One of the things that I have noticed
living in Los Angeles, is that L.A., Los Angeles Rams
are in the Super Bowl.
Yeah.
You wouldn't know it to drive
around L.A.! (audience laughs)
Am I right?
(audience laughs)
You drive around L.A.,
and you don't see any signage.
I don't see anyone (woman laughs distantly)
wearing a Rams hat
because that's just the way L.A. is.
(audience laughs softly)
I'm serious.
I've been driving around a lot.
I saw one city bus that went,
that just had those little electric signs.
And it said Stops Frequently.
And then, the next message that came up was Go Rams?
(audience and Sona laugh)
There was question mark?
Yeah, it was a question mark!
(audience laughs)
Go Rams?
I mean, they weren't even sure.
(audience and Sona laugh)
I didn't grow up in a town like this.
I grew up in Boston, Massachusetts.
And in Boston, Massachusetts,
you have to wear your Red Sox cap
when the Red Sox are playing.
You have to wear your Patriots cap
when the Patriots are playing,
you have to wear a Bruins jersey
when the Bruins are playing,
you have to wear a Celtics jersey
when the Celtics are playing.
And people take it really seriously.
True story.
My father went out to get groceries a couple
of years ago when the Patriots were in the Super Bowl.
And he forgot to put on his Patriots cap.
Yeah.
Two years in prison.
(audience and Sona laugh)
He spent two years in prison for that.
They pulled him over, he didn't have his hat, two years.
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
That's the intensity of what is happening in.
That's crazy.
It's crazy!
No!
I like this, where people are like, yeah, it's cool!
We're in the Super Bowl.
Nice job, guys!
Oh! (audience laughs softly)
I bet you right now, and I think this crowd agrees with me.
If I went around L.A. and randomly ask people,
are you excited about the Rams?
Yeah.
Two thirds of them would spray Mace in my face.
(audience and Sona laugh)
And they would say I was attacked by a woman
in a corduroy jacket.
(audience laughs)
A tall orange-haired woman.
They wouldn't know what was going on!
I almost forgot the Rams came back.
I remember they were here.
And then, somebody said, oh, the Rams are in the Super Bowl.
I was like, oh!
You know what's really sad?
When you have a football team that leaves,
and no one notices.
(audience and Sona laugh)
It's like someone who leaves a party
and then wanders back later on, and go I betcha!
Did you go?
Oh. (grunting)
(audience laughs)
I feel terrible.
I mean.
But that's what happened.
The Rams left, now they're back.
But you know, are you excited about it?
Is anyone in your family excited about it?
People in my family are.
I'm not, you know,
I'm not gonna lie, I don't know why
we're in the Super Bowl thing.
You're, I don't think of Conan O'Brien
when I think of the Super Bowl.
And I certainly (audience laughs)
have no idea what's going on- I think, well, first of all.
Well, first of all,
you don't know anything about football.
And this is a true story.
Oh, 'cause you
know a lot- Absolutely
true story. (audience laughs)
Sona walked in to do the podcast today.
Okay?
This is about 45 minutes ago,
and this is absolutely true.
Okay, my dad didn't do two years in prison for
not wearing hat- What?
You got me there- No!
(audience laughs)
But Sona walked in 45 minutes ago and learned for the
first time that Tom Brady had retired
from football- Yes.
That is actually very true.
I had heard- You didn't know!
I had heard, they were like, he was,
they were like, oh, he might retire.
And I was like, okay.
And then, I just found out that he had announced.
When did that happen?
You found out Obama was president during his second term.
That was. (audience laughs)
Yeah- You were always
and crazily misinformed!
He had two terms?
Yeah, he had two terms. (audience laughs)
Wow! Okay.
Maybe a little less of the edible. (chuckles)
A little more of the (audience laughs)
read the newspaper.
Aw. (audience laughs)
Anyway- I'm gonna read
a newspaper. (laughing)
Well, online, I know it's not cool to have paper.
(Sona laughs)
But anywho, you know, this is to contrast it.
Cincinnati?
Yeah.
Okay, the Bengals?
Cincinnati is giving kids the day off from school
the day after the Super Bowl.
On Monday, everyone in Cincinnati has the day off.
This has been declared, like, everyone,
no school, regardless if they win or lose.
What!
Why- Yes!
And in L.A., you could, no!
No one even knows in Cincinnati,
they're shutting everything down.
They're gonna empty the hospitals.
(audience and Sona laugh)
They're gonna have bulldozers destroy the library.
So, no one- What. (laughing)
Can use them on Monday.
Everything's gonna be completely shut down.
They're not gonna put fluoride in the water.
Everything's being shut down!
(audience laughs) Oh, okay.
On that day.
Well.
And it's just gonna be just lawlessness,
craziness, "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome."
It's gonna be nuts. (audience laughs softly)
All right.
That's how seriously they're taking it.
And then of course, here we are in L.A.