It's been a while since we've done some voicemails.
Do you guys want to stop bickering
and stop playing slap ass?
I see what you're doing. Let's-
Can I just say Sona tried to grab my water
and read the label?
I didn't like the intrusion.
So I went to just give her a little bing with my pen.
Just a little swat.
That's my pen.
No one likes a tattle tail.
Yeah.
Snitches get stitches.
Snitches get stitches
or they get lightly tapped with a pen.
Okay, let's go.
Okay. We're gonna do a voicemail.
We haven't done this in a while.
Let's do a voicemail.
All right. Eduardo, hit it.
Hi Conan, my name's Arnold.
I was wondering if it's possible to be intermittently funny.
Sometimes I nail it
and I think about comedy and like to do it,
but other times it just falls flat, you know?
But I was also wondering last spring,
I dug myself this little pond here,
got the tractor halfway stuck in
it's a good old 78 international.
Soon I was figuring out how to pull that out.
But you get ideas, there's my number here.
All right, Bucko.
There's no way.
This is a real person.
Is that real?
That is not a real person.
I think it's real.
I think it's not a real person.
Whoever you are.
My hat's off to you.
Fantastic performance.
No.
(mimics)
Now Conan I'm gonna tell you
What are you talking about?
(mimics)
Bucko, My 78 international
No.
Well, what if it is now?
You've hurt his feelings.
I know.
No, listen, first of all, no, one's funny all the time.
Well, that's not true.
There are exceptions, but everyone's intermittently funny.
Even the greats, the greats are intermittently funny.
No one's funny all the time.
And sir, if this really is you
and you are a real person,
what did he say his name was?
Arnold.
Yeah. Not a real person.
I just don't buy it.
Do you?
I'm very gullible.
I believe everything.
I don't think it's a real person.
No, you guys don't think so.
So I listen to 700 voicemails and I can tell,
I feel like I have a good sense now of what's fake and
what's not.
Yeah, I think Arnold's real.
I agree.
I think he's real.
I've heard a lot of people try, I have heard a lot
of voicemails of people putting on an affect or
whatever. And I feel like it-
Occurred to me that he might be fake
but ultimately when I listen, I think he's real.
Can we start listening to it again?
And then Eduardo, when I give you a signal
stop it so I can give different notes.
Here we go.
Hi, Conan. My name's Arnold.
I was wondering if it's possible to be intermittently funny.
Sometimes I nail it and I think about comedy and like to do
it but other times it just falls flat, you know?
But I was also wondering last spring
I dug myself this little pond here,
got the tractor halfway stuck in
it's a good old 78 international.
That's the part that I think is fake.
No, that that's the part I was in.
I was okay with, with it.
I was suspicious, but in.
But then he brings up for no reason.
He crams in this thing about, he says, I was thinking
and then he brings up, I got my tractor stuck
the old 78 international and digging myself a hole.
Is that a real tractor?
Yes, but I'm not buying that part.
No, I believe it.
I believe it.
I think I like to think that there's a guy named
Arnold somewhere.
Who's wearing overalls and listening to this podcast
and he likes to think he's funny.
And he looks up to you as a comedy person.
Well, listen I'm not trying to hurt anyone's feelings
but I'm telling you as a professional, I had a show
and one of the main, comedic staples
of my show was me being interrupted
by kooky characters halfway through
after the first guest, for years, thousands of them.
And they sound like this guy.
I understand your suspicion.
But, I mean, I had a flag raised too
but ultimately it still feels on the real side to me.
Me too.
Yeah. I think he's real.
How do we find out? Can we find out?
Can we call him?
I guess we have his number.
We have his number. We can call him.
Can we call him?
Yeah. Let's call him.
Can we call him now or should we do that later?
He answers the phone, I say, hello?
What do we if he's real?
Noted. Hello?
You've called the home of noted voice and character actor.
Charles Winship Charleston
Voice and character actor and tractor collector.
An enthusiast.
And Tractor aficionado Charles Charleston Charles.
What's this?
Oh, you're looking for oh, Arnold is it?
Well, hold on a second.
Gargle, gargle, gargle, wait, wait wait.
I'll also say before we call him, this
this voicemail is like from like February.
So he called a long time ago.
Just probably still pinned under a tractor.
Yeah. You know, I'm sorry. I don't want to hurt anyone's-
What do we do if he's real?
If he's real, I'll fix it.
Okay. So I'm I don't wanna say anything
cause I'm scared and nervous.
Your call has been forwarded to an automated voice
messaging system.
Listen, this will tell us a lot.
Seven. Zero.
Damn it.
Try again. Let's try again.
Your call has been forwarded to an automated messaging
system.
One more time.
I think if there's a third call
people will take it seriously.
Otherwise he's just unavailable.
His phone might be off.
Yeah, I know it goes straight to voicemail. Right?
Your call has been forwarded to an automated
voice messaging system.
Well, let's leave a message.
At the tone. Please record your message. When you finished
recording, you may hang up or press one for more options.
Hello Arnold.
This is Conan O'Brien calling from the podcast
Conan O'Brien needs a friend.
I got your message.
I have some questions for you.
I hope you're well, don't worry about being intermittently
funny. That's all of us.
I just wanna chat with you briefly
about the old 78 international.
I'm a bit of a tractor fan.
So please call me back.
Yes.
Tell him he can text at that number.
You can text us to this number and we'll get in touch with
you. Yes. Interested to have a little talk.
Yes. You're a good guy over now.
Okay. Well we hope to have more
on this in a later segment, that's all I can say.
Yeah. I'm very and listen, Arnold.
I don't mean to impune you in any way.
It's just that when you started to go
on about the harvester,
I mean the international 78
Tractor
Tractor, it felt like you were, it felt to me like you
were piling on a little bit, like you were really trying to
give it an extra dose of the good old country feller.
And that's, to me felt like maybe you're doing a voice.
See, I thought he was a
a real person who does want to be funny
and works with tractors and thought it might be funny
if I name check something super specific.
Yeah.
But what, in what context does he bring up the Tractor?
Exactly. He's funny.
He's going non sector.
He's going out of context.
Okay. You are thinking about it way too much.
I'm with I'm with Gorley.
I think that he knows what he sounds like, and he's like
I'm digging a pond and my tractor fell in it
and that's really funny. And I agree.
It is really funny that the tractor fell in it.
I find it. I think it's sad.
A 78 international.
That's a great old tractor.
And I'm sorry that his tractor fell in and got wet.
I don't know anything about tractor
Adam. You're with me, right? I'm not alone on this.
If it's worth anything.
I looked up his area code 7 0 7 and it's in California.
It's a California area code.
Oh.
Where in California?
If it's central California, we're still in business.
The 7 0 7 area code serves the cities of American canyon,
Arata, Benicia.
Oh. Yeah. Rural agricultural, California.
Yeah.
Tractor, land USA.
I still-
So many ponds.
I don't know. Possibly, possibly.
Well that wasn't really a California rural accent.
Not at all.
That was like,
I know that's the other thing
That is southern.
First of all, he sounds like he's narrating
an old Southern story. Doesn't he?
Well, you know, puts me in mind of an old tale.
I mean, he should be, you know what I mean?
Arnold call us and don't fake. Don't fake it.
Tell us for real call back and, and let us know please,
Arnold.
Yes. Thank you Arnold. We'll
We'll continue this later.
To be continued.