Summer S’pouses Episode 3: Tak Boroyan

**Conan O'Brien** (0:02)
Coca-Cola Zero Sugar is so good, it's almost impossible not to finish it before the meal arrives. It's just too good to wait. That happens to me sometimes.

**Sona Movsesian** (0:11)
Me too.

**Conan O'Brien** (0:11)
You can try rules like no sipping until the appetizer arrives, or you tell your friend, don't let me touch my glass. But every time, you're staring at an empty glass. So if you've ever finished your Coke Zero before the first fry hits the table, you're among friends. It happens. Occupational hazard with Coke Zero.
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**Tak Boroyan** (1:10)
Hi, my name is Tak Boroyan, and I'm still adjusting to being Sona Movsesian's spouse.

**Matt Gourley** (1:23)
Summer S'pouses with Conan O'Brien, Sona Movsesian, and Matt Gourley, and Eliza Powell O'Brien, Tak Boroyan, and Amanda Lund.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:37)
How many years have you been married now?

**Tak Boroyan** (1:41)
It's been 10

**Sona Movsesian** (1:44)
Wait, are you being serious?

**Tak Boroyan** (1:45)
No, no, no. We got married in 2019

**Sona Movsesian** (1:48)
No.

**Tak Boroyan** (1:49)
2018 So dad, let me do my math.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:52)
Well, we're going to wrap this up.

**Tak Boroyan** (1:53)
This is already great.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:54)
We're going to wrap this up. This is fantastic. We'd take it together for 10

**Conan O'Brien** (1:56)
I feel like Chuck Woolery right now.

**Tak Boroyan** (1:57)
Wait, wait, wait. Oakey's eight years old, so eight years.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:00)
You're going off of Oakey's age?

**Tak Boroyan** (2:02)
That's how I know.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:03)
How many children you have? Well, let's see.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:05)
Let's see.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:05)
There are two little beds. Okay, I'm going to start this off by saying that Tak Boroyan is one of the cooler people I've met in my life.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:20)
Guilty as charged.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:23)
I'm going to give you the evidence. This guy's super handsome, cool graphic artist, okay? You've worked for Tim and Eric's company, absolutely, for 14 years.
You are a sick guitarist. You've been in a bunch of bands, okay? Toward, this guy emigrated in 1989 from Soviet Armenia, where you either did or didn't cause the plant, the power plant.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:48)
We talked about this.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:49)
You told me not to bring it up.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:51)
I know, and you know what you said? You said, I never said he was responsible for Chernobyl.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:56)
I never said that, yeah.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:57)
Roll the clip!

**Conan O'Brien** (3:01)
This is the way I had always heard the story. Tak was on a school trip. They went to Chernobyl to see the plant. They said, don't touch anything. Tak said, what's in this room? And they said, Tak, you irrepressible scamp, you stay out of that room. Tak went in there, removed an important cooling rod, and walked out of the reactor. It exploded, creating one of the worst nuclear disasters ever, after which Tak fled the Soviet Union, came to America, married you, And then, you said, maybe we should get a microwave, and he said, who needs a microwave? Watch this. And he just put his hand over the food.

**Sona Movsesian** (3:34)
Okay.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:40)
Okay, look, maybe I said that. But you emigrated from Soviet Armenia in 1989 How old were you at the time?

**Tak Boroyan** (3:46)
I was 11

**Conan O'Brien** (3:48)
That's a tough time to emigrate. Your whole world changed.

**Tak Boroyan** (3:51)
Yeah, it was like I was somewhat of a child, and then...
I was still a child when we came. and I didn't speak any English.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:59)
I think it's the hardest thing in the world to do.

**Tak Boroyan** (4:02)
What, learn English?

**Sona Movsesian** (4:02)
The imaginable. I'm still struggling with that.

**Conan O'Brien** (4:06)
No, to completely, especially at that age or any age, uproot and come to a different country and need to learn the language, the customs, everything.

**Tak Boroyan** (4:15)
Yeah, it was tough. It was not easy at first, but you know, when you're young, you adjust really easily, so.