Conan Goes To Trucking School - "Late Night With Conan O'Brien"

thanks max thanks guys andy what's going on nothing yeah, but you, I mean, you're going to talk to john fogerty, right, yeah, yeah, he's going to play and then he'll come here, we'll talk to him a little bit. I would like you to clarify the controversy when one travels to New Orleans, what exactly is happening here? Because I have a couple of weeks off this summer and I'd like to juggle New Orleans, but if you knew what the hell yeah, I have to figure it out, we'll figure out what sounds good, a diagram or something, you know, we'll have him draw it for you. , okay, with an engraving, a sketch, okay, yes, well, you mentioned time. out, you know, uh, actually we're going to have some free time

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r in the summer, yeah, I had some free time a couple of days ago, so I decided to use it to try something a little different, something that I've always been interested in but I've never tried it before uh Andy, my whole life I've wanted it uh you know I'm interested in being a trucker, you know and uh like I don't know, yeah, I think anyone who watches the show looks at me and says That guy's a trucker. , right, anyway, I brought a camera equipment.

I had a couple of hours free and, well, take a look at my little adventure, don't get me wrong. I really like what I do, but sometimes I wonder. missing the open road with no rules living life as it comes I decided to find out that's why I'm here in East Rutherford, New Jersey at Jersey Truck Driving School. I'm going to see if I can get as much of the trucker in as possible. lifestyle in a single day as possible actually it's a little less than a day I have tickets for Victor Victoria it's seven at

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so I'm going to do this type of fast let's go hey Bill, how are you?, well in know you.

It's good to see you too, you run this

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, that's right, well, I hope, I don't know if you can help me. I do a TV show, yes, but I'm curious about becoming a truck driver. I will train someone, we have been doing it for many years. It might be a little faster for me because I have a Ford Taurus, it's a '92 and as far as American passenger cars go, it's pretty big. I don't see as well with this eye and sometimes I get scared because a problem is that if you are blind or not you can't drive.

Sometimes when I see the lines on the road coming towards me, I suddenly imagine that they are bullets and I get scared, turn the wheel very hard and try to drive off the road. That is a problem. Let me ask you about this. How did they get this truck in a bucket? Yeah, oh wow, someone wrote a song about your CB handle, that's right. right, who wrote it myself, you wrote one, you wrote a song, absolutely, you wrote a trucker song about you, there you go, do you mind if we listen to it because I have a guitar?

His name is Shift and Willie, let me tell you what he does. I've been trading tractor trailers since early '62. Word got out on the super slab of all the super kids you don't mess with Chip and Willie because this truck has the bathroom, the goddess, the big bad cat Peterbilt 500 in front and when he steps on the pedal the cat doesn't purr the cats don't purr runs very well this is he's one of the instructors and you're going to teach me how to drive the big truck, aren't you? Let's try to teach you okay, I love your confidence now, what do you like to call it? you like to call it the big truck you like to call it the heavy mom you like to call it the slab runner what are some names for trucks that I like to call it I just like to call it tractor trailer a lot of people call it big truck or 18, big money to be here, okay?

Can we take this away from the student driver of caution because he makes me feel a little less cool? tell me about this wheel, it's very pretty, it's the size of a large pizza, yes, have you ever had students or truck drivers put a pizza directly on top of it and eat while driving, it's against the norm, that's what we wouldn't do? not that, it's great, I love it, I can't stop, I just want to play with the horn, maybe the whole process of learning to drive was a waste of time, is there a smaller course with just the horn than just the horn? , yes, no, completely open?

I'm walking, my friend, I don't need a woman, just a truck, a big truck, exactly, you and I are going to El Paso. Do you know what my favorite part is? I have to say about the truck experience, I like getting off the big truck. you have to open the door and turn and go back up the steps if you jump or you know, but jumping is fine, yeah, but you can't do that in motor vehicles. Too many rules and regulations, why doesn't the government understand? Get off our backs, you guys are trackers. Damn, I want to live.

Hey, if anyone, no one would talk to me at a truck stop. Would they be a guy like me? No, with these weapons. You think it's ridiculous that I call them. I want to call them, okay, we're going to take a long way, now we're going to head upstate a little bit, but first, to make everything seem more legit, I really wanted to haul a load, so take a look at this. bill, look at that, i got a six pack of root beer moussey, all ready for that sounds good, hey good buddy, this is sunscreen, i need smokey cigarettes, smokey is what they call a cop, oh, okay, and pedal to the metal.

Going fast, yeah, we're not doing that. I notice you've got some trucker stuff going on here. You have nodoz. You became vibrant. I guess that's useful on a long haul. I brought mine. I didn't know. We brought Flintstones chews, okay, we just got to the Mawa truck stop and, uh, I'm hungry, I want to eat something, okay, that comes with the super salad option, yeah, I drive a big truck, okay , soup, salad, friend, leave some. another sap took the salad when she came for the order, she and I joined in, but I have to move on.

I can't stay anywhere for long. Oh wow, look at that, thanks. Sure, I don't think C Everett Coop is I'm glad he ate this, so he had to transport it from Texarkana to Atlanta in the Burt Reynolds movie. It's just the kind of thing that would happen in real life where a guy would walk in here and bet you that you couldn't carry something. a 24 hour period from one city to another without getting caught, what about the saber? I think you should get rid of the shirt all together. I could use sunscreen because I'm pale and I need water.

I spilled my birch beer. Do you want to take a look at that? A little flintstone is small, that's the boy, it's pebbles. Sorry, yes, that's for you and I have pebbles too, that's for your health, it doesn't taste bad. Have you ever looked down and seen something crazy happening in a car on Sunday? This girl walked past me and tore right next to me she slowed down she had one leg sitting there and sitting here she was dying because you're so crazy you're playing with that thing it's fantastic I'll ride with you for a while if that's okay with you Well Bill, thank you very much.

Now I feel like I'm a truck driver. It's okay, it was a pleasure. Pleased to meet you. Best of luck, Bill. Wait a second. Victor Victoria starts in 45 minutes. I have an extra ticket. It's yours if you can get me. to the city on time on my way to new york city in less than an hour i'm never done are you ready let's move on i think i fit in perfectly and the show was great thank you victoria ok let's go grab a little A rest everyone, when we return, Jim's followers will bring many animals here, they are not trained, people will get hurt.