Summer S’pouses Episode 4: Liza Powel O'Brien

- Hi, my name is Liza Powell O'Brien. (upbeat music)

“And I feel so many things about being called "Bron's Pass".”

(laughing) - Oh, this is gonna be good. - Yay. (upbeat music) - Summer spouses with Conan O'Brien,

Sonom of Sessian, and McCoreley, and Liza Powell O'Brien, attack Baroyan and Amanda Lund. (upbeat music) - Well, welcome to Summer Spouses, the game show.

(laughing) We're the spouses of the three idiots that do this podcast come in. And today's special guest, Liza, Powell O'Brien, I thought I'd just start

by saying, first of all, thank you, Liza, for coming in. - You're welcome. - Today. - No, it's a, it's a, I don't know if this is your favorite thing to do,

but you were very sweet to say, yes, you do it. And we were just talking, I think in one of the, I think it was the first episode, we were talking about last names, because Amanda Lund, Lund, yes,

but Amanda took Goryly initially, is that right? - Well, she took it legally, but not publicly. - Right. - Out of shame. - Oh, okay.

- Well, this is a well-known thing, Liza, and I talked about 'cause you have such a beautiful last name and a very cool last, Powell, is such a cool last name.

- I think, I never thought

it was a little growing up. - The one now, the Powell with the one now and how it, and because I'm a history buff and how it goes back to, you know, revolutionary days. - I will tell you, it has definitely been misheard

or maybe not misheard as Bowell.

“So that's what I think of all the time now”

when I'm introducing myself. - Well, when I first met, - So that was a beautiful thing. - When I first met, I thought you said Bowell and I was like, I am the end.

- Yes. - Yes. - It's one of my favorite topics. I know what I found out was Powell. I was really bummed out.

- Yeah. - No, but you have, it's just a really, you know, a beautiful name and then I got to know all the Powells who are really cool people. But I remember feeling a little bit like, oh,

'cause I've never been a huge fan of my last name just because it's so generic, kind of just Irish name. And so we've talked about maybe I should just switch to Conan Powell. - Oh, you know.

- Really? - Well, he was very kind to me 'cause I said when he was complaining about his name before we were right before we got married. - Yeah, we were engaged.

- And I said, well, you can always take my name

and it didn't go over for a long time. - I know, wait, you're making it seem like, you're like, yeah, I was talking with it for a bit. - I wasn't trying it for a second now. - No, it did not.

- Well, the Conan O'Brien brand had been built - Correct, that's right, that's right. - That's like, we're gonna change McDonald's. That's the problem. - This is the Conan O'Brien brand that had been built.

- But my, I was like, privately, you know. - Well, a lot, a man, a goryly, who no one knows as a man, a goryly, he'd have changed it privately. - Okay. - And you wanna still do that?

- No, that's fine, at this point. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. (laughing) - You're not worthy, you're not worthy. - That's not worth it.

- Now that you've actually, now after 25 years, you're like, we gave it to both our kids that's funny. - Oh, yeah. - In addition to yours. - Yeah, no, it's, it's all good.

But, well, this is, I mean, you're free to, you know, maybe I should step out of it. - I think you should leave. Like, I mean, why are you guys, yeah. - Oh, that's interesting.

- Oh, do you want me to go? - Like, that's the better game show. (humming) But, you know, we can do both ways. - Well, you know, I clearly can't lead this conversation

any more than I can lead a marriage, or participate in many flea in a marriage. (laughing) - You've got it, you've got it, you've got it. - You do it a while.

- It's perspective. - Let's just say, you know, there's some, I'm problematic around the home. - Oh my, what's with it? - Is it your bits?

- What are, that probably had a thing, I mean, there's a lot of it. - I almost took a picture of it. Nothing to do with this. I was just gonna record it to maybe show some other people.

(laughing) - We're more, we're more, we're more, we're more, we're more. (laughing) - What the kitchen looked like after he had cleaned up for making his breakfast.

- Okay, okay, tell us. Which he was very beautiful about putting the butter away and putting the, putting the spatula from the sink into the dishwasher, and then on the stove was a pan, another spatula, some spray,

that was still open. - It was an SPF 50. - Can it left open, you know that? - No, I fried three eggs and put them on a butter a piece of butter toast.

Why did you need two spatulas? - One went missing. - Oh, you know what? - I didn't say.

“- I think I used one spatula to pick up the other spatula.”

(laughing) You know that feeling? - You can't be too careful with the spatula.

- That's seen in success when the mom first knows

something's really wrong with the kid because she is

and all the doors in the kitchen are all

of the cupboard doors are open, all of a sudden. - Yeah. - She's like, oh no. - Every single time you walk into the kitchen and he's, you can tell he's been in there

'cause every door and every door, everything's open. - Yeah, I will plead guilty to all of this. Also, I've been told when you, after you use a pan, it's supposed to sort of sit and cool on the stove for about a week.

(laughing) That may be wrong, but that's just something. - That's just something. - Yeah, that's what I heard once. - Mm-hmm.

- And there's a lot.

“I think there's some things I've gotten better at.”

- Many things. - But I would, I'm, you say my stuff spreads. - You're a spreader. - You're a spreader. - No, I recently figured this out.

If you go into a hotel room, he has to put, when he comes in and drops something down, I like to make piles and stacks and, you know, confine everything. He has to put everything on a different surface

so we can see it all. So next thing, I mean, it works. - And this is, I'm not saying that much. - And we're talking about cheese shirts, jeans and underwear, but I lay it out and go like, "I'm rich."

(laughing) - I think there's limited surface of it on the planet. - I'm a twin. - It works and clothing. - We're rich. - Okay, there's limited surfaces in a hotel room,

so you're just not in our hotel room. - Immin and domain. - You're first of all, and lies is being very modest,

but we always get the, I buy out the entire floor.

Penthouse floor of any, yeah, I just, and I always let them think that I'm coming, that I'm Saudi. (laughing) - With that name, and really, I go far

that I've come in from my palace, in my private jet, which also, for some reason, it was named American Airlines. - I have a question. So you went out with him, and then you saw him eat.

And you're like, "All go out with him again." You know what? On our first date, actually, I remember telling Sible about this. - Yeah, our friend Sible Goldman, who's a shoutout.

- Yeah, he, we went to a movie at like four, something like that, and then afterwards, he had an idea to go to, I didn't know this, but he had an idea to go to Shonli and his favorite restaurant, which is right there.

“- Yeah, real quick, what movie did you see, do you remember?”

- All about my mother by Audemodivar. He wanted to see high fidelity, but I just seen it, he said, "I won't see a movie you've already seen on our first date." - That's what I was very sure about, yeah.

- Yeah, so then she takes me to a movie where one of the characters walks out of a vagina, at some point. - I really, like a 30 foot high. Yep.

- And I, my brain melted. - I can't imagine. - Yeah, I can't say, I felt safe with John Chusak. She says, "I have another idea." And I said, "Okay, we'll try that."

And it was like, "The loondor's." She comes charging out of a giant vagina, and you hear like a player piano in the background. - I think think think think think think think, "Link and think it's real."

- That's damn. - Anyway, he said so. Then he said, "You want to get some Chinese food?" And I was like, "No, I'm in the mood for Mexican." - Everything I said was no, but we're doing this instead.

Which should have been a clue. - So we went up to this really crappy, my skin restaurant that I loved at the time, and we were the, it was five o'clock in the afternoon. We were the only people in the entire restaurant,

and they bring us chips. And he put the chip in his mouth and then like the corner of the chip is sticking out. And he pushes it in with the healers hand. I thought it was adorable.

I know. - He wasn't doing a bit. - I was not doing a bit. - I was not doing a bit. - I, if you watch, if you watch,

not just me, but I'm gonna say some of my siblings as well when it's time to eat, it was very much a six of us, there was a round table, and they would just throw a bunch of food out. - Well, your brother, in fact this morning asked,

if our two dogs eat out of the same bowl. - I don't know why he did that. Yeah, I was talking to my brother Neil, and I said, "Oh, hold on a sec, "cause the dogs came running in,

"and they both started eating their food. "The two dogs, two golden retrievers, "they switch eating out of their end meal went, "do they eat out of the same bowl?" - But I don't know when.

- I don't know when.

“- Because that's what you, you guys got one bowl of brawl.”

- But you're all in the middle of the row. - Kind of. - But so I also, sort of, be a little more specific about what you were looting to the way I eat. - This is so really fast and like his siblings are hovering.

I mean, you know, but it is a warning. - And you tell me no one's going to take it away from you.

She's always trying to say, "Uh-huh."

- So you guys were eating like family dinner with the four of you. You were just shoveling food. - Oh, it's gone before I sit down. - Wow. - Like I put the food on the day,

and by the way, you're not the only one in the house. And so I am routinely eating like grandma used to, like for 25 minutes after everyone else is done. - Yeah. - Like, well, I'm still working on my food. - Yeah.

- So, you eat, yeah, she takes her time eating. (upbeat music) - When we were first going out,

I need a giant hamburger. - Oh, yeah. - You know, I need giant quantities of things because it was all this phrase sort of compulsive dealing with some trauma from childhood. I don't know, kind of way of eating,

and maybe some of it's just in the bloodline, you know. - Unless you have you ever done that, like father giving the kids cigars in the closet and you just go to put a feedback on and go until you're satisfied.

- I don't know. - I don't know. - What are you looking at? - Yeah, that made no sense. - You guys haven't heard that all that? - So, what's the position? - He's not? - Well, there's a guy with famous, like,

thing where fathers would catch the kids smoking a cigar, and they'd put him in the closet and make him smoke a bunch of cigars. - I see. - To make him so sick of it, yeah. - You did not heard that properly in the first time.

- That was a problem. - No, no. - You need to go into a closet with a storage.

“- I think a version therapy is what you're talking about, right?”

- Go into a closet with a strunken waist. - Where my cigar heads out there, they'll know. - So, yeah, so what I noticed right away is, and this is still kind of the case. So, though, I think I've changed a lot,

but we're about to somewhat better, but I would just need, like, I need a giant steak, and a lot of potatoes. No, I need some pie. And I would look over and she would be like, no, I'm just gonna have a salad first.

I'll have this salad, you know, have these walnuts.

And I'm always running into her,

and she'll say to Juliet lunch and I'll go, "Yeah, I took two pizzas and wrapped them around each other. Unhinged my job and slid it down and hurt a splash. When I hit my stomach and I'll say, "What did you, and she's like, "I'm good.

"I had some walnuts, I had a little piece of, "I had a radish, it was really good." - He's a calming company. - He's a calming company. - He used to call me Cornucopia Jones for the first day,

and it was all, it's all little like, and then I had just a little bit of mustard on the end, and I had to, it was delicious. And I'd be like, "What are you talking about? "That's not a meal."

- Sounds healthy. - Oh, she's very healthy. - Yeah, yeah, that makes me crazy. - Oh, I'm sorry. - I'm sorry.

- You ever go for like a,

“I just, you gotta have a steak and digging it.”

- Oh, yeah, yeah. - She makes also, who has a steak that I've, my favorite steak. She, she, you make a fuller, and actually any kind of,

you go with one spatula. - Yeah, I think it's sane. I use a spatula to cook and then match that. - He's got two spatula to eat it with. - I was like, "Doesn't know why it doesn't matter."

- On the Edward Scissor Hands, I think Edward Scissor Hands, the Flap Chats, no, you're making amazing. You grill your master grillers. She grills it off.

- I'm always really excited when I say,

"Well, you know what it, "oh, we're gonna make steaks tonight." We're actually me and the kids are all super excited 'cause it's better than anything I get in a restaurant. That's for sure.

- That's nice. - Okay, enough being nice. - I have another question. - Yep. - He talks about how like on one of your first dates,

he muttered murder to some extent. - Oh, okay. - No, not just murder. - Where you, where you, ever concerned about his,

“what mental health, listen, I don't know what's wrong with me,”

but this, this is a long story, the first date. But by the time we got to that point, we had been, we had been. - We had been, she brought back us. She arranged for us to meet other people

'cause she thought, I don't know that I'm safe with this area. - She did the right thing. - Yeah. - No, it was, so I had made this plan with friends downtown like, you know, when you're young,

you make a plan to like meet up at 11 p.m. that's not weird. And so we were seeing an early movie and so I thought, well, he must have something else to do after that.

So I didn't cancel my other plan. So we got out of the movie, we go to the Mexican restaurant, we eat the chips. - We saw a man walk out, or someone walk out of a vagina and then I jammed a bunch of chips into my mouth

and it was like feeding paper into a shredder. - Yep. - And then we walked up West End Avenue and he, I was like waiting for him to say like, well, I gotta go whatever and it wasn't happening.

I was like, okay, this is going on. And then I'll leave her. - There's this like, there's a bar in the corner of my, you said, do you want to get a drink? I'm like, sure, we go into this bar.

- And you did a weird thing. - I ordered a whiskey. - She, at the bar, I don't know what I am. - No, you did. You were like, oh, I love a, I love a whiskey meat

and they're like, okay, and I was like, wow. - Wow. - You know why I did it?

- This never stands for me.

- No, never. Ever since. And then like, I thought you drank, like I got her some whiskey and she's like, I don't drink whiskey.

- Did you just panic and think of a film noir? - I guess. - Something like that sounds like a cool thing to do. - Yeah, I didn't do it. - I didn't do it.

- I didn't do it. - Anyways, so we were there for a while and I'm thinking like my friends are waiting for me downtown and I thought, well, I don't wanna bail on them 'cause that's kinda lame.

I didn't tell them I had a date and I didn't tell it. So then I said, well, I'm supposed to meet people downtown and do you wanna come? He said, sure. And now, I was, I was not cool 'cause I could have said,

I've got things to do. - Right. - I sell, buy sell. But now I went, okay, I've got nowhere to go. - So we get in this cab to go downtown.

Now we've both had probably something to drink at the Mexican restaurant and the bar. - We weren't splash though. - No, we weren't splash at all,

what's going on.

“And so we're in this cab heading downtown”

and he, you gave the address or maybe I gave the address. I think you gave the address. He told them where we were going. And then you started going. - Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

- Oh, I know that, yeah. - I, oh, yeah. - We all know that.

- First of all, I enjoyed that then.

- So I just was like, okay, we're gonna go down to white. - It was kind of like, like St. Mark's place here. - I think was the name of the bar. - Yeah, we're gonna have to improv this on, it's on, you know, Valerie or what?

- It's in the bowery. But I'm like, I was like, okay, and I go like, thank you. - Oh my god. - Oh my god. - And the thing is, I, people who don't know me,

I'm always doing a show. And the show is just for me. - Yes. - So I don't care. - I'm creating for you.

- So I'm just, I'm going, okay, thank you. And then I'm doing like, like, pop, I like, well, I guess we're going now. Oh, it's gonna take a really long time. - I'm doing a lot of stuff, and Liza's just not-

- I was being polite. - She's being polite enough to do it. - So you weren't laughing or anything? - You didn't make knowledge? - Nope.

- I was like, it's almost, yeah, it was like he had threats.

“- She, which, what do you mean, like he had threats?”

- Some things wrong with me. Did you just tell her that you were bombing, did she? - No. - First of all, you don't understand, Matt. - That's gonna probably mad.

- You don't understand that it's not about it working or not working. It's just what's gonna happen. - That's right. - Okay, oh, I guess we're going to-

- Yeah.

- And I'm always, I mean, I'm with David Hopping all the time,

and we'll be on an elevator, and someone will say, like, "Hey, come on out again, I was like, "it's gonna see you till I'll get you." - And David is like, "I think that person can hear you." - So then you said murder at some point, is that what you're against?

- Oh, I mean, I mean, I don't even know if that- - I don't know if it's on or not. - But it was just strange noises. - That's okay. - Strange noises and mutterings and weird

sides that don't need to be said. This one thought, well, I'm so glad we're meeting up with other people, this will be a safe environment. And, but then we, we had a really good time. - Yeah, we did.

- But that was a second date, brokered. - There was no second date. (laughing) - He called a message on my answering machine the next morning, like 11, and said I had a really good

time last night, you know, I don't know if it was like, Yeah, give me a call or whatever. So yeah, yeah, and then I didn't hang up. I went. Well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

Well, we only scratched the surface. We could do so much. We could do 35 hours of just, and what would happen if you were to say, lose your pockets? People know people would be very entertained and they would call in and say, you've got that away from you. Are you safe? Well, thank you so much for coming in. The love of my life right here. Yeah. Um, and my favorite thing about you.

You've always said that. You remember you told me that once you said like, you didn't

“say, if you said, why is it the only thing about you, I like? Why not? So I was just out there”

in the hallway. We have the nice HD monitor out there and I just out and it was before I came in and I saw lies up on the monitor and there's a whole room for people I went, look how pretty my wife is, I'm still sitting. Now what's for dinner? I can't wait to have my nightly radish. And we're right. Well, that has been lies up power. No, Brian. And thank you so much. That was great. And then next episode is over to you guys. You guys take over the whole

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