Summer S’pouses Episode 6: The Spouses Reunited

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1:54Summer Spouses with Conan O 'Brien, Sonam Avsassian, and Matt Corley. and Eliza Powell O 'Brien, Tack Baroyan, and Amanda Lund.

2:08Okay, welcome to the sixth and sadly final episode of Summer Spouses. We're all getting divorced. But we're marrying each other's spouses. Yes, exactly. This was just a long audio key party is basically what it turned into. Keys on the mixer. There will be winners and there will be losers.

2:35Everyone'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 for my job because Liza, Amanda Tack, you guys killed it today. Really great. It was really nice. And I have to say that because Liza is my ride home. And after that, nothing. After that, nothing. I owe you nothing. So here we are. We've just had this incredibly intense experience.

3:23and 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, little right. Yeah, I remember it. I was a real stickler for that. Everyone wore the same clothes. And this has been, you know, it's just an unusual thing to do. we must so how did everybody feel about it TAC 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 you know as soon as I got in like it just you make people feel comfortable so immediately I was just like alright it's it's Cone Zone you know and your wife was in the room oh and of course her I want to say something you always call I was getting to you sorry you always call me Coney and Cone Zone yeah and I can tell Sona doesn't like it she'll be like don't call him that don't call him that and I'm like why can't he call me Coney in Cone Zone what's wrong with that?

4:27I like you guys being friends but I don't like you being like bros 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'm just gonna explain not Danny McBride but your brother Danny yeah yeah it's like my two it's you know I just feel like it's too much you want me kept at a distance I just yeah I want you yes and for that reason I want to become your best friend in the whole world time. I want to be bi every day. I am game, 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?

5:02Oh, yeah. It felt very professional. That is surprising. Yeah. That never happens. And very concise. I didn't feel like there was a lot of fat on the bones. That's a testament to Somehow, 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. He can help a little more. She knows how to turn me on.

5:33Liza, 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 at ease to the tax point like it's an easy room to be in you guys make it easy. So, you know, I think it pretty much went as I expected. So there were no shocking revelations.

6:20Not yet. I mean, there's still some time. Well, that's what we have this show for. Yeah, exactly. Bring it on. Surprise me. Yeah, it is for once in your life. Exactly. For once in your life. We're 26 years in. It's got to, like, please, something. It is kind of like these three are more chill than the chill chumps. They really are. Yes. Who are the chill chums? I guess that answers that question. I'm telling you, Liza does not listen to the 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.

7:06That just doesn't happen. And I think it's for the best. I think that's healthy. Wouldn't it be weird if Liza was a super fan? Right. I've asked him that before. I said, wouldn't you lose some respect for me if I was sick of fan take? And he said, no. I would love it. I would love it. I wish that you were my biggest fan on the planet. I was like, oh, well. I wish Liza dressed up as the FedEx Pope. Oh, my God. That's weird on nine different ways. Yeah. I mean, we really aren't. that's not our relationship that's not our family's relationship to each other it it is almost like i go and work at an insurance company right and um when people recognize me uh on the street or in a restaurant there's kind of a huh well anyway let's get on let's have that veal parmesan yeah exactly see if you can catch up um so uh but i have seen some of the travel shows thank you i keep meaning to finish watching the rest before the new one's gone.

8:11You know what? Anthony Bourdain. Stanley Tucci. She's watched the Tucci ones like nine times. And she can't get enough Eva Longoria. 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 Louie you've seen, you're not interested in seeing more. Um, 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 Sona, 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.

8:58Yeah. Was it weird? Was it weird for you guys to watch? Sona says yes. Yeah, it was weird. I was loving it. But also I think I found it. what I found interesting about it was how quickly it seemed normal, like normal and good and viable. I was sitting in the room. I was seeing Tanisha was there and and Sam and Ruthie and we were watching it and I was laughing and and I was like, this is a really I like this show. And I realized I'm not in it. Sona's not in it. Matt's not in it. And I like it better than our show. I turned to Sona and I said, how are they able to have a legitimate conversation?

9:34I know you elevated this podcast. I know. Yeah. We really take it down into the toilet. How come no tyrant has shut it down with some cruel riff? It may have been lighter on the laughs, I will say. You know, like we weren't really trafficking in the comedy so much. Yeah, but not everything has to be funny. Yeah. What? I mean, it's like. Thank God. Heresy. You're going to get me fired. One of those, eh? One of those people who think sometimes a short silence between sentences is appropriate. Well, I haven't found that to be true. You're sick. You're sick.

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14:54What was your final thought on this process? Yeah. I mean, I like being on a mic. I like being on a video. I like these guys. Wait a minute. You don't care who it's with. Well, the equipment seems adequate. I like getting out of the house. The room is a good size. This will work. You 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 has been so fun for me. I literally, this morning, I was like, well, guess I got to go to the Nordstrom Rack, get a new t-shirt to wear. It is a nice shirt. This is a big day for me because, you know, I've been in the baby cave, so.

15:34Yeah. And where is she? She's here somewhere. I don't know. I gave her a$20 bill and she crawled down the street.

15:46she's at great white right now uh ordering mimosas um it's our day no it's uh well what about you attack you had a good time i did yeah actually sona sprung this on me like two days ago something like that like going on a podcast like what so i didn't really have i said would you like to go on the podcast you said you're going you're going on a podcast you guys are the two on the the newlywed game that would hit each other with the pillows yeah you remember Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're going on the podcast. You're going on the podcast. And that's the way it is. Or else you're going to get a knuckle sandwich.

16:20To the moon, yes. Yeah, so I didn't have time to get nervous about it a little. I was just kind of like, all right, here we go, here we go. And we were flying back from Hawaii. It was a lot happening. I had a lot of time to think about what I was going to say on the airplane. So it was all right. It wasn't bad. Did you get to say the things that you thought you'd get to say? Yeah, sure. it just depends on the questions you know um but yeah i did all right don't you think i did all right you did really what are you talking about you killed it i'm not used to this at all this is like not my thing did either of the two of you because i wasn't nervous and then the moment amanda sat in the chair i went oh this could go all wrong yeah it's wrong yeah right yeah do you ever feel nervous when someone hands me a microphone you should um especially when they're not supposed to.

17:09And you took the mic the last time I did the Oscars and just went off for 10 minutes. But you killed it. Spousal rights. Benicio del Toro was howling. 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 speak in front of people, you're very poised. You're very natural. 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.

17:52Yeah, yeah. And you don't come from great wealth. I found that out pretty quickly. Those portraits of your family aren't your family. No. So yeah, you're very, you just come to this very easily. And the same thing I say about Sona, you're yourself. Oh, that's good. A little nicer, but mostly yourself. She's nicer than me or she's like nicer? Nicer than I usually am. She loves to tell me what the things 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. I like to talk to people.

18:30So sometimes I leave our front door open for a couple of days. How dare you, Liza? And she's like, oh, we don't know who they are. 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 ended up doing it. I grew up with a butler. His name was Cadbury. Oh, wait, that's Richie Rich.

18:55Yeah, no, we're getting there. We're getting there. There's been improvement. It's fine. There's been improvement. You have other strengths. Yes. No, but has there not been improvement? Sure. Yep. Okay, all right. There has. Sure. There has. Or as my mother would say, sure. Sure. She'd go, sure. Don't know what 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. episodes and then, you know, whoever serious steps in and says, you guys got to hit the road.

19:34There'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. Same tour bus. I don't know who would get a really bad, like Coke habit. That would be Liza. Classic Liza. I would have a giant room on the bus. Liza would have one of those small beds, cots that the roadie sleeps in. And I would keep it neat as a pin. Neat as a pin, 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 well, scrape, scrape, scrape.

20:16He has other strings. We're gonna hit the road, gang. I think this is gonna be big. Only do it in the Partridge family bus. I say separate buses. Motley Crue style you know but like couples oh Motley Crue all has me and my own bus oh and then me and the boys in a sedan no no no the boys each get their own bus each one how 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 throw TVs out the window throw TVs out the window trash everything yeah yeah they love they love a good bus They love a good hotel room.

20:55Yeah. They love being on the road. Yeah. Corley would always be in his bus crafting. Building little liquor-related cabinets. Do you know how to crochet? He does. He for sure does. Do you know how to cross-stitch? Well, cross-stitching is easy. Yeah, don't insult him. One time, I learned to crochet with my grandma, but I don't remember how. It's so easy. You know how to crochet, right? Do I? I don't know. I don't know. Why do you say it, though, like, I gotcha? Like, clearly, you know how to craft. Like, you have, like, a craft box, I feel like. I thought you were going to say I had a craft bod.

21:34You got a crafting bod. What's a crafting bod? Like a dad bod, but a bod for someone that obviously just does crafting. A guy who sits in a stool in the shed crafting. That's the body you have. And that is the body I have. His ass is really atrophied. 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 pandemic. We couldn't figure out what it was. I was desperate. It was sad. I was desperate. Did you make something? I made a thing. Pot holder is the coward's way out.

22:15Yeah, it was something. Oh my God. I'm sorry. You just knit until you give up and you go, it's a pot holder. It goes between you. This strip will protect that same strip on your hand. Yeah, it wasn't anything to talk about on this podcast. How did we get here? I'm sorry. I just assumed Matt, like, crapped it. 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 parent goggles on. But yeah, no, our kids made amazing things. I just look at the stuff.

22:54And I look at the stuff like my brothers and I made. And I say, this is awful. What a bunch of idiots. How sweet they saved it all. Well, I found it in the dumpster. My dad thought it was a dumpster from 1967. And they just never came and emptied that one. Because I was in charge of getting it out. Well, this was, I think, I mean, I think we've really done something. here i think what we've done is we've shown america that although we all have our differences uh we can come together and as one yeah that's not at all what we did here no we didn't um you really went for the scottish in the beginning of the series six weeks ago my people yeah six weeks ago i went hard after this this scots and that is a well-known that is a well-known trouble about the scots that they are frugal yes i've heard that yeah oh don't you're afraid of getting canceled i just don't trust my sources okay well anyway um you you don't trust my sources either no which is correct i will experience the same thing liza 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 um for example i always close every door i don't know where she came up with that yeah um god bless us i was your assistant for a long time excuse me what's that i'm saying i was your assistant for a long time two years and you worked as my assistant for much longer okay but you were my assistant for two years i can back out back up with liza's saying which is you do leaf shit yeah yeah i'm sure picasso was a little messy okay well anyway um uh i just want to say god bless us god bless us everyone what we did here was heroic over the last six weeks what are I'm trying to give this a big ending.