You know what's funny?
I was recently, it was just yesterday
someone said that they had one criticism of the podcast
and of course,
I was intrigued and I said, "What's that?"
And the person said, "It's not long enough."
Oh. Oh!
And I thought, "Well, that's good.
I like that because we're-"
and I said, "Well, you always want to leave 'em
in show business, wanting more."
Mm-hmm.
The person didn't seem to like that I said that.
They were like, "No, no, no,
it really isn't long enough."
Oh!
"The interviews need to be longer.
I enjoy them, but they stop too soon."
And I was trying to explain that
I don't want to, you know,
I didn't want to do like a two hour extravaganza.
Yeah. I've been editing these down
to four minutes though, just-
Oh, Okay! That might be why.
That explains what the problem is but,
I'm always afraid of going too long,
but this person was quite adamant that,
that these should be longer.
And I'm just going to say no.
I'm just going to say, I like the-
What's our average running time, Matt?
It comes in around 60 minutes without ads.
So it can go anywhere from like
an hour, five to hour, 10.
But then if it's someone like, you know,
you're Michael Keaton or something,
it might go a little longer or somethin'.
You're Barack Obama.
Who? Yeah.
We actually did a shockingly,
I only did, I think-
He was prepared to talk to me for an hour.
And after, I don't know if you remember,
after 11 minutes, I said, "I think we got it."
(laughing) Remember that?
Yeah. And he went,
"But I have a lot to say
that I haven't said to anybody before,
and I'd like to tell you now, Conan.
Things about my personal life."
And I said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We got it. I think we're all good. Got to go."
And I probably could've gone a little longer with him.
Yeah. Well, next time.
(laughing)
He keeps asking to come back.
God! He won't leave us alone.
He won't.
Was he the person that said that?
(laughing)
He was the one.
And then he called me back.
"The podcast not long enough.
I listened, and it's exactly seven minutes. You cut me off."
That's not really,
I don't even think that's a Barack Obama impression.
That's not bad. But it gives you the idea.
It's that the staccato, he punches his sentences.
Mm-hmm.
But anyway, I think we're going to keep it.
What do you think, Matt?
What could be better about the podcast?
I'm always trying to get better and grow in every way.
Whoa, God.
Oh man, I'm not prepared for this.
No, that just means there's nothing else we can do.
It's pretty much perfect. Okay, yeah.
I tried to think of something.
There's not a single thing.
Yeah.
Well that's why I always ask for criticism very quickly
on the spot and then move on.
Yeah, that's smart.
Never give anyone time to think about (laughing)
all the things that we could do
to make this so much better.
Because, who needs that?
David, how are you enjoying the experience
of being on the podcast?
It's been fun!
Yeah, are you're getting recognized a lot now?
No.
No, of course not. It's a podcast. (laughing)
It's a podcast.
I love to text Sona how much fun it is to be her.
Oh my God, Sona has so much FOMO.
Oh yeah. And for you kids listening,
that's fear of missing out.
she can't stand that we're having all this fun-
Uh-uh.
And that she's missing her old life.
As happy as she is having created two human beings,
and then we torment her.
So we do, David and I keep doing
all of Sona's favorite things that she would do with me.
Oh wow.
Like she loves sushi from this place, Sugarfish.
Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah.
And there's one right next to our podcast studio.
And I keep taking David there,
and that's one of her favorite things in the world
is eating on my dime. Oh yeah.
And David and I will gorge ourselves
on really good Sugarfish sushi,
and then we take selfies where I'm just laughing maniacally,
and you're in the background- Yeah.
With some Toro hanging out of your mouth.
And then we sent to Sona and she flips out.
And then he'll, and then at the end,
he'll he could just give me the receipt,
but he'll take a picture of the receipt
and text it to Sona too.
Yeah. I texted it to Sona to say like,
"All right, by the way,
make sure this receipt gets accounted for."
And she's like, "David's right there. He could do that."
I can't believe I'm saying this,
but we should do a segment where we
eat s'mores and watch Friends.
just to make her jealous. Oh my God, yeah.
We should do everything Sona would like to do.
Uh-huh. And, just to torment her.
That would mean alcohol. Mm-hmm, okay.
She likes her white wine. I'm in, I do that.
And we should watch,
what's that movie about the strippers, the male strippers?
Oh, Magic Mike? Magic Mike.
Yeah. We should do a Magic Mike binge-watch
while we drink white wine-
We have to get high too. I love this idea.
And get high- Yes!
And eat tons of In-N-Out burger.
(laughing) Oh my God!
And if, and then just be laughing maniacally,
and videotaping the whole thing
and then we should send it to Sona.
I love this. I think that's a great plan.
Just, as a night sounds good.
Yeah, let's not even shoot it.
Yeah.
Also, I say let's skip all the other stuff
and let's just all go and watch some male strippers.
Let's the three of us go to Vegas,
drink wine at the Thunder Down Under strip club,
Mm-hmm. and get high.
Yeah, and then just hang out for weeks and weeks
with the guys from,
what am I revealing? (laughing)
That's very strange.
I Just keep coming back to,
"How do we hang out with the guys from
Thunder Down Under?" (laughing)
It's the first question when you interviewed us.
(laughing)
"Do you have any connections to Thunder Down Under?"
That is the question-
Coming into the room today. (laughing)
Again, I know that I've known you for three years,
Matt Gourley, but any connections with the fellows
in Thunder Down Under? (laughing)
I'll ask Barack Obama
if he's got any. (laughing)