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Conan talks to Alejandra in Madrid about juggling life as a mom and as legal counsel for an international contractor and why Spain eats dinner so late. Wanna get a chance to talk to Conan? Submit here: teamcoco.com/apply

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• 0:42Speaker 03

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• 0:51Conan O'Brien?

  Hi, Alejandra. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan.

• 0:54Speaker 05

  Hi. Oh, my God.

• 0:57Conan O'Brien?

  Hello.

• 0:58Speaker 05

  I told myself to not freak out when I meet you guys, and look how that went.

• 1:03Conan O'Brien?

  It's OK. You're allowed to freak out. That's OK. Your name is Alejandra. Is this right?

• 1:09Speaker 05

  Alejandra.

• 1:10Conan O'Brien?

  Alejandra Trigueros. And where are you calling us from?

• 1:13Speaker 05

  Well, just call me Bob if you're going to say that.

• 1:16Conan O'Brien?

  Everyone's a wise guy. Alejandra, tell us, where are you right now?

• 1:21Speaker 05

  I'm in Madrid, Spain.

• 1:22Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, my God, Madrid. I've never been to Madrid.

• 1:25Speaker 05

  Yeah. Really? You should. And Barcelona. Everyone's been to Barcelona.

• 1:28Conan O'Brien?

  I've been to Barthalona, but I've never been to Barthalona.

• 1:33Speaker 05

  Oh, there you go.

• 1:34Conan O'Brien?

  But I've never been to Madrid, and I would love to see it someday. Alejandra, tell us a little bit. Do you go by Alejandra?

• 1:43Speaker 05

  Mostly Ale.

• 1:44Conan O'Brien?

  Ale, OK, Ale.

• 1:46Speaker 05

  Yeah. Alejandra sounds very serious. Like, my mom, when she gets mad at me.

• 1:49Conan O'Brien?

  OK.

• 1:53Conan O'Brien?

  So your English is perfect. I mean, you sound

• 1:58Speaker 05

  Oh, my God.

• 1:59Conan O'Brien?

  You sound like you're coming to me from San Diego or something. I mean, it's perfect right now.

• 2:05Speaker 05

  Keep talking.

• 2:06Conan O'Brien?

  Or Cincinnati.

• 2:08Speaker 05

  Cincinnati.

• 2:09Conan O'Brien?

  Well, I'm saying you have a beautiful Cincinnati accent. It's amazing.

• 2:13Speaker 05

  Hey, I'll take it. Over a thick local accent, I'll take it.

• 2:17Conan O'Brien?

  Uh, but Alejandra, how did your, your, I mean, you, you live, you're a, uh, are you a citizen of, of Madrid? You grew up in Madrid?

• 2:25Speaker 05

  Yeah, I was born and raised here. I speak English like this because I suffer from an acute overconsumption of American entertainment. We're saying really acute. Everything I get, my hands on podcasts, books, movies, TV shows, all the things.

• 2:40Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah.

• 2:40Speaker 05

  So when people ask me about my English and I tell them I read a little bit of gossip every now and then, I see, see, it pays off.

• 2:46Conan O'Brien?

  That's funny. That's great. So you just basically watched American television, listened to American podcasts, and that has influenced, it's destroyed one of the most beautiful accents in the world. Yeah.

• 2:58Speaker 05

  Well, I did live with Americans for about three years, friends from New York. Shout out to Michelle, Paulie and Jamie. And I spent 24 hours with them, really.

• 3:08Conan O'Brien?

  Great. Can we make sure we edit out that shout out, please?

• 3:11Speaker 05

  No.

• 3:12Conan O'Brien?

  Make sure it's edited out. I don't trust them. They're gone. They're not, I'm not friends with them. I don't know them. Dead to us. Just put a big ee over that shout out. Not for any other, not for a legal reason, just that I don't know them and they should get no free rides.

• 3:26Speaker 05

  How about if I give you some credit? You and Ellen have also played a major role because I've consumed all the things, all the clips of your talk shows that I could get off the internet because your shows weren't shown here. So when YouTube started, I started watching a bunch of Ellen and YouTube suggested some clips of your show and I was peeing my pants laughing.

• 3:46Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, that's, I'm glad that I made you urinate.

• 3:50Conan O'Brien?

  Alejandra, many people think I am Ellen and many people go up to Ellen and say, hi Conan. So it's a common misconception.

• 3:57Speaker 05

  Well, both pale, the hair color, and you've said your womanly looks. They're your words.

• 4:06Conan O'Brien?

  These are my words. These are my words come back to haunt me. Well, tell me a little bit about your life. Mostly what I like to do is try and figure out how I can help my fans around the world. How can I help you, Alejandra? What can I do for you? I don't think I can do much. You're very beautiful. You're obviously very smart, very well spoken. How can I help you?

• 4:25Speaker 05

  So I'm thirty-four, I have two kids, I've recently had the second one, and she's four months old. And I actually have a little beef with you, because I was recently trying to get her to sleep, and I listened to a lot of hours of this podcast. And when I say you, I mean the three of you. And recently, you guys made me laugh so hard, that I woke up my newborn, who had just gone to sleep after about thirty minutes of trying to get her to sleep. It was like, oh my god, I hate them, even though I love them.

• 4:54Conan O'Brien?

  You know, you know what we should do? It's, I should speak less, and you guys should speak more, so that children can sleep.

• 5:01Speaker 03

  We should speak in soothing tones.

• 5:03Speaker 06

  You mean, so it's not as funny?

• 5:04Conan O'Brien?

  Exactly. I think when I'm talking, it's like, ahahaha! And then, but I think you guys should take the lead.

• 5:10Speaker 03

  Oh, well, I'm kind of shrill, so I think that it just should be gory. But you're really funny, too. So maybe I should, I don't know, no one should talk.

• 5:19Speaker 06

  I think if we just use just kind of fogier voices like this.

• 5:22Conan O'Brien?

  Now you just sound high.

• 5:23Speaker 05

  I should maybe not be a listener, but then again.

• 5:26Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, I wouldn't listen to the podcast. I've told many people, you should not listen to the podcast while caring for a sleeping baby. Because, I mean, the laughs are gonna come. They just are.

• 5:37Speaker 05

  They are.

• 5:38Conan O'Brien?

  So, so, well, congratulations on having these two children and a newborn. That's, that's a lot of work. Or so I'm told. What did I do?

• 5:52Speaker 03

  Oh my god.

• 5:54Conan O'Brien?

  Nothing. Really, nothing. I was told by my wife, you're to have nothing to do with these children.

• 5:58Speaker 03

  Smart.

• 5:59Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, she wanted them to grow up without the Conan influence.

• 6:02Speaker 03

  Smart.

• 6:03Conan O'Brien?

  But, and so, so are you, are you taking care of them full-time, or do you work?

• 6:11Speaker 05

  So, as of right now, I'm taking care of the little one, the big one is in school. My husband's gone back to work, but I go back to work October fourteenth, after, yeah, we got, we get about five months of maternity leave in Spain.

• 6:23Conan O'Brien?

  Wow. Wow. So...

• 6:26Speaker 05

  It is a lot.

• 6:27Conan O'Brien?

  What is your, what is your, what is your profession?

• 6:31Speaker 05

  I am a legal counsel in the legal department of a big engineering multinational. I do international commercial contracting. I'm boring myself by explaining this.

• 6:40Conan O'Brien?

  No, no, no. First of all, first of all, Alejandro, do not sell yourself short. That is a, I am very impressed. That is a very high-powered job you have.

• 6:49Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 6:50Conan O'Brien?

  And I will tell you, that's, that's quite a lot. I mean, you have, it sounds like your husband has a job. You have this very high-powered job. You have two kids. That's a lot.

• 7:04Speaker 05

  Like, my job is intense, but it's also not as insane as it is to become a lawyer in the US. It's, it's less years. It's, I studied about six years. Whereas in the US, you have to do like four undergrad and then about three of grad school. Then the L. Seth Weinstein. Here's not Asensio, although I won't, I'll take the compliment.

• 7:21Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, Alejandro, you keep trying to convince me that you're not an impressive person. And yet, you are clearly the smartest person out of the four of us in this room. And you're not even in the room. You're not in the room and you're much smarter than we are.

• 7:35Speaker 05

  Okay, keep talking.

• 7:37Conan O'Brien?

  Um, that's a lot, though. That's a lot to have.

• 7:40Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's intense. I'm not sleeping a lot.

• 7:43Conan O'Brien?

  And to be legal counsel for this massive company, that's big.

• 7:48Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's, it's pretty big. It's, it's not a lot of sleeping. It's a lot of stressing, a lot of cortisol pumping all the time.

• 7:55Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah.

• 7:56Speaker 05

  Um, so yeah, it's a bit intense. I do go to a fair amount of restaurants. I'm obsessed with food. I grew up in a family that talks about nothing other than food. So I, I make a point of taking some space for myself, going to restaurants, trying delicious food, going out with friends. So I do manage to get some space for myself. Otherwise, that'd be insane.

• 8:16Conan O'Brien?

  I'm impressed by that because, um, not that I'm throwing her under the bus or anything, but when my children were born, my wife said, no restaurants, no movies, no joy for anyone until they're 12 years old. And, uh, kinda locked it down. Kinda locked it down. And so we're just sort of, they're, they're both in college now and we just, I, I, we're just now going outside again. And I remembered, oh, that, that's the sun. Look at the sun. That burning orb in the sky. Uh, but anyway, I love my wife.

• 9:00Conan O'Brien?

  Shut it down. That's so nice. My wife was not, we were not going to restaurants for quite a while.

• 9:05Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 9:06Speaker 06

  Is that because she was tired or she didn't want to, like, was afraid of what your kids would do in the restaurant?

• 9:11Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, she just didn't want to leave the kids behind.

• 9:14Speaker 06

  Oh, I see.

• 9:15Conan O'Brien?

  When kids are young, I mean, you're not taking your kids to, I think, first of all, in Spain, correct me if I'm wrong, but in Madrid, don't you start eating, the time to start a dinner, I think, is at 2 o'clock in the morning? Isn't that when you guys have dinner?

• 9:30Speaker 05

  It is fairly late. Not 2 a.m., but it is fairly late.

• 9:33Speaker 06

  What time do you eat dinner?

• 9:35Speaker 05

  Like, a regular dinner that's not too early, not too late, would be at 9.

• 9:39Conan O'Brien?

  9, yeah, starting at 9.

• 9:41Speaker 06

  I'm asleep by then.

• 9:42Conan O'Brien?

  No, no, I'm serious. My wife's-

• 9:44Speaker 05

  Yeah, my foreign friends want to book tables at 7, and the restaurants aren't even open.

• 9:48Conan O'Brien?

  No, no, no.

• 9:48Speaker 05

  They'll tell you the earliest, earliest table they have is at 8:30.

• 9:51Speaker 03

  Oh, boy.

• 9:52Conan O'Brien?

  This is a true thing. The McDonald's in Madrid, they all serve breakfast. They start at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. That's a true story. You can't have it before then. Lunch is at 6 o'clock, and then you can't get Big Mac, I don't think, till 4 a.m. They're all insane. Um, it's not called the Big Mac in Spain. It's called, it's called the Conquistador!

• 10:21Speaker 05

  Yeah, my husband's foreign, and he does not do well with our eating schedule here.

• 10:25Conan O'Brien?

  Where is your husband from?

• 10:27Speaker 05

  From Poland.

• 10:28Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, he's from Poland, so he must think these people are crazy. They're going out to have these-

• 10:32Speaker 05

  And he says it often.

• 10:33Conan O'Brien?

  Full, I mean, these are elaborate meals, too, right? You're having elaborate meals in elaborate restaurants.

• 10:40Speaker 06

  Yeah, what time do you go to bed? And are you going to bed just in full digestion mode, or?

• 10:45Speaker 05

  No, I think people go to bed at like 11 p.m., so if you have dinner at like 7, then you're really hungry by the time you go to bed, no?

• 10:52Conan O'Brien?

  Uh, no, no, I-

• 10:54Speaker 06

  You should try it. Give it a shot.

• 10:57Conan O'Brien?

  I think you're just different people. I'm telling you, it's a, it's a whole different culture. They're different people. They have massive meals very late at night. And um.

• 11:07Speaker 06

  Yeah, in theory, I love that.

• 11:08Speaker 03

  I love that.

• 11:09Conan O'Brien?

  Well, uh, first of all.

• 11:11Speaker 05

  Yeah, that also happens late.

• 11:12Conan O'Brien?

  So, um, okay, you go out to these meals. Is your husband coming with you on these meals when you go out?

• 11:19Speaker 05

  Mostly, we take turns to go out with friends. Cause if both of us leave, then it's a whole thing. Either my mom, the nanny, like it's, it's too much. So I'm mostly looking for space with my friends.

• 11:31Conan O'Brien?

  Okay, that's all right. You, um, this also sounds familiar. You don't want to spend time with your spouse, but with your friends. Yes, my wife did a lot of that as well. Conan, why don't you stay here and people who make me laugh can have dinner with me?

• 11:46Speaker 06

  It was all your friends.

• 11:48Conan O'Brien?

  It was all my friends. Yeah, it was you guys. Lisa was always saying, I got me seeing Matt in Sona.

• 11:55Speaker 06

  It's one of the best times of our lives.

• 11:56Conan O'Brien?

  At the Hunky Dory, that bar on the corner.

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• 13:17Conan O'Brien?

  So Alejandra, let me understand this. You have this big job. You have two young children, a husband, but you also like to go out to eat. This all sounds, that says a lot to balance, isn't it? This is a lot to juggle.

• 13:35Speaker 05

  It is. I do have mental breakdowns a bit often, to be honest.

• 13:40Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah.

• 13:41Speaker 05

  But I'm still sure to manage insanity.

• 13:44Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 13:45Speaker 05

  I can make it look like I'm sane.

• 13:47Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah.

• 13:47Speaker 05

  So.

• 13:48Conan O'Brien?

  No, I do that too. Yeah. I do that all the time.

• 13:51Speaker 05

  Really, do you?

• 13:51Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 13:52Conan O'Brien?

  Wow.

• 13:52Speaker 06

  Not so sure.

• 13:53Conan O'Brien?

  Not so good.

• 13:54Speaker 05

  Well.

• 13:54Conan O'Brien?

  The wheels are coming off the trolley.

• 13:55Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 13:57Conan O'Brien?

  So it must be hard to balance all of that, is what I'm guessing. It's just hard to.

• 14:01Speaker 05

  Yeah, I don't get a lot of free time, but sometimes self-care just isn't so easy and you have to make time for yourself or else. I feel a lot more guilty when I lose my patience because I haven't had any oxygen or space than when I go out or go for a massage or go for friends. So it's really important.

• 14:17Conan O'Brien?

  You know, there's an old saying that when you're on an airplane and the oxygen masks drop down, you've got to put yours on first before you put it on the child.

• 14:28Speaker 05

  Or else you can't help.

• 14:28Conan O'Brien?

  And my theory has always been, I take both masks. I put both masks on. A child's got smaller lungs. They'll figure it out. They don't need as much, right? And God forbid, but you can get another child somewhere. So that's always been my point is.

• 14:49Speaker 03

  You can get another child somewhere.

• 14:51Conan O'Brien?

  Well, I don't know. You know what I mean? Whatever, they come along. So my point, Alejandra, is you need to take much more time for yourself. The children will figure it out. Do you know what I mean? You need, you're working very hard. You gave birth to them. Check. I think that's enough, right? And I think.

• 15:10Speaker 03

  That's it.

• 15:10Conan O'Brien?

  I think you should be having dinner, starting at nine. Then I think you shouldn't feel any guilt. I think you should hit the clubs afterwards. And you'll see the kids when.

• 15:21Speaker 05

  See, I'm too old for that now.

• 15:22Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, you'll see. You're too old. I just got to the.

• 15:25Speaker 05

  Oh, to the clubs?

• 15:25Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah.

• 15:25Speaker 05

  Yes, I am.

• 15:26Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, no, I just hit the age when I think I'm ready to go to the clubs. I never went to the clubs before. I missed out and I want to go to the clubs now.

• 15:34Speaker 06

  Are you talking about golf clubs?

• 15:36Conan O'Brien?

  No, I'm talking about the clubs.

• 15:38Speaker 03

  Did you think you were too young before to go? Like when you were like.

• 15:41Conan O'Brien?

  I just didn't know where they were.

• 15:44Speaker 03

  No one told you where they were.

• 15:46Conan O'Brien?

  People were very evasive when I said, "Where's the clubs?" And they'd be like, "Oh, you, I don't know. We gotta go." And they were all dressed in, they had glow sticks and stuff. I never went to a club. And now I think is the time. Once I hit 60, I thought, "Now's the time to hit the clubs."

• 16:03Speaker 06

  Better late than never.

• 16:04Speaker 05

  The sweet spot. Sona, are you doing any clubbing, having twins, that's intense?

• 16:09Speaker 03

  I'm not, but it did take me a while to get back to like the thing. And then a couple of days ago, I had, not a couple of days, a couple of weeks ago, I hit a milestone where I threw up from drinking too much. And I was like, "I remember that feeling."

• 16:21Conan O'Brien?

  Congratulations. Hey, Mom, congratulations.

• 16:24Speaker 03

  And then very recently, I was, I was out with a friend. I got too high. I had to leave my car there and I took a Lyft home.

• 16:31Conan O'Brien?

  You know what?

• 16:32Speaker 03

  I'm back, I'm back, baby.

• 16:35Speaker 05

  That's being young again. Young and hip again.

• 16:37Speaker 06

  Your children are nowhere to be found, but you're back.

• 16:39Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah.

• 16:40Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. And like you, I go out and then tackle, stay home with the, with the boys.

• 16:45Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, yeah. Cause you've got to get super drunk.

• 16:48Speaker 05

  Are you doing any, any outings with them?

• 16:50Speaker 03

  Not with it.

• 16:52Conan O'Brien?

  His club is probably a historical society where they talk about, you know, Eisenhower's contributions to the highway system in the 1950s in America.

• 17:02Speaker 06

  If only I could get into that.

• 17:03Speaker 05

  He is so very cultured. That is true.

• 17:06Speaker 06

  Oh, no. I don't go to clubs. They come to me.

• 17:10Conan O'Brien?

  Nice. They sure do.

• 17:16Conan O'Brien?

  He thinks Grubhub is a club.

• 17:18Speaker 06

  It rhymes, doesn't it?

• 17:19Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah. He thinks that when he gets his sandwich delivered.

• 17:22Speaker 06

  Club Grubhub.

• 17:25Conan O'Brien?

  Alejandro, if, let's say you and I were to hang out. Let's say, and this is, this is all theoretical, but let's say I were in Madrid and you and I were to hang out. How would you want me to help you? How could I assist you? How could I improve your life?

• 17:41Speaker 05

  So I would love to, since I'm obsessed with food and American comedy, it would be amazing for me if we shared a meal, one of those long meals, maybe lunch if you don't want to have dinner so late.

• 17:52Conan O'Brien?

  Dinner sounds good. Dinner sounds good.

• 17:54Speaker 05

  Oh, well then dinner.

• 17:55Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah.

• 17:55Speaker 05

  Uh, cause we're both young and hip and club hours.

• 17:59Conan O'Brien?

  Thank you so much for saying that. So you're a, you're a, I, I, you're, you're a young, attractive woman who is willing, who thinks that I'd be the perfect guy to have a late dinner with, in Madrid and then hit the clubs. Is that what you're saying?

• 18:15Speaker 05

  Uh, why not?

• 18:16Conan O'Brien?

  Yes.

• 18:17Speaker 03

  Why not? Oh, hold on, let me take out my list here.

• 18:21Speaker 05

  No, but like by having dinner with me, you'd make me laugh too.

• 18:25Conan O'Brien?

  Trust me, when I was single, a shrug and a why not was the best I could get.

• 18:35Conan O'Brien?

  What is Spanish for, how do you say, in, in, in Spain, how do you say why not?

• 18:39Speaker 05

  Porque no?

• 18:39Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, porque no. So I, I mean, I think if I had grown up in Madrid, my adolescence and all through my twenties and thirties would have been a lot of women going, porque no?

• 18:50Speaker 06

  Was it, was it, Liza, will you marry me? Why not?

• 18:53Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, that was in our vows.

• 18:56Conan O'Brien?

  Her, her vow, her, she said, why not? I said, I do. She said, mm, why not?

• 19:01Speaker 06

  I don't not.

• 19:02Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah.

• 19:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, during that meal.

• 19:05Speaker 05

  I would ask you, which, which connects with the question that I wanted to ask you, to, well, do a bit of your thing because it makes me laugh. And also I'd ask you the question, um, making me laugh and sharing your wisdom. My question is, since you have such a, a big legacy in American comedy and like you have such a demanding job, you were doing a show every day.

• 19:25Conan O'Brien?

  Yep.

• 19:26Speaker 05

  And plus it's late night. So how'd you, like when you had kids with, and you're also a family man and you're known for being a discreet celebrity that hasn't, you know, had any horrible stuff with the press, like you haven't had any talk of gerbils.

• 19:42Conan O'Brien?

  Yes. We suppressed all talk of gerbils.

• 19:47Speaker 05

  All talk of gerbils.

• 19:48Conan O'Brien?

  It was a monitor lizard. And I paid that fucker off. He gets $50,000 a year to keep his goddamn mouth shut.

• 19:57Speaker 06

  It was Leo.

• 19:59Conan O'Brien?

  Oh my god, the scales are the best part.

• 20:02Speaker 06

  Oh, you know when those things get scared, their tails pop off.

• 20:05Conan O'Brien?

  You bet they do.

• 20:06Speaker 06

  Oh no.

• 20:07Conan O'Brien?

  Oh my god, what an orgasm.

• 20:10Speaker 06

  You were the lizard.

• 20:12Conan O'Brien?

  I think, I'll say it was for me, but the lizard didn't look unhappy. Let's just say we both smoked a cigarette afterwards.

• 20:21Conan O'Brien?

  Anyway, Alejandra, we somehow went astray.

• 20:25Speaker 06

  We.

• 20:27Conan O'Brien?

  I don't know how you took me down this road, but, um, so your question, you, you said a lot of nice things to me, but you didn't quit. What is the question?

• 20:35Speaker 05

  Yeah, the question is, when you have kids and your family grew, how do you manage coming to terms with the fact that you were gonna miss out on stuff at home with your wife and the kids? Or at some fancy party at work? Because to balance it all, you need to miss out on stuff here and there. So how was that for you?

• 20:54Conan O'Brien?

  Well, um, I have an agent and a manager, and, uh, they did a lot of checking in on my children.

• 21:02Conan O'Brien?

  Gavin Pallone, Rick Rosen, and they would check in on the kids and they would occasionally text me and say, "The boy seems good, the girl seems sad." The boy? And then they, then we would get into the financials about, you know, how the business was doing and the ratings and things like that. I have to say, all joking aside, uh, I hit the jackpot with, uh, with my wife, Liza, because she, uh, is an impeccable, uh, mom and she just did an incredible job. And so I did miss out on things because I was working a lot. I tried to be there for important stuff. But, uh, yeah, there were, it really helps to have a partner who is fantastic. And it sounds like your husband does.

• 21:46Speaker 05

  Oh, uncovered there.

• 21:46Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, and it sounds like your husband does a great job. And so my, my rule is find an amazing partner and then totally screw them over. Leave them with the kids and eat as late as possible in Madrid. That's my rule.

• 22:01Speaker 05

  Then I'm good.

• 22:02Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah. Now, who do you, now, do you have close family that you dine with as well?

• 22:07Speaker 05

  I do. My obsession with food came from my dad. My dad is, to say obsessed would be sounding a chart. He talks about nothing other than food. The minute he learned, my husband was from Poland, the first thing he mentioned was some soup they make in some region. He knows so much about food and wine and all the restaurants that are gonna open and that then become trendy after.

• 22:30Conan O'Brien?

  Wow.

• 22:30Speaker 05

  Conversations in my house were nothing other than like this sauce, books about food everywhere, all the food critics books. So, yeah, I have a lot of close family. My brother's a chef at a fancy restaurant, so I have a lot of people that I dine with.

• 22:44Conan O'Brien?

  So, Alejandra, theoretically, if I were to be in Madrid and if you and I were to go out to a very late dinner at a nice restaurant, would your father come as well? And how would that go?

• 22:55Speaker 05

  I don't think I would invite him.

• 22:59Conan O'Brien?

  Why?

• 22:59Speaker 05

  Because he would then start talking to you about food, monopolize the conversation.

• 23:03Conan O'Brien?

  Oh, wait. Are you saying that someone could monopolize a conversation with me?

• 23:10Conan O'Brien?

  You really think so?

• 23:12Speaker 05

  He should worth the adversary.

• 23:14Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, so that's why I would insist that he come along. You tell, you tell Papa Blabbermouth that the big guns are coming to town, okay? I think I'm a world champion gabbler and I would insist that he come to dinner.

• 23:33Speaker 05

  My mom would swear that it isn't possible to outdo my dad.

• 23:37Conan O'Brien?

  I bet I can outtalk your dad. I bet I can talk, and here's the great thing. Your dad knows a lot. He has great knowledge. I know nothing about food. I know nothing about the food in Madrid. And yet, I will talk three times as much as your father about this stuff I know nothing about.

• 23:57Speaker 05

  But your stuff is funnier, though, so.

• 23:59Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, I don't, I'm not worried about that part.

• 24:03Conan O'Brien?

  I think, I don't know who this guy is, but I think I got him covered on comedy. But I will talk much more than your father. I will dominate the conversation. And I will make it all about me. That's my promise to you. Doesn't that sound fun?

• 24:16Speaker 05

  Well, then maybe him and you should go, and I am not invited.

• 24:20Conan O'Brien?

  No, no, I need you there. I need you there as the buffer, okay? I need you there as the buffer.

• 24:26Speaker 05

  All right, so, okay, maybe we invite him. Okay.

• 24:28Conan O'Brien?

  Yeah, I think it's you, me, your father. I think it's a very late dinner, traditional dinner at a nice restaurant uh, in, in Madrid. And I will dominate the conversation. And I will also um, ask my wife for some wisdom about raising children. Cause I, I, you know, she's the one that knows. I'm not even, I can't remember their names right now.

• 24:55Conan O'Brien?

  Stuart, Stuart, what is Stu? No, that's, no, that's um.

• 24:59Speaker 05

  Oh, come on, even I do.

• 25:00Conan O'Brien?

  That's Family Guy. Stewie. Stewie, yeah, that's a family, that's from a cartoon. I'll find out their names. I'm gonna be able to give you great advice on raising children, okay?

• 25:11Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 25:12Conan O'Brien?

  I'm uh, I'm delighted to meet you, Alejandra. And I do hope we get to have a meal someday. I want your father there because he's not gonna get one word out of his boca. That's mouth.

• 25:24Speaker 05

  Nice.

• 25:25Conan O'Brien?

  Eduardo, that's mouth.

• 25:29Conan O'Brien?

  Anyway. Alejandra, very nice to see you.

• 25:34Speaker 05

  Very nice to meet you. Thank you, guys, for this trip.

• 25:37Conan O'Brien?

  You're a very impressive person. Congratulations on all of your achievements. And uh, I hope we cross paths. That would be fun.

• 25:44Speaker 05

  I hope so. Thank you, guys. Bye to the three of you. Thank you for all the entertainment elapsed.

• 25:49Conan O'Brien?

  Bye, Alejandra.

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