Eric Andre Returns Again

**Eric Andre** (0:03)
Hi, my name is Eric Andre.
And I feel like sandpaper. Ask Conan O'Brien's friend.

**Conan O'Brien** (0:15)
How are you sandpaper? I don't know.

**Eric Andre** (0:17)
I realized last time I said moist, so I was about to say moist again, and then I was like, no, you already did that wolf joke. And then I was like, what's the opposite of moist?

**Conan O'Brien** (0:47)
Hey there, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. I am joined by Sona Movsesian. Hey, Sona.

**Matt Gourley** (0:51)
Hi.

**Conan O'Brien** (0:52)
Matt Gourley, how are you, sir?

**Matt Gourley** (0:53)
Hi, good, thanks.

**Conan O'Brien** (0:55)
And I said, well, it's a thing that has very low odds of working, and I'll explain why. I thought, hey, maybe we should talk about World Cup.
It's a huge thing. Massive, biggest sporting event in the world. It involves 48 countries. It's being hosted by Canada, Mexico, USA. But here's the problem. I don't think anyone here in this podcast right now, just the three of us, really cares about the World Cup.

**Matt Gourley** (1:20)
That's not true.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:20)
It is true.

**Matt Gourley** (1:21)
It's not true.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:22)
I don't think you care at all.

**Matt Gourley** (1:22)
I'm sorry. It's the only sports I ever watch and every four years I really enjoy the World Cup.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:26)
The only sports I ever watch?

**Matt Gourley** (1:27)
I know, yeah.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:27)
You're not selling it.

**Matt Gourley** (1:29)
You guys know that I don't care about sports.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:31)
I actually love it too because soccer players are hot. They're really attractive. That's why I watch.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:36)
When you're watching with your boys, you go, I do that guy.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:38)
Yeah, and I high-five him like, right boys? He can be your dad.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:44)
Oh my God.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:45)
You guys want a brother?

**Conan O'Brien** (1:47)
That's just, come on, man. Clean it up, Sona.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:50)
I love tack too. I don't want to.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:51)
I don't want to know too, but that's nice to go. My heart also has warmed for the father of my children.
Okay, I shouldn't say that, but I'll say is, I wouldn't say the three of us are well-versed in talking about World Cup. Correct.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:07)
Right.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:07)
And we are recording this, I think, three weeks ahead of time. So we don't know where in the World Cup certain teams will be, who will be eliminated, what's going on. So we're really attempting something that I think is difficult on maybe seven different levels.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:24)
Yeah.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:25)
And- What's that?

**Sona Movsesian** (2:28)
Do you say several or seven?

**Matt Gourley** (2:29)
He mixed both on seven different levels.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:32)
Yeah. Well, sorry.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:34)
Sorry I didn't let it slide.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:35)
I'm sorry.

**Eduardo Perez** (2:36)
I was gonna let it go.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:37)
No, no. I have a hard time when I talk about the sports of soccer.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:42)
Oh, that's right. You didn't let that go.

**Eduardo Perez** (2:44)
you.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:45)
Hit him.

**Eduardo Perez** (2:45)
Hit him hard.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:46)
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna ask Eduardo to really help us out here. Because Eduardo, this is something it's very near and dear to your heart. You need to supply the passion here.

**Eduardo Perez** (2:55)
Okay.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:56)
You need to supply the passion, because I'm not gonna get it from anywhere else on this table. All right. So let's talk about it. We're a couple of weeks in. What do you think has happened by this point? Who's been eliminated?

**Eduardo Perez** (3:04)
Oh man.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:05)
Come on.

**Eduardo Perez** (3:06)
All right. So I'll tell you that going into this, the top five countries predicted to compete for the final is Argentina, Spain, France, Portugal, and maybe Germany or England. Give or take one of them.

**Matt Gourley** (3:19)
It's the same as it almost always is without Brazil.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:21)
Where are the Dutch?

**Eduardo Perez** (3:23)
The Dutch are actually considered a dark horse in this tournament.

**Sona Movsesian** (3:26)
Yeah, that's what I thought. Great question.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:27)
No, I did know that the Dutch, and it's funny because when you think someone's saying, we're the Dutch, you'd be like, oh, he's making a joke. No, I'm not. They're very good.

**Eduardo Perez** (3:36)
Yes.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:37)
They could come out of nowhere. Wouldn't that be fantastic if the Dutch were still in play?