Conan Wants Plaques Honoring Him Across The Country | Conan O'Brien Needs A Fan

0:00 If I were to be a building or Sona a building or David Hopping,

0:03 what kind of style do you think we would be?

0:05 Yes.

0:05 Yes, I thought about this.

0:07 You just said that like a villain.

0:08 Did you Yes, yes, yes, yes.

0:10 I mean, he thought about this.

0:12 I thought about it.

0:13 Yeah.

0:14 Um so, Conan, [clears throat] so for you, I'm going the the post-modern style.

0:19 Why is that?

0:19 So, very avant-garde kind of late 20th century and the the building

0:26 in specific in specifically that I thought about is the Disney building,

0:30 the Disney headquarters in in LA.

0:34 [laughter] It's it's very bright, it's very larger than life,

0:38 and it's very kind of in your face purposefully.

0:40 [laughter] In your face.

0:42 In your face.

0:42 Accepts it.

0:43 Wait, is this the one that has like the the seven the seven dwarfs,

0:48 the seven little people?

0:49 Does it have them?

0:51 It does.

0:51 Wait.

0:52 No, that's not it.

0:53 It's the concert hall.

0:53 That's cool.

0:54 That's the Disney concert hall.

0:55 That would be flattering.

0:57 Show me this other Disney building.

0:59 Team Disney building.

1:01 Team Disney is the actual name.

1:05 [snorts] And why?

1:05 Why do you think I'm this building?

1:07 Uh be honest.

1:08 So, post-modernism was kind of an a response to modernism,

1:13 just like international style early 20th century.

1:17 way Post Malone is a response to a guy named Malone.

1:19 Yes, Malone, right.

1:23 [laughter] Uh perfect timing.

1:22 OH, FOR GOD'S SAKE.

1:27 OH MY GOD.

1:29 AND [laughter] that's That's what YOU THINK I AM?

1:33 CORRECT.

1:33 SERIOUSLY, PEOPLE NEED TO GO on a website and look up Team Disney building.

1:37 That's what you think I am.

1:40 I think I think by cartoonish dwarfs.

1:45 Well, when you think too hard about it, it gets a little weird, but [laughter]

1:49 All right.

1:50 Well, okay, and what about Sona?

1:53 So, Sona, I like the Gamble House, which is in Pasadena.

1:56 It's the It's at the epitome of arts and crafts style.

2:02 I love arts and crafts.

2:02 Can I see a picture of that, please?

2:04 Come on, Eduardo.

2:05 What are you doing over there?

2:07 Doc Brown's house in in Back to the Future, as well.

2:11 Thank you.

2:11 That's a beautiful house.

2:12 Sure is.

2:13 This is much better than the Team Disney building.

2:15 [laughter] That's a gorgeous house.

2:18 Yeah.

2:18 Uh who lives there?

2:20 I think it might be a museum.

2:21 It's a museum now.

2:22 one lives there.

2:23 Well, if it's a museum,

2:24 we need to go and just hang out there if you're courageous enough.

2:26 Yeah.

2:26 Yeah, you wait until closing time.

2:28 You say I have to use the bathroom, and then you hide in the stall,

2:31 and then when they leave I've done this at many museums.

2:33 Oh my god.

2:34 I do this a lot at presidential museums.

2:36 I spent 6 days at the Dwight Eisenhower Museum.

2:40 [laughter] It's really fun.

2:41 You get to wear his pajamas and stuff and hang out.

2:43 Uh So, um and what and David David what would David be?

2:48 Man, these guys are making out better than I am.

2:50 And remember, it can be a temporary structure.

2:53 I [laughter] thought you're going to say Legos.

2:55 No, no, it can be like oh we tied this together cuz there was a storm.

3:01 So, um David's Illinois history, Midwestern.

3:05 Um I'm thinking a a nice four square,

3:08 like prairie style, but early prairie style.

3:10 Just very simple, understated.

3:13 Yeah, simple.

3:13 just like a nice a nice place to be because it made it warm.

3:17 Something you'd pass a thousand times and never think twice.

3:19 [laughter] Okay, well, those are your words, not mine.

3:22 Cuz I'll tell you something,

3:23 when you pass that when you pass my building and you see a bunch of dwarves,

3:28 you're going to notice it.

3:30 [laughter] You're going to be like and a common reaction

3:33 to me is I don't like what's happening over there, but it did grab my eye.

3:39 [laughter] So, you're not disagreeing with me.

3:43 [laughter]

3:43 Oh, Cooper, I have a question cuz this is

3:45 something that's near and dear to my heart.

3:47 And you won't be able to help me here.

3:49 A part of your job uh I

3:52 is writing nominations for the National Historical Registry.

3:57 Meaning, you can help uh assign historic status, official historic status,

4:03 and get it on the registry of a building that is linked to an important person.

4:07 True?

4:08 Correct.

4:09 So, um part of my job is often times

4:12 writing nominations to the National Register of Historic Places,

4:16 which is the the country's official register

4:19 of buildings we deem worthy of uh of recognizing, of worthy of significance.

4:25 Sure.

4:26 And there are a handful of ways that you can deem those buildings significant.

4:32 And one, one of them is an important person.

4:38 I think you'll have to die in [laughter] order for it to to like work well.

4:45 I don't think there's often times where they're done when people are living.

4:51 [laughter]

4:50 So, I'd have to be dead in order for a building to be given historic status

4:57 [laughter] based on you.

4:58 Well, I'm going to say something for a second.

5:00 I don't think that's true.

5:01 When you go to London, you see plenty of those blue plaques,

5:05 and it's to people that some of them are still alive.

5:08 It's like, "This is Mick Jagger's home where he grew up." You know,

5:10 you'll see some things like that, and some

5:12 of them they're not they're still alive,

5:13 and they're touring, for God's sake.

5:15 You could be you could be the case study for the first one in the United States.

5:19 So, okay.

5:20 Cuz I prefer to be alive.

5:21 And then, which structure would uh be worthy of historic registry?

5:26 There's my childhood home in Brookline, Massachusetts.

5:29 Um and uh what else?

5:33 Of course, there's this you know, very small elementary schools.

5:36 And I'm thinking more than one that I went to.

5:39 Um there's the Baldwin School, then there's the Michael Driscoll School,

5:42 then of course, there's Brookline High.

5:44 Could I get plaques for all of these, or is it just a one and done thing?

5:48 So the the plaques are for you can just kind of do on your own if you want to.

5:53 [laughter] They're not a plaque isn't the official part, so we can just

5:58 [laughter] make one go tape it up.

6:00 Uh David I'll order one after this.

6:03 one No.

6:04 Where Oh, yeah, I want all kinds of plaques.

6:07 They have to be fairly cheaply made cuz I'm going to want a lot of plaques.

6:10 I want homes that I've lived in in New York.

6:13 I want homes that I've lived in in Los Angeles.

6:15 I moved around a lot when I was a young man.

6:17 This building?

6:18 This Oh, Larchmont here at this Larchmont where magic was made.

6:22 Yes.

6:23 So across the board we're going to need uh a lot of plaques.

6:27 They should probably be made of a durable paper.

6:32 [laughter]

6:31 Okay.

6:32 You know, initially rain resistant,

6:33 but then they because we're going to I don't want to spend too much money

6:36 on And these are a lot of places A lot of places need to be uh Yeah,

6:41 I don't know how it all works,

6:42 but I guess I'd like you to look into it some more.

6:46 I'd like a way to have a plaque put

6:48 somewhere with my name on it on some structure,

6:52 and I'd like it to be while I'm alive.

6:53 So can you be thinking about that?

6:55 My wife Abby actually works for the Ohio State Historic Preservation

6:59 Office as one of the National Register of Historic Places reviewers.

7:04 So I will I will I will take this to her.

7:06 It has to be in Ohio?

7:09 No.

7:09 I've been through Ohio, but I don't know that I

7:12 Every state has a historic preservation office.

7:14 Okay.

7:15 The state historic preservation office.

7:16 So we I am not kidding.

7:18 I want Abby May I call her Abby?

7:20 Of course.

7:21 I want Abby on this.

7:23 Uh I want her to be looking into it.

7:26 Um and my requirements are a plaque when they're going to be you know,

7:30 if if I don't have to supply it and someone else is paying for it.

7:35 Um I want it to be a plaque, a real plaque,

7:38 and it should be someplace I believe in Massachusetts.

7:41 And uh we need to get this done.

7:43 We need to get it done quickly so I can hang out

7:46 there and then act like I didn't notice there was a plaque.

7:50 To to I mean imagine

7:52 Yeah.

7:52 hanging out and having a plaque and being like, oh oh, I guess that's me.

7:57 Yeah.

7:59 [laughter] But you're hanging out right next to it

8:02 and you're just acting like you had no idea.

8:06 I'll get like I don't know.

8:07 I'll get a sugar cone ice cream, you know, and I'll be like, [laughter]

8:11 this is good ice cream.

8:12 Oh, this?

8:13 I guess that's where I was born.

8:17 [laughter] Oh my god.

8:18 Yeah.

8:20 Um That's so sad.

8:22 Who looks into whether these plaques [laughter] are accurate or not?

8:26 Let's say I wanted a plaque that said this is where Conan O'Brien

8:29 set the record for most touchdowns in a high school football [laughter] game.

8:33 Does someone fact-check that Probably not.

8:36 I think you can just go to a trophy manufacturer and they'll make you a plaque.

8:41 [laughter] I've been thrown out of so many trophy stores.

8:43 That's all I have.

8:44 would I've been forcibly walked out of several [laughter] several trophy stores.

8:50 I think the amount of oversight would be dependent on where it's placed

8:53 cuz if you put that outside of a like a a Dairy Queen Yeah.

9:00 [laughter] I don't think many people would think think too strong,

9:02 but if you put it at you know, outside of the Soldier Field that Yeah.

9:06 Yeah.

9:06 [clears throat] People going to see it.

9:08 Yeah.

9:09 got to pick an inconspicuous Yeah, my plaque is a just a blatant lie.

9:14 Then it should be someplace quiet.