Reflecting on the Trip

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Yeah. So here's the story shooting an episode along with Sona of of Conan O'Brien M go I visited a fan who lives in Casablanca. Yeah. So we flew into Casablanca, right? And we shopp there for what, two days? Yeah, we were there for two nights. and We hung out with our fan who was very cool And we had a good time with him Yes, sir. them. Can you say his name Are we allowed to Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, sir Yeah, he's a cool guy. Yeah. why'd you say can we say his name? I don't know is this we can talk openly and say all the things Well, yeah, we're safe. We're far from America. We're in the backseat of a car driving through the desert. so you can say whatever you want. Okay, I I didn't know how much of the episode. Yeah. you wanted to discuss because I wish I should have asked questions before we recorded. This is okay. I was talking about how we do it and I just start. 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 as some of the customs and traditions But you seconds before we started recording I started laughing really hard and I asked you why and you said Because there was that famous song, right? This is how we This is how we do it. And then you said online, there was a guy whose name is how we do it Right Why't you tell us someong when you can contro when you get yourself under control? 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. Yeah. And then it just has the sog looping. It'ust saying this is how we do it. Right Um, and how long were you How long were you watching that for? It's not how long I watched it One time, it's how many times do I watch it? Okay like a week. And what made you start laughing about this now in deep in Morocco near the Algerian border. Okay. I have no idea, but it was also somebody sang the song and it makes me instantly think of that. I'm sorry, you know what Oh wow, that's cool. We were almost Al almost hit the car ahead of us. Anyway, I'm sorry. It was not Rashid's fault because the car ahead of us hit the brakes. No. And it was a mom walking her child across the street. Yeah, which is illegal shouldn't have to do that Okay normal. So let me give everyone now that we got this is how we do it your have your system. If we went to 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. Yeah and we can't leave because somehow our papers weren't in order. Yeah and we couldn't get on our plane So we were stuck in Casablanca because we didn't have our papers rink. Of course a nod to the famous film Casablanca. and 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. been saying You've got to help me rink, you've got to help me rink like Peter Laurie, and they didn't know what I was talking about. Oh, they didn't know. No, No, they didn't know. And I was jailed for a while. Oh, maybe if you went as Ilsa, they would have been like, you know what? That was my mistake. I should have dressed up as Ilsa. Yeah, that would have been nice. O else Humphrey Bogart. Yeah, she, yeah, she, you know, just said, yeah, she. Yeah No, you should have done that. Well we were there for what four hours. Yeah, but we were only supposed to be there twenty minutes Anyone who knows me knows, I can Peter Laurie going I need my papers. Hide my papers. I can do that for four hours easily. I could have done it for three days. You could. 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. I know. Yeah. I know. Do you ever get tired of your own bits? Oh Godd now. Is there ever a time when you're like, Oh, this I've been doing this for a long time? 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 We get out of Casablanca And we fly. we take a plane and we fly for I don know forty five minutes an hour. Yeah. way to the east. Right to the near the border because we want to have 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 in it was in Mu Merua h we sit in Mrizogga. And we hung out there and it was incredibly hot So hot that our camera equipment could fry. Yeah melt down If we didn't keep it cool enough and boy did we found a place I'm never supposed to hang out, didnidn't we? Oh my God. I mean, it was one hundred five in the shade. It was incredible. Just just the elements are working against your biology. Yeah And I saw it in real time. Yeah, But it was fine and it's beautiful. Yeah, it is. And you and I Had some adventures there. We had a very special treatment that'll be featured in the show where we get buried in sand, you and I, which is incredibly hot when they first do it and you think you're going to die. And then your body shuts down, you don't feel it anymore So that was fun And how Yeah, I died for a while. They had to resuscitate me. It did not happen to me. I was metifact to a hospital in Aspen, Colorado. and then flung back to the she So that's why this remote is taking us over nine years to shoot. Then Today was a day where we need to drive because we're now making our way to Marraesh. Yeah. So to get to Mar cash, is a very long drive. We are on our way to Carzazate. Caratte Is that right Rashid? I think the way I said it was more accurate for Shid. Oh my Godd. It's so rude of you to correct me. Um Do I correct you when you say Newton North or Brookline High U two things he's never said in his life I will never save I dont you know, he says, Hey, let's go over to Roxbury and let's get a roast beef sandwich at Buzzy's Roast beef. I don't start Parsing is pronunciations Anyway, we are going to fly from Korzzate to Marraesh. Then we'll be in Marrakh and we'll shoot there. Yeah. And Marrah is going have That's going to be a little more luxe, I think. It's going to be a lot of shops and bazaars and stores. maybe I'll buy you something A lot of you'll buy you can buy me a lot of No, I can't. I don't have a lot of money. Okay. Very famously, I've not done well. I'll just charge it to the show. You can't. Okay. I just want a lot of stuff. I want a bag. I want stuff for the boys. I want something for Tack I want stuff for my house. Okay Um, o, I'm just gonna to end o. Yeah, I'm just going to end that now U So we are on our way to Americish and that got me thinking It wouldd be great if we could sing a song in the car about going to Marrakh and then Of course, there's that Crosby Stills Nash song. Oh, I thought you were going say This is how we do it. No. Okay. That was my second thought but not my first thought You know, Bloy, you know this song all abard the train Med cash. Oh boy. Well listen, I bring it up for a reason. I've never liked that song. Oh no. I don't love that song and It's the only song I know that's about Marrakeh. And so I thought we should come up with our own song about Marrakeh. Okay. And then maybe we can use it on this T travel show. Oh, that sounds fun. If it catches on, we own the rights Yeah, if it catches on. you know, I'm tone deaf But it's okay. I'll do my best. Yeah. so what are you thinking?ave you any ideas for a song on our way to Americash? Ameres Oh manash the land of Things to buy were you weren't kidding when you said toned up I forgot. Really bad. You can't Oh, Merkees What What do you heal Well what are you doing? What are you contributing to?ound like you're not even that interested in Mariesh. you like like Markh passed you. It's nearby it's kind of across the street. You don't really want to say hi Aarkh. you went Aarkesh. Do know what I mean? You don't want to stop a chat with Marrakesh. It's supposed Mh Re Aarh like dissed you. party. You got some beef with Markh But you still kind of like Marraesh, but you're not ready to talk yet. That's the way you just greeted Markh. Maybe it's a distract to Marrah Yo This is Mirkh. Merkes can suck it. Okay. you don't w want to do No no, no, I don't want to not that Yeah not what I'm actually and I don't mean it because I'm actually really excited. No one, you know, the great thing about you Sona, no one listens to anything you're saying They sort of They get the gist, but no one's no one would be offended even living in Marraes. When I first started singing the O Markh one, that was me kind of trying to do O Canada both O Aarices And it didn't work. What's yours? Moving along, along the Mares, moving along, along the Marraes. troubles on the back Camel, moving along, I gotta go to America break tamp No, When you beatbox, you kill it. No no, no, no, no. when you Al what genre was that? I don't know. It started fulky and then you started doing a beatbx and that doesn't make sense. Okay, hold on. Well, sometimes you're supposed to mix genres and that creates a whole new genre and then you're remembered forever. Oh, you're being an innovator. Yeah 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 Marash. Mar We're come up with it a Mar. Marash. U Hey, I wanna have a sash in Marag cash.. Isn't that such short for sess, sash? Ses. Yeah. I wanna. But what kind of sash? Sex sash Oh I wantna have a sex session Marow cash I wna Hey, Rashida's laughing Rashid, do you like this? I wantna What's that? You like it? I'm going to have a sex is. In marriage. Yes He like he loves it. I' think anyone's ever called it a sash before. Well, you know what I like Sx sash sex sash is you're having your're hooking up You're knocking boots, but you're also keepeping records for your tax attorney 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 success in marriage. It's the least sexiest song I think I've ever heard. Well, but one of the least sexiest, not the least sexiest, so that means it's kind of sexy. What? Oh, I guess yeah, no, it's just not it's just a bad song College students don't get enough credit. That's my opinion. Yeah. 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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 Awesome. Yeah even if cars are coming in the other direction. Even if cars even if everyone's killed, they still don't mind. Yeah, o, o God. Another thing that I have noticed the food is great I mean, Morocco always great meal Every meal we have is fantastic. And then I realized on this trip I love camels And then camels are cool. Yeah. They're very smart They seem like they have they're very soulful. Yes. And man, you're up so high when you're on a camel. It's fantastic. I almost fell off getting on and off. That would have been good. I mean, it's it would have been good footage if you were falling off because if we could play it, you falling and then whoop backwards and then falling off again and backwards and put sound effects on it b 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 c 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 setittting very steady on this camel. That's not funny U Come on. Can't do that yoyo sound whoopoop U Anway, I would enjoy the desert as know loved your if you had done America's funniest homeome videos, but all the videos were a kid walking very carefully around a pool and not falling. U someomeone walking in with a tray of meatballs and none of them fall off but you put funny sound effects to it. Yeah. There's some meatballs and they look just fine boy as they set them down on the table and nothing bad happens. Wouldn't that be a great America's funnest f videos? You just make normal mundane videos. Yeah. oh, there's there's There's grandpa on the hisis grandma on the diving board and oh, that was a nice simple dive and he seems fine B I'm gonna have a sex session in Mara Wait, G have a sex session in Maresh. I don't like how you're doubling down on this this song, the sex session in Marrakh. It doesn't even roll off the tongue Can you say it Th three times fast. Gonna have a success in Maricashe, gonnaonna to have a success inmericash,onna have a succession in success. That's not Gonna have a success inarash. Gonna to have a success in Americaashe,onna have a success in Marice. Okay, that was good. Not bad. Yeah, not bad. This will catch on. It'll be huge. it won't. do your Trump where you go It's gonna be huge. It's my trump is all gonna be huge. Yeah. It's gonna be huge What He's gonna be you You are the worst impressionist. I really am bad. Yeah. But I you know what? I commit. I try. Do you do it? No, I got'ta do it.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 how can you do an impression of someone like that? Oh I just did. Okay. You can't do it that. You're roll along. We're rolling along, we're on our way to the next flight, this has been a lot of trable. But you know what, I've noticed when we sit down and have the food., I keep thinking the same thing. And 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 r Y. and everyone reaches in 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. You were asking this question. I couldn't tell if you were like making fun of it. No, no, no, no. O you are actually saying it. You are Armenian. you are Moroccan. Yes. But I've noticed that there are certain similarities. There's Baba Ganooe Yeah which you love. There's various flatbads There's a lot of, you know, fresh, wholesome vegetables. Yeah. And of course the chickens are amazing. Yeah, they're so good. But it just made me think of your family s It's like a collection of little plates and dips and bread and then the main dishes. Yes, in that way, Yes And we are we lowed? Yeah. You guys are very loud. Okay. well like you guys weren't loud. Six kids. Nothing like you. You the loudest person. You're the loudest mammal I've encountered including other, you know Let me just That's incredible. No I once tried. I once tried to help Pretty loud I once tried to help a bear that was screaming for its life out of a bear trap And you are twice as loud as that bear And when I let the bear out of the trap, it attacked me it was my trap. I have a hard time I set the trap. I'm moving on. I had a hard time believing you and your We were fiveive siblings. We were lowd. We were like precious sitting eating your ham and your potatoes in your boiled food. Each one of us had our own ham and it hung on a rope above where we sat at the table So there were kids My mom and my dad and my grandmother So that's nine hands hanging from nine ropes. around a circular table in the kitchen on Cannard Road in Brookline. and make oxygen masks you know falling from an a Yeah in an emergency, a ha would drop down and we'd all bat at it and g And then you know, it was like that scene in the first Jurassic Park where when it's over, the person on the roof would raise the hands and they would come up and it was just bones and pieces of metal twisted cage. I just added the cage in there So you were allowed to. we're allowed. We've drifted. Anyone who's tuning in right now has no idea that we're in the backseat of a car We driving through the desert in Morocco on our way to Marrakh. Yeah, if you're just tuning in to this podcast. if you're just tuning in, Well, I don't know how it works. How do you not know how it works? It's been like eight years that you've been doing what? Picasso didn't understand how the paints were made. he used he used the medium in a masterful way and to find a to find a generation really created twentieth 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'o and this is cool. We're on I've never been to America, of you? I've never been to Africa Oh, that's right. I've never been to Africa. and we I haven't traveled with you Since like twenty seventeen, I That's right. It's been fun having you. I will say that. you've been a great addition. I've been having. 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. Now they're old enough You were faceiming with him the other day and I got on and they get They know who I am obviously and I mean on their Godfather. Yeah. I'm gonna make my off I can refuse. Isn't that funny? That's pretty topical. Yeah, that's good. That's very topical. Yeah. And it's all the rage right now. That's a movie. Godfather. Yeah. U all your powers, you use all your skills, they don't want to mind and seem like this Is that a trump? That's my trump. on the economy. That's you know what's funny? I'm doing political comedy right now. I know. It's very edgy Yeah. And also the New York Times is gonna love it because it's very smart and incisive. You know what? Yeah