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It's time to welcome back once again,
Mr. Conan O'Brien and Sona Movsesian.
Hello guys, thank you for joining us.
Well, there's no place I'd rather be.
(all laughing)
That's not true- [Conan] Wait a minute.
That's a sweet start.
Wait a minute, I'm in Hawaii right now.
(all laughing)
With Salma Hayek, is that where I am?
(all laughing) I knew there was a catch.
I knew there was a catch. There's always a catch.
I'm sorry, I was under the impression
I was on a Hawaiian vacation with Salma Hayek,
and then I just remembered it was with you guys.
This is not, I'm gonna have to amend what I said earlier.
There's another place I'd rather be.
(all laughing)
Good to see you Sonja, good to see you Bley,
and I, you know, I'm here and let's make the best of it.
Do you like Mario, are you familiar?
What's your stance on Mario?
You know, like all of us I've seen Mario around
in the neighborhood. (all laughing)
I was like where?
I had some experience with Mario because when my son,
when my daughter and son were younger,
they went through a Mario phase,
and so I would, you know, play with them,
and then I had the experience of going to some convention,
I think you were there, Bley- Yeah.
We went to a convention and we met the voice of Mario.
Do you remember that?
And the creator of Mario we met.
Was it, okay, all right.
All I remember was he came up to me
and someone said oh Conan, this is the voice of Mario.
And he did, what is it, what does Mario say?
It's a me, Mario!
Yeah, so I, they bring this adult male,
who I think it's older than I,
he looked to be in his sixties or something,
and they go Conan this is the voice of Mario,
and I went, oh, hi, it's very nice to meet you,
you know, congratulations.
And he went, you know, I'm a Mario!
(all laughing)
And I went, yeah, well congratulations.
I'm making a pizza pie!
And I said, oh, okay, he's like
look out here comes the sledge hammer!
And I said, oh, you know, like whoopdie do!
And he wouldn't just be himself,
do you know what I mean? He was Mario.
He wouldn't let it drop, and I kept trying to talk to him,
and then I was thinking like, oh, you know,
he has a meeting with his doctor
and his doctor's like, you know, we have to talk
because I'm really concerned about, I mean,
we're going to have to operate immediately,
I'm a Mario! (all laughing)
Well, no, okay, yes, I know, I know,
but anyway, I think you're gonna be fine
but we're going to go through the right ventricle
and we're going to put a stent in,
I'm making a pizza pie!
And I just thought, oh, this is bad.
He's always doing that, you know what I mean?
I also love all these classic Mario lines,
like I'm making a pizza pie.
Well I don't know what he says.
Look out for the sledgehammer, is that what he said?
Yeah.
But you know, like, can you imagine
being in a relationship with him
and he's orgasming, it's terrible.
Oh no, don't do it, don't do it.
Here it comes! (all laughing)
Come on.
I'm all finished! (all laughing)
Now we have a the baby! (all laughing)
Oh my God.
Those are some of my favorite Mario lines, I will say.
Classic, classic Mario.
Oh no.
Oh, how do we even talk about anything else after this?
[Sonja] Have you ever actually played any Mario games,
because I really think you'd like the last one,
if I'm honest, it takes place in a kingdom of cats.
Sure, not random at all.
Furry suit, and the place is called Lake Lapcat.
Okay, Lake Lapcat.
Can I ask you, is there an algorithm somewhere
that just randomly says random things
and that's how they create these video games?
Because you said like, okay, Mario.
Yeah, I know Mario, yeah, I know all about Mario, yeah.
Well, guess what?
Now he's in a land and he's a cat
and it's called lake something,
and I think I could do this too,
I could just make up,
what have you done with, what's going on with Mario?
I got it.
I mean what are these pitch meetings like?
What do you got Conan, you got something new for Mario?
Yeah, yeah, he's in a big bowl of soup.
(all laughing) What?
Yeah, he's in a big bowl of soup,
he's in a submarine that's made out of caramel,
and his best friend is the insert that goes in your shoe.
(all laughing)
And his name is Inserty.
And anyway, they're trapped in a Japanese gummy bear
and their mission is to try and save Eleanor Roosevelt.
I kind of want that to happen.
You're actually not far off.
Super Mario Odyssey, his hat was a sentient hat
that was like a character also-
Of course, doesn't matter, yeah, yeah.
They just all, they literally have an algorithm
that throws out random things: talking hat,
watch that's constipated, you know,
guitar that, you know, is fluent in Sanskrit.
And then that's the game,
and everyone's like I don't know how they do it man.
(Sona laughing)
I mean, I will say it does kind of feel like that
with the Lapcat thing, but also isn't it weird?
Like, I just have to say like there's a whole world
of people who love Mario and anything,
they can do no wrong, Nintendo can do no wrong,
no matter how weird we get.
And so I kind of, you know, it starts to feel like
Nintendo is maybe just trying to troll their fan base.
Like, how far can we push this?
How far can we push it?
We've got Cat Land now.
I submit to you both that in any cult,
once you're in and you're in all the way,
whoever's running the cult can change the rules
and ask for anything and there's nothing,
you're just gonna go along with it.
So that's what's happened is once you've devoted
7, 8, 9, 10 years to Mario and you're in
and they start asking more and more of you,
you're just going to go with it, you know?
Until suddenly you're all like, you know,
living on a mountaintop in Utah, you know,
and waiting for a spaceship to come take you away.
Like that's what this is.
Is that where the Mario franchise is heading towards?
Yeah, they're just slowly indoctrinating everybody,
I don't think that slowly,
but at some point they're all gonna go
to a mountain top in Utah and a ship is gonna descend
at the appointed time, and a strange creature
is gonna come out and go get in the ship!
(all laughing)
Now have, we're gonna have a the sex!
Why does it have to keep going to that?
Well, he's very sex obsessed.
You're ruining it, stop!
Whoopdie do!
Maybe that's the sound he makes when he orgasms.
A whoopdie do!
Awful.
When I orgasm I say whoopdie do!
(all laughing)
All right, well I don't know if this means
I'm gonna be playing Mario never again, or Mario a lot more.
I think we both know the answer, which is a lot more.
Well, guys, if you have a game
you want Conan's hot take on,
hit us up at Good Game Nice Try on Twitter.
Thanks Conan and thanks Sona.
Anytime, anytime.
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