Name: Conan Names A Polar Bear Monitor's Owl | Conan O'Brien Needs A Fan
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Hey Mike, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs A Fan.

Can I just pretend that you're way out on the tundra somewhere?

Okay, can you occasionally make up— Yeah, I've got two feet of snow up here.

Sound with your mouth, just so I feel like this is really authentic.

And, um, I just wanted to get you to say, uh, Canadian sorry, so I'm happy.

Hey, uh, Mike, it says that you, uh, are a conservation authority.

Oh yeah, I work for a, a local conservation authority.

And in the past, you were a polar bear monitor.

Uh, essentially I would be, uh, I would go up to the Arctic, uh, and

get dropped off, um, by helicopter with, uh, anybody who needs a, uh, safe escort, uh, across the Arctic, um, from polar bears.

So I would kind of track the bears, find the bears, keep my eyes on them, and

make sure—sorry, I was supposed to do this reveal earlier.

Look, for those of you listening— She blew it.

Mike just panned to, um, I mean, a, a Hogwarts owl.

You—a beautiful owl is perched right next to you, and apparently it was just happily hooting.

If you get a chance to see that, uh, go on your computer and check it out.

Uh, well, Conan, I was hoping you could name her for me.

She's fairly new, uh, to, uh, my team here, so I was hoping you could.

She's also sitting on my router right now, so she might even interrupt us further.

Um, yeah, that bird, Interrupto just wants to destroy, like, not that guy.

Uh, hey Mike, so I just have to ask you, so your job was to be a basically, uh, a guide who would protect people from polar bears in the Arctic, and

I've always heard polar bears are the most dangerous bear.

Um, like a, a black bear or a grizzly bear might not want anything to do with you, where, uh, a polar bear, if they smell you, see you, they're coming to get you.

They're hungry, it's cold, um, yeah, and they want to eat.

They're not sitting around on their backs eating a bunch of blueberries that they found.

So when they see, uh, a hamsteak in boots walking by, they go for it.

So what can you do to protect them in that situation?

So, um, I, I care about conservation so much, so, um, I, I, I want to protect the bears just as much as I want to protect the humans because, uh, I, I am armed.

Uh, I do use non-lethal rounds, um, but there, there are lethal rounds if need be.

So what are the non-lethal rounds made of?

If you hit a polar bear with it, he'll say, "I want to leave now." Kind of.

the polar bear just kind of like squinted its eyes and walked away.

And can I ask you, what is the caliber of weapon, if the rubber bullet isn't working, that you would use on a polar bear?

Because I would think it just has to be a—you can't just be using a .22.

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Conan Names A Polar Bear Monitor's Owl | Conan O'Brien Needs A Fan

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