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conan O'Brien needs a fan. Want to talk to Conan? Visit team co.com call Conan. Okay, let's get started. Hi, Nikl.

Welcome to Conan O'Brien needs a fan. Hey, guys. So nice to be here. You've been in my years for so long. For years.

Yours for years. Good to see you guys. We've been in your ears for years. Very nice. Yeah, I didn't wan to start like that, but it's happened.

It's what happened. And your name is Nikil, is that correct? It's pronounced Nikhil. Nikil. No, no, no'trying Nikin.

No, I love correcting people on the pronunciation of their name. It cracks me up. No, Nikhil. Nikhil and Rightanan. Like I deserve that.

You are in Bangalore, India, is that correct? Yes. Yes, sir. I have been to India. I was there briefly for work a number of years ago.

Actually, Sona came with me on this assignment and I was in Jaipur, but I've never. I would love. I didn't really get a chance to experience India as much as I wanted to. It's a fascinating country. I love the people is and I would love to go and visit.

Tell me a little bit about yourself Nikl. Okay, so I live in Bangalore, India, which is in the south. Most people visit places north. I think you should come visit the south if you end upm if you're ban ends from country. I have to wait for my ban in a lot of countries to end.

Yeah. Yeah. It's actually so hard for us Indians to get a visa to come there. So it's nice to hear when you guys have some difficulty coming here. Yeah, we had years and years ago we did a sketch and it's all a misunderstanding, but it was a perfectly fine sketch.

But one of our writers went there but didn't fill out the correct paperwork or something. So we ended up on some list. But I think it's all being taken care of. So, you know. Awesome.

Yeah, we won't even probably mention that. You know, it probably won't even come up because it'll all get taken care of. Trust me. I don't think it's a big problem. Awesome.

So I am a video creator and it sounds insane to say, but I'm also a talk show host. I can't believe I'm saying that to you. But yeah, I've done 40 episodes of a show called Menu Please where I interviewed Netflix stars over a meal. So we went to different restaurants, talked about food and about their movie, and it was a lot of fun. Well, wait a minute.

Nikl, you, Nikhil Ye. You are a talk show host. It sounds like you're a very successful one. You've done this show with Netflix stars. It sounds like you.

Here's the catch. Yeah, it was a Netflix India YouTube show. So the show was on Netflix. YouTube. Netflix's YouTube channel.

Yeah, but I like to say Netflix cause it sounds cool. It was awesome. It was one of the coolest experiences. Well, I like to say I won an Oscar cause it sounds cool. But I didn't.

But Nikl, I would say you are talking to people. You seem to be having success at it. I wouldn't put yourself down, I think. And you seem like a very personable, funny guy. I think you just.

You don't have to qualify it. You are a talk show host, you're having success. Fair enough. I am dog show host. It just soreal to say to you, but one cool thing is you and I have actually interviewed the same person.

Who's that? It's Vierdas. Oh, Vierdas. Yes, of course. Yeah.

It's like six Degrees of Separation except two.

Yeah, was. It was super cool. I actually asked him what it was like to be on the show. He performed stand up on your show way back and yeah, he just said us great things about you. It was cool.

Oh, he terrific, terrific comedian. Very, very talented and well, see no, this is us talking shop because we've interviewed the same person and it sounds like. And this is something that you're interested in doing professionally for the rest of your life, do you think? Well, not the rest of your life. I'm not gonna do it for my entire life, but I still have dreams.

Dreams. Uh oh, dreams. I hope your dreams come true. Thank you. Thank you.

Well, thank you for that. I would like to be a balloonist. O I'd like to go up in a hot air balloon and travel the world. Oh, that kind of balloonist. I thought making animals.

Well, I tried that and it didn't work. The kids were like, that is not a dog. And I was like, shut up. You can't hit kids with a balloon. You apparently still counts as hitting.

You sound very qualified for this job. Yes. So let's keep the conversation on you and not on my crimes. You live in Bangalore, India, Nikl. And you've had some success doing a talk show.

And what's your living situation like? Do you live with your parents? Do. Do you live alone? I currently actually live in a four bedroom house with three other guys and it's veryique a unique situation.

So I'm currently on the top floor and we live in lowering degrees of a relationship status. So I'm at the top. Yes. And I'm a single guy. Below me, not literally is a guy who is in a situationship.

You know, one of those things next to him is a guy who's in a very nice long term relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend. And below them is a guy who's currently engaged. Oh yeah. It's quite unique actually. So as you get further down the apartment, you start at the top.

The more respectable you were single. Yes. As you get down this sort of. Yes. The more serious the relationships become.

And are your roommates, you all get along? We do. It's very surprising. There's been no problems except for one guy. Okay, tell me about this one guy.

Is it you? Yeah. No. Oh wait. They probably say that about me.

But there's one guy, his name is Jee and he all he does is he's a serial rascal. Is that a thing I can say? Rascal? He's just a rascal. Yeah.

Wow, you really blew the doors off. You can't talk that way. You can't use the. You can't call someone a Rascal. His reputation may never recover if this was 200 years ago.

No, you can call someone a rascal. That basically just means they're kind of fun. Amazing. Next I'm gonna call him a incom Poop O. Wow, your language.

We're gonna have to put a a warning on this podcast. It's gonna be all beeps. Yeah, I mean, if you're a child and you're living in 1820, you might not wanna listen to this podcast. It's still probably okay. Yeah, exactly.

Nincom. Poop. Rascal. So, okay, so your roommates, it's a good group. Like if I visited you, you, me and the roommates would get along, you think?

100%. There's one tall guys, so you would d have somebody to look in the eye with this one guy who's super responsible, doesn't drink, doesn't smoke. So yeah, I guess you can not do those things with him. And there's me at the top just making videos. So I.

I guess we could do that. I'm not very interesting, to be honest. And then there's the annoying guy who we can call an income poop togethereah. That'be great. Yes.

Rascallyline and kaboo. We'll call them. Yeah. So, okay. And will any of your roommates be familiar with me or my work if we.

If I visit? Yeah. So one of them, the tall guy. Actually, I put all of them in. I spread this podcast like the plague.

I've been listening to every episode_m so anytime we're doing a long road trip that this is what I put on. My favorite is the John Krasinski episode. It makes me laugh out loud. So one of my roommates. Anus.

His name is U. We. Yeah, he's a big fan. He's asleep right now. But if he knew that I was talking to you right now, he d lose it.

Oh really? He's a. He's a Conan fan? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you didn't tell him?

I didn't tell him. So he. He's asleep right now. He's a big fan of mine and he doesn't. And you're in Bangalore, India, and you and I are having a conversation and he sleeps not knowing that the greatest hero of his life.

Oh no. Is speaking to you on the top floor. That is exactly right. How would he react if I walked into his room? Does he know?

So he doesn't know that you and I are talking. If I were to walk into his room, how do you think he would React after his stroke, I think he just like, I don't know, hug you. And he's a fun guy. He's like one of those extreme polar opposite personality guys where when he's in work mode, like he doesn't talk, he just walked through the room and he's just like a white walker from Game of Thrones and he's very focused. But when he's out and having fun, he's just the most fun guy, making everybody, you know, just have a great time.

So I think he turn into that mode after this said stroke. This guy, I like this guy. He's a big Conan fan and I would love to. It'be fun to surprise him, I think. You know, I think.

And then we could all go out, have a good time. What would we do for fun? Okay. So Bangalore used to be the garden capital of India. Then it became the Silicon Valley of India.

And so they removed all the gardens. But throughout this, it's always been the pub capital of India. So we have a insane pop culture here. And I know all of you soa Matt, I know you guys especially will have a great time over here. In fact, there's a pub called Toy over here.

T o I t. It's like super fam to yeah. Toy. Yes. All of the above are.

You know what I love? Nikhil just got as annoyed with you as we do. He doesn't. He just met you. He's in Bangalore'and he went.

Right. Yeah, right. I thought we were all doing the toit. No, you didn't do it. Maybe never did it do it with you just to make you feel.

Wow. But the cool thing about Toyt is. Yeah. So they brew their own beer. I'd love for you to review it considering you're an Irishman and you guys.

I like the beer. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, look at you on your ph also have restrooms.

U huh? And in front of the rest. Wow. I love a bar with a restroom selling point. That just went to the top of my Yelp review.

They have a restroom. 11 stars. Okay, so this bar. Please tell me more. This bar chit has a restroom.

Yes, they have restrooms. This is important. Yes. I think it's pronounced toir by the way. I think it's some French word.

But all of us. Bangalore, please. Here it Sona has decreed that it is twy Anyway to some trips are better in an Airbnb. It's just true. Like the trip you wanna take with extended family where younna stay close, but not I'll be sharing One bathroom.

That's key for me. Okay. That's why Airbnb is the choice I often wanna make. Or for example, the couples s getaway where you'd rather have your own pool then share one with a bunch of strangersh When I'm in a pool with strangers, I start shrieking. Okay, that's weird.

Or that last minute local getaway when you just really need to get out of the city for the weekend but don't wanna deal with the airport. You know, I have to say I've used Airbnb a couple of times and it always makes me feel like I'm at home even when I'm away. Do you have that area? I do too. I mean, you know, I have two small kids who are loud and so when I'm in a hotel I feel a little uncomfortable.

Well, you're allowud too. Oh, yes. Okay. Yeah, we're all loud. And then in an Airbnb I just feel much more comfortable.

You're not a self conscious? No. Yeah. And also you're staying in someone's home. It's got that vibe of comfort, relaxation, normalcy instead of some stuffy hotel with it.

Yeah, I don't wann mint on my pillow. Hey Blay, you use Airbnb, don't you? I do. I love it. And I will say there's staying in someone's place really does add a lot.

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So if you're booking a trip soon, my number one tip is to check out Airbnb first to find the perfect place to stay. Because your accommodation really does make all the difference.

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What? And every time I go there and I get piss drunk and I have to go get this. You have to because I'm drun. You have to drunk right now? No, sorry.

It's 1:30 in the night. I take a selfie with that portrait every time I have a collection. I have a folder actually on my phone. Let's see. Images.

Bring one up. Yeah, bring one. Images of me. Oh my God. Wow.

Wait, why is that? That is a. Wait a minute. Why does it say restrooms and then a photo of me with a bar Nol for some reason. Yeah.

Oh yeah. No, that was when we were launching the TBS show a number of years ago. I guess I'm flattered that if you go to Bangalore and you go to toy and you go to use the restroom, is it for the men's room or the women's room or both? What would you prefer? You know I'm gender fluid.

Wait. Think you are flattered by this? Don't you want the picture to be more sort of out in the open? No. I vened I've learned that everyone goes to the restroom, especially at a bar.

Yeah, footfall is high. It's the perfect place. It's the most traffic area. So I often if a place has a photo of me and sometimes they do sort of downscale burger joints where I've gone and I've made them put up a picture of me ask. I ask them to put me near the restaurant but it doesn't bother you that your picture is associated with people just going pee peee and poop poo?

No. Those are beautiful. That's how those are. That's how we live. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry that Matt just used those offensive terms. Yeah, of course you started with rasp. I thought I was bad. Y. He's a pirate.

Yeah. Pe. Pe. Poop Poo guy. Yeah.

You'll be pleased to know the portrait is in between both rooms, so the doors are on either side. If you can imagine, everybody can see this image when they go to pee.

People associate legacy with great bladder discomfort. Yeah, that's. No. Okay, well, you're a laxative. Yes.

Maybe. Oay. Maybe. I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued.

A, that you have a roommate who's a big fan. B, that there's a portrait of me. I mean, there's a lot that recommends Bangalore. I have one fan and there's a picture of me near a restroom. And what about your career?

Are you enjoying your work as a talk show host? Are you enjoying it? So I'm currently between posting jobs, which means those shows are ended. So one of the show was menu please. The other was Food wars, another show where I reviewed fast food.

And both of those are over because we've run out of both celebrities and fast food joints here in India. And I'm currently, I guess, in a. A state of figuring out what I want to work on. And I'm actually thinking of working on a talk show here in India. And the premise of which is I take a small crew, go to a sort of enter a stranger's home with their permission, set up over there and shoot every episode, interviewing an ordinary person in their unique house, talking about their unique items and what makes them them.

That's the idea right now. Oh, that's a cool idea. I kind of like that idea. I mean, the problem is every now and then you'll get, you know, people who aren't great but murdered. No, you won't get murdered, but yeah, but it's like when you do a talk show, there are good nights, there are nights that aren't as good.

It's luck of the draw if you're in a volume business. But I like that idea.

And who knows, maybe you and I would come up with some kind of show together. You know, we could do a show. I am gonna clip that and listen to that every day of my life until it happens. But it's always possible. Maybe we could think of an idea.

You know, something that works. We're co hosts of some kind of show. You know, we shoot an epis, we shoot an episode and we get it on the air and we get it out there to the people of India. What do you think of that? I think that's a pretty bad idea.

I'm just kidding. That's the best idea I've heard in my God damn life. You really had me convinced it was a bad idea there for a second. Well, no, that would be an honored. Yeah.

So we can always think of what that is. We need that, right? That spark ofationy. There you go. Good one.

Shoot it from toy. Y. You could shoot it from toy. Helh. Yeah, we could shoot an episode of the show.

I think Patt, you've stumbled onto something here, Matt. I have. Yes. By saying toit you made it clear that we shoot the episode. We set up in front of the portrait of me that exists.

The bathrooms between the two. The ladies room, the men's room and may interview people going in and out. Yeah, we could interview. We could interview people going in and out. Going to the bathroom.

How was your bowel movement? Okay. Oh boy. Well, it would have to be asked. It was the obvious.

No, that's coming. That's on the way out. You interview them on the way in. And that way the interviews have to be short because they really can't hang out long. Yeah.

Ca. Becausee also if come. If you get them them on the way out, maybe they didn't wash their hands and touch them. Oay fealh. Are you touching them?

No. Are you touching them to shake their hands? No. You have to in it's talk show etiquette to. You have to.

Yeah, you have to shake their hands. And often I just wanna say. And all the years that I did talk shows which was almost 30 years, often I could tell they had just used the restroom and not wipe their hands. S. True story.

True story. Al Roker serial offenderust Disgusting man. You'd hear the flush and he'd come out just as he was introduced. And you could tell those hands haven't been washed, they're dry. Roker now rocker.

Like I said, great idea. What a show. I love it that I'm pitching myself to Nikhil and Bangalore, India. And he's not enthused. This is.

This is my resting state of enthusiasm. It's really right now. You know what? That could be blood sugar'so enthusiastic. That could be blood sugar.

You know, you should look into that. You should make sure you probably. It's also 1:30 in the night right now. And I feel zoink but excited at the same time. I feel it's just very confusing and also surrealeah.

It's a little bit of. It's a little bit of a fever dream. It feels like almost. Yes, exactly. I'm perfect.

Co hosting. I'm intrigued by. There's a lot of things that impress me with Nikhil. I think that you are a. I think he's.

You just seem like a natural to me. You're very funny and I think he'd be. I think you are a terrific talk show host. I can tell just by chatting with you. Thank you.

I'm intrigued by this idea you have for a new talk show in Bangalore. I'm a little intrigued by this roommate who's a fan. You say A big fan? Yeah. We call him Anus and we don't know why.

It's like one of those names. Yeah, that sounds like someone who would like Myak for your name. Is that not his name? I thought when he first that was his actual name. Oh, that's my bad.

No, his name is Anirud. His name is Anirud, but we call him Anus. And you don't know why? You don't know why? No.

It's like something that entered the zeitgeist of this house without us realizing it. It just sort of flowed in and we call him Anus now. I thought it was his name. I'm so sorry. Don't laugh, son.

Everybody thought it. When we first heard Anus, we all stopped ourselves from laughing. We all thought it. Nikhil. In a house.

House with all these guys. The one who's a big Conan fan is called Anus Hu. Yeah. Yeah. To be fair, he's not like let the name stuck yet.

Like when. When we say Anus out loud, he turns and then he gives this face of like O. I can't believe I'm allowing this to happen. So when you come here, if you christen him officially, I think he'll be. It'll stick from then on.

Well, I guess that's a good reason to fly all the way to India is to make sure that the name Anus sticks. Just recap. Your biggest fan is named Anus and your portrait is hanging between two bathrooms. Yeah. This is fantastic, Nikhil.

I feel enlightened. I feel lifted. Well, I like you. You're a fine fellow. I think.

And I do, I do think you've got what it takes. I really do. I think you're a natural. Do you think that I'd Be able to help you get your concept for a talk show where you go to people's houses. Do you think I could help you get that off the ground if I came to Bangalore?

Absolutely. I mean, for starters, I'd love to do a four pilot with you. Perhaps in your hotel room or my bedroom right here. We could shoot one of these episodes. That sounded weird the way I said it, but the episode will be completely fine.

No, it's. And not strange at all. It's totally normal in this business to invite people to do an interview in their bedroom. Oh. That's how I got started.

It would be great. It would almost be like training for me. You could be a guest and a coach at the same time. Terrific. Yeah.

Yeah. Either way. And what are we. Are we doing? Yeah, go ahead.

Sorry. Go ahead. No, you go ahead. You go ahead. This is my show.

This is how I'd be on my show. I allow you to speak first. Oh, well, yes, I could be a guest. I could also maybe give you some pointers from my almost 30 years of experience. Y.

And what about my fee? Do we talk about that now or is that something that comes up later? Later, Like a lot later? Lot, lot lot. Very late.

You're gonna do very well in Nik kill. You're gonna do very, very well in this business. Thank you. Hey, Nikhil, I really. I like talking to you and I hope we get to cross pastuse.

That would be very cool. Me too. This, yeah. Has been a huge, huge honor and it's so nice to meet you guys. Sona and Matt as well.

Thank you. Yeah. Awesome.

I really do think we're talking about. I think it's low blood sugar. I really do. You just seem to lose all energy at different points. Nicl, you have to keep some almonds in your pocket.

Okay. Chocolate covered almonds. All right. I'm gonna make sure that's my first tip as a talk show host. Done.

Almonds in your pocket. That saved Colbert. I told him that I could see him lose energy and he's been a superstar ever since. Perfect. Saved his career.

Hey, thank you so much, Nikhil. Very cool to talk to you and we'll see what happens. Thank you so much. Bye Bye. Take care.

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