I was talking to somebody about the podcast
and they were saying,
"Oh yeah, you really go at it with Gourley."
Yeah.
And I said, "well I guess there's some
passive aggression there."
And he said, "Well I'm picking up on the aggression,
but not, no passivity."
(Conan laughs)
No, no, no.
I could do with a little passivity.
I'll try and work some of that in.
Let me ask you a question.
Sure.
Are you excited when you come into work
and you're gonna do this, or are you just sort of neutral,
or are you actively depressed?
(Matt laughs)
Full disclosure.
In the early days I was nervous.
Oh, you were nervous.
Of course I was.
Oh, I don't know.
Sona Movsesian?
Nice, I see what you're doing, doing the old switcheroo.
I'd be nervous too.
Will she be cogent?
(Matt laughs)
She's not here, we can talk about her.
If you have rum and gummies for breakfast-
Rummies?
What if you, rum, they're called rummies, yeah.
Uh, no!
Well, it's funny because I'm always in a real good mood
when we come in to do this.
Me too.
I'm happy to do it.
It doesn't feel like work.
And when people tell me they enjoy the podcast
I'm always kind of delighted because I think,
"Oh that's, that's nice that you like it
because it's really fun to do."
It's gravy.
It's really-
It's gravy, it is gravy.
Because at first, I didn't really know how to uh,
you two, you and Sona had a rapport.
I was a little afraid because I didn't know
how to kind of trade in that way.
Yeah, because you were an interloper.
Yeah, I think that's what it was, yeah.
Yeah. We had, we were sort of established.
Yeah.
And really rift well with each other
and it was organic and you,
you know, were forced into the situation
in a way that was just wrong.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
I think once I found my voice
on how to really stick it to the man.
Yes.
That's when I really started to feel like
there's this three way energy going on
that I, now I really enjoy coming here.
Well, you know, it's funny.
I was, you know, saying earlier that, joking,
that you were forced upon us, you were not.
We're delighted to have you
because you're an extraordinary voice
in the podcast community, which I didn't even know.
I don't know that-
Every time we have people come on the show
they're like, well I know Gourley from,
and then they start listing all these, you know,
Fes Weekly and the you know, the Magoo-goo Report
and the Jub-Jub Hour with Winky and Doo-Doo.
They start listing all these podcasts.
Senate McGee Takes it Home, you know,
incredible list of such shows that I didn't even know about.
The Cukoo Hour with Gourls-Gourls and Goo-Goo.
Just for the record, the Fes one is biweekly.
Okay, biweekly.
All right.
But anyway, you're very well known in that world.
A subterranean strange world.
Yeah, if that.
Oh please, please.
And I'm not,
You are, people know you
and they go like, oh my God, it's Gourley.
And I go like, okay, you know really?
And then they start listing again all the podcasts
that you are a part of, you know,
I Got a Minin' Hat, Come With Me with Matt Gourley.
Gourley's Wall of Shame.
These are sounding better as you keep going.
Homina Homina and Doo Doo with Gourley
and the Gub Gub Report.
These sound like my daughter's nicknames.
Yeah. But anyway, and then they go on and on and on
about all the wonderful shows that they've heard you do.
And I didn't realize how many you've done and
how your different animal voices.
What?
And what there's one where you talk about
you know, all kinds of stuff that happened in Roman history.
Oh, you wish.
I do wish actually I'd listen to that.
I like a good history podcast.
But anyway it's very nice.
I made my bones in podcasting, what can I say?
I made my bones and podcasting.
It's the saddest sentence ever uttered.
I made my bones in podcasting.
(Matt laughs)
I got in in 2011
Oh 2005, friend.
I cut my teeth when you were knee high.
I cut my teeth in podcasting when you were
barely shaving height.
This reminds me of housing in Los Angeles
because I grew up in the Boston area
and houses are old.
Yeah.
There.
And so, you know, the house I grew up in was built in 1900
and that's just standard.
Wow.
You know, it's, that's, that's pretty standard
for that area of, you know, right outside Boston.
But, and then there are houses from the 1800s.
There are houses from the, you know 1700s around Boston.
Yeah.
Some from the 1600s.
Full of witches.
Yeah, seriously populating the whole area.
So now I live in Los Angeles and you buy a house here.
And I remember we had some problem with our house.
There was like a leak, a pipe was broken
or something from a root.
And the guy came and he was looking
he dug down and he was looking at it
and he shook his head and I said, "What's the problem?"
And he went, well, you know, the, a pipe broke
that goes into the house and you know, so that's,
that's gotta be, we gotta get in there
and put a new piece of pipe
because see this tree root broke it.
And I went, huh.
He said, you see this much?
And he went, well, we see it from houses like this
from the mid 2005, 2006's.
Jesus.
And he was kind of acting like, you know,
when you get a house that was made before Obama's first term
(Matt laughs)
you run into problems like this.
What are you talking about?
Yeah.
They act like, whoa, you got one of these.
(men laugh)
You got one of these houses from the
third season of Gossip Girl.
(Matt laughs)
You got a 2006.
Wow, we don't see many of these anymore.
Because what happens here is people,
people out here buy a house that was built in 2011
and tear it down.
Yeah.
And build a new house because they're like,
oh my God, you should have seen it when we got it.
Don't get me started, it's a shame.
It is too bad.
I know you live in a magical home.
A gingerbread home.
No.
You do.
It looks like a gingerbread home.
It's lovely.
It's lovely and parts of it are made of gingerbread, I know.
No.
Marzapan.
Well good, good improv skills again.
Graham cracker.
"No." That's your improv?
No. (tremory)
This is not improv.
No, no, no. (tremory)
This is you berating me.
No. (tremory and faint)
And I'm forced to defend myself.
Hey, it's the improv team of Conan and Gourley.
And let's get started, Conan takes the stage.
Hey everybody, and oh, here's my friend here
No, we're not friends.
I sure love working in this comedy factory.
(Matt grunts)
I sure love working in this candy factory.
No. (tremory)
(men laugh)
Gourley, you okay?
You wish, you wish.
No.
Well all that stuff I was saying
about excited to come in here, it's gone.
Gourley, we sure have a difficult boss here.
Isn't he funny?
Isn't it weird that we have a difficult boss?
Who's half dragon, half ape?
No. (tremory)
Am I also 80?
Well that's how you say no.
Did you hear yourself saying no?
(Matt groans)
I need Sona here.
This is, this is why we need Sona.
Sona couldn't be here cause Sona's on a book tour.
Yeah.
Because that's what happens when you hire an assistant
that refuses to do her job.
She writes a book about it.
It's a big hit and she goes on tour.
(men laugh)
Welcome to America.
Oh man.
This is fantastic.
I can't believe I gotta do this.
Yeah.
Well, I think, I'm sorry.
You are a great improviser.
I'm sure you are.
(Matt sighs)
No one puts out an old man "no" like you do.
No, no.
No comedy.
None.
No jokes. I want to go home.
All right, here I am with my comedy partner,
Matt Gourley give us a suggestion.
No.
(men laugh)
Hey, your dad came to see the podcast.
(men laugh)
That's his suggestion. No!
I learned it all from him.
No!