Pod Insights Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend Conan and Sona in Morocco About this episode Conan and Sona report on their recent travel adventures from the backseat of a car in Morocco while en route to Marrakesh.
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0:14 Speaker 01 Yeah.
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0:19 Speaker 01 Yeah, your garage door breaks, and you're like, "Well, I have to fix it."
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1:20 Conan O'Brien? Hey there, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend.
1:27 Conan O'Brien? I'm joined, as always, by Sona Mobssacian.
1:29 Speaker 01 Hello.
1:29 Conan O'Brien? This is kind of a special moment in our podcast because we, at the moment, are in a car in Morocco. Sona and I are in the backseat of the car.
1:41 Speaker 01 Yep.
1:42 Conan O'Brien? Blay is in the front seat, shooting us, I think, for video capture. And Rashid is our driver. Hello, Rashid. Hello. Rashid is helping us out. He's driving, and I may occasionally ask Rashid for any kind of help we might need, like content or humor.
2:01 Speaker 01 That's good.
2:02 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. So here's the story. Shooting an episode, along with Sona, of Conan O'Brien Must Go, I visited a fan who lives in Casablanca.
2:12 Speaker 01 Yeah.
2:13 Conan O'Brien? So we flew into Casablanca, right? And we shot there for, what, two days?
2:19 Speaker 01 Yeah, we were there for two nights.
2:20 Conan O'Brien? Mm-hmm. And we hung out with our fan, who was very cool, and we had a good time with him.
2:26 Speaker 01 Yeah, sir.
2:27 Conan O'Brien? Then...
2:27 Speaker 01 Can you say his name? Are we allowed to?
2:31 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, go ahead.
2:32 Speaker 01 Yeah, sir.
2:33 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
2:33 Speaker 01 Yeah, he's a cool guy.
2:34 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, well, what'd you say? Can we say his name?
2:36 Speaker 01 I don't know. Is this, we can talk openly and say all the things?
2:41 Conan O'Brien? Well, yeah, we're safe. We're far from America, in the backseat of a car, driving through the desert. So you can say whatever you want.
2:48 Speaker 01 Okay, I didn't know how much of the episode you wanted to discuss, because I wish, I should have asked questions before we recorded.
2:57 Conan O'Brien? This is okay.
2:58 Speaker 01 I was talking about Howie Do It, and I just started.
3:01 Conan O'Brien? You started making yourself laugh really hard. I was going to launch into, you know, why we're here, where in the country we are, some of the customs and traditions, but you, seconds before we started recording, started laughing really hard, and I asked you why, and you said, because there was that famous song, right? This is how we do it.
3:19 Speaker 01 This is how we do it.
3:20 Conan O'Brien? And then you said online, there was a guy whose name is Howie Do It, right? And why don't you tell us, when you control it, when you get yourself under control?
3:28 Speaker 01 There's a picture of this guy. He's just a guy, and his name is Howie. His first name is Howie, and his last name is Do It.
3:35 Conan O'Brien? Yep.
3:35 Speaker 01 And then it just has the song looping that's just saying, this is how we do it.
3:41 Conan O'Brien? Right. And how long were you, how long were you watching that for?
3:48 Speaker 01 It's not how long I watched it one time, it's how many times do I watch it in like a week?
3:54 Conan O'Brien? And what made you start laughing about this now, in, in, deep in Morocco, near the Algerian border?
4:02 Speaker 01 I don't know.
4:03 Conan O'Brien? Okay.
4:03 Speaker 01 I have no idea, but it was also, um, somebody sang the song, and it makes me instantly think of that. I'm sorry, you know what? Ooh.
4:12 Conan O'Brien? Oh wow, that was cool. We were almost, almost hit the car ahead of us.
4:15 Speaker 01 Anyway, I'm sorry.
4:16 Conan O'Brien? That was not Rashid's fault, because the car ahead of us hit the brakes.
4:19 Speaker 01 No.
4:20 Conan O'Brien? And, um, it was a mom walking her child across the street.
4:23 Speaker 01 Yeah.
4:23 Conan O'Brien? Which is illegal. She shouldn't have to do that.
4:26 Speaker 01 I think it's normal.
4:27 Conan O'Brien? So let me give everyone, now that we got, this is how we do it, have your, uh, have your system. Flew into Casablanca, right? Then, we, we finish up with the fan, and it's time to go to the desert, okay? Here's, I thought was a funny part of the whole situation. We're at the airport in Casablanca.
4:46 Speaker 01 Yeah.
4:47 Conan O'Brien? And, we can't leave, because somehow our papers weren't in order.
4:52 Speaker 01 Yeah.
4:52 Conan O'Brien? And, we couldn't get on our plane. So, we were stuck in Casablanca, because we didn't have our papers, Rick. Of course, a nod to the famous film, Casablanca. And, um, and then what's the whole plot of Casablanca? No one can leave, because they don't have their exit visas, they're trapped. And, so, I kept going up to the officials, and saying, "You've gotta help me, Rick, you've gotta help me, Rick," like Peter Laurie. And, they didn't know what I was talking about.
5:19 Speaker 01 Oh, they didn't know?
5:20 Conan O'Brien? No, no, they didn't know, and, um, I was jailed for a while.
5:23 Speaker 01 Oh, maybe if you went as Ilsa, they would've been like...
5:25 Conan O'Brien? You know what? That was my mistake, I should've dressed up as Ilsa.
5:28 Speaker 01 Yeah, that would've been nice.
5:29 Conan O'Brien? Um, or else Humphrey Bogart. "Yeah, she, yeah, she," you know, just said, "Yeah, she."
5:34 Speaker 01 Yeah, no, you should've done that. Well, we were there for, what, four hours?
5:38 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, but we were only supposed to be there 20 minutes. And, anyone who knows me knows, I can do Peter Laurie going, "I need my papers, Rick, I need my papers," I can do that. For four hours, easily. I could've been there for three days.
5:52 Speaker 01 You could.
5:53 Conan O'Brien? And you know what? When people don't get something I'm doing, I love it, and I do it, I go twice as hard.
5:58 Speaker 01 I know, I know. Do you ever get tired of your own bits?
6:02 Conan O'Brien? Oh, god, no.
6:02 Speaker 01 Is there ever a time when you're like, "Oh, this, I've been doing this for a long time."
6:06 Conan O'Brien? Nope, no, no. I'm always just so happy to be trapped inside this guy. Okay, what a weird way to put it. Finally, we get out of Casablanca. Right?
6:20 Conan O'Brien? We get out of Casablanca, and we fly, we take a plane and we fly for, I don't know, 45 minutes, an hour.
6:26 Speaker 01 Yeah.
6:27 Conan O'Brien? Way to the east, right to the, near the border, because we wanna have, uh, some, that sweet Sahara sand look, you know, the classic look of camels and dunes. What was the name of the place we stayed, Blay?
6:40 Speaker 03 Uh, it was in, it was, it was in, for, uh... This is Merzogah.
6:46 Conan O'Brien? Merzogah.
6:47 Speaker 01 Merzogah.
6:48 Speaker 03 Merzogah.
6:49 Conan O'Brien? Merzogah. Uh, we stayed in Merzogah and um, we hung out there and it was incredibly hot. So hot that our uh, camera equipment could fry.
7:01 Speaker 01 Yeah.
7:02 Conan O'Brien? Melt down if we didn't uh, keep it cool enough. And boy, did we found a place I'm never supposed to hang out, didn't we?
7:09 Speaker 01 Oh my god.
7:11 Conan O'Brien? I mean, it was a hundred and five in the shade.
7:13 Speaker 01 You.
7:14 Conan O'Brien? It was incredible.
7:14 Speaker 01 Just the, just the elements are working against your biology.
7:18 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
7:18 Speaker 01 And I saw it in real time.
7:19 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, but it was fine and it's beautiful.
7:22 Speaker 01 Yeah, it is.
7:23 Conan O'Brien? And you and I had some adventures there.
7:26 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
7:26 Conan O'Brien? Uh, we had a very special treatment that'll be featured in the show. Where we get buried in sand, you and I.
7:32 Speaker 01 Yeah.
7:33 Conan O'Brien? Which is incredibly hot when they first do it and you think you're gonna die.
7:35 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
7:36 Conan O'Brien? And then your body shuts down, you don't feel it anymore. So that was fun.
7:40 Speaker 01 It shut down?
7:41 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, I, I died for a while.
7:43 Speaker 01 Oh.
7:43 Conan O'Brien? They had to resuscitate me.
7:44 Speaker 01 That did not happen to me.
7:45 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. I was medevac to a hospital in Aspen, Colorado and then flown back to the shoot. So that's why this remote is taking us over nine years to shoot. Um, then, today was the day where we need to drive, cause we're ma- now making our way to Marrakesh.
8:03 Speaker 01 Yeah.
8:04 Conan O'Brien? So to get to Marrakesh is a very long drive. We are on our way to Quarsazate. Quarsazate.
8:15 Speaker 01 Is that right, Rashid?
8:16 Speaker 03 Quarsazate, yes.
8:17 Speaker 01 Quarsazate.
8:18 Conan O'Brien? I think the way I said it was more accurate, Rashid.
8:21 Speaker 01 Oh my god.
8:22 Speaker 03 Quarsazate.
8:22 Conan O'Brien? It's so rude of you to correct me. Um, do I correct you when you say Newton North or Brookline High?
8:31 Speaker 01 Two things he's never said in his life.
8:35 Speaker 01 And will never say.
8:38 Conan O'Brien? You know, when he says, "Hey, let's go over to Roxbury." And, um, "Let's get a roast beef sandwich at Buzz's Roast Beef." I don't start parsing his pronunciations. Anyway, um, we are gonna fly from Corazate to, uh, Marrakech. Then we'll be in Marrakech and we'll shoot there.
8:57 Speaker 01 Yeah.
8:57 Conan O'Brien? Um, and Marrakech is gonna have, that's gonna be a little more luxe, I think. It's gonna be a lot of shops and bazaars and stores.
9:06 Speaker 01 Yes.
9:06 Conan O'Brien? Maybe I'll buy you something.
9:08 Speaker 01 A lot, you'll buy, you can buy me a lot of stuff.
9:11 Conan O'Brien? No, I can't. I don't have a lot of money.
9:12 Speaker 01 Oh, okay.
9:13 Conan O'Brien? Very famously, I've not done well.
9:15 Speaker 01 I'll just charge it to the show.
9:17 Conan O'Brien? You can't.
9:18 Speaker 01 Okay. I just want a lot of stuff. I want a bag. I want stuff for the boys. I want something for Tac. I want stuff for my house.
9:24 Conan O'Brien? Okay. Um, I'm just gonna end that now. Yeah, I'm just gonna end that now. Uh, so, we are on our way to Marrakech, and that got me thinking. It'd be great if we could sing a song in the car about going to Marrakech. And then, of course, there's that Crosby, Stills, Nash song.
9:42 Speaker 01 Oh, I thought you were gonna say, "This is how we do it."
9:45 Conan O'Brien? No, no. That was my second thought, but not my first thought. You know, um, Blay, you know this song. "All aboard that train to meet you in Marrakech, all aboard." Well, listen, I bring it up for a reason. I've never liked that song.
10:00 Speaker 01 Oh, no!
10:00 Conan O'Brien? I don't love that song, and it's the only song I know that's about Marrakech. And so I thought we should come up with our own song about Marrakech.
10:08 Speaker 01 Okay.
10:09 Conan O'Brien? And then maybe we can use it on this travel show.
10:12 Speaker 01 Oh, that sounds fun.
10:13 Conan O'Brien? And if it catches on, we own the rights.
10:16 Speaker 01 Yeah, if it catches on. Uh, you know, I'm tone deaf, but it's okay. I'll do my best.
10:21 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, so what are you thinking? Have you got any ideas for a song on our way to Marrakech?
10:25 Speaker 01 Marrakech, oh Marrakech. It's a land of things to buy, and it's-
10:37 Conan O'Brien? You weren't, you weren't kidding when you said tone deaf. I forgot.
10:39 Speaker 01 Really bad.
10:40 Conan O'Brien? You can't, um-
10:43 Speaker 01 Oh, Marrakech.
10:46 Conan O'Brien? What?
10:48 Speaker 01 What are you doing? What are you contributing to this?
10:51 Conan O'Brien? You sound like you're not even that interested in Marrakesh. You like Marrakesh passed you. It's nearby, it's kind of across the street. You don't really want to say hi to Marrakesh. So you went, "Oh Marrakesh." Do you know what I mean? You don't want to stop and chat with Marrakesh.
11:05 Speaker 01 It's supposed to be revelatory.
11:07 Conan O'Brien? Marrakesh like dissed you at a party. You got some beef with Marrakesh. But you still kind of like Marrakesh, but you're not ready to talk yet. That's the way you just greeted Marrakesh.
11:17 Speaker 01 Maybe it's a diss track to Marrakesh. Yo, this is Marrakesh. Marrakesh can suck it.
11:25 Conan O'Brien? Okay, you don't want to do that.
11:26 Speaker 01 No, no, no, I don't want to go that. Yeah.
11:28 Conan O'Brien? Not while we're in country.
11:29 Speaker 01 And I don't mean it, because I'm actually really excited.
11:31 Conan O'Brien? No one, you know the great thing about you, Sona? No one listens to anything you're really saying.
11:35 Speaker 01 That's so true.
11:35 Conan O'Brien? They sort of, they get the gist, but no one's, no one would be offended, even in, living in Marrakesh.
11:41 Speaker 01 When I first started singing the "Oh Marrakesh" one, that was me kind of trying to do "Oh Canada," but with "Oh Marrakesh." And it didn't work. But what's yours?
11:50 Conan O'Brien? Moving along, along to Marrakesh. Moving along, along to Marrakesh. I could put my troubles on the back of a camel. Moving along, I gotta go to Marrakesh. Break down.
12:04 Speaker 01 No, when you beatbox, you kill it. No, no, no, no, no. When you, when you, also, what genre was that?
12:10 Conan O'Brien? I don't know.
12:11 Speaker 01 It started folky, and then you started doing a beatbox? And that doesn't make sense.
12:15 Conan O'Brien? Okay, hold on. Well, sometimes you're supposed to mix genres, and that creates a whole new genre, and then you're remembered forever.
12:21 Speaker 01 Oh, you're being an innovator.
12:23 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. Uh, well, anyway, we'll think about that. I don't know, I don't know that between us, we're gonna come up with a song. For Marrakesh.
12:31 Speaker 01 Marrakesh.
12:32 Conan O'Brien? I don't know if we're gonna come up with it, Marrakeh.
12:34 Speaker 01 Marrakesh.
12:35 Conan O'Brien? Um, hey, I wanna have a sesh in Marrakesh.
12:39 Speaker 01 Yeah.
12:39 Conan O'Brien? Isn't that sesh, short for session, sesh?
12:41 Speaker 01 Sesh, yeah.
12:42 Conan O'Brien? I wanna have a-
12:43 Speaker 01 But what kind of sesh?
12:44 Conan O'Brien? Sex sesh. I wanna have a sex sesh in Marrakesh. I wanna ha- hey, Rashid is laughing. Rashid, do you like this? I want, what's that, you like it? I'm gonna have a sex sesh in Marrakesh.
12:59 Conan O'Brien? He like, he loves it.
13:00 Speaker 01 I don't think anyone's ever called it a sesh before.
13:03 Conan O'Brien? Well, you know what I like?
13:04 Speaker 01 A sex sesh.
13:05 Conan O'Brien? A sex sesh is you're having, you're hooking up, you're knocking boots, but you're also keeping records for, uh, your tax attorney.
13:15 Conan O'Brien? You're monitoring the time? You're making sure that... Any suggestions made during sex are kept and sent to an inter-office memo. "I'm gonna have a sex sesh in Marrakech."
13:29 Speaker 01 It's the least sexiest song I think I've ever heard.
13:32 Conan O'Brien? Well, but one of the least sexiest, not the least sexiest, that means it's kinda sexy.
13:37 Speaker 01 What? Oh, I guess, yeah, no, it's just not, it's just a bad song.
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18:09 Conan O'Brien? What do you think so far? What are your observations about Morocco?
18:13 Speaker 01 First of all, I love how they drive. I think Americans are a little uptight. But these guys, you know, if someone's in front of them and they're driving slow, they just pass them.
18:23 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, even if cars are coming in the other direction.
18:25 Speaker 01 Even if carpet, everyone's chill.
18:27 Conan O'Brien? And even if everyone's killed, they still don't mind.
18:28 Speaker 01 Yeah, oh, oh, God.
18:30 Conan O'Brien? Another thing that I have noticed, the food is great. I mean, Moroccan food always great.
18:35 Speaker 01 Every meal has been.
18:36 Conan O'Brien? Every meal we have is fantastic.
18:38 Speaker 01 Toot! And then I realized on this trip, I love camels. And then.
18:43 Conan O'Brien? Camels are cool.
18:44 Speaker 01 Yes.
18:45 Conan O'Brien? They're very smart. They seem like they have, they're very soulful.
18:48 Speaker 01 Yes.
18:49 Conan O'Brien? And, uh, and man, you're up so high when you're on a camel. It's fantastic.
18:53 Speaker 01 I almost fell off getting on and off.
18:55 Conan O'Brien? That would have been good. I mean, it's, it's, no, it would have been good footage if you were falling off. Cause we could play it, you falling and then bloop, backwards and then falling off again and backwards and put sound effects on it.
19:06 Speaker 01 I don't know why that's what you think of. You should have, how about like, oh, I'm so glad you didn't, Sona. It's nice that you didn't fall off the giant camel.
19:15 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, it's really funny to put a sound effect to someone not falling off a camel. That's hilarious. "How you doing up there? Well, I'm perfectly comfortable and I'm setting very steady on this camel." That's not funny.
19:26 Speaker 01 Come on!
19:27 Conan O'Brien? You can't do that yo-yo sound.
19:31 Speaker 01 I didn't think I would enjoy the desert as much as I did.
19:34 Conan O'Brien? You're, if you had done America's Funniest Home Videos, but all the videos were a kid. Kid walking very carefully around a pool and not falling. Um, someone walking in with a tray of meatballs and none of them fall off.
19:46 Speaker 01 Yeah.
19:46 Conan O'Brien? But you put funny sound effects to it.
19:48 Speaker 01 Yeah.
19:48 Conan O'Brien? Here's some meatballs and they look just fine.
19:53 Conan O'Brien? As they set them down on the table and nothing bad happens. Wouldn't that be a great America's Funniest Home Videos?
19:59 Speaker 01 You just make normal mundane videos.
20:01 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. Uh oh, there's, there's grandpa, there's grandpa on the, uh, there's grandpa on the diving board. And oh, that was a nice, simple dive and he seems fine.
20:13 Conan O'Brien? I'm gonna have a sex sesh in Maris. Wait, gonna have a sex sesh in Ma- in, in Marrakech.
20:19 Speaker 01 I don't like how you're doubling down on this, this song, the sex sesh in Marrakech. It doesn't even roll off the tongue. Can you say it three times fast?
20:28 Conan O'Brien? Gonna have a success in Marrakech, gonna have a success in Marrakech, gonna have a success.
20:31 Speaker 01 You said sesh sesh, that's not.
20:33 Conan O'Brien? Gonna have a sex sesh in Marrakech, gonna have a sex sesh in Marrakech, gonna have a sex sesh in Marrakech.
20:37 Speaker 01 Okay, that was good.
20:38 Conan O'Brien? Not bad.
20:38 Speaker 01 Yeah, not bad.
20:39 Conan O'Brien? This will catch on, it will be huge.
20:41 Speaker 01 No, it won't.
20:42 Conan O'Brien? Hey, do your Trump where you go, it's gonna be huge.
20:45 Speaker 01 It's gonna, my, my Trump, my Trump is, it's gonna be huge.
20:48 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
20:49 Speaker 01 It's gonna be huge.
20:51 Conan O'Brien? What?
20:51 Speaker 01 It's gonna be huge.
20:52 Conan O'Brien? You are the worst impressionist.
20:54 Speaker 01 I really am bad.
20:55 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
20:56 Speaker 01 But I, you know what? I commit, I try. Do you do it?
20:59 Conan O'Brien? No, I can't do it. He's, he's not a big enough figure. And he's not, I don't think enough people sort of know how he talks or find him ridiculous. So how can you, how can you do an impression of someone like that?
21:11 Speaker 01 Oh, I just did. But okay, you can't do it, that's fine.
21:14 Conan O'Brien? We're rolling along, we're rolling along, we're on our way to the next flight. This has been a lot of travel, but you know what? I've noticed when we sit down and have the food.
21:23 Speaker 01 Yeah.
21:23 Conan O'Brien? I keep thinking the same thing and I'm, I keep saying, Sona, is this what it's like in your family? Because it's lots of plates that are filled with various dips and breads. And everyone reaches in and gloop, gloop, gloop. And I thought, this must be very much your home. And everyone's sort of shouting and having fun. I mean, our crew.
21:39 Speaker 01 You were asking this question, I couldn't tell if you were like making fun of me.
21:43 Conan O'Brien? No, no, no, no.
21:44 Speaker 01 Or if you were actually saying it.
21:45 Conan O'Brien? You are Armenian, you are not Moroccan.
21:47 Speaker 01 Yes.
21:47 Conan O'Brien? But I've. Notice that there are certain similarities. There's Baba Ganoush.
21:51 Speaker 01 Yeah.
21:51 Conan O'Brien? Which you love. There's various, uh, flatbreads. There's a lot of, um, you know, fresh wholesome vegetables.
21:58 Speaker 01 Yeah.
21:59 Conan O'Brien? Um, and of course, the chickens are amazing.
22:01 Speaker 01 Yeah, they're so good.
22:02 Conan O'Brien? But it just made me think of your family.
22:04 Speaker 01 It, it's a, it's like a collection of little plates and dips and bread, and then the main dishes. Yes. In that way, yes. And we're, are we loud? Yeah.
22:14 Conan O'Brien? You guys are very loud.
22:15 Speaker 01 Okay, well, you, like, you guys weren't loud. Six kids.
22:18 Conan O'Brien? Nothing like you. You're the loudest person. You're the la- loudest mammal I've encountered.
22:26 Conan O'Brien? I'm including other, you know, I mean, just, it's incredible.
22:30 Speaker 01 I, no.
22:32 Conan O'Brien? I once tried.
22:32 Speaker 01 Am I?
22:33 Conan O'Brien? I once tried to help.
22:34 Speaker 01 Pretty loud.
22:35 Conan O'Brien? I once tried to help a bear that was screaming for its life out of a bear trap. And you were twice as loud as that bear. And, and when I let the bear out of the trap, it attacked me. Cause it was my trap.
22:47 Speaker 01 I have a hard time.
22:48 Conan O'Brien? I set the trap.
22:48 Speaker 01 I'm moving on. I had a hard time believing you and your
22:53 Conan O'Brien? We were loud.
22:53 Speaker 01 Five siblings.
22:54 Conan O'Brien? We were loud.
22:54 Speaker 01 Were like precious sitting, eating your ham and your potatoes and your boiled food.
23:00 Conan O'Brien? Each one of us had our own ham and it hung on a rope above where we sat at the table. So there were six kids, my mom and my dad and my grandmother. So that's nine hams hanging from nine ropes around a circular table in the kitchen on Canard Road in Brookline. And, um.
23:17 Speaker 01 Like oxygen, oxygen masks falling from an airplane.
23:21 Conan O'Brien? In an emergency, a ham would drop down. And we'd all bat at it and
23:28 Conan O'Brien? And then, you know, it was like that scene in, uh, the first, um, Jurassic Park where when it's over, the person on the roof would raise the hams and they would come up and it was just bones. And, and pieces of metal twisted cage. Uh, I just added the cage in there. So.
23:43 Speaker 01 You were allowed to, but we're allowed.
23:45 Conan O'Brien? We've drifted. Anyone who's tuning in right now has no idea that we're in the backseat of a car driving through the desert in Morocco on our way to Marrakech.
23:55 Speaker 01 Yeah, if you're just tuning in to this podcast.
23:57 Conan O'Brien? If you're just tuning in. Well, I don't know how it works.
24:01 Speaker 01 How do you not know how it works? It's been like eight years that you've been doing one.
24:05 Conan O'Brien? Picasso didn't understand how the paints were made.
24:08 Speaker 01 What?
24:08 Conan O'Brien? He, he used the, he used the medium, uh, in a masterful way and to find a. Defined a generation, really created 20th century art. So I think I'm doing the same thing with whatever this is. I don't even have to know what it is. But we're in Morocco and this is cool. We're, we're on to Mar- I've never been to Marrakech, have you?
24:28 Speaker 01 I've never been to Africa.
24:30 Conan O'Brien? Oh, that's right.
24:31 Speaker 01 I've never been to Africa and we, I haven't traveled with you since like 2017, I think.
24:37 Conan O'Brien? That's right. It's been fun having you. I will say that. You've been a great addition.
24:41 Speaker 01 I miss this.
24:42 Conan O'Brien? We've been having a really good time and I think you couldn't come for a long time because your kids were so little.
24:46 Speaker 01 Yeah.
24:46 Conan O'Brien? Now they're old enough. You were FaceTiming with them the other day and I got on and they get, they know who I am, obviously. And I mean, I'm their, their, their godfather.
24:56 Speaker 01 Yeah.
24:56 Conan O'Brien? Um, "I'm gonna make him an offer they can't refuse." Isn't that funny? That's pretty topical.
25:00 Speaker 01 Yeah, that's good.
25:01 Conan O'Brien? Um.
25:02 Speaker 01 That's very topical.
25:03 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. Uh, and.
25:05 Speaker 01 It's all the rage right now.
25:06 Conan O'Brien? It's a movie.
25:07 Speaker 01 Godfather.
25:07 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. "Use all your powers, use all your skills. I don't want his mother to see him like this." That's.
25:12 Speaker 01 Is that Trump?
25:13 Conan O'Brien? That's my Trump.
25:20 Conan O'Brien? "Use all your powers, use all your skills on the economy." That's, you know what's funny? I'm doing political comedy right now.
25:27 Speaker 01 Yeah, I know.
25:28 Conan O'Brien? It's very edgy.
25:29 Speaker 01 Yeah.
25:29 Conan O'Brien? And also The New York Times is gonna love it because it's very smart and incisive.
25:33 Speaker 01 You know what? Yeah.
25:34 Conan O'Brien? "You know what I'm gonna do to Iran? I'm gonna make him an offer they can't refuse." Right? That's just, I mean, that's, I'm gonna get all of the best prizes for being smart.
25:42 Speaker 01 But they can refuse it and they have refused it.
25:45 Conan O'Brien? Listen, but that's part of, oh, this is, I can't believe I'm a satirist now.
25:49 Speaker 01 Yeah, you are. Okay.
25:51 Conan O'Brien? I'm pretty incisive.
25:52 Speaker 01 Uh, but yeah, no, you're their godfather. They saw you. They were really excited. They love their Uncle Conan.
25:58 Conan O'Brien? But what I'm saying is they can now handle you taking off, so maybe you'll come on more trips.
26:02 Speaker 01 Yeah. I would love to come on more trips. This was, this has been so fun. It's nice. It's nice for me to get away.
26:10 Conan O'Brien? And how does Tac do looking after the kids when you're gone?
26:12 Speaker 01 He's great. He's such a good dad and he's able to handle it. He's on top of it. He feeds them, gets them ready for school, takes them all by after school stuff.
26:23 Conan O'Brien? That's getting boring. Um, when you said feeds them, I was like, okay, now we're gonna go down the list of meeting basic human needs. He waters them. He makes sure that-
26:34 Speaker 01 How nervous was Liza every time she left you alone with your children?
26:38 Conan O'Brien? Do you think she left me alone with the kids?
26:39 Speaker 01 No, I don't.
26:40 Conan O'Brien? No. No, she would not.
26:44 Speaker 01 I won't blame her.
26:45 Conan O'Brien? She knew better. I would use them for bits and they would be lost. I'd say, "I don't know where they were." The whole bit was they get on the bus and I don't know where it's going. That's the bit, Liza. So, no. Liza's an incredibly smart woman and that's the last thing she would ever do.
27:00 Speaker 01 Yes. Yes.
27:02 Conan O'Brien? And here's the thing. Oh, wow. Rashid, so Rashid peeks around the truck. And look at this. Then he guns it and passes the truck. Now Rashid, have you ever had a close call where you came around to go forward and then you almost got nailed?
27:15 Speaker 03 Uh, no.
27:17 Conan O'Brien? What'd he say? He doesn't want to talk about it?
27:20 Speaker 01 Wait, when do you go off-road?
27:22 Speaker 03 Off-road? No. Today, no.
27:23 Speaker 01 Oh, okay.
27:24 Speaker 03 Today, no.
27:25 Speaker 01 Have you ever gotten close to an accident?
27:29 Speaker 03 Accident... for... last night or what?
27:33 Conan O'Brien? No! Last night? No one said last night!
27:38 Conan O'Brien? Rashid, you just blew your cover. Rashid, you're wanted for a hit-and-run.
27:44 Conan O'Brien? They're looking for you.
27:47 Speaker 01 No wonder the front of the car's all tinted.
27:49 Conan O'Brien? Last night? Rashid, you would be terrible in police questioning. "Sir, do you know anything about a crime last night?" Murder last night? Me? The sorority? Rashid?
28:05 Conan O'Brien? Oh, my God. All right. Rashid, you're gonna have to be a regular part of the podcast now. You're coming with us to Los Angeles.
28:12 Speaker 01 Yay!
28:13 Conan O'Brien? You're gonna live with Sona and Tac and all of her relatives. You'll sit at a long table.
28:17 Speaker 01 We don't all live in one house!
28:19 Conan O'Brien? Oh, please. You know you will.
28:20 Speaker 01 That's not how it works!
28:21 Conan O'Brien? You guys sleep in a bunk bed that's 13 beds tall. Your dad's on the top, right? He puts little weights on his mustache so it unfolds over the side of the bunk bed. Um, I love Gil, you know that, but he has a mustache. It's ridiculous.
28:39 Speaker 01 Don't say it's ridiculous.
28:41 Conan O'Brien? What?
28:42 Speaker 01 Gil's mustache is not ridiculous, it's the coolest.
28:44 Conan O'Brien? No, no, he's a handsome man, he's a good guy, but it makes him very easy... I can become Gil at any time by just sticking a napkin under my nose and saying, "Sona, Sona." It's one of my better things that I do.
28:54 Speaker 01 Is it better? Is it one of your better things?
28:55 Conan O'Brien? It's my best impression, it's better than my Trump. "I'm gonna make it out for I can't refuse." I only do that because the movie's so new. Alright, Sona, we're gonna wrap it up, but this is exciting, people are gonna hear this back home.
29:09 Speaker 01 Yeah.
29:09 Conan O'Brien? And this is, and look, I'm gonna lower the window and you're just gonna hear what it's like outside in Morocco.
29:18 Conan O'Brien? You can hear the desert, listen.
29:23 Speaker 01 Wow. I'm sorry, me talking about tech feeding the kids was boring?
29:29 Conan O'Brien? I'm trying to be international here, hold on a second. There's a, uh-oh. There's a policeman and he's looking at me holding the microphone out the window. Oh wait, he's scrolling through his phone, we're okay. Anyway, I put the microphone out the window and it's just air passing over a microphone. I didn't really think that through. But I thought it was still fascinating and a worthwhile experiment. Okay, well, Sona, I loved this trip, I can't wait for people to see what we've been up to.
29:55 Speaker 01 Yes.
29:55 Conan O'Brien? And, uh, let's continue with your regularly scheduled podcasts. And remember, gonna have a sexesh in Marrakech. Right?
30:07 Speaker 01 No, I like mine better.
30:08 Conan O'Brien? Okay. Peace out.
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