Hi, my name is Chris Martin and I feel really great about being Conan O'Brien's friend.

We are gonna be friends.

Hey there. Welcome to Conan O'Brien, needs a friend. I'm a professional podcaster and he

I'm Conan O'Brien. I've been doing this for a number of years and I'm real real pro.

I'm really having the gold standard by which everybody has judged now.

Sitting here with Sonia, son, wouldn't you call me the gold standard?

No, I wouldn't call you the gold standard. I think there's people who've done it longer than you.

And much better. Oh yeah, much better. I think you're good. I think you're fine.

Okay. I think you're okay. I have a story about the phrase the gold standard that involves the

great Johnny Carson. Oh yeah, I had the privilege of getting to meet him a couple of times and

talked him on the phone a few times and I remembered once I sent him, I was hosting some special

in the history of NBC on late night, I think 50 years and so I got the chance to

with my staff, we cut together these montages of every late night hosts, cut together all of

their best stuff. So Letterman, Jack Parr, you know, everybody, Steve Allen, I got to reach out and

contact them and send them their stuff. Letterman from his, yeah, late night show. And of course,

Johnny Carson and then I got a call. I didn't expect I just thought it would be this is before

email, I think, but I thought I'd just get a message that Johnny Carson either approved or didn't.

And then I get this call and they say Johnny Carson's on the line for you. And of course, my soul

left my, I mean, it was just the, you know, he's the biggest star in the world all the time I was

curling up and informed everybody's idea of what a late night show was. So I saw the blinking light

and I was like, that blinking light is Johnny Carson. And someone said, no, that's the light that

tells you he's on the phone. That's not Johnny. But anyway, I picked up the phone and I hit the button

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