Summer S’pouses Episode 6: The Spouses Reunited

[MUSIC] Summer spouses with Conan O'Brien, Sonoma Vsessian, and Mack Gourley. And, Liza Paolo Bryan, Tak Baroyan, and Amanda Lund. [MUSIC] >> Okay, welcome to the sixth and sadly final episode of Summer spouses were well-gain divorced, but we're marrying each other spouses. >> Yes, exactly, this was just a long audio key party. It's basically what it turned into. >> He's on the mixer. [LAUGH] >> There will be winners and there will be losers. [LAUGH] >> Everyone's immediately sizing up like, oh yeah, this could go well or horribly, and I know where I fit in that equation. This has been fantastic. I heard this idea, and Matt, I want to give you credit. You had this concept, and I thought, wait a minute, that both frightens me and intrigues me. And I have to say I've been blown away, a little frightened from my job. Because, Liza, Amanda, Tak, you guys killed it today, really great. It was really nice. And I have to say that because Liza is my ride home. [LAUGH] >> And after that, nothing. >> After that, nothing. >> No, you nothing. >> So here we are, we've just had this incredibly intense experience. And you'd think we'd tape these all in one day. But no, that's not how we work. For authenticity, we've been slaving over this. For as many weeks as it takes to air six episodes, which by my count is six weeks. And we've not changed our clothes for six weeks. >> We haven't changed our clothes. >> No, we're right. >> But I would be. >> Yeah, I remember it, I was a little stickler for that. Everyone wore the same clothes. >> Yeah. >> And this has been, it's just an unusual thing to do. We must, so how did everybody feel about it, Tak? How did you feel about this experience? Were you worried going in? Did it work out the way you'd like it to? Go ahead. >> Yeah, I was nervous, but as soon as I got in, you make people feel comfortable. So immediately, I was just like, all right, it's its condone, you know? >> And your wife was in the room. >> Oh, and of course her. >> I want to say something, you always call him. >> I was getting to you. Sorry. >> Yeah. >> You always call me Coney and Cone Zone. >> Yeah. >> And it can tell Sonar doesn't like it. >> Yeah. >> It should be like, don't call him that. Don't call him that. >> Yeah. >> And I was like, why can't he call me Coney and Cone Zone? What's wrong with that? >> I like you guys being friends, but I don't like you being like bros. >> Right. >> I don't want the bros. It's like why I don't want you and Danny to be friends. >> That's your brother, Danny. >> I don't know, it's playing not Danny McBride, but your brother, Danny. >> Yeah, yeah. It's like my two, it's like, you know, I just feel like- >> It's too much. You want me kept it a distance. >> I just, yeah, I want you. >> Yes. >> And for that reason, I want to become your best friend of the whole world. >> I want to be by every day. >> I am being my friend. Let's do it. Amanda, you came into this, you are polished, you're a pro. What surprised you? Did this go pretty much the way you thought it would? >> Oh, yeah, it felt very professional. >> Yeah. >> I'm just surprised. >> Yeah. >> That never happens. >> And very concise, you know, I didn't feel like there's a lot of fat on the bones, so that's the testimony to the pro. >> I love how, because your husband edits this podcast, you're thinking about it from an editing point of view. >> Yes. >> Oh, he doesn't have to do much work on these, but he can help a little more. >> She knows how to turn me on. >> Liza, I told you a couple of days ago, starting six weeks before that, to maintain my pointless lie, I said, there's this concept, what do you think, and you went, okay, you were very chill. What did you think and how did it compare to? >> I think it helps that I did this once before when I came on to promote. My podcast, which was very kind of everyone to pitch in that way, and so I had sort of gotten the feel of it a little bit, which put me very much to the tax point, like it's an easy room to be in, you guys make it easy. So, you know, I think I think it pretty much went as I expected. >> So, there were no shocking revelations. >> Right, yeah. I mean, that's what we have this show for. >> Yeah, exactly. >> Bring it on. >> Yeah. >> Surprise me. >> It is, it's for once in your life, for what's in your life? >> We're 26 years in, it's got to, like, please, something. >> Yeah. >> It is kind of like these three are more chill than the chillchumps. >> They really are. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Who are the chillchumps? >> I guess that is. >> We're the chillchumps. >> Yeah, that's true. >> I'm telling you, Liza does not listen to my podcast. >> Apparently not. >> And also, I don't think really views any of my work, and I'm going to tell you I'm being serious here. My family, you know, doesn't gather around and watch the travel shows or old Conan clips. That just doesn't happen. And I think it's for the best. >> That's probably good. >> That's healthy. Would it be weird if, like, Liza was a super fan? >> Right. >> That's what I mean. I've asked him that before. I said, wouldn't you, wouldn't you lose some respect for me if Liza was sick of it? And he said, no. >> No. >> I would love it. >> I was loving. >> I wish that you were my biggest fan on the planet. >> I wish Liza dressed up as the FedEx Pope. >> My God. >> That's weird on nine different ways. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I mean, we really aren't, that's not our relationship. That's not our family's relationship to each other. It is almost like I go and work at an insurance company. And when people recognize me on the street or in a restaurant, there's kind of a, huh? Well, anyway, let's get on. Let's have that feel-perm job. >> Yeah, exactly. See if you can catch up. So- >> I have seen some of the travel shows. >> Thank you. >> I keep meaning to finish watching the rest. >> Before I have a new one- >> You know what, you know what, I have to be bored. >> Deadly Tucci. >> She's watched the Tucci ones like nine times. And she can't get an evil- >> Even a lot worse. >> She's a big Tucci head. >> She loves it when famous beautiful people bite into something and go, "Oh, my God." >> That's really what I'm there for. >> That doesn't happen on my shows. No, it's for the best. I think it's for the best that you're not a fan or what you've seen. You're not interested in seeing more. But anyone take the lead here because, first of all, it's very hard to direct this because it feels very organic and real and I don't want to direct it. So I don't know if Sony if you have something you'd like to say or Matt, you guys want to, you mean we were all back there watching the segment from a week ago. >> Yeah, was it weird? Was it weird for you guys to watch? Sony says yes. >> Yeah, it was weird. >> I wasn't loving it. >> I enjoyed it a lot. >> I found it. What I found interesting about it was how quickly it seemed normal and good and viable. I was sitting in the room. I was, Tanisha was there and Sam and Ruthie and we were watching it and I was laughing and I was like, this is a really, I like this show and I realized I'm not in it. Sony's not in it. Matt's on in it and I like it better than our show. >> I turned to Sony and I said, how are they able to have a legitimate conversation like this? >> I know. You have elevated this podcast. >> I know. >> We really take it down into the toilet. >> How come no experience has shut it down with some cruel riff? >> Yeah. >> You've been lighter on the laughs, I will say. We weren't really trafficking in the comedy. >> Yeah, but not everything has to be fun. >> Yeah. I mean, thank God. >> I really see. >> You're going to get me fired. >> One of those A, one of those people who think sometimes a short silence between sentences is appropriate. >> Well, I haven't found that to be true, but I don't know, no, no, no, no, no, no. >> What was your final thought on this process? >> Yeah. >> I mean, I like being on a mic. I like being on a video. Like these guys. >> Wait a minute, you don't care who it's worth. >> Well, the equipment seems adequate. >> I like it now, the room is a good size. >> I like it. >> This'll work. Guys, seem to get the numbers. >> I love that. >> I love that. >> I just haven't been out of the house in a while, this is so fun for me. I literally this morning, I was like, well, I guess I got to go to the Nordstrom Rack and get a new tissue to wear. >> It is a nice shirt. >> This is a big day for me, because I've been in the baby cave, so. >> Yeah. >> Where is she? [LAUGHTER] >> She's here somewhere. >> I don't know. >> I gave her a $20 bill and she crawled down the street. She's at great white right now. Ordering mimosas. >> No, it's, well, what about you? Attack you? How did you have a good time? >> I did. Yeah. Actually, Sonya sprung this on me like two days ago, something like that, like going on a podcast and like what? >> I said, I said, would you like to go on a podcast? >> I said you're going. >> You're going on a podcast. >> You guys are the two on the Newlywood game that would hit each other with the pillows. >> Yeah. >> You remember? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> But I'm going on a podcast. >> And that's the way it is. >> Or else, you're going to get a double sandwich. >> I'm going on a podcast. - Yeah, so I didn't, I didn't have time to like get nervous about it a little. You know, I was just kind of like, all right, here we go, here we go, you know? And we're flying back from Hawaii, it was a lot happening. I had a lot of time to think about what I was gonna say on the airplane. So it was all right. - Did you get to say the things that you thought you'd get to say? - Uh, yeah, sure. (laughing) - It just depends on the questions, you know? (laughing) But yeah, I did all right, didn't you think I did all right? - You did all right. - Really, what do you think about you? - You killed it. - This is, this is like, not my thing. - Yes, that's it. - Did I do the two of you, 'cause I wasn't nervous. And then the moment a man is sat in the chair, I went, oh, this could go all wrong. - Yeah. - This could go all wrong. - Yeah, right, right. - Yeah, do you ever feel nervous when someone hands me a microphone? (laughing) You should. - Especially when they're not supposed to. When you took the mic last time I did the Oscars and just went off for 10 minutes. (laughing) But you killed it. - Fouls are right. - Benicio Deltora was howling. (laughing) - That's my nightmare. - No, it's funny because you told me when we first met, you had just previously spoken at a wedding for a friend. And there was a picture of you speaking and you said that you were terrified and you hate that kind of thing. But every time in 26 years that I've seen you get up and speaking in front of people, you're very poised, you're very naturally, so the thing you told me up front just hasn't borne out to be true. - I'm a liar. - Yeah, you're a liar. Yeah, and you don't have a come from great wealth. I found that out pretty quickly. (laughing) Those portraits of your family aren't your family. No, so yeah, you just come to this very easily and the same thing I say about Sony, you're yourself. - Oh, that's good. - You know, a little nicer, but mostly yourself. (laughing) - She's nicer than me or she's like nicer than I usually. - No way. - She's very, she loves to tell me what the thing's like. You know, it's a really good idea to keep that door shut and I go, I don't know. - I mean, it is a good idea to keep the door shut. - I like people from outside to come in. (laughing) - I like to talk to people. So sometimes I leave our front door open for a couple of days. - How dare you like that? - I mean, the amount of times I've said in my head, like, what's the non-bitchy way to ask someone to load their shit into the dishwasher? - And I can't come up with a good answer and so then I end up doing it. - I grew up with a butler. (laughing) His name was Cadbury. Oh, wait, that's Richie Rich. (laughing) - Yeah, no, we're getting there. We're getting there. - There's been improvement. - There you have other strengths. (laughing) - But has there not been improvement? - Sure, yep. - Okay, all right. - There has. - Sure. - Or as my mother would say, Shua, Shua, she goes, Shua. - No, no, that means, listen, this could be a big hit. And if this is a big hit, we're all going places. We could take this on the road. Can you imagine, let's say, that this caught on and suddenly people were talking about, you know, the summer spouses episodes and then, you know, whoever, serious steps in and says, you guys got to hit the road. There's big money in this and it was all of us on a tour bus. How quickly would this go straight to shit? - Oh, we're on the same tour bus? - Yeah. - All sorts of same tour bus. - I don't know. Who would get a really bad, like, co-cavids? (laughing) - That would be Liza. (laughing) - Classic Liza. - I would have a giant room on the bus. Liza would have one of those small beds, the concert, the rotisleep tin. (laughing) - And I would keep it neat as a tin. - Neat as a tin, yeah. And when I'm done with the dish, I would open my little door and toss it out into the aisle of the bus and then shut the door. And Liza would come down and, oh, yeah, scrape, scrape, scrape. - Yeah, it's other string. - We're gonna hit, we're gonna hit the road gang. I think this is gonna be big. - Yeah. - I'll only do it in the Partridge family bus. - Oh, yeah. - I say separate buses. - Yeah. - Motley crew style. - You know. - But like a couple. - Oh, Motley crew all has three in my own bus. - Oh. - Okay. - And it me and the boys in a sedan. - No, no, no, no. (laughing) - The boys each get their own bus. Each one. I would, your boy, I feel like your boys would take to the road very well. - Yeah, they like traveling. - Yeah, they do. - They love hotels. - I think they would trash hotel rooms from TV's out the window. - Yeah, trash everything. - Yeah. - Yeah, they love a good bus. They love a good hotel room, you know. - Yeah, they love being on the road. - Yeah, they'd always be in his bus crafting. (laughing) Building little liquor-related cabinets. - Do you know how to crochet? - Mm, but you know how to cross stitch? - Well, cross stitching is easy. (laughing) - Yeah, don't insult him. (laughing) - One time I learned to crochet with my grandma, but I don't remember how to do it. - It's so easy. - You know how to crochet, right? - Do I, I don't know, I don't know. - Well, you say it though, like, I got you. - Like, clearly, you know how to craft. - Yeah. - Like, you have like a craft box. - I feel like. - I thought you said you had a craft bod. (laughing) - You got a crafting bod. - What's a crafting bod? - Like a dad bod, but a bod for someone that obviously just has crafting. - You know, the guy here sits. - Here's the tool in the shed crafting. That's the body you have. - And that is the body I have, yeah. - His ass is really atrophy. (laughing) - His dominant hand is really strong. - Yeah, your knitting hand is like incredibly articulated. - Clearly, you craft. - You crocheted for a little while, or you did something for a bit. - I did something in the pan-gun, and I didn't figure out what it was. - Just for it, it was sad, I was desperate. - Did you make something? - All right. - I made a thing. - My holder is the, that's the coward's way out. - Yeah, it was something. - Oh my God. - I'm sorry. You just knit until you give up, and you go, it's a pot holder. (laughing) - It goes between you and this strip will protect that same strip on your hand. - Yeah, it wasn't anything to talk about on this podcast. How do we get here? - I'm sorry, I just assumed Matt like crocheted. - Yeah, yeah. - The stuff we made for our parents growing up, I see now and what a load of shit, it's horrible. And I, you know, but it's that thing where, actually I think the stuff our kids made looks pretty good. - You have pant goggles on. - Yeah, no, that's where our kids made amazing things. - I just look at the stuff, and I look at the stuff like my brothers and I made, and I just say, this looks, this is awful. What a bunch of idiots. - It's sweet, they saved it all. - Well, I found it in the dumpster. (laughing) Just, my dad thought it was, they would take, it was a dumpster from 1967, and they just never came and emptied that one. 'Cause I was in charge of getting it out. - Oh. - Well, this was, I think, I mean, I think we've, we've really done something here. I think what we've done is we've shown America that although we all have our differences, we can come together and as one. - Yeah, that's not at all what we did here. - No, we didn't. - You really went for the Scottish in the beginning of the series. - Six weeks ago. - You came after my people. - Yeah, six weeks ago I went hard after the Scots. And how is that gone for you? - That is a well-known trove about the Scots that they are frugal, yes? - I've heard that. - Yeah. Oh, don't, you're afraid of getting canceled. (laughing) - I just don't trust my sources. - Okay, well, I don't know. - You don't trust my sources either. - No. - Which is correct. (laughing) - I will experience the same thing lies experiences, and then I'll hear her telling the story later on and I'm like, "Good God, how did it become this?" But it's amazing, it's very creative. For example, I always, - Those every cabinet. - And close their door. I don't know where she came from or that. God bless us all. - I was your assistant for a long time. - Excuse me, what's that? - I'm saying I was your assistant for a long time. - Yeah, for two years. - And. - You worked as my assistant for much longer. - Okay. - But you were my assistant for two years. I came back up with Liza saying, which is, you do leaf shit. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, I'm sure Picasso was a little messy. - Okay. - Well anyway, I just wanna say God bless us. God bless us everyone. What we did here was heroic over the last six weeks. - What are you doing? - I'm trying to give this a big ending. I'm trying to land this plane. And here's the thing about me. I will land it, but then take off and try and land it. - I know. - And you're like a reverse sully. - Yeah. - I'm a reverse sully burger. I will get it up out of the Hudson. And then I will crash into the Hudson again. But I just wanna say this has been a wonderful experience. I wanna thank you all for being here. And I wanna end it one more time. - Oh my God. - What have we really done? And what haven't we done? But I think we did learn a lesson. And that lesson was, despite who we might be, we could always be together and someone else. Good night and have a good tomorrow. And now I end this. (laughing) Conan O'Brien needs a friend with Conan O'Brien, Sonom of Sessian and Mack Gourley. Produced by me, Mack Gourley. Executive produced by Adam Sachs, Jeff Ross and Nick Leo. Theme song by The White Stripes. Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino. Take it away, Jimmy. Our supervising producer is Aaron Blair and our associate talent producer is Jennifer Samples. Engineering and Mixing by Eduardo Perez and Brendan Burns. Additional production support by Mars Melnick. Talent booking by Paula Davis, Gina Batista and BritCon. You can rate and review this show on Apple Podcasts and you might find your review read on a future episode. Got a question for Conan? 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