Fanhausen Revisited

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 and i really love these segments and the very first one featured a fan of mine named dan hausen now dan hausen 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 hausen 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 hausen 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 hausen has recently made his wwe debut to rave reviews and this is proof again yep that if you can marry hard work to your passion you can go places so on behalf of myself i'm going to say thank you to dan hausen and i'm going to say thank you to dan hausen and i'm going to say thank you to dan hausen and i'm going to say thank you to all of us here at team coco massive congratulations and mad respect to dan hausen and i'm so uh proud of you happy for you and um 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 morris endeavor and the blackest blackest heart of all gavin pallone uh i mean when they're done with dan hausen he's just going to be some flesh clinging to a battered vertebrae yes uh anyway um uh i'm just i'm just thrilled for him so here this is unusual for us we're going to revisit my chat from uh five years ago with the one the only dan hausen enjoy conan o'brien needs a fan want to talk to conan visit teamcoco.com slash conan o'brien needs a fan want to talk to conan visit teamcoco.com call conan okay let's get started hey everybody conan o'brien here and we're going to try something a little different in the short time that i've been doing conan o'brien needs a friend uh 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 they're 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 let's just talk 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 why why is why is that horrible it's very important to me that eventually they become celebrities so you don't have time for anybody that would live their whole life as a regular joe as a folk who who would do that what kind of monster would choose that life no seriously i really do uh 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 this celebrity bubble bubble that we're trapped in i'm not trapped in a celebrity no i'm not even oh god oh god no i didn't mean either either of you oh god no okay oh no no no oh please oh oh how embarrassing oh i'm covering my mouth i'm laughing because i mean we don't even do a podcast with a celebrity so how would we oh snap snappity dappity ouchie wouchie 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 googled it yeah i am a b-lister but i am a celebrity so uh okay i am a solid b i'm a solid b-list celebrity and uh i'm proud of it and if love boat were still on the air i wish i could i could potentially be a guest oh not the first guest but like the third guest who's the comic relief guest who stowed away i would kill to see you on love boat yes and uh but anyway this is this is something i want to do and uh i'm really looking forward to it and uh 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 uh 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 uh where are you coming from donovan where are you i am in uh 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 uh my wife is from montreal wait yeah i'm confused already you're from michigan uh you've married someone who's from montreal yes exactly okay so i'm in the process of uh 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 uh 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 a character uh i am a character um actually i have a picture if you want to see it it's uh oh my god okay well we are a podcast so i'm going to describe it and i'm going to show you how to do it so i'm going to show you how to do it so i'm going to show you how to do it yeah uh you're sort of demonic looking you you just showed me a picture of uh 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 introduced the nice part of it so then they buy into it i can trick them okay very nice very evil often i get described if uh somebody a demon possessed you actually oh a demon possessed me if conan o'brien was possessed by a demon that's I'm heavily influenced by you rather than other wrestlers. Yes. You mean of the wrestlers, I'm the one that's influenced you the most? Yes, yes, of course. That's fantastic. 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 beady eyes and thin lips and sharp cheekbones? Yes, yeah, I don't have the height, but I have, I utilize, so I pour teeth in my opponent's mouth to disorient them. Pour what in their mouth? Human teeth. You pour human teeth into the mouth? I love how that's, people see that and go, oh, that is so cool. That is. No, no, no. It's just, I think it's the presentation because I take a lot of like Simpsons 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 should be fun. It shouldn't be work, yeah. No, no. So, okay, one of your standard moves is to pour loose teeth into the mouth of your opponent to confuse them. Confuse and disorient them. What are some of your other moves? Yes, and then I kick them right in the mouth. I have the go to sleep, which I call the good nighthausen. I add hausen. My wrestling name is Danhausen and I add hausen to everything to make it all about me. That's very Cody. Okay, that's very nice, Matt, yeah. I love that. You just add hausen to things. So good nighthausen is like a good night move. Yes, and I pop them up off my shoulders and I knee them in the face. That's my finishing. Well, you knee them in the face, Hauser. The face, yes, exactly. Sorry. Like if I were talking to you, I'd call you Conanhausen. I add hausen 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 Simpsons 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, 400 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've 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. Since I've switched this, it's. just like snowballed more and more and more. And now I have a shirt in 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. Have fun, be Dan Housen. That's what we need. I want to be a part of Dan Housen's world. You know, don't you see that Matt and Sona? Like I want to maybe do some sort of, I want to tape 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 Dan Housen. I want to be part of it. What would you do with me? Oh, with you, I would call us both legendary ladies. For one. Guess what? There's a lot of those now. There's literally like 600 in America. So he 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. 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? And first of all, you know, I know how to handle myself. Wait a minute. Oh, come on, Sona. 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 Dan Housen? 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 work. 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 Dan Housen'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 Dan Housen, 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 of a 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 Dan Housen. I think the crowd would go nuts. I hope so. What if the crowd's just like, all right, okay. There's Conan, I guess. Cool. Let's see what he's got. All right, well, 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'm gonna get. If I leave now, I can beat the traffic. I want in on the Dan Housen world. I really do, Donovan. Yeah, well, I would love that if that's a possibility. That's like the ultimate guest for "Good Night Housen" with Dan Housen. Dan Housen. You know what? I've always said, if there's a way that I can be involved with "Good Night Housen" with Dan Housen, 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 wanna get paid, Housen. Yes, we'll pay you in a wonderful sacks of human money. There's only one kind of money. There's only human money. No animal uses money. He has no idea. He just knows it gets you power. Yeah, wow, that's very exciting. Well, you know what? I think you're gonna do well. I love that you're going to Canada 'cause I don't say this just to suck up to Canada, but I love Canadians and I think they're like the funniest, 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. So nice to me. So I love that you're going to Montreal. I think that's great. Thank you, yeah. It's been exciting and a lot of work. Donovan, you have my blessing and I will figure out a way to enter the world of Dan Housen, I will. Please do. I would lose my mind and so would my fans. It'd be crazy. All right. Well, Sona, you make sure you'll follow up on this. Oh, I will follow up on this. Yes, we'll follow up on this. I'm really excited about it. I will follow up on this, yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you for doing this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no problem. Hey, really nice to meet you, Donovan. Nice meeting you too. Nice meeting you. All right, bye-bye. Thanks, Donovan. Conan O'Brien needs a fan. With Conan O'Brien, Sonam Ovsessian, and Matt Gourley. Produced by me, Matt Gourley. Executive produced by Adam Sachs, Jeff Ross, and Nick Liao. Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino. Take it away, Jimmy. Supervising producer, Aaron Blair. Associate talent producer, Jennifer Samples. Associate producers, Sean Doherty and Lisa Berm. Engineering by Eduardo Perez. Free free months of SiriusXM when you sign up at siriusxm.com/conan. Please rate, review, and subscribe to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan wherever fine podcasts are done.