Never Ask Directions In Rabat

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Hi. Hi, Yusra.
Welcome to Conan O'Brien needs a fan. Hi, Yusra.
How are you? Hi, Conan. Hi, Matt.
Hi, Sona. Nice to see you.
Hi. Nice to see you too.
Your hair is very beautiful. I love the way your hair comes down.
That's very cool. It frames your face beautifully.
I just got it done. Oh.
Well, I wish I had done something to my hair. My hair is being crushed right now by a headset.
Your hair is iconic. Thank you.
Oh, come on. It's true.
You I like, Yusra. That doesn't mean a compliment necessarily.
No, no, you're right. Iconic doesn't always mean good, you know.
Ted Bundy was an iconic killer. Yeah, but.
I think the swoop of your hair is iconic. Thank you so much.
I think of it as a wave, a strawberry wave. Yeah.
But please. It's very hard to achieve.
Yes, very hard to achieve. And women, very drawn to me because of the swoop of my hair.
Don't you think, Yusra? Hello, Yusra? Is this connection still going to Yusra? Are you there it's it's still going I'm still there okay great well you didn't really answer the question but anyway avoided it completely yeah very nicely done Yusra Yusra um I I have it here that you are from Rabat Morocco uh is that true is that where you were born yes I was was born in Morocco, but now I'm residing in Paris.

You're living in Paris, but you go back to Morocco a great deal, yes?

I'm going the day after tomorrow for a vacation.

And actually, tomorrow I'm passing my master's thesis.

Wow.

Well, maybe, maybe.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Who says tomorrow I'm passing a test? You don't say that, Yusra.
You say, you know, I hope if the spirits are with me that tomorrow I pass the test.

No, but it's not a test. It's a presentation of my thesis.
So it's not really a test.

What's your thesis on?

I studied architecture in Morocco and I came here for a master's in computational design in architecture. Wow.
So tomorrow I'll have to present my thesis, my final thesis for an internship that I did in Paris, here in Paris.

Well, you sound very impressive and I hope you pass.

Thank you.

Again, I'm going to say that.

I don't like all this.

Well, tomorrow I win the game.

I just think that he is asking for trouble.

Okay, Yusra, I'm going to talk to you as if, for purposes of our conversation, that it's all about Morocco. Is that okay with you? Yes, it's all about Morocco.
Cool. Okay, let the deception begin.
Now, tell me a little bit. Do you have family? You probably have a lot of family and friends in Rabat.
Is that true? Yes. Well, since I was born and raised in Rabat, I studied in Rabat.
I do have a lot of friends there. And all my family is in Rabat, Morocco.
Now, I don't know much about Rabat. When you think Morocco, I don't immediately think of Rabat.
And that's on me because I just don't know as know as much. You think of Marrakech? I think of Marrakech probably.
Is Casablanca in Morocco? Yes, Casablanca. Yes, Casablanca.
It's pretty near Rabat actually. And so do people in Rabat have an attitude? Like, hey, enough about Marrakech.
Enough about Casablanca. Let's hear more about Rabat.
Is that something that people, do you have a chip on your shoulder about Rabat? Actually, the rest of Morocco think of us people from Rabat as being as far from being down to earth as possible. It's probably because we are the capital of the country.
And so always people think that we're not down to earth and somewhat we are arrogant. There is also another stereotype that we give false directions if someone is asking us about the direction of the street.
I don't know why. I'm pretty.
Wait a minute. When people ask me, I try to give good directions.
But wait a minute. I don't know where this comes from.
Okay, but first of all, the first thing you said to me, you say, oh, I'm from Rabat, and there's this idea that we're arrogant. The first thing you said to me is, tomorrow I pass my big test.
Which is a very arrogant thing to say. And then I asked you, where in Rabat do you live? And you went, oh, go down there and take a left and then a right.
So it's possible. It was just a technicality.
Yusra, it's possible that you're a very arrogant person and you just don't know it. Oh, come on.
No, no, no, no. I swear I'm not an arrogant person.
I'm kidding. And when people ask me, when people are not from about, and they ask me about directions, I try my best to give them the good directions.
I really don't know where this stereotype comes from. I'm not sure either, but Yusra, I do believe you.
You seem like a good and kind person. And maybe it's other people.

Sometimes it's just a few bad apples

that give the whole capital a bad name.

There might be a couple of people in Rabat

walking around giving bad directions

and acting like they're all that

in a bag of Cheeto chips, you know?

Sorry, that's a common phrase here in America now.

No, it's not. It's used by the street youth.
Nobody uses that. Yep, pretty common.
Cheeto chips? Please. Hey, Sona, get outside a little bit, okay? And maybe talk to some people outside your bubble.
Anyways, would you like a Cheeto chip? It's never been said. Cheeto chip.

You're all that and a bag of Cheeto chips.

Guys, I call this an unproductive cul-de-sac.

I'm sorry, I know.

You just want to make sure everybody heard that.

We're here talking to Yusra from Rabat, Morocco,

who seems very cool.

You seem very smart.

You're clearly very well-educated.

And you seem like a very cool person.

And I want to learn more about you. If I came to Rabat, if I came to Morocco, um, would there be any way that I could be of help to you? Is there anything I can do for you? I, I really don't think of, of you being of help to me.
There's that robot and arrogance. I love it.
You are so arrogant. Maybe I could teach you to come down to earth a little bit.
I just want to finish my sentence. When I think of you coming to Morocco, I think of all the places I want to show you.
Oh, like what? What would you show me? Yeah. Well, me, I think studying architecture for so long in Rabat, I had the opportunity to go to a lot of historical places and monuments.
And I think I have some knowledge that I would like to share with you about my city. And I wanted to discover the people of Rabat, all of the monuments, the culture, the food, especially the food.
Okay, let's talk more specifically because this is very nice, but I want to make sure that I have an experience that just not any tourists can have. Do you know what I mean? And look, what you're describing right now is, oh, I'll show you around some monuments and some architecture and i'll show you some of the food i really want to focus on you know what what specifically could we do that would be special and fun i don't i i'm just thinking of a lot of experiences relating to food because food is very important to our culture.
So maybe you would like try and eat street food or not like not in a classy restaurant for say, but go and try the food that's in the very small streets that not particularly tourists will go to.

So, yeah, maybe try the local food. So you want me to go and experience some food that other tourists aren't having that's in small streets? Yeah, probably.
Small streets, yeah. Small streets.
What kind of food are we talking about? Describe the food to me. So there is a lot of like, there is like sandwiches with a lot of spicy meats.
And there is also, how do I put this delicately? Like it's basically the feet of cows or sheep. And it's cooked and you can eat can eat the meat that's there i'm sorry you're talking about the hoof the hoof yeah the hoof that's that's just a big isn't the hoof just a big toenail what is what is the are you talking about the leg that surrounds the whole leg yeah oh the whole leg i thought just the foot okay because i won't eat a hoof i i took an oath a long time ago.
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And I could have had, what did you have? Raspberry? You know what? What's that one? Cracking open a peach right now.

Okay, well, you could have offered that to me.

You just ate a second when I haven't had one.

Oh, sorry. Nice.
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We also eat snails, so you can eat snails there it's it's popular industry foods like uh with a soup or stew and there is just a bunch of snails that you could eat and there's a bunch of snails that i could eat with the with the shell or do they with the shell no you take you take it's cooked with the shell no you take with the shell yes It's cooked with the shell, but you take it out. You dip it out.
Yeah, have you not? I've never had snails. Have you seen his bumper sticker where he says he doesn't eat the shells? I says I don't eat hoof and I won't eat the shell.
Also, I was curious about how they prep it. Do they pull it out and then they boil the snails? No, they boil it.
It's like an oyster. I'm not fancy like you are, Conan.
No, no, I've just been in the world a little bit. I'm sorry.
I occasionally leave Altadena. And I see things.
So this sounds good. I mean, I like to try different foods.
And I don't know if you saw my episode of Hot Ones. Talk about iconic.
Yes. But spices don't bother me.
I i can eat anything i can eat a bank safe that's covered in the hottest chili peppers nothing nothing of course i just want to know the aftermath of no you don't no no i was let's put it this way i was sued by my toilet it's very rare in the united for a toilet, an inanimate porcelain toilet to sue a human being. But I was sued by my toilet and the case is pending.
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Features. Conan, what I'm hearing is maybe what you're getting to is you want to know where are the clubs? Are you going to take them to the clubs? Would you take me out to the clubs? Yes, of course.
Okay. Do you go to the clubs? Of course I would take you.
Back in Rabat, not much. You don't go to the clubs much in Rabat?

Yeah. But the clubs, it's more like Marrakech.

There are a lot of better clubs.

So we can go to Marrakech.

Oh, so suddenly, suddenly you're all about Rabat.

But then when it's time to go to the clubs, you say we have to go to Marrakech because that's where it's at.

No, but I'm just stating the facts. Clubs in Marrakesh are better.
Oh, I've always heard that. I've always heard when people say to me, do you want to go to hit the clubs in Rabat or Marrakesh? I always say, dude, Marrakesh.
No, Marrakesh all the way. How would I do in the clubs in Marrakesh? Just in terms of would people embrace me? Would we have a good time? I don't mean physically embrace me.
And of course that can't happen. I've been told, lawyers.
But if I go into the clubs, would people be happy to see me? Would they, what would happen if I went to a club? Of course. Well, I don't know.
The vibes there are just, people there are very nice. They're very hospitable.
So I I think everyone would embrace you whether it's in Rabat Marrakesh Casablanca everywhere in Morocco you would be met with open arms that's very nice I like that I like it sometimes I encounter you know people who are hostile or who find me physically abhorrent but but I like it when people are friendly. That's very nice.
I think people are very friendly in Morocco. Even if people don't speak English, they will try and communicate with you with whatever they can.
So people are very friendly. But I think in the big cities such as Rabat, Casablanca or Marrakeshkesh a lot of people speak now english so i don't think you would have a problem with communicating with uh other people yes well that's good to know and and tell me what are you uh what are your plans for the future what do you aspire to uh yusra you know what uh what's what's the big picture for yusra okay so well now we'll with just finishing up my master's i'm looking for a job ideally in paris so i think maybe for the next five years i'm planning to stay in paris and see um i don't know see what life has for me But in the long run, I'll probably go back to my country.
You'll go back in the long run. Yeah.
Yeah. What is your favorite thing to do when you go home to Morocco? You're going to visit your parents, obviously, your family.
What do you like to do? What are some of the things that you enjoy? Maybe I could go along with you on one of those i eat a lot of food so if you come to morocco i i bet you will gonna gain like five pounds and after the other thing that i like to do is i like to go to hair salons and spas oh because here in france it's very expensive right while in morocco you can get the same quality of service with a fraction of the price. So I like to get my nails done, my hair, like to have like a relaxing spa day.
And I think based on your remotes, I think you enjoy spa days. I do.
I went with Steven Yeun. You do.
To a spa. That's my favorite remote, by the way.
Yes. way yes well um and i and in morocco we have a similar experience with the scrubbing oh so i could get a scrubbing in morocco yeah you can get a scrubbing in a and we call it a hammam you can get a scrubbing and a massage uh the massage is just for for men us women we do do not get, we just get a scrub.
Wait, why don't women get them? Why do women not get massages? Because the massages for men are very violent. They're not a relaxing experience.
Wait a minute. So hold on a second.
Yusrat, you're saying that I could come to Morocco, you would take me to a spa where you would invite invite me to have a violent massage yes when you say violent what do you how violent because you said you want to try an authentic experience in urbat i'm not going to take you to a fancy spa like a typical spa i don't want that i don't want that i want to have the real experience. So the real experience are these public baths all over the country.
Well, you can go and you can have like a scrub. It's like the person that gives you a massage, they think they're a chiropractor for some reason.
So they like to just crack all of your body, all of your bones. Yes.
Oh, that sounds that i don't think that's a massage um that sounds like no no that sounds like i'm going to be lured into a room and they're going to beat the shit out of me yeah that's that's what you're describing interrogation yeah that's that's more like it okay well that sounds fun you'll come out you'll come out of it very like relaxed and relieved and you can well yeah relieved that. Yeah, relieved that it's over.
Yes, that tends to happen. When you stop beating someone, they're quite relieved that the beating is over.
And so what about- Afterwards, you get to enjoy a mint tea. So a mint tea or a Moroccan tea.
You earned it. Okay, so after my violent beating at the hands of these men, I'm going to have a mint tea.
All right, well, that sounds like something we could do together. I would like to go to a spa with you because...
Okay, perfect. You know, I am very tense.
I'm a tense person. I have a lot of tension in my shoulders.
You've always noticed that. Yes, you do.
I carry my shoulders very... It's like a rock.
A concrete. Yeah.
A lot of dense muscle. Very muscular muscle very muscular man oh I wasn't talking about muscles I was talking about the tension well either way no it's not either way they're two completely different things yeah a lot of not much I didn't feel that much probably built up shoulders muscle not at all muscle shoulders is there a lot of muttering into microphones in Rimb just curious if that's a thing um well listen i think this sounds uh really fun and i like you i do hope that we cross paths at some point you seem like a very nice person and i know i was kidding around a lot at the beginning but i know that you're going to do great tomorrow you're going to you're going to thank you so much you're going get your degree.
It's going to go very well. And I'm happy for you.
And I... Thank you.
You seem like a very cool person. So we'll see what happens.
Thank you so much. We'll see what happens.
But you never know. Maybe one of these days you and I will be roaming the streets of Rabat, going into very small alleys, eating...
That very spicy food, and then going to a room where men will beat me to death. That sounds like a good time.
Sounds perfect. Followed by a mint tea.
All right, well, thank you so much. It was really good talking to you.
Thank you so much. Bye-bye.
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