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Well, we have come up on a very nice anniversary, hard to believe,

but five years ago this month, we did our very first fan episode and it's been five years.

I really love these segments.

And the very first one featured a fan of my name Dan Housen.

Now, Dan Housen is a wrestler and he explained to me when we did this very first fan episode

that he had loosely based his character, his wrestling character on me if I was an interdimensional demon,

which seems redundant to me.

And Dan Housen and I had a great conversation.

We talked about comedy, performance, the love of entertaining people and what struck me.

And still I remember this to this day.

Dan Housen told me that he had been grinding away for the past eight years,

driving 12 hours every weekend, just be able to get up in front of people and wrestle.

And this is a guy who just applied an incredible work ethic to his passion.

And I was so impressed with this fellow.

Well, now it's five years later and I am thrilled to report that Dan Housen has recently made his WWE debut to rave reviews.

And this is proof again that if you can marry hard work to your passion, you can go places.

So on behalf of myself and all of us here at Team Coco,

massive congratulations and mad respect to Dan Housen.

And I am so proud of you, happy for you.

And I just should mention because your character is based on me, I'm getting 20%.

Oh, what are you getting 20%?

Well, I will once I unleash my interdimensional demons, Rick Rosen from William Morrison Devar

and the blackest, blackest heart of all, Gavin Palon.

I mean, when they're done with Dan Housen, he's just going to be some flesh clinging to a battered vertebrae.

Anyway, I'm just thrilled for him.

So here, this is unusual for us.

We're going to revisit my chat from five years ago with the one the only Dan Housen enjoy.

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Okay, let's get started.

Hey, everybody.

Conan O'Brien here and we're going to try something a little different in this short time

that I've been doing.

Conan O'Brien needs a friend.

I've just been delighted.

I'm having an absolute blast and it's working.

I'm actually making some nice bonds and friendships with a lot of different people.

But what occurred to me is all these people have one thing in common.

There's celebrities and I thought it might be nice to try making friends with average folk,

people out there in the world, civilians, not celebrities.

Just talk to the people who make this great country.

We call the United States America or even people from other countries.

It doesn't matter what's just talked to some regular folk and then hope,

hope desperately that they become celebrities.

Oh, my God.

That's the concept.

What do you guys think?

Yeah, I'm always.

Why is that horrible?

It's very important to me that eventually they become celebrities.

You don't have time for anybody that would live their whole life as a regular Joe.

As a folk.

Who would do that?

What kind of monster would choose that life?

No, seriously, I really do.

I do want to.

And especially I have to say a lot of this comes out of this last year.

Let's get outside this bubble, this celebrity bubble that we're trapped in.

I'm not trapped in a celebrity bubble.

No, I'm not even.

Oh, God, no.

I didn't mean either of you.

Oh, God, no.

No, no, no.

Oh, please.

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I'm laughing.

Because I mean, we don't even do a podcast with a celebrity.

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Wow, Chi.

I'm looking it up.

I'm looking it up.

I am looking it up.

Yes, I am a celebrity.

I just looked it up.

You go for it?

Yeah, I am a be-lister, but I am a celebrity.

So of, okay.

I am a solid bee.

I'm a solid be-list celebrity, and I'm proud of it.

And if Love Boat were still on the air, I could potentially be a guest.

Oh, God.

Not the first guest, but like the third guest, who's the comic relief guest, who's

go-to-way.

I would kill to see you on Love Boat.

Yes.

But anyway, this is something I want to do, and I'm really looking forward to it.

And I don't know.

We're just going to give it a try and see how it goes.

Yeah, this is Conan O'Brien, needs a fan, and it'll be out weekly in addition to the

regular episode.

So just an extra special treat, and we might as well get to our first guest.

Are you guys ready?

Yeah.

I am very ready.

Conan, please meet Donovan, who is a minor league professional wrestler.

Wow.

Donovan, very nice to talk to you.

Where are you coming from, Donovan?

Where are you?

I am in Michigan right now from Montreal.

Do you consider yourself a Canadian?

No, no.

I'm from Michigan.

Oh, you're from Michigan.

Yeah, sorry.

I probably said that wrong.

My wife is from Montreal.

Wait, I'm confused already.

You're from Michigan.

You've married someone who's from Montreal.

Yes, exactly.

Okay.

So I'm in the process of getting my permanent residency there.

Oh, okay, you're going to move to Montreal.

I'm going, yes.

Okay.

Well, that's all the time we have.

Thank you.

So Donovan, you are a professional wrestler, is that right?

Yes.

Okay, now help me because I know of a type of professional wrestler.

That has a character.

And I don't know, are you a professional wrestler

who's really wrestling and using wrestling moves?

And it's not that fun to watch.

Or are you a wrestler who's also kind of a performer

and has a character?

I am a character.

Actually, I have a picture if you want to see it.

It's a...

Oh, my God.

Okay.

Well, we are a podcast.

So I'm going to describe it.

Yeah.

You're sort of demonic looking.

You just showed me a picture of what looked like

a very fierce, evil, demonic wrestler.

Yes, so I go by the moniker, very nice, very evil

because nobody likes somebody who's too evil.

So I introduce the nice part of it

so then they buy into it and I can trick them.

Okay, very nice, very evil.

Often I get to describe if somebody,

a demon possessed you, actually.

Oh, a demon possessed me.

If Conan O'Brien was possessed by a demon,

that's what it gets described as.

Because I'm heavily influenced by you

rather than other wrestlers.

Yes.

I'm the one that's influenced you the most.

Yes.

Yes, of course.

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Describe, then, a demonic Conan O'Brien,

as a wrestling character.

What are you using some of my moves?

Is it my attitude?

Does your character have, you know,

sort of little BDIs and thin lips and sharp cheekbones?

Yes, yeah, I don't have the hype,

but I utilize, so I pour teeth in my opponent's mouth

to disorient them.

Pour them wet in their mouth?

You pour human teeth.

You pour human teeth into the mouth?

That's amazing.

I love how people see that and go,

oh, that is so Conan.

That is.

No, no, no.

It's just, I think it's the presentation,

because I take a lot of like Simpson's references

and references from you,

and just 80s horror movies,

and I pull it all together,

because these are the things that I like.

So I included it into the character

because wrestling should be fun.

Yes, wrestling, it shouldn't be work.

No, no.

So, okay, one of your standard moves

is to pour loose teeth into the mouth

of your opponent to confuse and disorient them.

What are some of your other moves?

Pick them right in the mouth.

I have the go to sleep,

which I call the Good Nighthausen.

I had housing.

My wrestling name is Danhausen,

and I had housing to make it all about me.

That's very Conan.

Okay, that's very nice man.

I love that.

You just add a housing to things,

so good night housing is like a good night move.

Yes.

And I pop them up off my shoulders

and I need them in the face.

That's my finishing.

Well, you need them in the face house.

The face, yes, exactly.

You were talking to you, I'd call you Conanhausen.

I had housing to the end of it.

Uh-huh, uh-huh.

This is fantastic.

I'm delighted by you.

I'm delighted by this foolishness

and that you've like me dedicated your life

to absolute idiocy.

This is fantastic.

Now, are you a good wrestler?

Are you a good athlete?

Yeah, but that doesn't matter.

No one cared when I was just a good wrestler.

They cared once I switched and put on makeup

and started acting goofy

and doing Simpson's references

in the middle of matches

and like I stole the Mr. Burns hop in.

I brought a tiny airplane to the ring

and I told my opponent to hop in

and I had three, four hundred people

chanting hop in at this guy.

How successful have you been?

It sounds like, is this growing?

Do you feel like Danhausen

is becoming a bigger and bigger character?

Yes, absolutely.

Since I switched this, which is about two years ago,

and about a year full of doing this actual character,

I've been wrestling for eight years.

When since I've switched this,

it's just like snowballed more and more and more

and now I have a certain hot topic

and I've gotten signed to like a TV company

and they're just like, go do your weird stuff.

Like, do it.

That's have fun to be Danhausen.

That's what we need.

I want to be a part of Danhausen's world.

You know, don't you see that, Matt?

Yes.

I want to maybe do some sort of,

I want to take a video.

I seriously want to do something

where you're in the ring and then I appear

and I'm either for you or against you.

Do you know what I mean?

Or you're my long lost son.

We've got to somehow get into,

I want to get into the lore of Danhausen.

Do you know what I mean?

I want to be part of it.

What would you do with me?

Oh, with you, I would call us both legendary ladies.

Go on.

Guess what?

There's a lot of those now.

There's literally like 600 in America.

So you might want to come up with something cooler.

This character is all about himself.

He's all about making sacks of money.

I call them.

Yes.

I carry around a money sack.

I pulled it out after I won my contract on TV.

And I revealed it from my cape.

I pulled a $20 bill and I said,

look at these millions and I threw it.

Would we actually fight?

First of all, you know, I know how to handle myself.

Oh, come on.

I'm fairly athletic.

I can take a punch and I love to fake fight.

And so if I entered the ring,

would we start out being friends?

But then I would think that you had gotten too cocky

and I would attack Danhausen?

What would happen?

Yeah, maybe.

I think I do this thing where I try to punch people in the groin

right before the bell rings.

So I can just pin them without doing any words.

Yeah.

So I don't think I would do that because people know that I love Conan.

Right.

Like as a character, it's very public that I love Conan.

And that's one of Danhausen's idols.

So I don't think they would think that.

They'd probably be taken back if you did it.

Okay.

How about this?

Let me pitch you this because I'm really into this.

All right.

So Danhausen, you're fighting your foe.

He starts to get the better of you.

He starts to win.

He grabs the bag of teeth and starts to pour them into your mouth.

He steals your sack of money.

He punches you in the groin.

It's all going badly.

When all the sudden, the music changes, fog machines go on.

And I appear, I come down on wires.

And it's me and I'm there to save Danhausen.

And I think the crowd would go nuts.

I hope so.

What if the crowd just like, all right.

Okay.

There's Conan, I guess.

Let's see what he's got.

All right.

Let's go.

If we go early, we can beat the traffic.

In my mind before I go on, that's what I think.

That's the reaction I always think I can.

If I leave now, I can beat the traffic.

I want in on the Danhausen world.

I really do, Donovan.

Yeah.

Well, I would love that if that's a possibility.

That's like the ultimate guest for Good Nighthausen with Danhausen.

You know what?

I've always said, if there's a way that I can be involved with Good Nighthausen with Danhausen,

I want in-housen and right now-housen.

Not tomorrow-housen, but today-housen.

I'm not fucking around-housen.

I'm serious-housen.

So let's make this happen-housen.

Let's sign a contract-housen.

I want to get paid-housen.

Yes, we'll pay you in a wonderful sex of human money.

There's only one kind of money.

There's only human money.

No animal uses money.

He has no idea.

Uh-huh.

He just knows it gets you power.

Yeah.

Wow.

That's very exciting.

Well, you know what?

I think you're going to do well.

I love that you're going to Canada because I don't say this just to suck up to Canada,

but I love Canadians.

And I think they're like one of the funniest countries in the world.

They're really funny people.

So I think-and they really love nuanced, like, weird, kooky comedy.

And they've always been so nice to me.

So I love that you're going to Montreal.

I think it's great.

Thank you.

It's been exciting and a lot of work.

Donovan, you have my blessing.

Thank you.

And I will figure out a way to enter the world of Danhausen.

I will.

Please do.

I would lose my mind.

And so would my fans.

I'd be crazy.

All right.

Well, Sonia, you make sure-

Oh, I will follow up on this.

Yes.

I will follow up on this.

I'm really excited about it.

Yes.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you for doing this.

Yeah, yeah.

No problem.

Hey.

Really nice to meet you, Donovan.

Nice meeting you too.

Nice meeting you.

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