Conan and Sona in Morocco

**Conan O'Brien** (0:03)
Hey there, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. I'm joined as always by Sona Movsesian.

**Sona Movsesian** (0:12)
Hello.

**Conan O'Brien** (0:13)
This is kind of a special moment in our podcast because we at the moment are in a car in Morocco. Sona and I are in the back seat of the car.

**Sona Movsesian** (0:25)
Yeah.

**Conan O'Brien** (0:25)
Blai is in the front seat shooting us, I think, for video capture. Rashid is our driver. Hello Rashid.
Rashid is helping us out. He's driving and I may occasionally ask Rashid for any kind of help we might need like content or humor.

**Sona Movsesian** (0:44)
That's good.

**Conan O'Brien** (0:45)
Yeah. So here's the story. Shooting an episode along with Sona of Conan O'Brien Must Go, visited a fan who lives in Casablanca.

**Sona Movsesian** (0:55)
Yeah.

**Conan O'Brien** (0:56)
So we flew into Casablanca, right? And we shot there for what, two days?

**Sona Movsesian** (1:02)
Yeah. We were there for two nights.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:05)
And we hung out with our fan who was very cool. And we had a good time with him.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:09)
Yasser. Can you say his name?
Are we allowed to? Yes.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:14)
Yeah. Go ahead.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:15)
Yasser.

**Blai** (1:16)
Yeah.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:16)
Yeah. He's a cool guy.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:17)
Yeah.

**Blai** (1:18)
Well, what do you say can we say his name?

**Sona Movsesian** (1:19)
I don't know. Is this we can talk openly and say all the things?

**Conan O'Brien** (1:24)
Well, yeah, we're safe. We're far from America. We're in the backseat of a car. I'm driving through the desert. So you can say whatever you want.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:31)
Okay. I just I didn't know how much of the episode you wanted to discuss because I wish I should have asked questions before we recorded.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:40)
This is okay.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:41)
I was talking about how we do it and I just started.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:44)
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, some of the customs and traditions. But you, seconds before we started recording, started laughing really hard and I asked you why. You said, because there was that famous song, right?

**Sona Movsesian** (2:01)
This is how we do it.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:04)
Then you said online there was a guy whose name is Howie Do It. Right?
Why don't you tell us some when you get yourself under control.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:11)
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.
Then it just has the song looping that's just saying, this is how we do it.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:24)
Right. How long were you watching that for?

**Sona Movsesian** (2:31)
It's not how long I watched it one time, it's how many times do I watch it in a week.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:38)
What made you start laughing about this now in deep in Morocco near the Algerian border?

**Sona Movsesian** (2:45)
I don't know.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:46)
Okay.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:46)
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?

**Conan O'Brien** (2:55)
Oh, wow, that was cool. We were almost hit the car ahead of us.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:58)
Anyway, I'm sorry.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:59)
It was not Rasheed's fault because the car ahead of us hit the brakes and it was a mom walking her child across the street, which is illegal. She shouldn't have to do that. I think it's normal. So let me give everyone, now that we got, this is how we do it, out of your system.
We flew into Casablanca, right? Then 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.

**Blai** (3:29)
Yeah.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:30)
And we can't leave because somehow our papers weren't in order.

**Blai** (3:35)
Yeah.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:35)
And we couldn't get on our plane. So we were stuck in Casablanca because we didn't have our papers, Rick. 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 and saying, you've got to help me, Rick. You've got to help me, Rick, like Peter Lurie. And they didn't know what I was talking about.