“Don’t sit down on wet grass or you’ll get diarrhea” is a real thing Conan’s grandmother used to tell him. Hear more from this “Conan O’Brien Needs A Fan” minisode @ http://listen.teamcoco.com/wetgrass
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“Don’t sit down on wet grass or you’ll get diarrhea” is a real thing Conan’s grandmother used to tell him. Hear more from this “Conan O’Brien Needs A Fan” minisode @ http://listen.teamcoco.com/wetgrass
Great question
ReplyIll watch your dumb videos if you put more korean women in them.
ReplyItalian here. I used to walk underneath an open ladder or spilling salt just to see my grandmother freak out. Also, setting cutleries for the table wrong or placing bread crust-down.
ReplyGrowing up, I came to realize it’s nothing different from religion and mythology, so there’s no point in try to find a reason to it…some people just choose to believe in certain things and it’s (mostly) alright.
Conan looks 21
ReplyConan looks 21 but if he was born 21 and not aged 21
ReplyIf an eclipse of the moon happens, chinese people in villages used to bang pots and pans to ‘chase away the heaven dog who was swallowing the moon’.
ReplyAw man, when she said “of course, it’s a potato” i thought for a second it was a really smart dry joke cause “well course it’s a potato, it should be in the ground”
But it was just a classic “oh the irish” zinger. Also good one tho.
Replythis is a message for conan. please use your immemse power and connections to get patrick warburton to do a spoken word version of i am the walrus. i really wanna hear him go coo coo ca cho
ReplyConan really made his mark in South Korea.
ReplyThe potato cure for warts is not far fetched. The mineral composition of potatoes comprises iron, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium. Potatoes are also good sources of Vitamins C, B1, B3 and B6. All modern wart creams contain magnesium, iron and phosphorus. The Irish remedy dates to 4AD, and can be traced to the Medicines Academy at Clonmacnoise, a university and science complex in Central Ireland. Not surprised Conan, America’s proudest but fakest Oirish American, would be suspicious about ancient cures, most of which have been embraced by big pharma, repackaged, and sold OTC as modern medicines.
ReplySona’s laugh is so contagious.
ReplyMy mom is from Ecuador and she grew up in a farm. She doesn’t like those shiny metallic green beetles. She says that when one of those fly around your head something bad is going to happen.
“I like to go into a dark place before I allow myself to go into a happy place”. That is me and everyone in Finland.
ReplyWow! So Conan’s Grandma was born in the 1800s!
ReplyIt’s weird how we also have the same ‘whistling at night attracts snake’ superstition in India.
ReplyI thought the snake one was only was just in India
Replythey laughed too soon
ReplyThe girl seems nice and pleasant, but the comment about Conan’s grandma “knowing from experience” was unnecessary and not very nice. I’m sure she had no ill intention and she might have even regretted saying that later.
Replyof course it didnt work
ReplyCan’t clean at night.
ReplyLIKE
Replycontrast unhappy with happy
Replyi dont like the guest girl she pretends to watch conan but she doesnt
Replyyes you gotta feel bad to feel good because we as human psychologically know things by comparing and contrasting emotions
ReplyBritish Isles an isolated population at one time … and Germany & France areas & you pick any geographic area Africa Asia … Isolated before thousands of wars & lack of science & grasping at reasons to explain … anything everything superstitions … sticking toothpicks in an orange & put outside front door … Mother of friends of my kids different culture …. ??? Americans gradually lose or have lost superstitions the longer the generations have been here … science has helped understanding & cancelled superstitions to vanish … marrying outside the culture diffuses …
ReplyIn Moroccan culture, we have weird ones likes don’t pour hot water down the drain at the kitchen sink, don’t put cups upside down after you wash them, you can’t step over someone’s sprawled legs when they’re laying down because that will prevent them from getting taller, you have to put kohl eyeliner on a newborn baby girl’s eyes and eyebrows so she’ll grow up to have lush and dark eyebrows and eyelashes…
ReplyI grew up in a house that had a horseshoe over the front door. It was a cowboy-themed brass plate from a toy chest but still …
ReplyIirc the fingernails superstition is a lesson in discouraging wasting time doing vain or unproductive things when you should be focusing on studying the night before a test.
Replywe want to see Jordan Schlansky
ReplyThat Evil eye thingy my sisters house have a lot of those because of my brother-in-law from turkey
ReplyAlso irish, and ya… Basically can’t sit at all in the winter according to my relatives because you’ll get hemorrhoids.
ReplyThe Son had to go to a dark place in order to ascend to the bright place so who are we not to go through the same with Him?
ReplyAnd Sona if your evil eye could have protected you from the Lamb you would have defeated Him already but seeing He is yet Alive shows He is Greater than the eye and who shall keep you from Him?
And the One that sits in the Heaven shall laugh.
Take it easy on yourself by watching your words for they shall justify or condemn you.
Well said Conan and love and respect to you and your parents and all of you
Imagine have the opportunity to talk with Conan O’ Brien and choose to ask about superticion =(
ReplyShe is beautifullllll
ReplyNone of those are Irish superstitions!
ReplyMy Irish gran told me all about the faeries, and that i should never walk into a circle of any kind unless it was a circle made by myself and/or someone I trusted. I still follow that.
ReplyHe has the Kavorka!!
ReplyThe potatoes thing still is a thing here in Ireland
ReplyConan: “I feel I have to be unhappy for things to go well.”
Me: “Oh, another Irish Catholic.”
The founding principle of Catholicism: Happiness absolutely exists in the world, we’re just not allowed to experience it. Ever.
ReplyI have a same superstition with Conan, when I’m happy before a good thing, there must a bad thing happens after that.
ReplyFrom Nepal and we cant whistle at night too – why ? Why must we not whistle ?
ReplyHe’s not lying
ReplyYou don’t cut your fingernails at night because in the olden times, lighting was not how it is now and you cant see as well.As a result, you may cut your self.
ReplySo Conan’s superstition is basically a Nickelback song, “Something’s gotta go wrong
Replycos I’m feelin’ way too damn good”.
The irish are slowly I’m mean really slowly taking over the world x
ReplyYes I liked my own posts, us Irish don’t only post things but we like them to be x
ReplyThis mindset of Conan makes it so that his interactions have an underlying arc of redemption (Conan making himself acceptable), which is tragic and beautifull to watch. We likes to see a struggle..
ReplyInvesting in crypto is the wisest thing any someone can do at this point
ReplyDo potatoes have “evil” eyes? Or are they just misunderstood?
ReplySo that’s why Catholics are funny.
ReplyCan’t wait for Sasha’s clip! He was great in the latest “conan o brien needs a fan”. I’ve got to see that tea cup!
Replyhow can we sign up to be on the podcast as a fan?
ReplyI really wanna see the extra big mug fan episode tho
ReplyI LOVE HER
ReplyDon’t ever walk around a graveyard counterclockwise.
ReplyI love this format!
Reply2:19 as soon as I heard Conan talk about warts I knew where this was going haha, this is still a common ‘healing method’ in Ireland today from the older generation
ReplyOmg I want to see Farhan!!!!
ReplyI don’t believe in a single superstition. Nothing supernatural is real.
ReplyObviously Conan is joking, his father was a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
ReplyI wonder if he knows Teddy Roosevelt shot his neighbor’s dogs.
ReplyAmerican Irish* apart from drinking and being catholic there’s no significant parallels between American Irish culture and actual Irish culture.
Replythis video and the first interview between Colbert and Mulaney are the most Catholic comedy-related videos on this platform.
ReplyI have evil eye thing in my culture
ReplyI wear an evil eye around my neck
ReplyGo Katelyn!!!!!
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