that kids are using these days.

[Adam Sachs]

Are using these days. Do you know?

[Conan O'Brien]

Sure. There's Riz. I've been told I've got Riz by no one.

[Adam Sachs]

Name one person.

[Conan O'Brien]

No one. I. Apparently, I am Riz. Free. But it's a good word. Yeah, it's good slang. Do you know what the slang is these days?

[Sona Movsesian]

I know cap. No cap. And I know cap.

[Conan O'Brien]

No cap.

[Sona Movsesian]

Cap is you're telling the truth. No, cap is you're telling the truth. Cap is when you are not telling the truth.

[Olivia Munn]

Truth.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay.

[Sona Movsesian]

That's right.

[Olivia Munn]

Yeah.

[Sona Movsesian]

Because it's all about hiding behind a cap. Someone explained it to me.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, so, so use it in a sentence. Hey, dude, you're, you got, you got a cap on right now. Oh, what? Well, no, I'm trying to use it in a sense.

[Sona Movsesian]

I know, but I just told you, you have no. Hey, Cohen. No cap. You did great at the Oscars.

[Conan O'Brien]

Oh, thanks a lot. Yeah. Okay, okay, okay. I don't like that. I, I, I just think it's these new phrases should be easier to say.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

Do you know what I mean? That's why, like, the guy's got Riz. Makes sense to me because you're saying a lot in a very short little word. Yeah, that's why I think it's useful. No, cap. Cap just feels like it's, you're complicating something that's, you know, it's not meant for you.

[Sona Movsesian]

And then I think there's the one about any. Don't they add maxing now to everything?

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah, there's all, like, frame, frame, mogging gesture, maxing. Oh, well, that's because of the social media star who, Who's. Who looks maxing. Who. Which he helped invest. And I thought of a joke the other day. I ran over a controversial social media person with my truck. Yeah. I was charged with clavicular homicide.

[Sona Movsesian]

Now, okay,

[Conan O'Brien]

look, I'm getting mad respect. I wrote that joke the other day because I saw him being a douche somewhere, and I just was like, okay, that's Sona has her head down like she's gonna puke.

[Sona Movsesian]

I don't know what to.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, I did a bit on the Oscars that was all about me trying to appeal to Young people.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yes.

[Conan O'Brien]

But the whole joke was, that's impossible. If you're doing it on broadcast, you're doing it on broadcast television. And that was the joke. But someone sent me a clip of clavicular watching it and saying, the dude that's wasting his time trying to be cool on network tv. And I thought, no, that's the joke. Clavicular. But then I realized I'm engaging in an argument with clavicular. And that's when I thought I should use this time for good and write a joke about clavicular where he gets hit by a truck. And then I came up with it. We. Sorry, you're charged with clavicular homicide. You come on high fives all around.

[Sona Movsesian]

No high fives. You say so much nonsensical words. I feel like you could come up with.

[Conan O'Brien]

Come up with something a lot better than Cap. No. Cap.

[Sona Movsesian]

Okay, let's say hey. Hey. Are you serious? Is say something that's like, hey, this is serious.

[Conan O'Brien]

Sears srz.

[Adam Sachs]

Sears.

[Sona Movsesian]

No, that's a department store.

[Conan O'Brien]

It was a department store. No, it's a long gone. Sears is so long gone. We can change it. And it's just srz. Okay, Sears. What are you going to do?

[Sona Movsesian]

Can you say I'm sears like it's 1998?

[Conan O'Brien]

What's that?

[Sona Movsesian]

I don't know.

[Conan O'Brien]

Okay, you're. I think I'm better at this than you are. And I think you're drifting away. What do you think? You must. You're the closest to this.

[Adam Sachs]

I was going to say we. Adam's probably the expert because his kids are like the perfect age.

[Conan O'Brien]

That I do hear Cap. No, Cap told them it's not good and to switch to Sears Srz. Low key. People say all the time. And you actually, in your Oscars thing said. Which was really funny. And we say it at home now. Low. Kenuonly. Or something like that. Yeah, Low. Kenya. Yeah. Which I think you made up. But it's like a play on low key. They say low key a lot. I just said what Skyler Higley told me to say. That was one where it was like teaching a dog how to speak by putting peanut butter on its lips. Skyler said, say these words and it will be funny. And I went, okay, Skyler.

[Sona Movsesian]

So Sears.

[Conan O'Brien]

I thought that was a good bit.

[Adam Sachs]

Give us another one.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, no. But what. What's the. You don't know?

[Adam Sachs]

I feel like I don't know.

[Conan O'Brien]

No, no.

[Adam Sachs]

Blake has one.

[Conan O'Brien]

Yeah. A lot of times people will talk to chat. Like. Yeah, chat. That's you know, because when you're live streaming, you're looking at a chat that people are talking about, but people are bringing it irl into. Into real life and, and saying, oh, yeah, chat. Let's go out to dinner at, you

[Matt Gourley]

know, Chipotle or whatever.

[Conan O'Brien]

I don't. But okay, they're referencing that. Yes, a chat can. Can be happening while you're having a conversation online. They'll say chat instead of guys. Like, hey, guys, let's go do this. Hey, chat. Okay, that's bad.

[Adam Sachs]

Or there's like, the silent scream. I feel like Gen Z does. Have you seen that?

[Conan O'Brien]

Where they'll go like, oh, I've never seen that before. They'll also say, bet.

[Sona Movsesian]

Yeah, bet, bet. I've heard a lot.

[Conan O'Brien]

Really big. You know what I want to do? I want to grow even older in ignorance. That's my dream, is just to drift away on the ice and just not know about no cash, chip, chop, flip, flop, squabbledy doo.

[Sona Movsesian]

I love it.

[Conan O'Brien]

You do, do you?

[Sona Movsesian]

Did you not use slang terms when you were younger?

[Conan O'Brien]

I think I used slang terms from the 40s when I was growing up in the 70s.

[Sona Movsesian]

You must have been so cool.

[Conan O'Brien]

I was like, hey, 23 skidoo, you know, I was always trapped in the 1930s and 40s. In the late 1970s, sure. You know, so, yeah, I was a weird, weird kid, and no one should do as I did. All right. I think we learned a lot, and also, in a way, we learned nothing. And maybe we now know less than we did before and we've accomplished our mission. Beautiful. Sears, Sears, Sears.

[Matt Gourley]

Conan o' Brien needs a friend. With Conan o', Brien, Sonam of Session and Matt Gourley produced by me, Matt Gourley executive produced by Adam Sachs, Jeff Ross and Nick Leow. Theme song by the White Stretch incidental music by Jimmy Vivino. Take it away, Jimmy. Our supervising producer is Aaron Blair, and our associate talent producer is Jennifer Samples. Engineering and mixing by Eduardo Perez and Brendan Burns. Additional production support by Mars Melnick. Talent booking by Paula Davis, Gina Bautista and Brit Kahn. You can rate and review this show on Apple Podcasts and you might find your review ready on a future episode. Got a question for Conan? Call the Team Coco hotline at 669-587-2847 and leave a message. It too could be featured on a future episode. You can also get three free months of SiriusXM when you sign [e-mail] Conan and if you haven't already, please subscribe to Conan O' Brien needs a Friend. Wherever fine podcasts are downloaded,

[Conan O'Brien]

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[Sona Movsesian]

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[Sona Movsesian]

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