Well, we have come up on a very nice anniversary. Hard to believe, but five years ago this month, we did our very first fan episode. And it's been five years. I can't believe it. And I really love these segments. And the very first one featured a fan of mine named Dan Housen. Now, Dan Housen is a wrestler, And he explained to me when we did this very first fan episode that he had loosely based his character, his wrestling character on me if I was an interdimensional demon, which seems redundant to me. And Dan Housen and I had a great conversation. We talked about comedy, performance, the love of entertaining people. And what struck me, and still I remember this to this day, Dan Housen told me that he had been grinding away for the past eight years, driving 12 hours every weekend, just be able to get up in front of people and wrestle. And this is a guy who just applied an incredible work ethic to his passion. And I was so impressed with this fellow. Well, now it's five years later, and I am thrilled to report that Dan Housen has recently made his WWE debut to rave reviews. And this is proof, again, that if you can marry hard work to your passion, you can go places. So on behalf of myself and all of us here at Team Coco, massive congratulations and mad respect to Dan Housen. And I'm so proud of you, happy for you. And I just should mention, because your character is based on me, I'm getting 20%. Oh, are you getting 20%? Well, I will once I unleash my interdimensional demons. Rick Rosen from William Morris Endeavor. And the blackest, blackest heart of all, Gavin Pallone. I mean, when they're done with Dan Housen, he's just going to be some flesh clinging to a battered vertebrae. Yes. Anyway, I'm just I'm just thrilled for him. So here this is unusual for us. We're going to revisit my chat from five years ago with the one, the only Dan Housen. Enjoy. Conan O'Brien needs a fan. Want to talk to Conan? Visit Team Coco dot com slash call Conan. Okay, let's get started. Hey everybody, Conan O'Brien here, and we're gonna try something a little different. In the short time that I've been doing, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. I've just been delighted. I'm having an absolute blast, and it's working. I'm actually making some nice bonds and friendships with a lot of different people, but what occurred to me is all these people have one thing in common, they're celebrities. and I thought it might be nice to try making friends with average folk, people out there in the world, civilians, not celebrities. Just talk to the people who make this great country we call the United States of America or even people from other countries, it doesn't matter. Let's just talk to some regular folk and then hope, hope desperately that they become celebrities. Oh my God. That's the concept. What do you guys think, Matt? Horrible. Yeah, I'm all in. Why is that horrible? It's very important to me that eventually they become celebrities. So you don't have time for anybody that would live their whole life as a regular Joe. As a folk. Who would do that? What kind of monster would choose that life No seriously I really do I do wanna and especially I have to say a lot of this comes out of this last year Let get outside this bubble this celebrity bubble that we trapped in. I'm not trapped in a celebrity bubble. No, I'm not even adjacent to it. Oh God, no. I didn't mean either of you. Oh God, no. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, please. Oh, how embarrassing. I'm covering my mouth. I'm laughing. Because I mean, we don't even do a podcast with a celebrity. So how would Oh, snap. Snappity dappity. Ouchie wouchie. I'm looking it up. I'm looking it up. I am looking it up. Yes, I am a celebrity. I just looked it up. You Googled it? Yeah, I am a B-lister, but I am a celebrity. So, fuck are you? I am a solid B. I'm a solid B-list celebrity and I'm proud of it. And if Love Boat were still on the air, I could. I wish. I could potentially be a guest. Oh, God. Not the first guest, but like the third guest, who's the comic relief guest who stowed away. I would kill to see you on Love Boat. Yes. But anyway, this is something I want to do, and I'm really looking forward to it. And I don't know. We're just going to give it a try and see how it goes. Yeah, this is Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan, and it'll be out weekly in addition to the regular episodes, so just an extra special treat. And we might as well get to our first guest. Are you guys ready? Yeah. I am very ready. Conan, please meet Donovan, who is a minor league professional wrestler. Wow. Donovan, very nice to talk to you. Where are you coming from, Donovan? Where are you? I am in Michigan right now from Montreal. Do you consider yourself a Canadian? No, no, I'm from Michigan. Oh, you're from Michigan. Yeah, sorry, I probably said that wrong. My wife is from Montreal. Wait, I'm confused already. You're from Michigan. you've married someone who's from Montreal. Yes, exactly. Okay. So I'm in the process of getting my permanent residency there. Oh, okay. You're going to move to Montreal. I'm going, yes. Okay. Well, that's all the time we have. Thank you. So Donovan, you are a professional wrestler. Is that right? Yes. Okay. Now help me because I know of a type of professional wrestler that has a character. And I don't know, are you a professional wrestler who's really wrestling and using wrestling moves and it's not that fun to watch? Or are you a wrestler who's also kind of a performer and has a character? I am a character. Actually, I have a picture if you want to see it. That's me. Okay. Well, we are a podcast, so I'm going to describe it. You're sort of demonic looking. You just showed me a picture of what looked like a very fierce, evil, demonic wrestler. Yes, so I go by the moniker very nice, very evil because nobody likes somebody who's too evil. So I introduce the nice part of it so then they buy into it and I can trick them. Okay, very nice, very evil. Often I get described if somebody, a demon possessed you actually. Oh, a demon possessed me. If Conan O'Brien was possessed by a demon, that's what it gets described as because I'm heavily influenced by you rather than other wrestlers. Yes. You mean of the wrestlers, I'm the one that's influenced you the most. Yes, yes, of course. That's fantastic. Describe then a demonic Conan O'Brien as a wrestling character. Are you using some of my moves? Is it my attitude? Does your character have, you know, sort of little beady eyes and thin lips and sharp cheekbones Yes yeah I don have the height but I have uh I utilize so I pour teeth in my opponent mouths uh to disorient them Pour what in their mouth? Human teeth. You pour human teeth into the mouth. I love how that's people see that and go, Oh, that is so Conan. That is. No, no, no. It's just, I think it's the presentation. Cause I include, I take a lot of like Simpsons references and references from you and just, 80s horror movies and I pull it all together because these are the things that I like. So I included it into the character because wrestling should be fun. Yes, wrestling should. Are you saying it shouldn't be work? Yeah. No, no. So, okay, one of your standard moves is to pour loose teeth into the mouth of your opponent to confuse and disorient them. What are some of your other moves? Kick them right in the mouth. I have the go to sleep, which I call the good night housing. I add Hausen, my wrestling name is Dan Hausen and I add Hausen to everything to make it all about me. That's very Conan. Okay, that's very nice, Matt, yeah. I love that, you just add Hausen to things, so goodnight Hausen is like a goodnight move. Yes, and I pop them up off my shoulders and I knee them in the face, that's my finishing. Well, you knee them in the face, Hausen. The face, yes, exactly. Sorry. Like if I were talking to you, I'd call you Conan Hausen. I add Hausen to the end of ending. Uh-huh, uh-huh. This is fantastic. I'm delighted by you. I'm delighted by this foolishness and that you've, like me, dedicated your life to absolute idiocy. This is fantastic. Now, are you a good wrestler? Are you a good athlete? Yeah, but that doesn't matter. No one cared when I was just a good wrestler. They cared once I switched and put on makeup and started acting goofy and doing Simpsons references in the middle of matches and like I stole the Mr. Burns hop in. I brought a tiny airplane to the ring and I told my opponent to hop in and I had three, 400 people chanting hop in at this guy. How successful have you been? It sounds like, is this growing? Do you feel like Dan Housen is becoming a bigger and bigger character? Yes, absolutely. Since I've switched this, which is about two years ago and about a year full of doing this actual character, I've been wrestling for eight years. Once, since I've switched this, it's just like snowballed more and more and more. And now I have a certain hot topic and I've gotten signed to like a TV company and they're just like, go do your weird stuff. Like do it. Have fun, be Dan Housen. That's what we need. I want to be a part of Dan Housen's world. You know, don't you see that Matt and Sona? Like I want to maybe do some sort of, I want to tape a video. I seriously want to do something where you're in the ring and then I appear and I'm either for you or against you. Do you know what I mean? Or you're my long lost son. We've gotta somehow get into, I wanna get into the lore of Danhausen. Do you know what I mean? I wanna be part of it. What would you do with me? Oh, with you, I would call us both legendary ladies. Go on. Guess what? There's a lot of those now. There's literally like 600 in America. So he might wanna come up with something cooler. His character is all about himself. He's all about making sacks of money. I call them. Yes. I carry around a money sack. I pulled it out after I won my contract on TV and I revealed it from my cape. I pulled a $20 bill and I said, look at these millions and I threw it. Would we actually fight? And first of all, you know, I know how to handle myself. Wait a minute Oh come on Sona I fairly athletic I can take a punch and I love to fake fight And so if I entered the ring would we start out being friends, but then I would think that you had gotten too cocky and I would attack Dan Housen? What would happen? Maybe. I think I do this thing where I try to punch people in the groin right before the bell rings so I can just pin them without doing any work. So I don't think I would do that because people know that I love Conan. Right. Like as a character, it's very public that I love Conan and that's one of Dan Housen's idols. So I don't think they would think that. They'd probably be taken back if you did it. Okay, how about this? Let me pitch you this because I'm really into this. All right, so Dan Housen, you're fighting your foe. He starts to get the better of you. He starts to win. He grabs the bag of teeth and starts to pour them into your mouth. He steals your sack of money. He punches you in the groin. It's all going badly when all of a sudden the music changes, fog machines go on. And I appear, I come down on wires and it's me and I'm there to save Danhausen. And- I think the crowd would go nuts. I hope so. What if the crowd's just like, all right, okay. There's Conan, I guess. Let's see what he's got. All right, let's go. If we go early, we can beat the traffic. In my mind, before I go on, that's what I think. That's the reaction I always think I'm going to get. If I leave now, I can beat the traffic. I want in on the Danhausen world. I really do, Donovan. Yeah, well, I would love that if that's a possibility. That's like the ultimate guest for Goodnight Hausen with Danhausen. You know what? I've always said, if there's a way that I can be involved with Goodnight Hausen with Danhausen, I want in Hausen and right now Hausen. Not tomorrow Hausen, but today Hausen. I'm not fucking around Hausen. I'm serious Hausen. So let's make this happen Hausen. Let's sign a contract, Hausen. I want to get paid, Hausen. Yes, we'll pay you in a wonderful sacks of human money. There's only one kind of money. There's only human money. No animal uses money. He has no idea. Uh-huh, uh-huh. He just knows it gets you power. Yeah, wow. That's very exciting. Well, you know what? I think you're gonna do well. I love that you're going to Canada because I don't say this just to suck up to Canada, but I love Canadians. And I think they're like the funniest, one of the funniest countries in the world. They're really funny people. So I think, and they really love nuanced, like weird kooky comedy. And they've always been so nice to me. So I love that you're going to Montreal. I think that's great. Thank you. Yeah, it's been exciting and a lot of work. Donovan, you have my blessing. And I will figure out a way to enter the world of Danhausen. I will. Please do. I would lose my mind and so would my fans. It'd be crazy. All right. Well, Sona, you make sure. Oh, I will follow up on this. Yes, we'll follow up on this. I'm really excited about it. Yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you for doing this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No problem. Hey, really nice to meet you, Donovan. Nice meeting you too. Nice meeting all of you. All right, bye-bye. Thanks, Donovan. Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan with Conan O'Brien, Sona Mobsessian, and Matt Gourley. Produced by me, Matt Gourley. Executive produced by Adam Sachs, Jeff Ross, and Nick Liao. Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino. Take it away, Jimmy. Thank you.
